Christopher Horrell

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I do DevOps things 👨‍💻. Former @nylas, @nymiband, @joyent. Aortic dissection survivor.
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@pborenstein OK, figured it out. mastodon.cloud is on 3.4.6; mastodon.social is on 4.0.2. The ability to automatically delete old posts was added in 3.5.0: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.0
Release v3.5.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires streaming API restart ℹ️ Requires two-step database migration process for zero-downtime deployment ℹ️ Sy...

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@pborenstein Huh, I do not have that setting under mastodon.cloud. What server are you on?
I read somewhere about a Mastodon setting that allows you to auto-delete posts. I can't find it. Is this server and/or version specific? Like, it's not available on mastodon.cloud afaict
@jhendricks Yikes! Hope you're doing ok! Also: I feel like I've just learned an important travel tip
Wrote a blog on why AWS never dove seriously into blockchain. Features groovy pix from a trip to New York, which is part of the story: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain
AWS and Blockchain

ongoing by Tim Bray
This is probably a common first-time experience for people just starting with mastodon, but I keep wondering if I’m on the right server.
Bootstrapping stuff is fun!
He walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink. It should have been a toilet.
I’ve been wondering: will we start to see the fail whale again, or will Twitter just stop working?

One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) eng work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced at great cost.

A few examples off the top of my head:

The now gutted HWENG group was so good at server design that, in a meeting with Intel, the Intel folks couldn't believe the power envelope Twitter achieved and Google thought we were lying about our costs during cloud price negotiations.