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Eugen Rochko

Stellaris is free to play for a few days, wanna finally try it out...

Eugen Rochko

Retraction: My information about Mastodon reaching 4 million registered users was based on the @mastodonusercount bot, but I am afraid upon closer inspection its data is incorrect.

Ocean

@Gargron @mastodonusercount

It's gonna be really hard to ever say exactly how many people are using Mastodon (and the fediverse at large) because lots of people sign up and then never post again, and lots of active users have more than one account (I have 4 for example)

Sad mews~

Eugen Rochko

The merit of that metric is debateable in the first place. What really matters is MAU (monthly active users), not total registered users, but most stats aggregators only collect/focus on the latter, and as such, that's what people see and keep track of and get excited about. And my take on it is, if people get excited about it, why not? It's still a milestone, you just have to understand the nature of the milestone.

Eugen Rochko

I’ve repotted some plants for the first time and i can’t tell if i did a godawful job of it

emmadavidson

@Gargron the plants will tell you within a week or two.

Eugen Rochko

Is anyone else watching Into the Night on Netflix?

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birdydon

@Gargron
Yes.
Netflix is offering a motherlode of content during the virus lockdown. Several new competitors are arriving. Some are free (with ads) but they are buggy.
I cut the cord some time ago and went "Internet Only" with my ISP. It was a good cost saver with no loss of content.

Eugen Rochko

I'm trying to route sound from a Focusrite audio interface through the headphone output and lightning adapter into an iPhone to use with the video app, but it's not detecting the signal as a microphone

Am I out of luck?

toot|mo

@Gargron Wouldn't you have to terminate the cable in a TRRS jack where one of the audio channels is swapped with the microphone?

Eugen Rochko

What if Elon naming his kid that is a 500 IQ move to force web companies to finally accept unicode in name fields and loosen length validation

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Kasil 💧

@Gargron nonsense, I can't input my address properly because it has an «é»
In most e-commerce website it is accepted but prints as escape codes.

Amir

@Gargron
Who gives a shit about his babies name?

Eugen Rochko

Imma be honest with you chief I was not expecting @keybase to be acquired

Jonny P

@Gargron
Always liked the idea of it but I never really used it...and now I have a good reason to get rid of it.

@keybase

Eugen Rochko

Hm, do Firefox dev tools have a way of simulating dark/light mode toggles yet?

Kaito

@Gargron light mode: light text on dark background

dark mode: dark text on dark background

Eugen Rochko

Backblaze just became a storage option for Mastodon admins. I heard it’s quite cheap

backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-b

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:ggc: Niklas

@Gargron Very interesting.I knew this provider and thought that they already support that.I think I did even recommend them to Mastodon admins in the past 😆

Paul Chambers

@Gargron

I know this is an old post, but instances are coming across many issues using Backblaze with Sidekiq failures, regardless of setting up timeouts, retry attempts, etc

Mainly 503, No tomes, execution expired, & 443 errors during times of congestion

Any chance of getting a look at the root cause or some hints on best way to handle this so small instances can continue to afford cdn?

After weeks of working with Backblaze, after many 1000 errors, here is the final result

@ClearlyClaire

I do understand that despite previous troubleshooting, we have not discovered a specific error and that may result in frustration.  As this does not appear to be an issue regarding your configuration, retry methodology, and we are not blocking/throttling or otherwise purposefully reducing service availability to your account, it is likely that you're encountering these periods of high 503 responses due to service congestion.  We are currently engaged in improving performance across all data centers however this is a broad project and we do not specifically have a time frame available for when these service availability improvements may complete.  As such, our current recommendation is to attempt retries via your current methodology (including exponential backoff) and/or attempting the request at a later time.
Eugen Rochko

Devin Townsend has been doing live shows online to raise money for various causes, there was one for UK NHS and this one is for NSUH in New York State

Watch him play his songs in a makeshift setup in his PJs

youtube.com/watch?v=cWFcOhCnkA

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