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https://www.mojeek.com/ - a Google search alternative


It's been giving me some valuable results during the last days. Noticeably less than Google, but also way less seo-splaining bollocks. Recommended!

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friendica 2021.06 to 2022.02 db structure?


@Friendica Support due to me not being a git person, i updated from 2021.06 straight to 2022.02, do you know if i missed some db restructuring that will haunt me down the line due to that?

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in reply to felix b. ohmann

also, i guess at least some people using git to install friendica might fall over the update instructions. maybe they could be appended by the neccessary steps... since i was still on 2021.06, i should have done

git fetch --all --tags
git checkout tags/2021.09 -b 2021.09-branch
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/stable 2021.09-branch

and then pull 2021.09 but the 2022.02 post just references "if you are below 2021.09, update to that version first" with a link to the original 2021.09 press release, which just asks the users to pull "stable", which will update to whatever is the latest version (in my case 2022.02). i know i should learn git properly, but i use is so sparsely that stuff like this gets me every time. :)

in reply to felix b. ohmann

Ah, I see what you mean about installing gradually. I'm not sure why we need admins to upgrade to 2021.09 first.
in reply to felix b. ohmann

maybe writing the blog release posts in a way to explicitly switch to the tag they are about could help git beginners not run into this if they come from older versions. good that it worked. :)


arcs of 8


i have been living on this farm between 2 overland hv power lines for almost 8 years, and the sounds emanating from them vary from just electric field hum to outright arching sounds. i have walked below these monsters many many times during the day and during the night, sometimes wondering if the audible arching can be seen with long exposure photography. finally, tonight, when walking the dog it was visible even from 50 meters away. it sounded more rough than usual, and it is beautiful!


First mix of the year - and it's a very different one.


Recorded a set of fave songs from the Beach Boys to Timber Timbre for the Breakfast of Champions podcast. Enjoy :)

soundcloud.com/brfoc/brfocast-…




Happy belated St. Nichols' Day - have this mix as my appreciation 🙂 It's supposed to be good for jogging. But I guess also for loosing your mind/raving in your armchair/banging your head against the wall (please don't):

soundcloud.com/ronnypries/mix-…



maintenance


good day, fellow people on social.abraum.de!

there will be some maintenance work, upgrading the friendica installation, the site might be down for a bit during the process!

cheers,
f



onlinebank?


falls nochmal jemand nach einer online-bank fragt: bunq.nl ist toll, n26 scheinbar immer noch nicht, siehe heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-L…


anguckbefehl. 90 minuten blanker horror. ist mir nicht alles neu, aber die dimensionen sind unfassbar. arte.tv/de/videos/095178-000-A…
in reply to felix b. ohmann

ja, amazon muss weg, grosskonzerne müssen weg, korruption muss weg, facebook muss weg, … usw usw usw. vieleicht ist es aber auch schon zu spät.


Searching


service announcement for my friends: i was today years old when i learned about qwant.com, a european search engine that is not google, values privacy etc etc etc.
go check it out if you dont want to feed the google shit machine more data!
in reply to felix b. ohmann

also, yeah, not being very active on socials right now. too much stuff to do in the real world!


in reply to felix b. ohmann

was für ein horror. scholz will ich nicht, laschet schon garnicht. baerbock würde ich gerne sehen, aber das ist ja scheinbar raus. hilfe.
in reply to felix b. ohmann

Ich wünschte nur die grünen würden konsequent auch grüne politik machen und nicht eher ne schwarz-grüne mischung sein



bye bye Spotify


This month I'll cancel my Spotify account because they keep exploiting artists more and more. About time.


https://anytype.io/


I stumbled upon this yesterday and registered for the alpha - sounds like a very promising idea.







ja, super, cdu, weiter so. ihr schafft das noch mit unter 20. da geht noch was.

heise.de/news/Sicherheitslueck…






Let's put social back into network.


Here's what I've been missing on social networks, and how I wish this place to be different:

Being approached with displayed curiosity and open-mindedness, shining through open-ended questions. The ability to disagree in compassionate ways, if temporarily necessary. Encounters with human beings on eye-level. Instead of opinion-despensing 'somethings'.

That others' words and actions are not only influenced by whatever I deem to be highest priority or urgency at this very moment in time. Last not least, that even face-to-face communication is more likely to fail than succeed (how I love these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s… )

Ultimately: acting from an understanding that life on this rock is a massive multiplayer co-op game. That every word and every action by everyone at every point in time shifts the balance between building a mental bridge or a wall. And that the only time we can actually do something is, has always been and will always be: NOW.

Choose your words wisely, you're more responsible than you think you are. I'd like to invite you to think about it. Nothing more, nothing less. Because imho - the first step to change is awareness. Despite often feeling like 'not enough' or worse: nothing.

Supporting Felix with this Friendica instance and whatever things to come, this is the common ground on which I'd like to connect to you. To me, it's implicitly filed under 'common sense': the understanding that I can not, neither want to, sustainably exist in a vacuum. Personally, I'm also trying to stick to non-violent, non-judgemental communication: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviole…

It's already challenging to wrap this up in a way serving this instance as set of whatever you want to call it. I certainly regard calls-to-action and living-by-example more promising than not-to-do-lists.

Any thoughts, ideas, comments?

Otherwise: have this happy bird :)
youtube.com/watch?v=CC4I65VIoe…




Dance like nobody is watching (and post a video of it)


Post your dance videos in the comments..


youtube.com/watch?v=HIvQvIEsHZ…

in reply to Ole Zoeger

well at the moment the size for uploads is limited to 16mb, i have to switch the assets store from db to filesystem before i can allow more. will do it after the next update.



New network - then what?


Hm. What do you dislike about the coorporate social networks? What do you wish would be different here? We've got the chance to make a difference - but it'll only happen consciously. So - then what now?
in reply to Ronny Pries

Regarding software vs purpose: groups have a purpose. A timeline has a purpose. I'm not attached to the way Facebook does these things, in fact quite a few aspects there are anti-features to me (as detailed above). But that doesn't mean the idea itself is useless.
Apart from that I think friendica already has too many features in a few areas (why have categories AND tags? Like AND star? Subjects for private messages?) and would remove those in my own approach



UI/UX-Design


Moin Felix, könnte hier eventuell beim Design helfen. Find die Idee hier echt Supergut - aber ein Erlebnis ist was anderes. ; )

Man muss ja nicht gleich übertreiben - aber hier und da etwas polishing könnte nicht schaden, denke ich.

Ich komm auch gern mal mit meinen Skates bei Dir rum. Würd Dich eh gern mal besuchen - weil sieht gut aus bei Dir da und auch ewig nicht gesehen.

Lieben Gruß.

Tim


in reply to neuronist@gmail.com

@sandrom have you tried the mobile website? It's... certainly an experience 😬 (try posting an image!)



installed seafile, deleted dropbox account. one corporation less. feels good.
in reply to felix b. ohmann

Ah. Danke. Möchte auch unbedingt weg von Dropbox. Empfehlungen für meine Zwecke (die Du ja kennst)?