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Video maker, graphic designer and web developer.

I'm experimenting with this self-hosted instance, still flicking switches and figuring everything out. Let me know if there's any issues - because there definitely are.
Mastodonhttps://mastodon.social/@benjaminnelan
Calckeyhttps://calckey.social/@benjaminnelan
PixelFedhttps://pixelfed.social/benjaminnelan

Many people still know us as "HDRI Haven" and search for our content on Google with this term - but beware, a scam artist is cloning our content on a similar domain, and earning ad revenue. Some months ago they even had a Patreon scamming people for "donations to help make HDRIs".

I'm not sure what can be done about this. Our content is CC0 so rehosting it is legal - though our API ToS specifically forbids this. Trying to report the issue to Google or their domain host were just dead ends.

Fun connections.

"Stereotype" is a printer's term. Moveable type is expensive. You don't want to keep it tied up longer than needed, so you make a mould from the set type and cast a plate from that.

The "stereotype" is the mould.

A "cliché" is what the French called plate made from that mould, it's onomatopoeia from the sound of removing the plate from the mould.

"Boilerplate" is widely repeated text from the round stereotype castings of newspaper columns ready to throw on a drum press.

For All Mankind (Season 3, 2022): Helios Mars mobile habitat flight deck, plans by set designer Wilson Muller
For All Mankind season 4 premieres on Apple TV+ November 10, 2023.
#scifi #tvshow #forallmankind #mars #rover #flightdeck
@avesbury_rosetta Depending where you are in the world sometimes you can find pretty decent local offerings. Crucial in Australia have a bunch of cheap Linux VPS plans for instance.

Then there's the free offerings, I've heard Oracle has a pretty decent free VPS offering to mess about with, but obviously if you go over the monthly limit they begin to charge.

Currently running my Firefish server on DigitalOcean, easy to use but think it's a bit pricey, have heard others using Linode.
My #firefish is really struggling to swim right now folks. My server stats are so hot right now they're not even showing up.
@theresnotime i like to think of them as danger worms
@VeryBadLlama I have conservative relatives who will speak at lengths about how 'back in their day' they used to walk to the shops and that everyone these days is spoiled being able to drive everywhere they want but then you propose the idea of cities being built for people and they lose their marbles.

Conservatives should be all over this. It's literally, "hey, you know what - we were doing something right before," - let's go back to walking, reusing glass bottles and supporting small local businesses, but no.
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@michael Dang it :/

It looks like relay.fedi.buzz is going to break once #mastodon 4.2 comes out:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23989

This is VERY bad news for users of small instances like myself.

I do understand the reasoning behind it, and I'm not sure there is a good alternative. But it sure feels a bit like a deja vu from the self hosted email days ...

#mastoAdmin #singleuserinstance #relays #FediBuzz

Disable anonymous access to the streaming API by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #23989 · mastodon/mastodon

This disables anonymous access to the streaming API to simplify the code and disable an endpoint that we were not aware of any legitimate use of when unauthenticated. Mastodon itself has only brief...

GitHub
Was my server dyin cause of the #calckey to #firefish social migration or am I just a bad admin?