Paul Chambers

Admin & owner of OldFriends.Live
Host of 9 o'clock 9 o'clock Hashtag Games (npub1w5p…2j8r)
AKA #FeedingTubePaul

#Healthcare: #Parkinsons Plus- #MSA #MultipleSystemAtrophy
#FeedingTube since 4/2012

#HashtagGames #Jokester

#Progressive #politics

#Banjo #music, #literature, #movies, #TV, #fedi22

#Ohio #US #AppalachianOhio

#Veteran

#SissyCat & #LittleBit are my #CatsOfMastodon

:chambers: Website: https://chambers.pw
:youtube: YouTube: https://youtube.com/@FeedingTubePaul
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2024-10-03 23:42:36

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Breaking story coming over the Scripps News wire now saying sources say they will be lifting the strike through Jan 15th to work on a new deal.
If they don't this is bad news for the Harris/Walz camp. An October nightmare
🔗 Source: Dockworkers' union to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract
The agreement will allow the union and the U.S Maritime Alliance time to negotiate a new six-year contract.
https://www.wcpo.com/us-news/source-dockworkers-union-to-suspend-strike-until-jan-15-to-allow-time-to-negotiate-new-contract

2024-09-08 19:54:47

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3/ I first learned of it from @npub1wpm…ksdp post but now the story is hitting local and national news.
https://sfba.social/@Bam/113093047565118579

2024-09-08 19:29:08

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More,
🔗Idiots Who Tried TikTok’s Viral ‘Free Money Glitch’ at ATMs Are Getting Reported for Fraud
It turns out some lifehacks can come with prison time.
https://gizmodo.com/idiots-who-tried-tiktoks-viral-free-money-glitch-at-atms-are-getting-reported-for-fraud-2000495838

2024-09-08 19:24:56

TikTok viral videos claim Chase Bank "Free money" hack. Company says it's fraud and people who did it are getting reported to authorities for bank fraud.
TikTokers were depositing fake checks at ATMs and then immediately withdrawing the money due to a CHASE glitch.
https://wlwt.com/article/tiktok-chase-bank-hack-fraud/62035896

2024-08-23 04:05:41

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Reunited (and home!)
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/113/009/350/828/291/718/original/8af099384129a257.jpg

2024-08-22 15:31:08

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Penny was transferred out of icu Tuesday & is able to be discharged. The same medical group that sends the doctors, nurses, techs, etc to my home and provides my primary care at home has agreed to take on her as a patient.
She will be starting cardiac rehab once it is setup at our local hospital.
Other than short term memory, she has no overt neuro issues.
Thank you everyone.❤️

2024-08-21 14:41:45

I don't care whether he is a Democrat or not, he deserved the inconvenience of missing his flight because he did a Chick-fil-A run. People need to put policy to action and that includes things like giving up a good chicken sandwich because the owners of the company are anti-democracy, fascist right-wing Christo fascists.
🔗 'Do you know who I am'? County exec complains after missing DNC flight for Chick-fil-A run https://www.rawstory.com/county-executive-chick-fil-a-missed-dnc-flight/

2024-08-20 05:02:12

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Penny had a good day today. She is remembering and speaking, albeit post-breathing tube issues with throat but that will resolve.
As far as her heart goes, they are trying to get her at an optimal medication mix to increase her function before leaving ICU due to the current function. They are hoping to transfer her out to a reg cardiac room on Wednesday.
Thanks for the support through these last several dark days ❤️

2024-08-18 22:53:45

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Today was a good day. I spent most of it with her.
They removed the breathing tube and woke her. She comes and goes from the effect of the Propofol they had her knocked out with. She is extra sensitive so it will take days before total coherence returns.
They did a CT of her head and there is no neurological damage visible, so the time with no blood flow did cause a stroke, etc
Her heart is functioning between 25-30% mechanically. What to do about that is for another day.

2024-08-18 05:03:31

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Today was uneventful, meaning nothing bad happened.
She gained a little heart function. She has a partial collapsed lung but they said that is common. She's not had a fever since she been there, is COVID free still.
Sunday, they will try to remove the breathing machine and wake her. I made arrangements and will be there all day.
I'm still doing ok. Our emergency backup plan regarding my health seems to be working. This is the first time in a decade it has been needed❤️

2024-08-18 01:07:18

Billie Jean is a song about the consequences of one-night stands and unprotected sex based on an episode of Maury Povich
#BadAISongExplanations
#HashTagGames
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/980/340/151/615/917/original/8aaabffa8dafa498.mp4

2024-08-18 00:59:11

#KamalaHQ needs to turn on federation. They are missing some of their greatest supporters.
If you know anyone over at their HQ, or are a #Journalist, ask them why they aren't federating and ask them to turn it on. #ActivityPub #Federation

2024-08-17 13:14:33

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Thank you all for the thoughts. I really felt them. Makes me feel less alone in this❤️
Penny made it through day one. Her night was uneventful
The fear right now in the first couple days is cardiac shock
She is still incubated and sedated
They brought her out enough to have her move her feet & squeeze hands. Some issues with one side but that is a great sign neurologically
I'm "ok." I have a healthcare team independent of her and her absence hurts but is being met

2024-08-17 02:31:06

Early this morning, My wife of 34 years, Penny, had a massive heart attack. She was transported to a local hospital which performed lifesaving surgery. She was then transferred to a university hospital where she spent most of the day in surgery.
She is in critical condition. Her heart is only working around 25%.
Keep a thought for her. Also keep a thought for those patients who had their cardiac procedures bumped so that she could get hers.

2024-08-16 06:45:10

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Sorry to hear that about your dad. It is cruel.

2024-08-16 05:54:18

Jack Russell, the vocalist for 1980s hair metal group Great White, died Thursday at 63 from multiple system atrophy & Lewy body dementia. Both are #Parkinsons Plus diseases
Russell announced his retirement from touring last month after his diagnosis in May.
MSA is the same disease that I have. It amazes me how it can take some so quickly and others linger for a decade. Not many. Most die in 3-6 years.
#RIP
🔗 https://deadline.com/2024/08/jack-russell-dead-vocalist-great-white-station-fire-obituary-1236041975/
ParkinsonsPlus at :wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson-plus_syndrome

2024-08-12 16:54:52

My neighbors are getting solar shingles in a small #AppalachianOhio village where the mean home price for a nice 1200 sq foot home is under $75K, which is about half of Ohio's mean home price.

2024-08-12 01:29:24

Kwoger Wabbit stew meat went from $6.99 per pound to $11.99 per pound overnight for no weason. I can't afford that and wefuse to pay that
Now I have to try to hunt for Wabbit again
#CartoonCharacterComplaints
#HashTagGames
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/946/442/924/301/850/original/e173ab48e615ea22.mp4

2024-08-11 23:37:24

'1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled.' via Livescience
"Warmer temperatures are melting the glaciers and the meltwater allows the seed to start growing. #Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest #ClimateChange. Its melting ice could contribute up to 5 meters of sea-level rise. Where the ice disappears, it leaves barren ground behind. By the end of this century, a small country's-worth of land could appear from below the ice."
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/1st-map-of-antarctica-s-green-space-unveiled-here-s-what-it-shows
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/946/005/378/351/165/original/8742ae3e35a58a3e.png
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/946/008/520/037/804/original/3ffd15eb07be2e23.png

2024-08-11 20:23:52

JD Vance is the guy who went to Georgia with the devil and thought the devil played the fiddle better.

2024-08-11 18:10:49

Congress must crack down on these data scraping companies selling personal data.
Probably the SS# of every person in the US, with other identifying information, leaked from National Public Data, a company that collects and sells access to personal data for use in background checks, to obtain criminal records, and for private investigators.
#infosec
🔗 Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers · BleepingComputer https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/

2024-08-11 03:12:16

Autocorrect wants to keep changing Walz to waltz when I don't use his first name.

2024-08-10 21:53:16

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I've found Flipboard to be well-behaved and responsible.
Occasionally, the "CultureDesk" will boost me but usually, it's a post that is already making traction.
I also believe the accounts they follow from are human curated, so, in that sense, they are being followed by a "person" and not a machine.
As far as privacy, it is the same level of privacy the user has whether it is you, me or some random person on the Fediverse.
People have strong feelings about them, though.

2024-08-10 21:23:04

Now they are trying to pass the faux hillbilly, JD Vance, off as a nerd.
"He has all sorts of dorky interests that anyone of our age could relate to," Usha Vance told [FoxNews] panelist Ainsley Earhardt.
Just like being a hillbilly, JD Vance is not a nerd.
He's an evil, right-wing zealot weirdo.
Being a true hillbilly nerd, raised by coalmining grandparents, still have first IBM AT in garage, and living in the heart of #AppalachianOhio, I am insulted. #USPol #Ohio
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/07/2024/jd-vance-talks-tim-walz-ukraine-and-ohio-football-with-semafor

2024-08-09 18:25:50

I have been strongly smelling green beans and ham cooking for a day or so and there are no green beans and ham cooking anywhere in the vicinity.
When I get olfactory hallucinations, it worries me that my #Parkinsons Plus-MSA is progressing.
I hope it is just a sinus infection. Last time I had a really bad spell of OH, that was the reason. I have had a mild earache for the last few days. Fingers crossed it is just a sinus infection (things you thought no one would ever 'fingers crossed' for.)

2024-08-09 11:08:12

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2/An organic DDOS example would be, at midnight Taylor Swift tickets go on sale online. Then at midnight all the Taylor Swift fans go to the website to buy tickets. It crashes because the server can't handle all those people visiting to try to buy tickets all at once.
Malicious example would be someone mad at a website and sends a lot of fake traffic to a website so the website can't handle it so legitimate users can't access it.

2024-08-09 10:57:25

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Denial-of-service attack
It's when a website gets a lot of request at the same time which the server can't respond to and you end up getting 404 messages usually or some other error. It can happen unintentionally like if a site gets a lot of request at one time organically but most often people will target a website and with simple computer commands send a lot of traffic on purpose to cause a site to crash and remain crash so legitimate users can't access

2024-08-09 10:52:46

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2/ @npub1s20…twmm just posted that mstdn.social is back up after the massive DDoS attack.
https://mstdn.social/@stux/112931670246293078

2024-08-09 04:24:23

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I wonder when a site is getting DDoS if we should go in and stop delivery temporarily so we don't add stress to their systems through SideKiq's retries, esp instances with higher active users?

2024-08-09 04:18:53

MSTDN.SOCIAL is down due to DDOS attacks as of this posts timestamp.
I noticed a lot of failures in SideKiq and went to [@stux@mstdn.social](https://mstdn.social/@stux )'s account.
Their status page is at https://status.mstdn.social/status/mstdn
@npub1hj5…4qvm post about it at Masto.AI https://masto.ai/@stux/112929702993112790
#MastoAdmin #DDoS #MstdnSocial .

2024-08-09 01:32:57

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Good luck and safe journeys

2024-08-08 04:06:45

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I see your screengrab and you saw mine. We both are getting it differently.
Both social and mstdn is running 4.3.0 nightly so if this is something new in the upcoming release, I don't like it. It could be a bug they will fix.
I am running Mastodon 4.2.10 so, time will tell.

2024-08-08 03:56:08

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Verdict, both works.
It probably depends on the backlog and issues a particular Mastodon instance is having in its backend, copyright of the video on Youtubes end, etc.
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/924/381/977/166/552/original/ae78d3d9161b2574.png

2024-08-08 03:54:18

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short URL
http://youtu.be/IIqtuupvdWg

2024-08-08 03:54:03

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let's see
This post, reply full url, next reply shortened one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIqtuupvdWg

2024-08-07 22:34:59

Trump/Vance team are openly racist and weird #USPol
Trump’s campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, replied to a JD Vance tweet, after Vance weirdly approached Air Force 2 after it landed in an airport saying it was going to be his in a couple months and he wants to check it out,
“Make sure AF2 is deep cleaned..." “The smell alone on that plane must be crazy."
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4817047-vance-harris-air-force-two/
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/923/127/647/276/891/original/056a104b7a68aabe.png

2024-08-07 19:29:37

OH FFS. Vance is accusing Walz, who served 24-years in the military, of "stolen valor."
Calling him a coward and a traitor for retiring after 24-years while defending Trumps bone spurs, accusing him of non-active war duty
Also, Walz was deployed to Italy during Operation Enduring Freedom for six months
All based on a damn Facebook post
You can't make this shit up
Meanwhile, as shown in this screengrab, the story is gaining traction. It should be forcefully debunked & pushed back on #USPol
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/922/363/808/591/696/original/10b64b4b3554b50d.png

2024-08-07 13:59:05

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Subscribing to the Flipboard relay with 4 CPU cores and 6 GB RAM, even with jvm memory set at 1gb, brought my ElasticSearch down at around 1pm every other day and crashed Redis also. It's a busy relay.

2024-08-06 21:19:18

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I try to avoid saying it if I catch myself.
I was raised in the funeral home industry and in the US, 'passed away' is common language for saying someone died, and some think it is respectful, but I find it to emotional, distant and softening the reality of the situation leaving people open to an emotional reckoning at some point in the coming days.
But that is just how I feel about it.
I don't always catch myself, though.

2024-08-06 20:32:46

#Happy420Day #Ohio on the first day of legalized recreational marijuana sales. Almost 100 dispensaries are now in open to selling.
Not to kill the buzz, but Ohio State Highway Patrol are looking for impaired drivers and are out in force.
#Happy420
🔗 On first day of sales, Ohio troopers say they're targeting drugged drivers, not cannabis buyers · State House News
https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2024-08-06/on-first-day-of-sales-ohio-troopers-say-theyre-targeting-drugged-drivers-not-cannabis-buyers

2024-08-05 02:00:25

Federal Appeals Court Rules That Fair Use May Be Narrowed to Serve Hollywood Profits | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-rules-fair-use-may-be-narrowed-serve-hollywood-profits

2024-08-04 08:21:50

Dear companies,
When you ask me for feedback about a recent interaction, esp with customer support, I'm willing to give a few 1 to 5 or 1- 10 ratings with optional comments, but come on, don't send me a "final exam" size survey.

2024-08-02 20:52:52

Chad Doerman gets life in prison without parole in killings of his 3 young sons. The murders happened in Clermont County, #Ohio, a suburban #cincinnati county.
To avoid the death penalty, Doerman pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated murder; guilty to two counts of felonious assault, felonies of the second-degree, for injuries to his former wife and stepdaughter.
His surrender & arrest at the scene and body cam confession was seen around the world
https://wlwt.com/article/chad-doerman-father-accused-of-murdering-sons-ohio-plea/61776028
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/894/387/110/896/295/original/f3c3a4ccb2f5d039.jpg

2024-08-02 05:22:42

Controversial solar project clears hurdle to construction in Clermont County, #Ohio (Eastern #Cincinnati suburban county)
It will include solar panels to generate 100 megawatts of power with a 52.2-megawatt battery and other infrastructure.
Right wing groups have been trying hard to stop #solar projects in SW Ohio, spreading misinformation and over stating and exaggerating infrastructure issues with current solar farms #climate #climatechange
https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/clermont-county/controversial-solar-project-clears-hurdle-to-construction-in-clermont-county

2024-08-01 07:03:30

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It was something. I can't believe he went to that forum. I bet he thought since Fox News' Harris Faulkner was involved he'd get a "fixed" program.

2024-07-31 21:26:15

Trump thought he could go into a room of Black women and rich white male manhandle them.
He couldn't.

2024-07-31 19:25:32

Just a reminder that https://openverse.org/, part of the WordPress project, has an extensive library of over 800 million free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.
It's where I get my images for hashtag games meme poster and other posts, like political.
Sometimes you have to search the least possible way in general terms and sometimes you have to narrow down your search with more specific search terms.
I make sure to credit the image in the alt-text with the description
https://media.oldfriends.live/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/882/744/172/487/576/original/4ca3230ea250e716.png

2024-07-31 18:51:35

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I remember in the 70's and 80's joining in the quilting circle that my grandmother and aunts would do every week.
Raised by my coalminer's wife grandmother, she insisted we all, boys included, learned how to sew and esp, "mend the holes in your pants from rough housing."
When I pick up a needle it's like yoga for me. Takes me to a different world.

2024-07-31 02:11:46

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Off topic, ever since you moved I was in a "cancel follow request" mode. I guess I didn't move with you. lol. I kept wondering why you kept boosting me but wouldn't follow so I decided to cancel the request and refollow and it took.

2024-07-31 02:04:18

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I'm not going to get into what Mastodon gGmb's goals, development speed and vision are, but I can foresee a fork at some point where others band together and take the lead and that fork becomes the primary & most likely will have a plugin engine. Time and again, stalled or poor decisions of a primary FLOSS project leads to a stronger fork. This would've happened already if admins were devs but most aren't really. My skill level is I know enough to be worried I don't know enough

2024-07-25 02:23:21

Oh, Canada...
Canada Apologizes After Drone Caught Spying On New Zealand's Olympic Practices
The COC said it was made aware that a "non-accredited" member of its support team had used a drone to record the Silver Ferns' practice.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40626803/olympics-2024-new-zealand-canada-training-drone-soccer-women
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/07/25/0010211/canada-apologizes-after-drone-caught-spying-on-new-zealands-olympic-practices

2024-07-14 21:21:09

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/gemini-ai-caught-scanning-google-drive-hosted-pdf-files-without-permission-user-complains-feature-cant-be-disabled

2024-06-20 22:28:21

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It should be noted that their Fediverse profile states it is opt-in only, but their TOS also requires a robot.txt entry to stop their RSS fetching.
https://github.com/awakari/.github/blob/master/OPT-OUT.md

2024-06-19 18:50:14

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I have a gut feeling the right-wing SCOTUS will eventually bend over backwards to add the pornography test to separation of church and state.
Something like the Miller test where the average person in the community or state, by their calculation, agrees or finds it to be of prurient interest or objectionable, Constitution be damned.

2024-06-18 13:13:58

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It's extremely annoying with a movement disorder.

2024-06-17 23:13:41

From Zillow: $2.4 Million Texas Home Listing Boasts Built-In 5,786 sq ft Data Center and no bedrooms.
The purchase of the "upgraded turnkey Tier 2 Data Center" will include all of its cooling and power infrastructure.
The home is located 20-minutes outside Dallas.
This had to be a crypto mining base disguised as a home in a residential neighborhood.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/13229-Southview-Ln-Dallas-TX-75240/118222349_zpid
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/634/483/098/457/216/original/962b7d38c37950bf.png

2024-06-01 07:37:18

Notice multiple errors in Sidekiq.
Queue: Pull
Job: ReDownloadHeaderWorker: Error: "OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 peeraddr=199.192.16.81:443 state=error: certificate verify failed (Hostname mismatch) on...<url to external sites>"
Why is it trying with my IP? Maybe someone or something found my instance via IP? If it is that, how can I make sure IP visitors go to hostname? If not, what is happening?
#MastoAdmin

2024-05-27 16:01:46

This isn't hyperbole. Vote out the GOP in STATE races
The GOP is so close to be able to call an Article V Constitutional Convention at the state level & rewrite the entire damn thing, authored by the Federalist Society, & there will be nothing anyone can do
Do you really want these insane laws they're passing in red states to be hard coded in the US Constitution?
Do you really want the US billionaire oligarchs to buy a constitution they are happy with?
They just need 34. Almost there. #USPol
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/513/868/391/015/725/original/9fa6f1ad942ec7bf.png

2024-05-23 00:03:27

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Awesome

2024-05-22 20:42:01

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I knew it was growing once they moved Windows to the Chromium based Edge as its default. I was a bit surprised, too, it was that much at this point.

2024-05-22 20:37:21

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People like to joke about Edge, but it has 263 million people using it now, not too far off having double the user base of both Safari and Firefox.
The more they weld it into Windows desktop, the more people will say, why bother with the others if we have to use it to open Drive (soon) or other Windows features, since it is essentially Chrome now, at its core, and not clunky, Windows default, featureless Internet Explorer browser. People are lazy and lax.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/edge/microsofts-edge-browser-is-now-more-popular-than-ever-but-why

2024-05-22 20:22:54

I was looking for a project that would let me manage my Mastodon follows & followers better. Haven't found anything but did come across Mastodon+Steampipe. If you know of something, @ me
Anyone using Mastodon + Steampipe? Steampipe is an open-source zero-ETL engine to instantly query cloud APIs using SQL
https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/mastodon
It has many different "recipes" to see the data on your instance/Mastodon account. https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/mastodon/tables
Users &Admins can create access token and use it #MastoAdmin

2024-05-22 18:57:12

As Microsoft announces their new #recall, continuous #screenshot feature, Microsoft Edge will begin blocking screenshots of webpages.
It’s designed to prevent you from taking screenshots and sharing screenshots with competitors, relatives, and journalists using #Microsoft #Edge
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2336462/microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job.html

2024-05-22 02:29:40

Gilligan's Island Resort and Spa
#HashTagGames
#RelaxABookShowOrMovie
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/482/382/713/273/566/original/46e9d68f96bdf8a9.jpg

2024-05-21 22:04:07

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Here's the file if you need to compare
mastodon/live/app/models/media_attachment.rb
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/models/media_attachment.rb

2024-05-21 21:36:30

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Did you customize your video size limit? It looks like it may be throwing an error in the app. Either way, I checked with my Megalodon and got same error for your instance

2024-05-15 18:34:06

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It's still happening on and off. Now, instead of it working for a minute then not, it's working an hour or so then not.
I filed a report last night and just got this. The changed the status but the status page has zero details about it so far.
I hope they add info about it.

2024-05-15 18:28:23

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🤓🚨 16-hours after I reported the #BackBlaze US East outage/disruptions after thousands of S3 errors in SideKiq, Backblaze confirms there are ongoing issues. #MastoAdmin #BackblazeB2
Their status page is https://status.backblaze.com/
Current status for US East is, "Users may be encountering intermittent failures on uploads and downloads."
#NerdAlert🤓
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/oldfriends/media_attachments/files/112/446/500/242/903/275/original/d18bf668e95ee39f.png

2024-05-15 01:52:24

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Your Backblaze is down right now
https://beaware-mastodon.s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/beaware-mastodon/accounts/avatars/110/609/164/363/276/724/original/a8967890f6b0edbd.jpeg

2024-05-15 01:46:06

Backblaze was down for me for around the last 10 minutes as of this post
Anyone else have issues? It's back up now, I retried the hundred or so failures in the sidekiq panel
Sidekiq errorL Aws::S3::Errors::ServiceUnavailable: Service temporarily unavailable, please try again
Images were blank but seem back now
#Backblaze #MastoAdmin
I'm having issues they can't resolve lately. B2B doesn't play nice with Mastodon. Any good, reasonably priced alternatives? Refer-a-friend links won't insult me

2024-05-09 16:40:42

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Thanks for the shoutout.
My jobs were getting behind a couple thousands and at one point, 10K. Adding more sidekiq tasks really help

2024-05-04 06:29:32

There are several #MastoDev 'Help Wanted' requests from the Mastodon #developers if you are a #coder #Programmer
*Use /search for search (/search?query=something)
*Move account secrets to a dedicated table (and encrypt it?)
*Add a way for the user to select which languages they understand
*Allow admins to configure instance favicon and logo
*Allow searching for hashtags in admin UI
*Convert Redux state to Typescript #MastoAdmin #devops #Programmers #dev.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/labels/help%20welcome

2024-04-30 00:37:58

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My only issue with the removal tasks is, if you use Elasticsearch and run 'tootctl statuses remove', does it remove statuses from the search database?
I don't run that command because I want to find posts sometimes. I'm using my instance as my primary Google Search replacement. I am getting more useful finds here than Google these days.
I've asked before to no avail. I'd really like to know if it does remove stuff from Elasticsearch. #MastoAdmin