people of the abraum-friendica, the server has been updated. if you encounter anomalies, turn around and walk the other direction. do not look back! ;)
people of the social.abraum.de-server, i have updated to the latest stable version, and updated the linux system as well. let me know if stuff does act up!
Looks like Deadline also concluded the summer season. It's that kind of lovely grey outside again. My Dubtechno season officially started :) In case you need some cozy/deep mixes to work to:
throwup-friday (yes, a bit late): if you have not watched it, go watch "Auslaufmodell Supermarkt?" from arte in 2021, currently it is available at deutsche welle (link at the end). Or use mediathekview.
Jahrzehntelang beherrschten große Supermarktketten den globalen Lebensmittelmarkt. Doch der harte Preiskrieg untereinander und der wachsende Einfluss digitaler Großkonzerne wie Amazon und Alibaba stürzen die Branche in eine immer tiefere Krise.
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.
In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.
Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
The other day I was arguing with a colleague, & I said that I thought 95% of the funds getting thrown at AI would be better spent strengthening infrastructure to handle climate change. He said “AI will fix climate change.”
Now I think 100% of those funds should be redirected.
BMW is one of several automakers that have been nickel and diming customers, including with a monthly subscription for heated seats in certain models and...
Auf Amazon wurden mehrere englischsprachige Pilzratgeber gesperrt, die offenbar aus einem KI-Textgenerator stammen. Die Tipps waren teilweise lebensgefährlich.
because chase roberts first book "computer engineering for babies" (the one with the pushbuttons, and the led, explaing logic gates and latch) is a big hit here at home: the guy is kickstarting the successor with switches and more leds! why dont you go over there and order one or two for yourself? while you are at it, you can add a copt of the original book, this is fantastic stuff to show off your nerdyness on the living room table while not alienating normal people (they love the books as well). here you go: kickstarter.com/projects/babye…
A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."
"Polarization Is Dividing American Society, Not Just Politics,” laments The New York Times. “The Constitution Is Threatened by Tribalism,” frets The Atlantic. “American politics has reached peak polar
es ist so genial. überall auf der welt erlobbyen(?) sich verlegerverbände sowas wie das kaputte deutsche #Leistungsschutzrecht, und heulen dann rum, wenn plattformen halt keine previews für links mehr anzeigen. meine fresse, was für eine überraschung, in jedem land aufs neue. protip für die politiker unter euch: hört halt mal mehr auf die menschen, die sich mit diesem #neuland internet auskennen, bevor ihr euch scheissgesetze von der contentindustrie diktieren lasst?
some random pictures from a very foggy morning 2 days ago. (photos contain a scenic view with somewhat dense fog over meadows and service roads, with some trees vanishing in the fog).
hello fediverse! (again.) If someone wants a Tascam M3700 analog 32ch console, you can pick it up for free in germany near elmshorn/hamburg. photo is not mine, as the unit is in storage. message me if you want to have the console! #studio #mixer #console #analog #tascam
also, reactivated facebook, because i miss too many people over here. will only go there to follow a bit and post the most important stuff, feeding the shit machine as little as possible. sharing stuff here first.
watching “full metal village” with junior and @Ronny Pries while the full metal people start piling up even in the public parking lots around our village 50 kilometers from wacken. i guess they are allowed to arrive from tomorrow morning… :) thought about inviting some of them over to our farm where there is a shower, a toilet and power, but feeling to exhausted for meeting new people right now. maybe next year. :)
we ended up collecting 5 campervans in elmshorn and barmstedt, giving them a place to camp out until the complete stop of wacken-arrivals was announced, making suer they had power, a fridge, showers and toilets. it was a nice evening in all that chaos, some of them played a bit of bagpipe and cajon for everybody, and we spent an hour in the studio listening to music. tales were told of lots of local people offering help and places to stay. well done, schleswig-holstein, thank you all for being decent humans!
!Friendica Support Hello helpers. on my friendica instance (2023-05) i see posts from other instances coming in that were written 12-24 hours in the past. what mechanism causes this? my server seems to be doing fine cpu-wise, sometimes db queries take a bit long (i will move files from db to local storage next, i guess that is is the problem with the slow queries), but the queues are not large etc. is that something with my server, or is that just the federation code on the external (mostly mastodon) servers not keeping up with delivery? also, as i understand, my instance sees all public posts from a remote instance once someone on my instance follows a person over there. how is this going to work once meta starts spewing out gigabits of content per second?
oh ok, i did not get that. then it is possibly because of the interaction. i might have missunderstood the way this works then. so the meta question is not really an isse (of bandwidth) either. thanks for clarifying. :)
@Felix Bohmann also not all posts come to you, Mastodon does not distribute all posts like that, it just distributes top posts to followers and then any comment to the mentioned users.
@Felix Bohmann so many questions, would have been good to number them.
Hello helpers. on my friendica instance (2023-05) i see posts from other instances coming in that were written 12-24 hours in the past.
That is a long delay.
what mechanism causes this?
There is 3 possible reasons I think. 1. Your server is not reachable well, maybe timeouts or so, and hence the posts can not be received and are re-transmitted after some hours 2. or your server actively gets them from remote. 3. Some of your contacts interacted with the post, which caused you to receive the interaction and the the post came with it.
my server seems to be doing fine cpu-wise, sometimes db queries take a bit long (i will move files from db to local storage next, i guess that is is the problem with the slow queries), but the queues are not large etc
I am not sure about the file system storage being faster, if your server is new there should not be so much in the db yet.
Disable avatar caching, that really uses many resources and was a common suggestion the last months.
or is that just the federation code on the external (mostly mastodon) servers not keeping up with delivery?
No, very unlikely.
also, as i understand, my instance sees all public posts from a remote instance once someone on my instance follows a person over there. how is this going to work once meta starts spewing out gigabits of content per second?
That could happen. I would expect that meta and others would not turn this on for every user, it will be opt-in and maybe just on separate systems from the current Facebook/Instagram.
Such public posts can be discarded after a short time, currently the settings usually will be some days, but in such cases you can probably set that to hours, just receive them and delete them again after some time. It would cost a lot of database time.
@Felix Bohmann in /admin/site go to performance and disable this here: "Cache contact avatars Locally store the avatar pictures of the contacts. This uses a lot of storage space but it increases the performance."
@Felix Bohmann also in performance you have "Lifespan of unclaimed items", which you can reduce to lower value, I guess you do not need 90 days (default setting) of public posts, unless you like to scroll a lot or use the hash tag search much. For me 7 days works well, just for tags I don't follow it might not return anything.
thanks for that clarification as well. i think it was reshared stuff and interactions. i just missunderstood the way this works for public posts. epic support! :)
hello people local to social.abraum.de. just a short message: i have updated to the last stable version. everything is running normal. have a nice day!
people of the social.abraum.de, i have updated to the latest stable friendica version. apps should work much better now. the previous picture post was made with the mastodon app, seems to be working! let me know if you encounter problems on our instance!
it's been almost 6 yrs of wondering what's d title of the song that i've heard frm my frnds compilation cd.. thanks fredz galleto, now i hve a peace of mind....
hi people of the abraum. i will update the system to 2022.06 soon, one of the changes should be that more mastodon-compatible apps will work with social.abraum.de
i will test a few and get back here with my findings soon!
the level of weird hate on the monolithic socials is insane these days. it feels like a lot of users have completely lost any kind of kindness and empathy. phew.
!Friendica Support do other people also experience that on writing a post and sharing it, the post appears above the other posts, hidden, so you have to manually scroll the page down to see it? that is so confusing. am i doing something wrong, or is that expected behaviour? :)
The most recent posts are meant to appear at the top of your network page, so any new post you publish will also appear up there. Or maybe I didn't understand your confusion?
yes, but it does not scroll into view. the post that was the topmost post before writing a new one stays the topmost, and i have to scroll that down to see the new post. it feels like nothing has changed after writing and posting a post until i manually scroll down the page. (all of that on my own profile page)
Ah, I get it now. Yes, it doesn't scroll into view automatically, the network page is updated in the background which may (or may not) keep your scrolling position.
it feels like a software error, i had that question from at least 25% of the new users on my instance. they create a post, share it, and it is not to be seen, making them think it did not get posted. is that really by design? or would that be an improvement to be made?
This isn't by design, it's rather a side-effect of a general behavior. To scroll the post into view we would have to add some exception specific to this case, so it would be an improvement to be made.
service announcement: truenas will release a new version of their storage system based on linux tomorrow. i have set up a new nas for my homelab using their release candidates over the last few weeks, using a hp proliant dl380 with 2 12core-xeons and 128gb ecc ram, it is now packed with hdd and ssd to the brim, and it is working well. being linux based, it now supports virtual machines running on kvm, and docker and whatnot, so it is very flexible once you wrap your head around zfs. i basically built a server that now houses 18 storage drives, has tons of ram, cpu and dual 10/40gbe uplinks at a fraction of the cost of a similarly specced synology system. yay!
@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?
Apparently it came through the forum so you're good. The difference between @ and ! is that in the latter case, the post doesn't appear in your own statuses, only in the forum's.
You're good, we do a diff between the current structure and the target structure to determine which upgrade to make, we don't have static upgrade scripts, although even in this case it would run the scripts from both 2021.09 and 2022.02 in order.
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
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. :)
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. :)
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!
Eine kranke Firmenkultur, ein Rätsel, "dass es irgendwie läuft" – sagen Ex-Mitarbeiter von N26. Die Handy-Bank selbst sieht sich als "starke Arbeitgebermarke".
Robert Dresden
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