Author: Kelson Vibber

*sigh* my main desktop’s heat issues have caused it to shut itself down during …

*sigh* my main desktop’s heat issues have caused it to shut itself down during akmod compiling twice now.

I think I’ve reached the limits of replacing thermal paste and adding fans.

Probably time to bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer cpu/mobo combo that can either handle the higher temperatures or produce less heat under the same load. It makes more sense than water-cooling a (checks release date) 10-year-old CPU.

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Followup the next day after Rimu pointed out that something’s got to actually be *wrong* with the hardware for this to happen.

You’re absolutely right!

Your reply inspired me to try one more time to check the fans — and this time I noticed that the CPU fan didn’t seem to be drawing as much air as I’d expect.

I’ve always cleaned the outside of the heat sink. But the INSIDE was completely clogged with dust!

It took a while to clear it out, but now the box is humming along at temperatures in the solid *middle* of the range doing things that had made it spike up to well above max before! #

For future reference: I removed the CPU heat sink and fan, and fired bursts of compressed air through the sides until I could see through it clearly from either side and looking through the fan. #

Been stress testing it by running multiple BOINC tasks while simultaneously updating all the steam games on the Linux box and Windows in a VM, with Gmail, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pinafore and OpenStreetMap tabs (plus others) open in Firefox, and it’s…just working. Like I’d expect it to.

Yay for compressed air and finally looking in the right spot! #

Hot take: No ActivityPub software should have to write implementation-specific code to do basic federation …

Hot take: No #ActivityPub software should have to write implementation-specific code to do basic federation with another program. The fact that a program, even a work in progress, can follow Mastodon but not Pixelfed means that something is broken in either the spec or the ecosystem.

I don’t mean one app implementing videos and the other not, or one app implementing edits and the other not. I mean both servers implement some feature, and each can federate with itself, but not with each other.

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For example, the current alpha version of GoToSocial can follow Mastodon, but not Pixelfed. That shouldn’t be *possible*. They both speak ActivityPub, so no matter what extra stuff Mastodon or Pixelfed does with following, they should have the base functionality in common — and whether GTS handles the extras or not, that core functionality should work with both or work with neither.

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Edited the OP to make it clearer that I’m talking about the server-to-server federation over ActivityPub, not the user-interface-to-server communication over whatever API the server uses.

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Finally settled on this Gulf Fritillary

Bright orange butterfly with white spots outlined in black, perched on the end of a stem. The plant has small magenta flowers and bright green, crinkly leaves.Finally settled on this #GulfFritillary #Butterfly as my best #photo on Flickr for the year. I like some of the other photos better for where I was, or what I was trying to do with the shot, but I think this came out better overall.

Other candidates include a squirrel, autumn trees, and black-and-white sunbeams, but this was the most attention-catching at a first glance.

Flickr album: 2022 Highlights

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I’ve been slowly redoing parts of my personal website

I’ve been slowly redoing parts of my personal website over the last year or so, continually pulled between two extremes.

1. I want to make everything federate with everything else so it’s as interoperable as possible, from #ActivityPub to #IndieWeb!

2. I want something that doesn’t add any attack surface on top of the webserver, that loads and renders super-fast, and that can be zipped up and tossed on an S3-compatible bucket in the event of financial trouble or untimely demise.

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“Nostr is a distributed social media protocol that has a chance of working.”…

“Nostr is a distributed social media protocol that has a chance of working.”

…that involves generating a public/private key pair and sharing the public key around, signing your messages, connecting to different relays…

People coming from Twitter are confused about *picking an instance* of Mastodon. I think the barriers to entry might be a little higher on this.

https://www.nostr.directory/

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Pokemon Go, Scatterbug/Vivillon

“Hmm, I need more #PokemonGo friends in different regions if I’m going to collect more #Scatterbug / #Vivillion types. What was that site I visited a while back for sharing Pokemon Go friend codes?”

*searches for “pokemon” in bookmarks*

“Ah, https://pokemongofriendcodes.com . That makes sense.”

On that note, my trainer code is 2658 1380 0806 and I play as Magikarpaccino.

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10 years ago a young Mountain Lion crossed two freeways…

10 years ago a young #MountainLion crossed two freeways and began a life in Griffith Park, a semi-wild area in the hills of #LosAngeles. #P22 became a trail-cam celebrity, outlived life expectancy for wild pumas and inspired a #wildlife bridge across the 101.

Waning health prompted biologists to bring him in for a checkup, but he was hit by a car first. Injuries & chronic illness were too much for him to survive in a sanctuary, and he’s been euthanized.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-17/p22-obituary-celebrity-mountain-lion-cougar-puma-griffith-park-california

P-22 in better days: a healthy mountain lion stalking along the ground at night, lit up by a camera flash, hills and the HOLLYWOOD sign in the background.

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I should clarify in case the ALT text isn’t visible – the attached photo from the LA Times is of P-22 in better days, spotted on a wildlife camera.

https://www.latimes.com/story/2022-12-17/stunning-photos-of-l-a-s-celebrity-mountain-lion

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FINALLY If you’re trying to use the Linode marketplace build for mastodon, you need to …

FINALLY

If you’re trying to use the #Linode marketplace build for #mastodon, you need to fix some permissions in one of the #docker containers.

Otherwise it’ll fail on uploading media, accepting follows, possibly more.

Run this:

docker exec –user root live_web_1 chown -R mastodon:mastodon /opt/mastodon/public/system

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That’s weird. I woke up my desktop and the tab with the Linode control …

That’s weird. I woke up my desktop and the tab with the Linode control panel was on an oauth URL with “429 Too Many Requests”

Did Fedora (and/or the Linux kernel) add an equivalent to Apple’s “Power Nap” while I wasn’t looking?

I hope it wasn’t spending all day trying to refresh a graph while the system was mostly asleep.

Huh, maybe too many JS timers had stacked up when I suspended the box this morning and they all hit at once.

Either they blocked my IP or they’re having their own problems, because I get the same error in both Firefox and Vivaldi, and only one of those was running earlier.

…

Well, whatever it was, I’m back into the panel now.

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5 of the 6 native pollinator-friendly plants I bought from a local conservation society last …

5 of the 6 native pollinator-friendly plants I bought from a local conservation society last month are doing well. The sixth is at least still alive.

Better than my previous track record of 1 out of 4 for the spring round. But the survivor has gotten well-established!

I think it's a mix of transplanting them at the beginning of the rain season and making sure I got them all before the roots had a chance to get too pot-bound.

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