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We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

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Free Software Foundation Europe

9 months ago

Free Software Foundation Europe
9 months ago

"I read this book to my 6-year old child who was drawn by the beautiful illustrations and couldn’t wait to hear the story. It’s been the start of a much-needed conversation on out-of-the-box thinking, digital freedom, and contesting power in the age of surveillance."

Claire Fernandez, Executive Director, @edri

#softwarefreedom #righttorepair #FreeSoftware

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Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream - FSFE

Here you find additional information and resources about the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" by Matthias ...

^{FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe}

#softwarefreedom #righttorepair #freesoftware @EDRi

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mleduc

in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe 9 months ago

that's how you end up showing an arduino with a blinking led to a an amazed 4yo 🤩

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The Skeptic magazine

9 months ago

The Skeptic magazine
9 months ago

Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration

Trump's support of H1-B immigration visas has been seen as a betrayal by the conspiracy theorists who helped sweep him to power

skeptic.org.uk/2025/02/conspir…

#ConspiracyTheories #Politics

Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump's selective approach to immigration - The Skeptic

^{Dave Hahn (The Skeptic)}

#politics #conspiracytheories

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Ruud

9 months ago

Ruud
9 months ago

Uptime update

So we're at the next hurdle in keeping Friendica.World stable.

We now hit an issue where a cleanup job hangs the database. The database query it fires takes too long, and after a while this starts locking other processes in the database. Then the database connections fill up to the maximum, and the site becomes available.

I've raised an issue for this : github.com/friendica/friendica… and someone proposed a workaround they are using, we might try that as well until a fix has been created.

expired content cleanup hangs the instance · Issue #14828 · friendica/friendica

I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates Bug Description There's a query that runs for a very long time (> 30 minutes) and causes all other sessions in MariaDB to go into Waiting for t...

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𓂀 Cynni 💜

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

Thank you for all the hard work that you do!
I know I keep Tooting that it's offline every now and then (although yesterday, it seemed more off than on when I tried to use it). But I am really grateful for all the hard work. And I wish I was a Fedi wizzkid, so I could jump in and try to help out...
The next few months I am having some more expensive bits that need to be done and paid for. But after that, I'll do my best to send a little cup of Ko-fi coffee your way (I'll check how I can donate when I have some funds). I also wish I had more funds, so I could easily support the Fedi bits that provide me with a home for my social media needs... Alas...

Anywhoo.... Thanks so much for your hard work and I hope that the temporary fix will help to resolve (some of) the issues!

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𓂀 Cynni 💜

in reply to 𓂀 Cynni 💜 9 months ago

Seems like it first didn't want to share my comment, and then it went wild with it! Sorry... Tried to delete all the copies of it...

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Adam

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

@Ruud Appreciate the update! Hopefully the work-around works. Thanks!! 😀

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Ruud

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

I hope it works, might make it worse first but then should fix it. But availability like this is not acceptable.

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Adam

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

@Ruud I'd charitably call that "less than ideal"... ;)

Fingers crossed!

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gargle

9 months ago

gargle
9 months ago

I'm dumb

#gpa on #debian #testing and #unstable is in a messed up state. Turns out, the command line is way easier than I thought. Why bother with gpa when all that is needed to decrypt is #gpg:

$gpg --decrypt filename

Encrypting with a signature included is easy too!

Bugs in package gpa (version 0.11.0-1) in unstable -- Debian Bug report logs

^{bugs.debian.org}

#debian #Testing #gpa #gpg #unstable

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Frank Deboosere

9 months ago

Frank Deboosere
9 months ago

Dat was weer een mooie zonsondergang.

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Maartje

10 months ago (Received 9 months ago)

Maartje
10 months ago (Received 9 months ago)

Remember these? Yes you do! The blanked out fields with an actual aztec code.

With some amazing wor j of a bunch of nerds we decoded that this is a real ticket issued by SNCB from Brussel-Centaal to Brussels Airport Zaventem on March 23, 2023 second class to a person named HE*** EV***

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Draic inna n-airscél n-amrae

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Wooooow!

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LibreOffice

9 months ago

LibreOffice
9 months ago

Still using OpenOffice? It has unfixed security issues over a year old: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So all users are strongly recommended to update to one of the actively maintained successor projects, like LibreOffice. (Please share and help raise awareness about this!)

free and open-source office suite

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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LibreOffice

Unknown parent 9 months ago

@lindarosesmit What macOS version, what LibreOffice version, and what are the exact error message(s)?

@Linda Rose Smit

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LibreOffice

Unknown parent 9 months ago

@lindarosesmit Not sure what that issue is as other macOS users aren't reporting it, but maybe the steps towards the bottom here will help you on your setup: support.apple.com/en-us/102445

Safely open apps on your Mac - Apple Support

macOS includes a technology called Gatekeeper, that's designed to ensure that only trusted software runs on your Mac.

^{Apple Support}

@Linda Rose Smit

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David Revoy

9 months ago

David Revoy
9 months ago

An email I received left me speechless. Obviously, they don't respect my creative choices. I will not 'fix' this panel under any circumstances.

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Azarilhⓥ

in reply to David Revoy 4 months ago

To whoever wrote that letter: respectfully, fuck off.

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shadowwwind

in reply to David Revoy 1 month ago

thank you for making a public stance

gargle

9 months ago

gargle
9 months ago

I think this is a bug, but it doesn't bother me that much, what do people think...

!Friendica Support I have a bookmark in firefox pointing to friendica.world/profile/gargle… My browser remembers that I am already logged in. Clicking on the bookmark gives me my profile all localised in the language settings of my browser, which is Dutch on my work computer. My language in my profile however is set to English (UK).

The search box says 'zoeken' which is Dutch for 'search'.

I have to refresh the page (F5) to get everything in english:

The search box now says 'search'.

This does not happen when I change my shortcut to friendica.world/. Opening up friendica.world/ shows everything in English. The url however changes to friendica.world/network:

Note that if I open up Friendica with friendica.world/network instead of friendica.world/ then I get everything in Dutch:

!Friendica Support

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gargle

in reply to gargle 9 months ago

I logged github.com/friendica/friendica… for this.

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Free Software Foundation Europe

9 months ago

Free Software Foundation Europe
9 months ago

We are still celebrating #ilovefs ❤️ day with some events in Italy and Albania today!

While we gather all the pictures from the different events, we wanted to share with you an amazing video we received from the mother (and singer) of our colleague @sofiaritz

🎶 media.fsfe.org/w/gs8ZDniL6DHyV…

There are so many ways to say #thankyou to your favourite #FreeSoftware projects, what is yours?

FSFE

2025-02-14 12:39:18

Feliz Día del Software Libre - a song to celebrate the #Ilovefs day

Musiqueando (@MusiqueandoYT)did not want to miss the chance to say thank you to her favourite Free Software projects in her daily song to her daugher, and FSFE intern, Sofía Aritz.
The song is a traditional Galician one. The lyrics and subtitles are in Galego.
Find the original video here: youtube.com/watch?v=1JUeOKk9l6…

#ThankYou #freesoftware #ilovefs @Sofía Aritz

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Phil B

9 months ago

Phil B
9 months ago

Togetherness

"Being the flip side of a coin still makes you part of the coin."

- Scott M Stoltz, scott@loves.tech

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gargle

9 months ago

gargle
9 months ago

synchronisation between instances

!Friendica Support I just noticed that my Friendica account is listed as a mutual on my mastodon instance. My Friendica instance however lists my mastodon account as just following, and not as a follower. Do I have to do something extra? I already tried selecting my mastodon account on Friendica and clicking on update but that did not help.

!Friendica Support

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gargle

in reply to gargle 9 months ago

Thanks for the tip!

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gargle

in reply to gargle 9 months ago

It took a couple of tries and there were a couple of 'user not found' messages when following and unfollowing my mastodon account. A final "re-fetch contact data" turned my mastodon account in a mutual. All is well now.

Now back to fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…, the presentation that lead me into this adventure 😁

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gargle

9 months ago

gargle
9 months ago

How do I delete a photo album?

!New To Friendica I have this empty photo album that I want to delete. How do I get rid of it? When I click the name I get an url that ends with a long hex number. Friendica asks for a confirmation when I add /drop to the url and hit enter. After clicking 'Delete Album' Friendica tells me that the album cannot be found.

This album was created in the default language of my webbrowser. I changed to British English somewhat later, before deciding on adding a profile picture. My profile picture got created in a new album called 'Profile photos'. I want to get rid of the older non english album.

Friendica.World | gargle @ Friendica.World

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gargle

in reply to gargle 9 months ago

I actually found a way! w00t! I added a picture to the empty photo album. All of a sudden there was a button to drop the album. I clicked, and it's gone now.

When the album was empty there was nothing shown and no possible actions to take.

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gargle

in reply to gargle 9 months ago

I logged my experience in github.com/friendica/friendica…

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Fesshole 🧻

9 months ago

Fesshole 🧻
9 months ago

Years ago, I went to a birthday party in a small town. I went to a general store and asked if they had balloons. The fellow said yes. I asked if they had any in fun shapes and he said, "depends on how amusing you find circular". For some reason that's lived in my brain for years.

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Marcos Alano

in reply to Fesshole 🧻 9 months ago

now this will live rent free in my mind too. Thanks, I guess.

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Guy_VO (Radical Left Lunatic)

in reply to Fesshole 🧻 9 months ago

There is indeed some profound truth in it. 😊

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Ruud

9 months ago

Ruud
9 months ago

Troubleshooting

I've been troubleshooting the issues we keep having with Friendica.world.

The site gets unresponsive at nights (CET) around 3AM, and stays that way for a couple of hours. I've been trying to find the reason for that, but no luck yet.

It's not the backup (that runs at a different time), nor are the resources at 100%.

I did just change a setting for pm.max_children which defines the number of php-fpm processes which handle the web traffic, because I saw some errors about it having reached the max. This will fix some issues, but not sure if it fixes the freezing of the site.. We'll see I guess..

Volunteers

If there are people with some technical skills, wanting to help out running this thing (or any other instance we run), please send me a DM or mail info@friendica.world.
It's all volunteer work, and we can use some extra hands.

Donations

You can use this instance for free, but if you would like to and are able, you could help us funding the running costs by making a donation: ko-fi.com/fhfworld

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Liyah Mackenzie Hernandez

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

So it's not just a "me" problem. I like the transparency you offer. Here's to hoping Friendica.world can be online 24/7. I like this place.

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Ruud

in reply to Liyah Mackenzie Hernandez 9 months ago

We're working on it. But this number of active users on a server is new, also for the Friendica developers.. But they are responsive so I'm confident we'll get this stable!

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Pygoscelis Papua

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

So are you saying Friendica simply wasn’t written to anticipate this many users on one server, or is this a horizontal scaling problem? I mean, so far a I understand, PHP scales more horizontally than vertically, and you recently threw more resources at it when you moved to the new server, but is Friendica even written to scale horizontally? I seem to recall running across a GitHub issue raised about it not being able to do that because it does everything by hostname or something.

Every night around 8PM my time (~3AM your time) I start getting a “504 Gateway Timeout” and that pretty much persists the rest of my evening I can’t access the site. The status on Fedihosting Foundation never seems to show it’s down during this lengthy period of inaccessibility and will show only previous outages of like “4 minutes” that were resolved. So I’m never sure if it’s just me or on my end or what? Sometimes I’ll still be getting new follow or comment emails from Friendica.world in the midst of my not being able to access the s

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SocialSpirit

in reply to Pygoscelis Papua 9 months ago

I’m affected by the same issues, every night so you’re not alone.

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Erik van Schaaik

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

Just sent some support. Got a thank-you message featuring the usual suspects. Might need a little tweak there, huh..?
😁
Cheers!

Screengrab:

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Ruud

in reply to Erik van Schaaik 9 months ago

Yes, I'll notify Ko-Fi of this 😀
Thank you!

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TechCrunch

9 months ago

TechCrunch
9 months ago

Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes tcrn.ch/3WYMJLz

Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch

Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

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i'm curious to see if this ever happens, to be honest. tumblr's been talking about this for a good while, but hasn't delivered. i get the same vibes from them as i did from threads, promising but never delivering.

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Lamotum

in reply to TechCrunch 9 months ago

I've heard they've been planning to add Activitypub for a long time. Tumble gave me lots of good memories. I think this is good news.

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9 months ago

gargle
9 months ago

Friendica and Mastodon

!New To Friendica I'm on Friendica.world and floss.social. I feel a bit puzzled by having two seperate fediverse accounts. What's the best practice? Keep both, and syncing the follows and followers? Dropping one or the other?

I really like my mastodon server and I believe it's impossible to see its timeline on my Friendica instance. Am I correct in believing this?

I also like my Friendica instance. My mastodon is specialising in floss, my Friendica is more general. I like the news items that appear on Friendica's local timeline.

So, I am thinking of making Friendica my main instance on the fediverse. I will read my news and all the toots from my follows and followers on Friendica and I will regularly check my mastodon instance for the local floss timeline.

!New To Friendica