A Fast Rewind to the Era of Tapesponding
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Imagine a time before Discord servers and cheap long-distance calls. Back in the 1950s, a curious and crafty group of enthusiasts invented their own global social network: on reels of magnetic tape…Hackaday
Setting up Nginx Proxy Manager was easier than I thought! A few hurdles at first (longer blog post in the works) but I got it all working without much issue.
I am seeing things timeout every now and then but it seems a common problem so hopefully I can get that fixed.
#nginx #proxy #selfhosted
me, obvious genius: there's no trap that would ever work on me
also me: oh
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Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-co…
A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible to everyone in North and South America on the night of March 13 to 14, 2025.SETI Institute
It is a REALLY good idea to write an introductory post about yourself and pin it to your profile. Pinned posts appear at the top of your profile page, and they also have a special ability to federate much more widely than ordinary posts.
It's very quick and easy to do:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…
Here's why it matters: there's a quirk on Mastodon where some profiles may appear blank to people on some servers, but profiles with pinned posts never look blank to anyone!
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
I wonder if instead of trying to fetch all posts and storing them on the local database, there could just be a more robust solution to interacting with posts on other instances and then when you click on a profile, it can just go to their instance or it embeds the post view from their instances like news articles embed social media posts.
Similarly when you click on a post it just embeds what the replies in the author's instance look like. Though at least the not seeing all replies issue is getting fixed by other means
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...www.simonandschuster.com
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What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325265/sudiksha-konanki-missing-dominican-republic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Yes it is, you can already manually pull in all the public parts of a discussion by opening the thread's "original page" and then copy-pasting the URLs of all the replies into the search box on your instance. This is very tedious so no one does this, but there's nothing to stop a client or script or instance doing it automatically.
I am not a dev but AFAIK the main holdup has been how to do this efficiently without causing strain on instances.
I just finished A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber over at Project Gutenberg. It's great post apocalyptic tale about earth thrown into a deep freeze after a rogue Star tears the planet from its orbit. There's not a lot of action but the world building is phenomenal. I'd love to read more stories set in this universe. #scifi #pulp #apocalypse #ProjectGutenberg
This is fantastic social.growyourown.services/@F…
Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.
(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…)
(Via @rolle)
Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...GitHub
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Using the shell command in CAD software might seem like an easy way to hollow out a model for 3D printing, but it often leads to inconsistent wall thickness and print artifacts. This post explains why the shell command falls short and introduces a more precise manual modeling approach to achieve uniform, high-quality prints.
I find it interesting what is happening to the polls in Canada.
What looked like an upcoming comfortable victory for The Conservatives has changed dramatically after the inauguration of Trump.
Should the Liberals end up winning the election later this year, the US president would be facing the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Carney.
We would then see the chaos president Trump fighting a trade war against a calculated, educated and experienced economist who has lead central banks.
Until then we will all experience a whole flood of tariffs and EOs....
Let's sse if the USA still "exists" by then. 😬😱
Just sayin':
Nobody ever has seen a sadistic destruction of a superpower before. Who knows what's gonna happen til fall.
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This happens all the time.
French fries are not French, they’re Belgian at best.
One of the most popular Chinese dishes in the USA is General Tso's Chicken. In China no one knows who the General Tso is and never tasted his Chicken.
This is not an exhausting list.
reminds me of the dutch "filet americain"
which 1) for whatever reason has a french name
and 2) is literally raw minced beef with some spices that you're supposed to put on a slice of bread (with maybe some onions/eggs/more spices).
I guess maybe because americans like meat and boneless things? I have no idea what the connection is here honestly
WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a new Dim Auto Flip Text option to disable automatic text orientation based on where you click first.
BIM:
Syres916 fixed two cosmetic bugs in the UI code,
furgo16 re-enab
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This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a ne…FreeCAD News
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Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
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Dalí long gone and Disney gone longer still, it came out. The delayed arrival of Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few laid eyes on its unfinished materials again until…Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
On your first day in Dublin, there is a good chance that you will be tired and exhausted - take it slow and have a relaxing afternoon in one of Dublin’s most beautiful parks.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environme…Daring Fireball
Beyond entertainment, fandom provides meaning, values and essential community to some participants.The Conversation
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Rich text editing on Discourse! I think that having to write Markdown directly has been one of the biggest real impediments for existing forums to move to Discourse, as I see it. I prefer writing raw Markdown, but most "normal" people would prefer a rich text editor. So happy to see this happening!
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We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that it’s easier to write on Discourse.Discourse Meta
Been spinning different kinds of Star Wars silks on twitch.tv/MakerDeck lately...
Attached: 1 image Are Senate Dems finding their backbone? Christ, I hope so https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029 #USPolvmst·io
Do not believe it.
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As you could see from my comments here and some occasional comments on Bluesky, I felt pretty confident for most of the day that Senate Dems were in the process…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Just sent off my freedom of information request to get all the private data about myself that #DOGE has accessed. You can do it too, thanks to some quick #activism by Maryland representative Jamie Raskin.
"We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety." Amen, stamp.
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U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.Jamie Raskin for Congress
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I only wish I had John Lewis stamps on hand....
The mysterious figure of Faithful Eckart appears from time to time in German folklore as a harbinger of danger.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #WildHunt @germany @folklore
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13 March 1924 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Najman, was born in Radom.
In #Auschwitz from 21 July 1942.
No. 50301
He perished in the camp on 11 August 1942.
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in reply to Pete Prodoehl 🍕 • • •I also managed to get docker running Nginx Proxy Manager on a Raspberry Pi, which had a few challenges but I think I've cleared all the hurdles.
The main issue was no clear direction on getting Docker and the container to startup at boot. Lots of forum post reading on that topic.
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