Gregory's Server
as a friend pointed out in a followers-only post, @bob 's Epicyon activitypub server is a non-toy implementation that does not use a database but renders posts as flat files on disk!
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the inverse of "make sure you have working backups of what's important" is "give yourself permission to delete digital detritus that no longer has any value to your life" you do not need every email you've received for the last decade. you do not need three copies of every photo you've ever taken with your phone. you do not need the downloads folder for each of your previous twelve laptops. you can delete some stuff.
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 @djsundog i also find it healthy to get rid of some personal communication and other stuff that can lead me to rumination. people in the past were fine without having every conversation to read again when they felt bad about something!  Disagree. My email packrattery has saved me major trouble at least once and has been extremely helpful several other times. And lost literal thousands of dollars to some deleted records I really should have scanned and saved. Storage is cheap enough that you really only need one instance to make it all worthwhile.  while true.... I am not going to cull my phone images like I do my photography images. I just save them all. However... having a phone camera that only saves in massive resolution, with an effective resolution half that size is very annoying.
whoa, The WELL set up a mastodon instance? that's wild. happy to have The WELL in the fediverse!  from a followers-only post, with permission of the original author:
if we can use normal every day operating systems to virtualize weird operating systems we can use weird operating systems as our daily drivers and virtualize normalcy, just keep it in a little box when we absolutely have to interact with it.
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 hot take: many of the growing pains the fediverse cyclically deals with stem from the extremely limiting "follow" modelling of human interaction. I feel like addressing this is a foundational issue if we want to encourage actually healthy use of these spaces.  @djsundog I like this take, keep going. does this mean "implementing circles" because i could be on board with that we do with spare change (run hacky flaky social network nodes) what titans of industry require billions of dollars to achieve (run hacky flaky social network nodes). money is clearly fake as fuck.
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 @djsundog Drugs'll get you thru times of no money better than money'll get you thru times of no drugs. And here "drugs" are clearly distributed social media. @djsundog opposite theory same practice: money is very very real, as evidenced by the chains and burdens and debilitating parasites it brings seeing folk refer to "the original Mastodon app for " my froods, the original Mastodon apps were all third-party. the "official" Mastodon apps are recent and not feature complete. look around the ecosystem a bit - the "official" stuff your brain seeks is centralization talking. we roll differently over here. @djsundog Exactly, the only official thing we follow here is activitypub. And even that's debatable lol. tons of new folks on the ‘verse introducing themselves and some of them have some pretty cool feats in their past. this is me letting you know that we’ll be just as impressed by a story about how you shoplifted seventeen corn dogs and a number ten can of nacho cheese sauce from a matinee showing of Terms of Endearment. we just really like stories and stuff, ok? our hacky, low budget hobbyist social network has one billionaire so mad he can't remember how to take a screenshot for his US$44B social network and I think that's beautiful. keep up the good work, er, hobby. @ajroach42 we should come up with a smooth path to get Analog Revolution bands into the fediverse so it’s easier to talk about (and with) them ;)  @djsundog I was just thinking we needed an @soc.analogrevolution.com or similar Good morning! It might be really dorky but I find myself listening to the new @DoctorDeathray single, "Outrageous Fortune", numerous times a day, and it’s not just because I want to extract micropennies from the capitalist streaming services. This is a fun track! (Okay, I am biased, but y’all dig my biases) https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/ :cofepats: Twice today I introduced myself to a visitor to the makerspace and had them reply with "oh, you’re Sundog? I just read about you in a zine!" and folks that’s fun. my beloved partner has already set our non-internet-connected clocks back one hour to account for the overnight temporal shenanigans and I just about vapor locked trying to figure out how it was so early after such a jam-packed day heretical take: Good Times by Chic is twice as long as it should be. It's a good lick, Nile, but it's not that good. @djsundog Thing is, the context was dance music. It's the right length for like... People on drugs at a disco |
@djsundog @bob oh, this looks sick as hell!
@djsundog Interesting.
Kind of lost me at the "Written in Python" part though.
@grunfink originally implemented snac in Python, which is why the codeberg repository for the current snac is snac2 because it's now written in C.
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2