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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.

🤷

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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IEEE article on a company trying to update airship tech, “floating a new approach to …

IEEE article on a company trying to update airship tech, “floating a new approach to a technology that saw its rise and fall a century ago…”

The Tech Is Finally Good Enough for an Airship Revival
https://spectrum.ieee.org/airship

#airships #ISeeWhatYouDidThere

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Long post about full timelines

Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration, I’m finding that Mastodon has become a firehose. I used to be able to pop in once or twice a day and scroll until the point I left off, but that’s no longer the case.

I don’t want to drop any of the people I’ve followed, but I’m beginning to wonder if it might be worth going back to my old scheme of having topic-focused accounts on different instances as a way of keeping my view organized.

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The downside, based on my previous experience, is that having multiple accounts feels like having multiple social networks. And in a way it is! And then of course there are always the overlaps in topics.

Maybe I’ll try that Linode pre-built Mastodon server. Or maybe I’ll try setting up something smaller like GoToSocial or a Misskey fork.

Or maybe I’ll just set up alts on thematicly-appropriate instances like a normal person 😜

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I’ve disabled boosts from a few specific people who tend to boost *a lot*, which does help – but there’s that same problem of missing the next layer out.

Lists do help, but the UI for managing them still sucks, and you have to basically make one of the lists your “home” feed instead of, well, your home feed.

Cloudy with a Chance of…

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: New tech leads to an economic boom, but politics and greed downplay scientists’ warnings of long-term dangers of this man-made climate change until disaster strikes.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: A tech company without ethics, run by a nerd who grew up to become the bully he despised, ruthlessly exploits a fragile ecosystem for profit, regardless of damage to endangered species or what remains of the island’s society.

https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/05/cloudy/ #movies

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Seems even more apt now than when I originally posted it.

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One month in, my first glitch with automatic toll collection.

One month in, my first glitch with automatic toll collection.

Fastrack registered my transponder in one lane and my license plate in another lane, somehow ended up not charging me at all, and the agency that manages those roads sent me a violation.

But I have to resolve it through the agency I signed up with, not the one that sent me the violation.

They’ve assured me they’ll fax — yes, fax — the information over.

#bureaucracy

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Now that I think about it, it’s a federated toll network – each instance manages a certain set of roads, and they all communicate with each other through a common tech platform.

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ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles …

ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles *within* the web app on #Mastdodon 4, but I hadn’t looked to see that the *actual* post and profile web pages do not actually contain the post or profile content, just JavaScript and the metadata to load it.

In essense, Mastodon profiles and posts are no longer actually interoperable parts of the web. Or as #indieweb puts it: #jsdr

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IMO the web has plenty of room for both applications and documents. Applications can be applications, and they can certainly include documents. I’m not objecting to the overall web application UI.

But a document should be reachable *as a document*.

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Aha, there is a Github issue:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19953

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visual #migraine, weird

I’m fortunate not to get the actual headaches, but I have other #migraine symptoms on a regular basis, including the visual distortions. For me it’s usually an open curve, with the line filled with zigzags flashing different colors, that starts at the center of my field of vision and moves to the periphery.

Last night I had one start *during a dream* and persist when I woke up. The weird part: the curve was rotated 90°: Open downward in the dream and leftward when awake.

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Also I think it might have been grayscale in the dream (with full-color perception of the rest of the dream) and color when I woke up, but I’m not 100% certain

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As terrible as the old remote interaction workflow was, the new method of showing a …

As terrible as the old remote interaction workflow was, the new method of showing a URL and telling the user to copy and paste it is so much worse.

#mastodon #ux

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Follow, reply, boost, whatever. The pop-up to send you over to your own instance was a pain. But the pop-up telling you how to work around it is like putting up a sign telling people how to get to the back entrance instead of fixing the door.