Be creative day
Since last week my and @Antilopa did some weekly planning to make sure we have dedicated enough time to all the projects, but also our family and hobbies (our projects are our hobbies also). We are still not there yet in terms of keeping to the schedule, but in few weeks we should be more accustom if we continue.
Saturday evenings are are dedicated to being creative. Whether its building something, 3d printing, prototyping, painting, drawing or whatever, we force ourself to be creative.
So tonight I'm going to:
- 3D print casing for PiGRRL-Zero we are building for our kid
- Get the PS3 like controller working with my #aquabox project and get the RetropieX86 launch and display the entire game library
- Play around and break #AndHub android hubzilla app
Saturday evenings are are dedicated to being creative. Whether its building something, 3d printing, prototyping, painting, drawing or whatever, we force ourself to be creative.
So tonight I'm going to:
- 3D print casing for PiGRRL-Zero we are building for our kid
- Get the PS3 like controller working with my #aquabox project and get the RetropieX86 launch and display the entire game library
- Play around and break #AndHub android hubzilla app
Living on the edge
Some people, like to take drugs, base jump, parachute, drive fast cars...
I like to every now and then break production servers :)
During a mariadb update for some reason a database got corrupt, badly. I had to force_recovery to 4, dump all dbs, reinstall and recover all of them. Before that, because I dont like restoring and rather want to fix the issue I spent some time trying different things which failed. Out of stress I realized I'm also restoring test databases (which are even bigger then production ones for not reason as i dont even use them) just to make the process take a bit longer. I feel like I came back home from a good rave and the caffeine is still keeping me awake.
That said I now know what to do so I wont panic next time innodb corruption occurs on my watch.
I like to every now and then break production servers :)
During a mariadb update for some reason a database got corrupt, badly. I had to force_recovery to 4, dump all dbs, reinstall and recover all of them. Before that, because I dont like restoring and rather want to fix the issue I spent some time trying different things which failed. Out of stress I realized I'm also restoring test databases (which are even bigger then production ones for not reason as i dont even use them) just to make the process take a bit longer. I feel like I came back home from a good rave and the caffeine is still keeping me awake.
That said I now know what to do so I wont panic next time innodb corruption occurs on my watch.
Delete Article 13
Dont make us all move to Island!
https://saveyourinternet.eu/
#deleteart13 #eu #censorship #fight #freedom #internet
Deploying retropie x86 on my desktop
Since I moved entirely to laptop as my main machine (thinkpad x220t with 16GB RAM, dockingstation and 2x24" screens) I thought I would turn my desktop into a game console. The idea is to install retropie with my library of 8bit 16bit games (amiga, c64, snes, nes, sega, mame etc), plus my steam games and more recent emulators like ps1, ps2, xbox, saturn, nintendos etc. As I always wanted to convert typical desktop into aquarium mineral oil cooled machine, I think this project seems to be the best suited for just that.
You can follow #aquabox tag (or category on my wall) if you want to see progress.
Right now compiling all the emulators:
#retropie #retro #diy #aquabox #emulation
You can follow #aquabox tag (or category on my wall) if you want to see progress.
Right now compiling all the emulators:
#retropie #retro #diy #aquabox #emulation
Autoposting bot
!Hubzilla Support Forum
I wonder if something like this exists already. I', looking for a bot that would autopost things from RSS feed. I know you can do that with a feed account on hubzilla. The problem I noticed is that such account basically reposts rss feed, which means you cannot see those posts from other networks like diaspora/friendica and mastodon/gnusocial.
Using bot would probably solve it. Unless there is even more clever way.
I wonder if something like this exists already. I', looking for a bot that would autopost things from RSS feed. I know you can do that with a feed account on hubzilla. The problem I noticed is that such account basically reposts rss feed, which means you cannot see those posts from other networks like diaspora/friendica and mastodon/gnusocial.
Using bot would probably solve it. Unless there is even more clever way.
This may be because the feed content is attributed to the original author and not the channel. The diaspora and activitypub protocols do not allow federation from 3rd parties. You can probably make it work for diaspora by enabling the 'sign unsigned posts' option, which delivers them as reshares. There's no solution for activitypub.
in your specific case ( https://state.disroot.org ) , since the posts per week are really very few, you can manually reshare in a new channel that you can create specifically for this function, and then the others in the federation should read the reshares created by the channel (reshares created by hand every time)
1 you create a channel named xxxxx
2 you add as connection
3 you reshare (by hand) the posts from your connection
4 the others (mastodon and diaspora) need to add xxxxx channel
5 you do not take too much stress because you will have to do this little job a few times ina day or week that is not tiring (although not automatic unfortunately)
1 you create a channel named xxxxx
2 you add as connection
3 you reshare (by hand) the posts from your connection
4 the others (mastodon and diaspora) need to add xxxxx channel
5 you do not take too much stress because you will have to do this little job a few times ina day or week that is not tiring (although not automatic unfortunately)
We had a mechanism to make this kind of thing work in Friendica using a setting called 'remote_self' or in layman's terms "this author is really me posting from another site". In that case we can discard the original author attribution and assign it to the channel importing the post. This mechanism is fraught with ways to do malicious stuff and could get you in a lot of legal (copyright) trouble if the source isn't actually you - and there's no way to prove that it is. I'm just mentioning this because it would get around the federation issues via the walled garden protocols and wouldn't be a lot of trouble to implement. The only trouble would come from trying to implement it in a way that wouldn't get rampantly abused.
Playing with loomio today
Today I will be deploying #loomio for testing. I finally managed to convince people at my work to try it out. If everything goes well, organization I work for will use loomio for decision making.
https://loomio.org
https://loomio.org
from Diaspora
Been using it for 2 years. It's tough for people with limited understanding of or interest in computers. But very nice otherwise.
Interesting. I thought its the opposite actually. The interface and the concept of making decissions in an organized threaded discussion with proposals ammendments etc is something most poeople wotking in organizations are familiar with.
Thought that tech-savy people would rather want to use something like forum or IRC chat or a git tracker / project management instead.
Thought that tech-savy people would rather want to use something like forum or IRC chat or a git tracker / project management instead.
New hubzilla logo compo?
I really wanted to check out that sweet parallax effect he was talking about but only the text loaded, no images π€
Migrate to Gitlab?
!Hubzilla Development
It looks like Github will be aquired by Microsoft. Since github in itself is not an open source project anyway, the latest news make the argument even bigger.
I would personally love to see redmatrix repositories moving to gitlab. Its open source and there is even some talks of possibilities to federate.
It looks like Github will be aquired by Microsoft. Since github in itself is not an open source project anyway, the latest news make the argument even bigger.
I would personally love to see redmatrix repositories moving to gitlab. Its open source and there is even some talks of possibilities to federate.
I think we should rename things to hubzilla-core (or better simply 'hubzilla') and hubzilla-addons
The 'hubzilla' in the current url is supposed to be the 'user' who published the repo, not a descriptive thing about the content.
The 'hubzilla' in the current url is supposed to be the 'user' who published the repo, not a descriptive thing about the content.
Unfortunately I think that request is a bit late. This is a complicated process involving synchronisation with people all over the world and involves changes to hundreds of scripts and files, and which at this point cannot easily be recalled or restarted.
cannot easily be recalled
I see, I hadn't realised that it had already been announced. I've now found it on @Hubzilla Announcements .
Changes to login settings
!Disroot Community
Due to ldap login plugin and the fact hubzilla tights directly to email address, in order to login to our hub, you should use your disroot email address (old users should be able to logn with just username). The good news is that channels as well as user acounts can be deleted now.
Due to ldap login plugin and the fact hubzilla tights directly to email address, in order to login to our hub, you should use your disroot email address (old users should be able to logn with just username). The good news is that channels as well as user acounts can be deleted now.
Retro newtro - lukhash
!Music
Imo very talented musician that releases his work under creative commons.
Check his websites at: http://lukhash.com/
And some of the cool live covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHewyaavys
Imo very talented musician that releases his work under creative commons.
Check his websites at: http://lukhash.com/
And some of the cool live covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHewyaavys
The blessing of hubzilla's right notification side-bar
As my stream gets busier, I noticed yet another little thing #hubzilla makes very good.
instead of endless scroll (which i do when i feel like it and i used to do on other social medias) now with the right sidebar that shows me notifications of who did what, I can cherry pick things posted by people I find interesting.
It's a small thing but makes my social life a bit less packed.
instead of endless scroll (which i do when i feel like it and i used to do on other social medias) now with the right sidebar that shows me notifications of who did what, I can cherry pick things posted by people I find interesting.
It's a small thing but makes my social life a bit less packed.
Well, you can basically identify what network someone is coming from on the contacts page as a starting point, based on what federation protocol is being used. People connecting from Mastodon, for example, always have the network identification of ActivityPub.
I've made a habit of checking people's profiles before approving requests, to double-check what network they're on. Afterwards, I sort that contact into their own Privacy Group, which is analogous to Diaspora's Aspects system.
It's a super-super manual approach, one that I adopted before I started prior to making connections in the first place. Because of that, it's been easy to maintain, but I wouldn't recommend this if you have a few hundred contacts already.
I've made a habit of checking people's profiles before approving requests, to double-check what network they're on. Afterwards, I sort that contact into their own Privacy Group, which is analogous to Diaspora's Aspects system.
It's a super-super manual approach, one that I adopted before I started prior to making connections in the first place. Because of that, it's been easy to maintain, but I wouldn't recommend this if you have a few hundred contacts already.













But printer, thought seemed broken, I managed this morning to find a cause and fix it. Printed nice PiGRRL Zero case. Next is to solder all the electronics together, and see how it fits. Eventually we are going to use "glow in the dark pla" and do some mods like adding stereo jack out and rear camera.