Ian Littman @iansltx@social.targaryen.house
Hailing from the ATX, coding errday (PHP primarily), doing too much devops for his own good. CW: all teh technology.
Dear fellow #Mastodon users. Please be patient with the people creating Mastodon and GNU Social.
Writing software takes time, and the teams working on these applications are very small.
Most of them are also wearing many hats. Some are students, others have full time non-Mastodon jobs. Some admin instances in addtion to writing code.
The Twitter kitchen probably has more people working in it than the entire #Fediverse. Please adjust your expectations accordingly! ๐
genx: "lol means "laughing out loud"
genex: lol is its own word, with contextual meaning, not pronounced *audible laugh* but instead "loe-ll" or regional variations.
see also: the Loule.
a Loule is one laugh-second. most shitposts are in the 75-500 microLoule range, you should be aiming for three Loules at the minimum but the optimal values are between five and seven Loules.
in humans, an exposure to a 100 kiloLoule event generally is immediately followed by death
Workstation at parents' house fully upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04. Didn't have to screw with Xconfig to get the VGA-connected monitor to work at 1080p.
Year of Linux on the Desktop confirmed.
Yeah, social.cloudfrancois.fr is definitely padding their user count by 20k. Eff that. They need to be dropped off instances.mastodon.xyz er sum'n.
Ooh, nice, dark-theme profile pages on this instance :)
Is it just me or do social.cloudfrancois.social and friends.nico look suspect user count wise? Less so the latter, but definitely the former...it's like they imported a bunch of user accounts from somewhere else maybe? /cc @TheKinrar @hisham_hm
[ Yes! I know! You -can- get the money back on a fraudulent debit charge....
....after the bank has investigated, etc.
Why bother going through that hassle? Use a credit card so they act as a firewall to soak any fraudulent charges, and pay it off immediately after.]
PSA: no, we haven't suddenly gained a million users over an hour, someone's just set up an instance which spoofs its user count on the about page for a laugh, and that's where the various user counters get their numbers from
"America has already started to split into two groups: people who design, own and operate automated systems, and people who only know how to do things that robots will be able to do better. I don't want this new age of plenty to start with millions of people starving to death."
Hot Mastodon #wedding tips for 2017:
- serve a pineapple upside-down cake
- vows must fit into 500 characters
- get a witch as your officiant
- you're not married; you're "federated"
We don't boost like the masses, we burn. ๐ฅ https://social.targaryen.house/media/wxOIihlvIvZLquVbWGg https://social.targaryen.house/media/WCFd5L7_p8uNyft7gfw
@wonderfall not seeing the Boos...er...Burn button on the mobile layout?
k, done talking devops-y stuff for the moment, 'cuz that's entirely too much fun.
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Have you heard the one about traceroute?
Mastodon Tools:
Instance Preview Tool: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview
Network Analysis: https://mnm.eliotberriot.com/dashboard/db/mastodon-network-overview
Instance List: https://instances.mastodon.xyz/list
Subreddit:
https://reddit.com/r/mastodon_social
Tampermonkey Script (max column width):
https://userstyles.org/styles/userjs/135501/Mastodon%20AutoResize%20Columns.user.js
(Must edit header to include the url(s) to your instance)
Twitter export:
http://mastodon-bridge.herokuapp.com/
Whoa, GPlay changed their installed/updating apps layout significantly. Denser now. I think I like it.
So, 24: Legacy was decent. Bit different dynamic vs. the older series, but enjoyable.
...and now Doctor Who is back. As os Formula One, once I can allot a significant amount of time to watching that bit :)
For the record, the newest NIST guidelines state that the maximum password length should be at -least- 64 characters.
And they also deprecate so-called 'knowledge based authenticators' - like those moronic 'security questions'.
Those are bad and should not be used. Ever.
@ellotheth o/ ๐
Reminder: http://telegra.ph exists - great for making well-formatted anonymous posts, for when toots need to go beyond 500 characters.
cc @dredmorbius in particular
