On a related note, how cool is it that I'm still running a CPU design released literally a decade ago and it's totally responsive and runs smoothly even with gaming? (except when it overheats)
Asides
*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.
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.
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.
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.
Someday I’d like to run into some more local #PokemonGo players just so I can tell PereUbu that someone around here gets the …
Someday I’d like to run into some more local #PokemonGo players just so I can tell PereUbu that someone around here gets the reference.
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.
“If you release our guy's info, we'll release the info on your guys …
“If you release our guy's info, we'll release the info on your guys that they already release on a regular basis!” is kind of a weird threat.
“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.
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.
I've been mostly offline today, but I've been laughing at #JohnMastodon memes for …
I've been mostly offline today, but I've been laughing at #JohnMastodon memes for the last 44 minutes!
I, uh, should probably stop that and go to bed.
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
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.
🤷
Oh, right, DHMO = Dental HMO, not dihydrogen monoxide
Oh, right, DHMO = Dental HMO, not dihydrogen monoxide
I always mis-parse AD&D insurance at a glance too
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.
I cannot find where I saw it mentioned today, but the minimalist ActivityPub server #snac2 …
I cannot find where I saw it mentioned today, but the minimalist ActivityPub server #snac2 by @grunfink looks interesting too.
tech jargon
Found myself using the phrase “I pulled down a recent master”* with version control at work and…that sounds like something totally different in a non-jargon context.
*long-running internal codebase
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
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.
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 😜
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
Seems even more apt now than when I originally posted it.
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.
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.
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
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*.
Aha, there is a Github issue: