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hm, is it a good idea to self host some XMPP server? What would be a nice one?

#askfedi #xmpp #selfhosting

Does anyone know of a MacOS (Ventura) app I can have on my own hard drive that doesn't cost a fortune, that will allow me to download YouTube and other online videos? Something for regular ol' people, not programmers/scripters? No git hub?

An org I spoke for put the video up, but did not give me a copy so I'd like to download it.

I used to use Softorino's YT downloader, which I PAID for, but then they decided to go SaaS and iced out all their paid users who got it before.#AskFedi #MacOS

Is there a term for the exit-oriented libertarian-funded startup?
I guess that's what "startup" means, forsooth. But I guess I'm fishing for a derogatory connotation.
#askFedi

Bonjour,

ce matin un projet qui vient d'outre mer !

du coup, je me lance dans des recherches pour un hebergement de machines (surement virtuelles) en guyane et en martinique...
Je vais faire mon travail et chercher les internets mais j'ai une question :

Est ce que vous avez des experiences, bonnes ou mauvaises avec des hebergeurs locaux ? (et si oui, lesquels?)

j'ai conscience qu'il doit pas y avoir beaucoup de personnes de là bas dans mes followers, alors reboost/repouet/partage encouragé/apprécié.
En plus, le repouet met fin à la colonisation 😉

#askfedi #guyane #martinique #guadeloupe
#hebergement

Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!

We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.

If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?

Thanks! 🙏

Can you please boost this?

#EleFediVideos #AskFedi

All of the sometimes-nonsense questions I've learned to ask since using #ChatGPT will now be posted in #askfedi first before I consult the AI.

Does anyone here have information about the status of Matrix-WhatsApp bridging/interoperability? (Maybe @matrix?) 🤔

Ads coming to WhatsApp is making me much more frustrated than I already was. I haven’t been updating the app since the introduction of Meta AI, but now WhatsApp is demanding that I update within 15 days or I won’t be able to use the app anymore.

So, the time has come: I have two weeks to backup and quit WhatsApp for good.

Since I’m here: could I also ask for your advice for local-only, not cloud, software that can backup ALL my #WhatsApp chats and store them locally in a browsable format/database? I found out about WhatsApp-Chat-Chat-Exporter but I’d like to learn more before testing it out.

Boosts welcome, let’s help each other and resist the broligarchy together! ✨

Damn, we wouldn’t have all this trouble if only the #DMA was actually enforced 🤬

#Matrix #WhatsApp #bridge #interoperability #MatrixBridge #Meta #MetaAI #MastoAiuto #askFedi #help #broligarchy

#AskFedi do you know anyone with a federated Wordpress site who uses it extensively? Not just for publishing straight to the Fediverse, but also in a social way (aka as a fedi profile)?

I've run into a few roadblocks with mine and I could really use some inspiration 😊​

#Wordpress #ActivityPub #selfhosting

I have a question for people who have been through really hard times. Not a bad day or a bad week, but extended periods of grinding, crushing hardship. (If you know, you know.)

My question is: what did other people do to support you that helped? Especially long distance friends (cf pandemic).

So many people I care about are struggling and deeply suffering. I want to find ways to be a better friend.

#AskFedi #Polycrisis

I need help from XFCE users who use Colemak:

While I can change layout per application, the wm still uses qwerty. how to make wm follow colemak?

#askFedi #Colemak

I'm curious to know how many people on the Fediverse are multilingual compared to non-multilingual.

How many languages are you fluent in (that is, you can either read, speak, and/or write it to get by in most situations)? Feel free to boost this to increase the sample size, and feel free to comment which languages you're fluent in!

#AskFedi #Poll #Language

Looking for a #1bit pixel-pusher from Brazil for a small project.

Many assets in white on black style to be made. Please send me your portfolios. No crazy deadlines.

Because of legal reasons, the person must live in Brazil. Sorry.

Please help boosting for visibility if you can.

#fediart #askfedi #fedhire #pixelart #brazilart

On the mastodon web UI, does anyone know how to get rid of the horrible, distracting swirling circle animation that appears whenever you open a post (to show that it's checking for more replies)?

I'm OK with it checking I guess, but that thing drives me nuts. I can't find any setting to turn off checking for more replies and the "reduce motion in animations" setting (which I already had turned on) does nothing to stop it.

I don't have a github (or whatever) account to report it as a bug or request. Has anyone reported this as an issue yet?

I can't be the only one who has a problem with it (this is mastodon after all!). I noticed it immediately after the feature was added and I'm pretty sure I posted complaint toot about it that got no reactions. Just wondering if anything has changed since then.

#mastodon #annoyance #askfedi

I'm interested in following as many reputable nonUSA, nonUK news sources on here as I can, but I don't know very many.

So far, I've got DW, Al Jazeera, Japan Times, Le Monde, and a few others.

Any suggestions?

#AskFedi

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 198 (summer project edition) 🏖️​

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you've been having a nice week so far.

I've been in childcare mode, thus the silence. I've been thinking about something and I would love to get your advice.

#AskFedi: is there a way to export one's #GoToSocial archive of posts (but not replies to other users)? Like something with command lines that doesn't require tedious copy and paste operations?

I wanted to gather up all the posts about the first 6 months of my self-hosting journey, to neatly organize them on my website (either in multiple blog posts or pages) so that they could be more easily searchable. It's not really ideal to go on an infinite scroll quest in reverse chronological order to see the evolution of my self-hosting journey.

Like, I'm curious to see what I was up to in January but going back in time loading old posts takes forever. And I cannot really search for keywords.

I'd like to keep things organized and easily searchable. And implement a POSSE system going forward... publishing on my site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

It's my summer of POSSE inspired by @molly0xfff 🤗
https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

If you have any ideas about how I can easily export all my #GtS posts, I'm all ears.

If not, I suppose I will start copying and pasting everything and do monthly installments of my self-hosting journey (aka "month 1" etc.). After all I have 1125 posts (sigh).

Anyways, I hope this finds you well and that you're keeping cool in this scorching heat (especially fellow Europeans).

have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are ❤️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

What is the Forkiverse? I see it being mentioned in posts

#AskFedi #MastoHelp #Fediverse

I've got a nerd #AskFedi question, expectations are high since we are on the Fediverse 😘

Situation: I’ve tagged mothers keys with bluetooth trackers. I hate this stuff, but she’s suffering from dementia and I also need some sleep. I'm using android trackers, e.g. the Google Find Hub. I hate this too.
#Caregiving #Alzheimers #Dementia

Question: How can I improve the bloody “home tracking abilities” of these #%#@! trackers on Google Find network?
#Bluetooth #Android #RaspberryPi #FediHelp

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I came across the similar issue with #FreeBSD again, how do I know where the header file sys/wait.h comes from? It does not exist on my 15.1-p2 system when I use locate for it. In src code it is sys/sys/wait.h, should I just install source code set?

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #AskFedi

Umm, I'm pretty sure this supposed #Mastodon admin asking me to verify my account is fake, but just to concur with yall around here, that's unofficial and fake right?

#askfedi #cybersecurity

Please recommend me a #Linux desktop for my daughter’s laptop. #Ubuntu just refused to boot yesterday. Also all that #snap shenanigans… Looks like I need something more stable, but less harsh than #Debian. #Mint maybe?

#UbuntuDesktop #LinuxDesktop #LinuxDistribution #AskFedi

#askFedi
is anyone can make a experience return on hetzner storage box ?
the main usage I think of it's sending #borgbackup via rsync.
it look cheap enough for me...
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/

Dear Fedi friends,

The normalization of "vibe coding" in certain environments is pushing me in the exact opposite direction.

I, a normie (ok maybe a semi-technical person), would like to learn some basic computer programming*.

*** Update at 10pm ***

I’ve been offline for the past 6 hours and I checked my notifications before going to sleep: 71 new mentions 😳 thank you for all your generous advice, I’ll respond one-by-one tomorrow morning. Good night! ❤️

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I need some advice about where to start because I'm a little clueless in this regard. Maybe it will help to share my goals, so that you can tailor your advice:

1) I'd like to become much more proficient using CLI... so that one day for example I could migrate a #YunoHost app to a new server without breaking anything

2) I'd like to be able to confidently run remote backups with rsync

3) Security: I need to learn how to turn my VPS or Raspi into a fortress

4) Eventually I'd like to learn #FreeBSD

Where does one even start?

I'm based in Paris, France, speak French, English and Italian, but remote learning is preferable because my child is in school only 4 days a week and has 2-week holidays every 6 weeks of school (thanks to the French educational system, don't ask me).

I'm super motivated to learn all these things, I just don't know where to start.

*Edit: maybe I'm just dreaming of becoming a proficient sysadmin

#AskFedi #MySoCalledSudoLife #NoAI

Quick vibe check on @elk usage.

👉 Have you been using #Elk web app (https://elk.zone)?

Please #boost for science :) We have been discussing the future of Elk and your input here matters a lot. 🙏

Feel free to elaborate on the comments as well!

#askmastodon #askfedi #askmasto #fediverse #mastodon #mastodev

Can anyone recommend a budget smartphone (UK) that has a reliable #GPS? Mine doesn't work most of the time. I don't care about any other spec as I'd be using this phone for GPS only.

@autistics
#askfedi #phonehelp