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thomholwerda

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https://www.osnews.com managing editor. Dutchman living in Sweden. Dumb fuck.

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milan, to random German
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wer dann bei der flohmarkt instanz räder ohne gut sichtbare rahmengröße einstellt wird gebannt lol

thomholwerda,
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@milan Ah so Germany only for now? Makes total sense! Just want to make sure. 😊

thomholwerda,
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@milan Yeah for sure, maybe if it picks up and gains traction, you can look into going EU-wide!

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i was pointed at this neat federated "small trade platform" project: https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt

now i wonder what a nice subdomain could be to give it a fair test :)

thomholwerda,
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@milan This would be such a fun thing to have, especially since eBay has become so dominated by people overcharging for things like old computers. With how many nerdy people are on tchncs, this could be great for us retro computing enthusiasts to get some good trades in!

thomholwerda, to random
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Little over one hour to my first ever meeting - and on Jitsi, at that. I'm nervous as hell, and there's definitely anxiety rampaging around in there, but that's to be expected from my brain.

The weird thing? I know I'll do fine. I know they'll be good people. I'm not actually afraid or scared of anything.

People often don't understand this. Anxiety disorders are very odd. You're not really scared of anything - only the mental and physical feelings of anxiety exist.

thomholwerda,
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I did the thing. I think it went okay?

thomholwerda,
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Fun thing: my sound just stopped working as I entered the meeting app thing. I tested it like 10 minutes before, all working well.

The employee from the Linux OEM: "Linux. 🤷‍♀️ "

thomholwerda,
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@milan It wasn't the app (Jitsi in this case)! Other audio sources refused to play too. I still have no clue what happened.

thomholwerda, to random
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I've gone ahead and instance-blocked both rage.love and mastodon.art for organising and partaking in countless bullying and harassment campaigns against several innocent people, specifically several trans women. Serious instances need to protect themselves from these harassers, and while I understand my admin @milan can't really defederate from a large instance like .art, us individual users sure can.

Their harassment has been going on long enough. I don't want it in my timeline anymore.

thomholwerda,
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@milan Yeah .art is difficult because 99.9% of its users are totally fine. It's the leadership that's been partaking in these harassment campaigns, sadly. I totally am not expecting you or anyone else to defed over that!

thomholwerda,
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@milan Wait, If I were to report someone from a different instance, you get the report too? I assumed it would just go to the admins of the reported user's instance, so I never bothered reporting admins of other instances. 😅

thomholwerda,
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@milan Interesting. I had no idea, but it makes sense now that I think about it.

stux, to random
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This is a real, real bad one. It seems an instance dedicated to CSAM and should be suspended right away!

"pettanko.art"

thomholwerda,
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@stux Yo @milan 🔼

milan, to random
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lets quickly share a directory in ubuntu..

  • extra software needs to be installed
  • couldn't install due to conflicts or another process is running
  • there was an error, retry?
  • extra software needs to be installed
  • cancel
  • there was an error, retry?
  • apt update
  • couldn't akquire lock
  • ... packagekitd does its thing ...
  • oh, wlan isn't on

...

well isnt that enduser friendly

thomholwerda,
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@milan Wat.

I just right-click on a folder in Fedora or Mint and click "Share". 🤔

milan, to random
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lol that arm x13 thinkpad is priced like "please dont buy, we only have produced a hand full"
(relative to its expected performance)

thomholwerda,
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@milan Could be an amazing Linux device but pricing of these things is definitely wtf?!

gamingonlinux, to random
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Linus Tech Tips sounds like a horrible place to work https://x.com/suuuoppp/status/1691693740254228741?s=46&t=9QuZ9DEY2it-UDnQVEljMA

thomholwerda,
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@gamingonlinux Madison's situation always felt off. Turns out it's even worse and more heartbreaking than everyone thought.

Also, longtimers might remember Naomi Wu once accused Linus of inappropriate behaviour. I guess we'll have to reevaluate that one too.

thomholwerda, to random
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How do iOS people not go nuts from not being able to make their phone theirs? Can't even freely place icons?

Crazy world.

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milan, to random
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:tchncs: :mastodon: For the first time, this instance now has a co-admin.
In case of an emergency, @thomas will now be able to access this instance from under the hood – if something prevents me from responding in time.
Thank you, Thomas!

thomholwerda,
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@milan Excellent!

thomholwerda, to random
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A NEW LEMMiNO VIDEO

It's happening gif from The Office.

thomholwerda,
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@gabboman I don't even have any interest in the JFK assassination, but magically now I do!

thomholwerda, to random
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Mastodon notifications are all delayed and messed up. Instance issue I guess?

thomholwerda,
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@milan Might just be my Android Mastodon app being weird. Will check my PC later.

thomholwerda, to random
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Hey @milan, I noticed I get this notification for every post I make on pixel.tchncs.de. Am I doing something wrong or...? 😅

thomholwerda,
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@milan 👌

gruber, to random
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Welcome to the EU web:

thomholwerda,
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@Gargron @gruber These cookie banners aren't even compliant with the law anyway.

Like you said, just don't include third-party analytics and you don't need any banners. You'd think somebody who peddles Apple would be in favour of that!

milan, to random
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i hate it when projects give you a bulletlist of dependencies but the two mile long apt command, you gotta figure out yourself

thomholwerda,
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@milan Oh god especially if they use the generic names for the projects instead of the package names, or name the libraries very specifically and you have to figure out in which package your distribution puts them.

milan, to random
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currently running a quick cleanup through the database to free some space in the hope to speed up a potential migration to a more powerful server (in case i decide to do so) – you may experience some slowdowns depending on the table that is currently being worked on (and the base load from the fediverse is already quite high). sorry for that :tchncs:

thomholwerda,
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@milan Thanks for all your hard work Milan!

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