Hey everyone! I'm helping a friend get started on the fediverse. They are two-spirit, queer, and wiccan. What tags and people are your best recs for getting started to build out their feed?

For now maybe sticking to English language please.

#AskFedi #Wiccan #TwoSpirit #Queer #LGBTQIA2S

A team I'm part of is in need of software that helps farmers track complex processes on their farm. This software is being built with EU grants.

It's a shared desire to make it open source, but which license is best is still unclear. I'm asked to make suggestions, which I can reasonably expect to be followed. My earlier experience here is poisoned by venture capitalists, so I need to reset my baseline.

I'm hoping to read expert opinions on which license is most fitting and why in this particular context.

If you could pick a license for a public good tool made available for farmers, what would it be?

Boosts welcome!

#askFedi #FOSS #RegenAg

Does anyone know of a movie equivalent of bookshop.org? #AskFedi

Has anyone ever heard of a persistent fever after heat stroke or heat exhaustion?

I had one of the two on wednesday (hospital papers say heatstroke, unclear if it was severe enough for that) and heat exhaustion again on sunday and since, my head has been just boiling.

My body temperature is fine or even a little cold, the hospital cooled me down with plenty of cool IV fluid each time, but my circulation has been weak as fuck and my face has just been burning up.

Anyone any ideas, please?

#AskFedi

My Supernote Nomad is an excellent offline e-ink note taking device. I want to have something similar for ebooks that's also privacy respecting.

I wish there was a GrapheneOS device that had an eInk display, I'd use that with a FOSS eBook reader and Calibre.

I like some of what Boox is putting out, but IDK how private it is. Any suggestions?

#askfedi #privacy #boox #supernote #eink #grapheneos #android #ereader #calibre

hello fedi! looking for an actually decent search engine! any recommendations?

by actually decent i mean:
- no "ai". zero. whatsoever. zilch. nada. none. did i mention zero.
- not just repackaging results from other search engines
- not run by complete and utter fuckwads

thanks! :) /gen

@asklemmy @askfedi #AskFedi #DuckDuckFedi

fedi, is there a good way to collect and view netflow or similar data that's practical to host yourself? preferably something with pretty charts and graphs

#askfedi #networking #homelab

How does the UN work and what does it actually do?

In my opinion it should do more and all nations should contribute funds and manpower to aid it.

The refugee crisis should be handled by the UN with compounds that have facilities to house and help refugees. Basically like a campus with studio flats, cafeterias, classrooms etc

Then from that point they should be on a refugee waiting list based on circumstance and needs.

It should have peacekeeping forces that go into places going through war and enforce fair treatment of civilians.

I'm genuinely asking because it doesn't seem like the UN has much impact.

Asking here to avoid using Chat GPT

#AskFedi #UnitedNations

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116832387648136125

#AskFedi if anyone can get me packet captures of this kind of traffic (or get me a box where I won't run up thousands of dollars from this attack) I would like to do some fingerprinting.

Other people doing this work: look at TLS ciphers, HTTP 2/3 support and behaviour if you start sending invalid data (what happens if you drop, slow or corrupt connections?)

Ash_Crow boosted

Jan Wildeboer 😷 » 🌐 2026-06-29 / 2026-06-29
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

My timeline (which contains a lot of project leaders/sysadmins from big projects) is filling with posts about a new, ongoing wave of what most likely are scrapers collecting training data for „AI“ companies. They seem to be using botnets (or what some call „residential IP proxies“ to make it sound a bit more legitimate) with millions of IP addresses, making it really hard to defend against. Some have decided to take their sites down until this is over. This is now the world we live in :(

Does anyone have a recommendation for a place I could purchase Ren-Faire-worthy, knee-high, lace-up, brown leather boots with no garish brandings or visible modern-features in the Portland / Salem /Eugene Oregon area?

I need to be able to try before buying. I've had bad luck ordering shoes online, and all the shoe stores I see around the area are purely modern stuff.

All you cosplayers must be finding footwear somewhere?

#AskFedi #Oregon #Portland #Salem #Eugene #PNW #Cosplay #RenFaire

Added "You can reply to my posts, I don't get enough conversation on here" to my profile

Is there a hashtag for like... "here's how to interact with me" stuff? That might find this interesting? #AskFedi

Hi fedi. Are there any microbiologists, mycologists, botanists, or other scientists or science enjoyers #OnHere who would have some reading recommendations for me in understanding the succession of life in forefields and other sterile environments?

I am a filthy scifi writer so I am actually interested in this process in the setting of exoplanet regolith but I feel like understanding the research we have on similar environments on Earth is the only real place to start.

Please boost 💜 Thank you!

#AskFedi #ScienceSideOfFedi #AskMastodon #Microbiology #Mycology #Botany #Biology #Scifi #FediPaperClub

#AskFedi I'm trying to find the source for this #UBlockOrigin filter set. It was posted here on Fedi several months ago and I can't find it back. Anyone know?

#DuckDuckFedi

Alt...

Screenshot of the UBlock Origin custom filter tab. ||youtube.com$domain=~youtube.com # don't pull youtube JS unless we're using youtube. Breaks non-youtube-nocookie embeds. ||gstatic.com$domain=~google.com # don't use gstatic anything unless we're on Google. Might break stuff, but I haven't seen that. ||accounts.google.com$domain=~google.com # Prevents the unwanted "log in with google" dialog everywhere. ||static.licdn.com$domain=~www.linkedin.com # Don't pull Linkedin JS outside Linkedin. ||www.gstatic.com$domain=~google.com ||fonts.googleapis.com # these aren't fonts, these are captchas. Also lies but mostly captchas. ||fonts.gstatic.com # in theory this is covered in line two, but defense wins championships. ||cookielaw.org # blocks a bunch of cookie popups. ||cookiebot.com # the same here ||twitter.com # fuck that guy ||x.com # yes, that guy specifically ||fbcdn.net # also this guy specifically ||fbcdn*.akamaihd.net # Facebook CDN collection. ||fbstatic*.akamaihd.net # another Facebook CDN collection. # If you need these to work you can append $domain=~facebook.com # to them, which constrains these CDNs to only Facebook. # A better idea is: quit Facebook. ||merchantpool1.linkedin.com # If I can block a megabyte of minified JS and see no difference, then I didn't need it. ||protechts.net # Another 1+MB no-op. These people are bad and they should feel bad. ||cdn.bullwhip.cloud # So should these people. ||cdn.concert.io # yup ||use.fontawesome.com # again ||static.zbcdn3.com # Yeah ok so I think that everything else on this list ||zotabox.com # is all adtech companies and their CDNs. Far as I can ||tidiochat.co # tell nothing happens, at all, when you block these ||code.tidio.co # sites. Nothing of value is lost. ||tidiochat.com # ||cdn.amplified.io # I wonder how it feels to work in places like this. ||boldapps.net # The knowing, I mean. Knowing you're spending your life ||amplifiedcdn.com # on whatever this is, that the world is a better place ||cdn.amplified.io # for people who ignore and block what you've built. ||cdn.codeblackbelt.com ||webmarked.net ||identixweb.net ||js.klarna.com ||px-cdn.net

Is there a way to recover a Delta Chat account if someone uninstalls and reinstalls the app on the same phone within a few days without making a backup or adding a second device?

#askFedi #DeltaChat #messaging

Any lock people have any idea what type of lock this is and how to pick it?

I lost the key a few years back and would rather not destroy the nice (ish) cabinet....

#askFedi

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Close up of a old, plausibly antique lock.

One of my tasks in helping clear the home of my now deceased relative is dealing with his computer. My thought is to take an external hard drive and back up the hard drive of the PC just in case ( #oneIsNone ), then take that and the hard drive with me when I return home. I haven’t seen it with my own eyes yet, but I am guessing that the PC tower itself is just going to be recycled. any computer savvy folks have advice or suggestions for this type of situation?

#AskFedi

Does anyone have a printer which does short print runs in the US that (isn't fully evil and) they don't despise working with?

I need a small stack of what amounts to photo greeting cards printed relatively quickly.

#AskFedi

Why do they build so many castles at the top of steep hills? It's not great for visitors who arrive on foot after a long walk. #AskFedi

So, I had to send more or less the same email to multiple lawyers. I use Thunderbird on Windows 11 (don't judge me. My hands don't work and I have never found a useable voice to text editor for Linux). My practice is to click 'compose as new message' and edit accordingly.

I am almost 100% sure that with one of the emails, I very carefully deleted a whole paragraph as well as changing the subject and personalising the intro. That paragraph was still there when the recepient replied taking on the case I had referred to him. I am even more sure that I deleted the offending paragraph from my reply copying in the client. It contained somebody else's very sensitive data. It was still there in the sent version.

Could this be a bug or does it have to be my error? If it is a bug, how do I report it? It is serious because it can leak private information.

#Thunderbird, #email, #AskFedi

What are some masc coded accessories?

#askFedi

is libretranslate ethical?

#noAI #Askfedi #Libretranslate

Figured it out: sed -E 's/:([0-9]\>)/:0\1/g'

#sed experts, what am I doing wrong?

rld@Intrepid:~$ echo "6:19:18" |sed -E 's/:([0-9](:|$))/:0\1/g'
6:19:18
rld@Intrepid:~$ echo "6:9:18" |sed -E 's/:([0-9](:|$))/:0\1/g'
6:09:18
rld@Intrepid:~$ echo "6:19:8" |sed -E 's/:([0-9](:|$))/:0\1/g'
6:19:08
rld@Intrepid:~$ echo "6:9:8" |sed -E 's/:([0-9](:|$))/:0\1/g'
6:09:8
rld@Intrepid:~$ echo "6:9:8" |sed -E 's/:([0-9](:|$))/:0\1/g; s/:([0-9](:|$))/:0\1/g'
6:09:08
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#AskFedi #HiveMind

A friend of mine has been encouraging me to try some more power tool oriented woodworking now that I have a feel for hand carving, and he thinks a scroll saw would be a good plan. Trouble is, neither he nor my maker space have one. Can anyone recommend a good beginner friendly scroll saw for me to start researching? #woodworking #AskFedi

So is it in the #fediverse or on the fediverse?

I feel like it should be the former by analogy with being in a universe.

#askfedi

Anyone got recommendations for a self hosted blog?

Currently I’ve got my posts in markdown in a git repo together with some templates, and push this to omg.lol through their API.

I’m after something that would replicate that ‘DX’ for me: Ideally I’d want to be able to run the whole thing in a Forgejo Action, and then only spit out static HTML/CSS.

I don’t want all the URLs to change either so probably need some custom routing.

And I don’t want anything with too steep a learning curve.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

#SelfHosting #blogging #AskFedi

#AskFedi #AskFediverse Because of poor videoconference performance throughout the day at home, I'm looking to replace my Wi-Fi router. The last time I bought one was in 2012 and I went for an Apple Airport Extreme as I had no reason to doubt the Apple ecosystem at the time.

Right now the AirPort Extreme has been discontinued and there are a dizzying array of new Wi-Fi features I have to take in quickly. 6GHz, Mesh, Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7? I just want to ensure a strong signal throughout a Brooklyn apartment and maybe have a PiHole somewhere in between the Internet and my home network. Do you have any pointers?

PCMag tells me the TP-Link Archer AXE75 could cheaply fit the bill, anything I should be on the lookout for regarding budget models?

My daughter was advised/encouraged by their teacher to take a Linux (sic) command line course.

She was enjoying it until she unexpectedly hit a paywall at chapter 4 (of 6).

Can you recommend a free as in freedom GNU/Linux command-line course or tutorial?

#askfedi #dtv

Idea for heatwaves: a pair of thermometers, linked, to go outdoors and indoors. The indoor one emits a beep when the outdoor one reaches the same temperature. So then you know it's time to close the windows.

Does it exist?

#heatwave #tech #AskFedi

Is there something like arandr but allowing to manage all (or all useful) of the XRandR cababilities, matching what X.Org does expose and not being biased by assumptions about multi-monitor setups.

I miss these things in arandr:
• custom framebuffer size and panning
• defining and setting custom modes (some visualization would be cool)
• CVT calculation tool
• scaling and setting anti-aliasing filter (would be really useful when someone gives me random 4K display)
(• gamma and transform setting would be cool)
(• reconfiguring the windows to fit the framebuffer, with EWMH-compliant window manager support, would be cool, too)

I'm basically looking for something like xvidtune, but more modern/usable.

I would also really appreciate also a slider for the pixel clock, as my cable has just a bad day and I have to turn it down a bit for one of the screens. #askfedi #xorg

Hey, everyone. I want to spend the next few weeks learning @guix and installing it as a replacement for Debian. The learning curve looks daunting. Where do I start?

I want to do it on real hardware and I have a spare laptop. Sadly @daviwil's nice tutorials appear outdated...?

What I have: an ambition for software freedom and a love of Lisp. What I need: an understanding of the packaging model and (sadly) support for non-free hardware.

Point me to a recent .iso? Point me to a good explainer for noobs? Thanks!

#askfedi #Guix

Does anyone here know of a non sketchy place to donate hair? I have a clean ponytail packed up from a bit ago but I'm not sure where to send it, I was told locks of love was more for profit than a charity so I quit sending my ponytails there. Anybody know?
#askfedi #fedihelp #hair ? What hashtags even go with this lol

Une petite bouteille à la mer. Ma mère se fait "harceler" par le maire de notre village dans le nord de la France et par les gendarmes parce qu'elle a l'audace de soigner des migrant-es à sa pharmacie et de les laisser charger leurs téléphones. Beaucoup de femmes et d'enfants. Est-ce que des associations ou avocat-es peuvent nous conseiller sur ce qu'on peut ou pas faire ? #aide #demandedaide #askfedi_fr #askfedi

#AskFedi Does anyone know of an accessible english language narrative history of the persecution of queer people in Nazi Germany in the 1920s/30s/40s?

I’m looking for something that can ground my vague understanding of Nazi genocide against queer people. I’ve picked up some of it as community tradition and tales, but if someone has done some scholarship, I’d like to add that to my knowledge.

Dear fellow musicians, I have a question There is this old Reaktor ensemble called "Ahrendees" that runs well with my sequencer but doesn't start and stop on a midi note.
How do I get it to do that? Thanks a lot.

#nativeinstruments #Reaktor #midi #question #askfedi #musicians

I’ve seen a few videos online about pets, generally cats or dogs, who will insist on their humans going to bed at the same time every night and / or following specific rituals before bedtime like giving them a treat or tucking them in.

I’m fascinated by this behaviour and wonder how common it is.

Do your pets or does your pet have bedtime rules or rituals they want you to follow? Feel free to share what they are as well if you wish to.

#Pets #CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon #AskFedi

What's the lowest-power #RISCV #microcontroller ?

I'm planning to use the low-power core of ESP32-C6 for #jazda (no less than 7µA), but I'm sure there are cores that go lower than that.

Also, I'm running out of I/O pins on the -C6 and I might need to augment it with a "south bridge"...

#askfedi #electronics #embedded #programming

How do you pronounce the 'a' in "data?"

#AskFedi #Poll

Can you recommend an image viewer (not editor) for Linux that can handle very large images? By very large I mean something like 44Kx16K pixels with files of over 150-160 MB. The native Linut Mint viewer Eog, Pix, and Qimgv can't handle such images.

Update: found a good tool, Geeqie.

https://www.geeqie.org

#AskFedi #linux #tools

Do you or did you have a good relationship with the person(s) you're told to refer to as father?

#poll #askfedi #fathersday

Dis Mastodon, sais-tu ce qu’est cette créature ?
Observée ce matin dans mon jardin d’IDF, petite chenille de 1cm avec des petites pattes visibles à l’avant, et une sorte de crochet à l’arrière. Se déplace en rapprochant son derrière de sa tête. Se suspend parfois par le derrière.

Désolée pour la qualité de la photo, et merci à la petite bête de m’avoir fait rire pendant un moment.

Boosts bienvenus !

#AskFedi #Insectes #Entomologie

Alt...

Sur du bois, une petite chenille marron rosé forme un arc en avançant

Who are the contemporary documentary filmmakers around the world making social impact films you are excited about? What are they making films about?

We're asking about filmmakers in general, not necessarily filmmakers on Fedi.

We're always looking to expand our filmmaker circles. We'd love your recommendations. ❤️

#AskFedi #Movies #Documentaries

I know I follow a few people here who seem to know or be learning Mandarin as a second language. Does anyone have some recommended textbooks to get started? I wouldn't mind something decently rigorous but not at the level of someone who can study fulltime. Thank you! #askfedi #askfediverse #learnchinese #learnmandarin #chinese #mandarin

If there was a Fedi-Dating platform...

1. what features would you find most valuable?

2. what features do you like from existing dating sites?

3. and what features do you dislike from existing dating sites?

4. what safety features would you need in order to feel safe on the platform?

#AskFedi #Dating #LGBTQ+

Experiment Complete.
_10K Follower Cap
__1K Following Cap
Everything over that was muted.

The Trending Tab is completely different but, how can we get a more user friendly method of bending the Mastodon Algorithm to our will?

How can we hedge against commercialization on the Fediverse?

https://dckim.com/posts/my-mastodon-user-experience-and-hope-for-the-future/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Toronto #Canada #AskFedi #Question #SocialMedia #UX #Discussion #Fedi #ActivityPub #Algorithm #Blog #Tech #FediTips

Do you consider yourself to be a Luddite / neo-Luddite with regards to Big Tech?

#AskFedi

I am buying a TV. We've got fibre coming at the end of the month and my current TV is a Toshiba model from over 15 years ago. We'll finally have the bandwidth to stream in high res so I want a TV to make the most of it. WTF is better: OLED or Mini-LED?

I'm thinking Hisense because I read somewhere they were good quality screens and do less shitty stuff with adverts - not that I'll be using any smart TV features, I'll just be plugging the Apple TV into it.

Any advice/warnings much appreciated (I'm in the UK).

#askFedi

An update to this weird situation:

After trying with back in the problematic place, I unplugged everything off the wall and just added the power strip, in which I plugged the monitor and the NUC, and nothing else.

The random memory problems came back again.

I didn't have a lot of time to do further testing (yet), but I can only conclude that either:

- The outlet itself is faulty (or below standards, since the building is sort of old), or
- The power supply for this NUC is of bad quality, and cannot "cope" with even lightly shared power (between two low-voltage appliances)

Sadly, this PSU is sort of nonstandard: 12V 1A output, but with a USB-C connector. This makes it a lot harder to find in a used "trash bin" market. But it might be what's required to make it work, and it's cheaper than replacing a whole computer.

Last test that remains: plugging the computer alone in the wall and seeing how it goes - if this doesn't do it, I guess there's something seriously messed up with the place's power infrastructure!

(re-tagging #AskFedi in case people can't find the original thread)

My workplace's IT just sent me an email telling me to disable SSH in a VM I have because "according to best practices, SSH access should not be left open" .

SSH is currently in a non-standard port (as they mandate).

How actually true is that?

#sysadmin #infosec #askfedi

Pour une chanteuse des rues qui a franchement une jolie voix et quasiment aucun succès, ce serait quoi le minimum (matériel et logiciel) pour enregistrer une démo/vidéo à mettre sur Peertube ou Funkwhale ?
Sachant que j'y connais rien et pas l'intention d'investir une fortune...

#peertube #askFedi #audio #Funkwhale #Paris #PasDoué

I am starting to think that my "RAM" problems with one of my NUCs might actually a power issue. Could #askfedi help me diagnose it?

Being a tiny NUC, I simply pocket it and carry it around, much like a laptop, between two places where I connect it to external peripherals.

In one of the locations, the usability is amazing. I get no weird segfaults, nothing breaks and it works (very) well thanks to the lightning-fast #AlpineLinux. And then, when the session is over, I power it down and carry it back to the other one.

On that other location, the experience is a nightmare. A few minutes after bootup, depending on the luck, everything fails on cue. Firefox blows up ("Gah!" errors), segfaults everywhere, and basically is downright useless from such unpredictability. It makes me want to tear my hair out.

And it's the SAME device. And it's not anything to do with the software or network I use (when it segfaults, it does even offline). No problems at all otherwise!

But here's the thing: I noticed this morning that, in the "troubled location," the outlet I usually plug is actually coming out of a super saturated line. It's an extension coming from a big daisy chain mess all plugging back to the same wall outlet, which is feeding only low voltage DC equipment - but still, a lot of it.

So I have a hunch that it might be lack of power that is causing these problems. Like, I'm using the right PSU that came with the device. The voltage is right (lest the thing not boot) but I guess the current is silently underfed, causing these weird errors. I plan to test back at a fresh outlet when I'm back at that place. But could someone tell if this hunch has a valid basis? Thanks!

Any good recs for a software that can annotate PDFs? I need a couple colours of highlighter and the ability to attach notes to those.

Currently using Firefox for that but it's a wee bit messy (and the notes don't seem to carry over into other software) and I'd like a dedicated solution for that.

Must run on Linux (Windows optional).

#AskFedi #PDF

Does anyone sell (preferably from a queer person) a decent sized pin of the agender flag to wear proudly? At the Pride event today, the closest I could find was the non-binary one, which is close but still different.

I'm in the USA, but can plan for high shipping costs from elsewhere if needed.

#AskFedi #Pride #Agender

#AskFedi Does anyone out there do real, serious reviews of DC-to-AC #inverters ?

I don't need NASA's rating, but I'd like to know I'm not getting screwed paying for #Victron or #Renogy

My real question is: does price reflect value?

Have we got any legal eagles about regards intellectual property? Uk, Euro centric.

I needs one.

#AskFedi #DuckDuckFedi

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

Progéniture #1 souhaite installer sur son ordiphone un jeu qui ne semble pas disponible sur Google Play en Belgique

On essaye via Aurora : pas de succès

Internet me suggère aptoide. Vous connaissez ? C'est fiable ?

Où alors, je dois télécharger directement un fichier apk d'une source fiable. APKMirror ou APKPure, c'est fiable selon vous ?

#AskFedi #Aide #DemandeDaide

Coucou #askFedi, est-ce que tu connais (ou es) un·e #maquettiste ? Pour faire 1ere 2ème 3ème et 4ème de couverture pour un court livret pour un mariage ?

Travail rémunéré évidemment.

Le boost réduit le taux de cortisol.

#graphisme

What are people using nowadays for self-hosted Git + pull requests + pipelines (running unit tests etc.)? GitLab seems to be going all-in on AI.

Is anyone using ForgeJo commercially for an internal proprietary product?

#AskFedi #Git #SelfHost

As of today at 1:11pm EDT, I'm on the market for a 50" Mini-LED/OLED dumb TV in the US. I remember a while back that people were talking about commercial displays or hospitality displays to avoid the built-in spyware of "Smart" TVs, but in 2026, both of these also seem to have built-in spyware (although business-oriented). I just need 3 HDMI + RCA inputs, and an Optical Audio output, don't need any software on the TV itself.

Do you have any pointer? Or should I just take the L and get any smart TV, never set up network and hope for the best?

#AskFedi #AskFediverse

Friends. I’m looking for a new 2FA app. (I’m on iOS/macOS.)

I’m using Ente, but I’m not sure their integrity is where it should be. I’m not saying it isn’t — I’m saying I’m uncomfortable with some things. And when it comes to 2FA, that’s not a great place to be.

So…what do y’all use?

#AskFedi #Privacy #InfoSec #2FA

please excuse the blurry photo (they wouldn't stay still!), but does anyone know what this is? they're destroying my mizuna and there are a tonne of them. (not a straight-up shield bug i don't think as it's got a long ... sucker ... on the front ...)

thank you!

(please boost if you don't mind)

edited to add: we're in sw france
edited again: the most likely suspect is currently a cabbage weevil

#AskFedi #insects #gardening

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a small, mottled grey big with a sort of teardrop-shaped body, some legs, and a long sucker thing on its face is standing on some dark grey-brown plastic. at the edge of the image are some soil and part of a very sad-looking mizuna plant.

We're updating Collections and want your feedback!

What should you be able to add to a Collection?

#Pixelfed #AskFedi #Collections

Are there any let's players who put videos up on peertube? #peertube #askfedi #gaming

What is your favourite good news you heard of this month? 📰👀

#AskFedi #Hope

Die auf Foreman und Katello basierende #Linux Lifecycle- und Patch-Management-Suite orcharhino (https://orcharhino.com) ist vor kurzem 10 Jahre alt geworden.

Angenommen man würde diesem Thema eine Episode widmen und Menschen hinter dem Projekt befragen wollen - was würde euch am meisten interessieren? 🥸

#AskFedi

Urgent #AskFedi: I have a baby #bird stuck in a basement window well, just about as far down as I can reach. What’s the best way to get it out? I put a little dish of water down there because it’s really hot.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@Virginicus/116699930328221633

That’s 1 life saved by the #AskFedi hashtag today.

#AskFedi #AskFediverse I’m trying to find the name of a video game I played on PC before 2012 where you build a heaven/hell/purgatory city for dearly departed in isometric view, and guano (from birds of paradise?) was a game mechanics requiring maintenance or covered buildings would stop working.

None of my searches on Moby Games have yielded anything and I’m starting to believe I entirely made up this game in my mind.

#VideoGames

hey masto,
anybody know where i can buy some elf ears? preferably round ones like on my profile picture and by creators from europe.

#askFedi #cosplay #ask

Eine Frage mal an alle:

Ich hab ein uraltes Samsung Galaxy Tab A 2, was ich gerne als Nachrichten/Uni Reader verwenden möchte. Nur ist das halt schon so alt, dass ich nicht sicher bin, ob ich damit ins Netz möchte.

Habt ihr das vielleicht eine Idee, was man machen kann?

Anderes OS außer Google Android scheint das nicht kompatibel zu sein, das hab ich schon mal nach gecheckt.

Gerne retooten! Danke

#askfedi #android #tablet #linux

I have a question for international film people (I know we have at least a few on Fedi):

I have filmmaker friends around the globe & it seems like in most places, funding for films is drying up right now (see also: effects of polycrisis on arts funding, etc.).

My question: are there any regions where *indie* filmmakers aren't struggling to find funding more than they were say 3-5 years ago? Are there places that currently support the arts including films?

#AskFedi #Movies #Filmmaker

What relatively inconsequential topic are you a purist about?

#askfedi

Hello le #FediBikes #FédiVélo !

Mon futur #vélotaf est un poil plus long que le précédent (8km ➡️ 14km, avec des bosses), mais plutôt bien situé en termes de multimodalité.

Donc je regarde pour m'équiper d'un vélo pliant, 100% musculaire, pour utilisation quotidienne sous toutes météos, en mode vélo/tram/vélo.

Bonus s'il est relativement léger et éventuellement trouvable pas trop loin de #Genève !

#AskFedi #MerciFedi

c'est quoi l'été météorologique ?

#askfedi

Et il fait ça sans aucune information sur l'état du processus, est-ce qu'il a commencé, est-ce que c'est toujours en cours, est-ce qu'il a fini, est-ce qu'il a rencontré un problème...

La bande passante n'était pas terrible, j'imagine que ça a pu jouer ?
Mais pas sur l'absence d'information sur l'état de l'exportation...

#AppleMail #AskFedi #LinuxMigration

Can someone recommend a good #freesoftware E2EE IM app that will run on my laptop without me needing a smartphone? The family otherwise uses WhatsApp and they want to keep in touch.

#askfedi #privacy #opensource

Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?

#AskFedi

Does anyone know how to re-generate captions for a replaced video on PeerTube?

I looked around but can’t find any info about it.

(@Chocobozzz?)

#AskFedi #PeerTube

#AskFedi I just plugged in some audio stuff to a computer I got at a yard sale. the dipshit who owned it previously set it up wrong, and they had the audio header plugged into the “intel HD audio bridge” header, which I only found out AFTER it fried the motherboard. it’s an intel DX58SO, does anyone know what part specifically is broken and how to get it going again?

Wondering..

Can you buy a regular retail cell phone and not have either google or apple accounts?

Like.. could you buy a phone from regular retailer and just not sign in/up and use it?

I suspect not but wondering.

#askfedi

Okay, let me be random for a second.

This being Fedi, I know there will be someone reading this who is a chronically depressed, poly disaster transfem always narrowly avoiding poverty by being a somewhat-but-not-really successful self-employed freelance web developer, who has strong opinions about the modern web, free software, the semantic web and structured data, and who kind-of-but-not-really mourns what XHTML could have been while actually thinking HTML5 as written is kinda neat, but who is constantly forced by Society (tm) to work with React, Wordpress and awful bloated web app frameworks to create terrible, non-semantic style-first web applications for ungrateful clients.

I can't guarantee anything but let's say, I know someone who needs a static website for their business. Hypothetically, uh, where could that someone reach out to you? Paid, of course.

#webDev #webDesign #askFedi #trans #xhtml #semanticWeb #freeSoftware #queer #getFediHired

Do you know a payment service that collects donations, tips, and monthly subscriptions that does NOT rely (only) on either PayPal or Stripe?

#AskFedi

Someone posted a while ago a template (might have been in photoshop or web-based, idk) that if you give it a big enough image it will auto export all possible size variants that Steam needs to publish a game (it's 10 different formats accross devices for some reason).

Anyone remembers this?

#askfedi

Je voulais formater du texte un peu proprement (harmoniser l'usage des espaces et tabulations, éviter les espaces en fin de ligne,...) mais j'ai pas trouvé sur gnome-text-editor comment afficher ces machins (j'ai oublié comment ça s'appelle d'ailleurs).
Y'a quoi comme éditeur de texte sous Linux qui permet de les afficher ?

#linux #gnome #text #askFedi

When and why did you decide to join the Fedi?

What made you stay?

#askFedi

Any advice or consideration to have when looking to buy an external monitor?

I'm looking for something suitable for graphic design/illustration work. And I would rather avoid Apple (even though it's presented as the best choice out there).

If second hand, what should I pay attention to?

#askfedi #monitor #screen #display

Hey #AskFedi -- #educators,

I'm ruminating on a topic in #education for an upcoming blog post: communal learning, which I believe is formally called Constructivism.

I'm not trained as an educator (although both of my parents were). I'm just collecting some of my own thoughts about how social structures have helped me learn, as long as some informal written Q&As I did with some #FediFriends.

Does anyone have some pointers that a pretty frazzled ADHD brain can absorb? 😅

Any thoughts, ideas? "This is awesome," or "This is a wholly exploded line of thinking, see this easy 500-page essay I wrote called, 'Why Constructivism is a bag of gas, and other revelations'," anything? 😁

Can anyone explain to me why these commands result in adding the signal repository to your sources.list and adds their signing key to your keyring. When I tried to help my father do it, he only managed the former.

# 1. Install our official public software signing key:
wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor > signal-desktop-keyring.gpg;
cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

# 2. Add our repository to your list of repositories:
wget -O signal-desktop.sources https://updates.signal.org/static/desktop/apt/signal-desktop.sources;
cat signal-desktop.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-desktop.sources > /dev/null

https://signal.org/download/linux/

#AskFedi, #Signal, #Debian

An idea to shame users of corporate social media sites:

Instead of calling them Users, call them Customers.

You know, draw attention to how they are not just passively existing on those sites, but by being on them they are giving money to bad people.

#AskFedi #Fediverse #SocialMedia

Have you ever watched a public access TV show?

(Via internet is okay, but PBS doesn't count)
#poll #askfedi #tv #colbert #usa #nonprofit

How would people who interact with you often enough on Fedi describe you based on your posts and replies?

#askfedi

Guys, where are the train nerds?!?!?!

Where are the ones who want to build gauge 1 Thomas models with me????????????????????
#askfedi #trains #gauge1 #thomasthetankengine

Found a really cool command-line image manipulation tool called paltool and had no trouble compiling it on #OpenBSD, but it craps out on #FreeBSD.

Any ideas? #AskFedi #HiveMind

Script started on Sat May 23 08:59:03 2026
Command: bash -l
paltool $ giturl
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/paltool
paltool $ cd src
src $ CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc16 gmake

(some portions snipped for space, see https://bin.benjaminhollon.com/ohnumplans.bash for full output)

/usr/local/bin/ld: imgq/libimagequant.o: in function `liq_crash_if_invalid_handle_pointer_given':
libimagequant.c:(.text.liq_crash_if_invalid_handle_pointer_given+0x6a): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: imgq/mempool.o: in function `mempool_create':
mempool.c:(.text.mempool_create+0x1db): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/alpha_dec.o: in function `WebPDeallocateAlphaMemory':
alpha_dec.c:(.text.WebPDeallocateAlphaMemory+0xab): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/alpha_dec.o: in function `VP8DecompressAlphaRows':
alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x591): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x5b0): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x5cf): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/alpha_dec.o:alpha_dec.c:(.text.VP8DecompressAlphaRows+0x5ee): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x113): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x190): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x1c3): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderNewInternal+0x3f0): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `MinimizeChangeRectangle':
anim_encode.c:(.text.MinimizeChangeRectangle+0x31b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.MinimizeChangeRectangle+0x33a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.MinimizeChangeRectangle+0x359): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderAdd':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0x9a): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0x1de): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb3a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb59): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb78): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xb97): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o:anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAdd+0xbb6): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `FlushFrames':
anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x39): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x33b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x35a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x379): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderAssemble':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x197): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x20b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o:anim_encode.c:(.text.OptimizeSingleFrame+0x43b): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_default_error':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_default_error+0x1c): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_warning+0xe9): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_chunk_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_chunk_warning+0x73): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: jpeg/jerror.o: in function `output_message':
jerror.c:(.text.output_message+0x31): undefined reference to `__stderr'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:26: paltool] Error 1
src $ 
src $ # :/
src $ 
logout

Command exit status: 2
Script done on Sat May 23 08:59:53 2026

Does anyone know of any podcasts that they would classify as "super chill?" No other qualifiers, just interested in some non stressful, non musical audio.

#AskFedi

1 - Anyone running #Prosody in a rootless container?
2 - Do you know of any resources, articles or manuals I should be reading to better understand what I'm getting myself into and better protect myself and others ?

Thanks in advance.
#AskFedi #SelfHosted

J'ai un souci avec mon nord rack 3 : après un temps de chauffe, le volume devient instable, il change en quasi permanence. Si je touches le bouton de volume général, ça le modifie mais il continue à varier, avec une grande amplitude. Une idée de ce qui pourrait causer ça ?

#askFedi #askMasto #synthé #électronique

Kennt jemand zufällig deutschsprachige #OpenBSD Developer oder langjährige Communitymember? Frage für ein anstehendes Jubiläum :D

#AskFedi #Podcast

Were you referred to as “the weird kid” growing up / Do you consider yourself to be “weird” as an adult?

#AskFedi

Update: currently trying out Fastmail with a custom domain (wasn't originally going to do a custom domain, but I went for it 😂)

Hey #FediFam,

Need to create a new email address for professional things, and I don't want to use "Evil, Inc.," nor non-IMAP-supporting (otherwise good) services like Proton and Tuta. (I know they have bridge software available, but still)

What do you guys recommend?

I'm currently using Mailbox.org for my personal email, but I find their web interface has become kind of slow and unwieldy as of late. I don't want full groupware (or some attempt at an emulation of the above), but just a solid IMAP email provider, and a usable web interface when I need to do things beyond what can be done from Thunderbird.

Any #recommendations?

#askFedi #HiveMind

Hey lovely nerds,

I have a friend in potential need of a voip service which supports 2fa.

Does such a thing exist?

Do you have *tested* recommendations?

#askFedi

These times are difficult for most of us.
But what gives you hope right now? 💚👀

#AskFedi #Hope

bon j'ai une question pour les fedinautes de #grenoble :
je serais debut juin (la semaine du 1er exactement) sur #grenoble, est ce qu'il y a des restaurant sympa ou des bars interessant à [v|b]oire dans le coin?
je suis sur que oui !

Sinon pour etre plus spécifique est-ce qu'il y a un restaurant, recommandable, accessible à pied de la gare, qui accepte les groupes + de 10 personnes et qui est ouvert le lundi soir ?

je serais pas tous seul à grenoble, j'aurai surement quelques collègues (que je ne taggue pas pour préserver leur identité secrête) qui seront avec moi...
de la à dire qu'on pourrait faire un #mastoApero c'est peut etre s'avancer un peu (mais mardi soir j'ai encore rien de prévu)
#askFedi

No treadmill today as:
1) It's too late now 22:37
2) Blueman claims that it's connected to my headphones.
3) After 3 days of successful but faffy headphones to Blueman connection, the headphones aren't connecting or confirming connection to Blueman 😒😫.
4) Too pissed off & knackered & supper & sleep are calling.

Anyone know what brand & model does work with (vanilla) Blueman?

#Tech #AskFedi #Bluetooth #LinuxBluetooth #LinuxBlueman #JBLTune

I have a Logitech ("Logicool" here in Japan) trackball I like very much. I've used it with the receiver dongle since I got it.

A while ago I connected it with Bluetooth by mistake. And now it won't use the dongle.

* Is there a way to reset the unit so it reverts back to the dongle?

* If not, and I have to use the app to do it, can I run the app under Wine? Or under Proton/Steam? Or do I need Windows to fix this?

#Logitech #Linux #AskFedi

🍫

#poll #AskFedi

My manager is going to open a team discussion about #AI / #LLM use for software development. Much of the company uses #GitHubCopilot or #Claude and #ClaudeCode, while AFAIK I am the only one refusing to use these tools.

What are some recent studies I can reference about the harms of LLM use? I know there's stuff about deskilling, environmental harms, and code quality, but I won't have a chance to research specific studies until the end of my work day.

#askFedi #NoAI #pleaseBoost

Hey, Fedi. Can anyone recommend some good trans charities/organizations to donate to, preferably in the United States? I've seen some names floating around, but I can't quite remember what they were or where I saw them. Much appreciated! #AskFedi #AskFediverse

I've been hosting more of my own stuff over time, but keeping up with the maintenance manually has been proving to be too much. I remember 100 years ago as a sysadmin setting up an Ubuntu management server to manage the fleet of Ubuntu servers at work in the style of the Red Hat stuff that did the same. Now I run a variety of instances, and I don't know what kind of orchestration machine I would need to spin up to keep things like OPNsense, remote *nix hosts, etc. up to date. Any recommendations?

My goal is to use only FOSS whenever possible (leaning towards things on Starlight's NO AI list so I can avoid slopcode running in my network wherever possible.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #askfedi #sysadmin #linuxadmin

speaking of askfedi, I need recommendations for FOSS XMPP mobile apps for Android. I've been wanting to try it out but am unsure what apps have the best security and privacy controls after all this time. I know XMPP as a protocol has been hacked and screwed with a lot over time

#askfedi #xmpp #android

Une question de vocabulaire #Maths (voire #Statistiques ?) me trotte dans la tête depuis quelques jours. Si une valeur passe de disons 70200 à 70300, on peut dire qu’elle a augmenté d’un quoi ? C’est pas un pourcent, ni un point, mais… une unité de deux ordres de grandeur sous la valeur ? #AskFedi il y a un nom pour ça ?

Which are good organizations to work at for women in tech? 👀

#AskFedi #WomenInTech

#askfedi

hey i am making a movie w screenlife elements where my characters chat a lot thru messengers or apps and i am panicking trying to figure out how to animate and make fake discord/telegram/whatsapp conversations that look good and have animations and typing and all that. and also ui elements. does anyone know anything please let me know. i use davinci resolve but can also use AE

boosts okay

#editing #filmmaking #davinciresolve #davinci #aftereffects

Those of you using end-to-end encryption on your emails, how did you persuade non-techy people you correspond with to do things on their end? And how did you teach them how?

I really would like to do more E2E, but I'm stumped by this. I'd not only have to teach myself, but all the folks I email with... #AskFedi

We're on a mission to squash as many bugs as possible before the next release.

⚠️ We need your help ‼️

Please reply with your biggest complaints about Pixelfed and how we can improve existing features and federation support.

We're not looking for feature requests, only bug reports, so we can make Pixelfed more stable and fun.

Feel free to boost for awareness ❤️

#Pixelfed #AskFedi #BugHunt

I have done some research but I keep finding mixed reviews on SyncThing — particularly regarding my second use case below. I would appreciate advice before I dedicate time this weekend to set it up.

Use cases:
(0) keep 2-way synchronization for my pictures, notes, & short voice recordings in QuillPad¹ on Android with my laptop.

(1) synchronize of photos & videos from my spouse's & my Android devices and our laptops (e.g., what most ppl do with, say, Google Drive).

#lazyweb #AskFedi #SyncThing

Has anyone here used infrared headphones?
(like the kind used by some TVs/car stereos)

Or have any schematics/plans/references?

I'm trying to build or acquire a pair (transmitter and receiver), I think I can use a microcontroller for transmit but i don't think that will cut it for receiving the (supposedly) FM signal.

(boost for reach)

#askfedi #electronics #diy #diyaudio #audio #headphones #duckduckfedi #diyelectronics

Help me out: do you know of a consulting group that gets called in to fix major problems in systems of computers and people? I'm trying to find groups that do this (preferably in Europe) so I can find out how they got started

#AskFedi

What kind of moderation features, that don't already exist here, would you like to see on the Fediverse; or which do exist that you'd like to see improve?

#Fediverse #AskFedi #FediAdmin #Moderation #FOSS

Hey fedi hive mind, do you remember an article, it was either about Mastodon specifically, or fediverse in general.

It talked about how we're a small community of mostly happy people, and, rhetorically, asked something like: How do you monetize happy people? Or people who are not miserable.

EDIT: Thank you @petes_bread_eqn_xls!

https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@petes_bread_eqn_xls/116484208814261730

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#AskFedi #fediverse

Can anyone share tips on enjoying / surviving my first furry con? I've wanted to go to one for ages and now that I have a chance I realize I have no idea what to expect, what to do, and how to finally enjoy and be social in this community that I've only been part of from afar...

Additional clarifications (keeping them in one place):
- I'm planning to go to Furlandia
- I've been to a few non-furry cons in the area before, but I don't know how much that translates

#furry #furrycon #AskFedi

Right, question for Linux users - I'm getting some surprise money and I'm thinking I'll invest in a colour printer so that I can make my own art prints at home.

I had an Epson Eco-Tank in South Africa but was having a hell of a time calibrating the colours.

I would like it to take up to 300gm paper.

Suggestions for printers that work well on Linux (I know Brother are good), that are good for colour art prints?

#AskFedi #Linux

SOLUTION: @gumnos came up with the idea of piggy-backing :nohl onto control-l for refresh:

nmap <C-L> :nohl<CR><C-L
imap <C-L> <Esc>:nohl<CR><C-L>a

Hey #vim wizards,

The number one reason I don't use search more freely when editing is that all the highlights triggers my #CDO a little bit, and :nohl is a little clumsy to type in a hurry.

I wanted to map :nohl to an easy-to-press keybind, like ctrl-/, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Any ideas?

" map Ctrl-/ to :nohl
nmap <c-Slash> :nohl<CR>
imap <c-Slash> <Esc>:nohl<CR>a

#vi #vim #nvi #nvim #VimWizards #AskFedi #HiveMind

Does anyone know any good input tablets for drawing and artwork that work well with Debian 13?

#askfedi

Je suis en train de remater funky cops, et j'adore toujours autant (surtout la seconde saison) et je voulais savoir si quelqu'un a sous la main l'ost de la seconde saison ?
J'ai celle de la première, mais il semble que des musiques ont été ajoutées (notamment le thème de fly)
Merci :)

Édit : en regardant le générique, il semble que les nouveaux morceaux aient été fait par kraked unit
Je trouve des traces du groupe, mais pas des thèmes ><
#askfedi

Should Loops create a policy against generative-ai contributions across our server and expo app projects?

Context: https://snug.moe/notes/ali11jr8swwc8w8d

Please boost if you can, the majority vote will decide this important policy.

#Loops #AskFedi

Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:

1. Federates
2. Allows to collect donations
3. Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service

#AskFedi #Blog #Blogging #OpenSource #Fediverse

Hey my @1password plan is up for renewal.

Can you good folks remind me of your preferred alternatives?

Ideally:

- Mac and iOS integration
- “family” sharing of items
- Not hosted on AWS, Azure…
- Established security (eg, not some random FOSS project that only one person has ever tested)

(I asked this question a couple months ago but somehow lost my bookmarks and tabs… 🤦‍♂️ I promise to take notes this time!)

#AskFedi #privacy #passwords

What are the signs that your life (as in, the life that **you** are living right now) is a TV show?

#askFedi

#AskFedi #DuckDuckFedi looking to get some batteries (AA and AAA) and was wondering what the most performant brand was. anyone know?

Salut, pour un collectif antivalidiste basé sur Rennes, vous conseilleriez quoi comme instance ? On a pensé à kolektiva.social mais on ne s'y connaît pas trop.

Merci d'avance !

#askfedi #feditips #instance

#AskFedi Soliciting the wisdom of people who are more seasoned in Fediversing. I may have a bunch of friends and loved ones who would be willing to join Mastodon if they didn't have to think too hard about which server to join. Many, but not all of them, are queer. Any recs what server makes a good default for my polycule partners and straight progressive friends?

EDIT: My parents are also progressive and theoretically straight.

Covid cautious folks: what are you wearing to exercise? I am debating re-joining a gym after stopping when Covid started, but the idea of being extra hot and out of breath in a mask is a huge deterrent. #covid #MaskUp #AskFedi

Boosts OK!

Muslim people of fedi, I have a question for you:

Is it okay for an atheist (me) to sometimes use the term "inshallah" when I want to express that I hope something good happens and universe's force leads to that good thing happening, even if I don't believe in the existence of any god, let alone Allah?

It just seems so convenient to use.

Tags: #AskaMuslim #AskMuslims #Islam #Muslim #Muslims #AskFedi #boost

question please for anyone with a sun allergy / autoimmune disease / mast cell disease:

do you get a rash after sun exposure even on areas not exposed to the sun??

thank you ⛅

#askFedi

@reiver

The only thing that I would bring in regarding emoji use in display names is #a11y issues if there are a lot of them. I'd say recommended practice should be to have 1 and max. 2 emoji in the name, so #screenreaders don't have read a long shebang you sometimes see on 'funny' display names.

But perhaps someone better versed in #accessibility issues for the visually impaired can chime in on this #ActivityPub #FEP (and perhaps other FEP's too), if this is a real issue. A "fediverse accessibility best-practices" may exist as well (somewhere).

#SX #SocialCoding #AskFedi

Welche lokalen Übersetzungsprogramme (vor allem für Englisch) will man heutzutage unter #Linux als Alternative zu Diensten wie DeepL verwenden?

#AskFedi

👋 les spécialistes des #champignons !
On a plein de cette chose dans la mare et Seek nous dit que ce serait "Lentinus tigrinus", qui est comestible...
Alors je veux bien mais comme je tiens à la vie, j'aimerais bien avoir confirmation 😬

#askfedi #fungi

Alt...

Des amas de champignons blancs sur un souche qui trempe dans l'eau

Alt...

Les mêmes champis vus de plus loin

Hello fedifriends,
je viens de découvrir que j'avais une fiche à mon nom dans Grokipedia et qu'elle apparaissait parmi les premiers résultats google à mon nom.
Je dois reconnaître que les infos sont globalement correctes mais je déteste l'IA générative, et l'extrême droite et l'IA d'extrême droite et que je ne souhaite pas du tout y figurer.
Vous savez si je peux demander à ce que mes infos soient retirées ?

#ia #Grokipedia #protectiondesdonnees #askfedi

🥵🥶 SOOOOoooooo I am pretty sure I am hitting perimenopause. I’m looking for ways to make this livable. Open to recommendations for:

1. Plus size legging-style breathable pants that are cooling. Linen is too wrinkly for me.
2. I get too warm at night, but it’s hard to sleep without the weight of a blanket.
3. Hoodies or other top layers for dealing with being too hot/cold back and forth.
4. Any other recommendations that I won’t be able to live without.

#perimenopause #askFedi

@danderson thank you sm for circling back with details! 🫂 And for using #askfedi power. ✨✌️💙

Today is my birthday! 🥳

To celebrate, I'm treating myself to some neat music I find around the fediverse.

If you've heard (or made) anything cool recently, please send it my way. I'd love to hear it and if I dig it, I'll buy it.

#music #fedimusic #askfedi #electronicmusic #metal #indiemusic #jazz #punk

Thinking about setting up a home #borg server on an unused #RaspberyPi 4.

Questions for the #HiveMind:

• How much RAM does a borg server need to manage about 3TB of backups?
• How big of a USB disk do I need for the / partition for RasbperryPi OS with no GUI?
• Does borg deduplicate files between users' backups, or only within a single user's backups?

#BorgBackup #AskFedi

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

Dear Fedipeeps, I seek your counsel on buying the right drawing pad. Here are my ideal requirements, though I am willing to compromise (especially on the price, and except the Linux part):

- Something to use with Krita - I am not a sophisticated artist by any margin, I plan to mostly draw naive, aquarelle- and flat-like comics and text-accompanying images.

- I prefer to see what I draw on the surface, so with a screen.

- Price range up to 666€.

- I use Linux, it should fully work on it.

I used some cheap Wacom in the past, it wasn't half-bad but I don't enjoy staring at a different screen. I've seen Huion Kamvas 16 Gen 3 recommended for my requirements, but I have no idea what I'm doing.

Any tips welcome!

Appreciated if you share this toot for visibility!

#AskFedi #AskMastodon #DrawingTablet #Krita #DigitalArt #Linux #LinuxArtist #FediArt #MastoArt #Huion

Passing along a question from a friend who was recently fired and is on the job market again. I would prefer *not* to receive "I ran a web search for you" replies instead of direct knowledge, thanks. Boosts welcome.

--

Are you familiar with any professional organizations catering to LGBTQ+ and (in particular) trans #software engineers?

#AskFedi

What's the most niche topic that you can confidently talk about for 5 minutes?

#askFedi

#chenilles #papillons #askfedi
Quelqu'un peut me rassurer ( ou pas) sur ces petites chenilles qui colonisent mes orties ?

Edit: sans doute des chenilles du papillon "petite tortue"

Alt...

Un groupe de chenilles noires et jaunes sur des orties

@khleedril @mavnn

But finally.. here we are. My #ThoughtProvoker article, and it became a whopping 53 min. read 🤯. Publishing such long reflective texts is not common. So I added a #poll to #AskFedi how they parse and consume such #fediverse posted content..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

My follow-up appeal for reflection is also fascinating as it relates to #Emergence which is one the key drivers for #Evolution in #SX and being involved in #SocialCoding..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801

🗳

🫧 Social coding commons boosted

🫧 Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-04-10
@smallcircles@social.coop

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

In the end I more or less read the whole article:	36
I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights:	10
I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas:	2
Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other:	9

Closed

Is there a selfhosted #autodiscover solution out there?
I just want #sogo activesync to work with autodiscover

#askfediverse #askfedi #mail

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

Does anyone know of a hopefully simple way to get an RSS feed from a website that does not provide one? Preferably without having to self-host elaborate applications or paying some SaaS provider.

#askfedi #askingForAFriend #rssfeed

Update: It has something to do with flatpak not picking up font rendering settings. I gave up and went back to #LibreWolf (installed via debian extrepo)

Ok, that has to be some of the most garish #font #rendering I've ever seen.

I've tried turning on full font #hinting in #KDE settings and restarting #Waterfox, to no avail.

Any ideas, #HiveMind? XD

#AskFedi

Alt...

the word "machinery" as rendered in Waterfox on KDE Plasma on Debian Trixie, where the "i" looks more like a short "l" or "I"

Alt...

The same image, scaled up 16x (nearest-neighbor) to make the individual pixels clear when viewing on a device/platform/client that likes to scale up small images.

#AskFedi anyone seen files like this?
[screenreader users, this post is probably unfriendly]

I was handed what should be an ISO file.

00ff ffff ffff ffff ffff ff00 0002 0001 is tickling my brain like the start bytes are doubled?

I can't find CD001 in here so maybe it's not ISO9660 at all?

#DataPreservation #Archival

People with ADHD and lots of projects, how do you keep track of your to-dos across your devices and projects and actually use that to-do list, as opposed to letting them languish forever?

#askFedi #adhd

Personnellement je n'ai pas cherché d'usage (j'ai essayé de lui faire écrire une PSSI un soir de désespoir... ca n'a pas été concluant)

#askfedi

#askFedi quelqu'un sait comment je peux facilement configurer Samba sur Linux pour qu'il ne demande pas de mot de passe ?

Je compte partager un dossier de mon ordi en lecture seule.

#LuxOnLinux

Working software developers of the Fedi, what's your relationship with AI coding (like Claude Code)?

#poll #askFedi #software

Does anyone know if there are any #eInk-based phones with unlocked bootloaders you could install something like #LineageOS on?

That would be a crazy cool device to have, but I wouldn't be willing to put up with the typical #Android shenanigans.

#AskFedi #FOSS #HiveMind

hey masto how do i find the lesbians here? Esp lesbian creators?
#AskFedi

Putting an ask out for a friend. She's hoping someone might have some of these Mars Lumograph 100 EE pencils tucked away somewhere that they don't want. They're unavailable now and there's nothing quite like them out there. If you have any let me know and I'll put you in contact.

Please boost!

#AskFedi

Alt...

A hand holding up a Mars Lumograph 100EE pencil. It has a blue barrell and the lead is thick and dark.

Is there a list of games that don't use AI?
#NoAI #Games #AskFedi

Hey Fedi, bit of printer advice please....

I'm looking for replacement label printers - we used to use Dymo 450 but they were EOL'd a while back and the new software's a bin-fire. Any subsequent Dymos have DRM'd consumables so we can't use non-Dymo labels, cos Dymo are bastards.

Ideally we want something with a wired LAN interface, or that I can hook into CUPS on a Pi to network-print given a PDF. Must be able to take 1" and 1.5" label rolls.

Anyone, please?

#fedihelp #askfedi #printers

🤔 What are the best open source mail clients for Android these days? Sadly I can't in good faith keep using Thunderbird as long as it stays affiliated with increasingly-shady AI boosters at Mozilla.

ETA: Sadly it seems FairEmail have also embraced billionaire sycophancy through LLMs.

#LazyFed #AskFedi #Android #Thunderbird #Mozilla #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

#AskFedi — Looking for a platform recommendation!

I help lead a small nonprofit supporting #neurodivergent #students and #parents. We are 100% volunteer, and we produce a few different series of events throughout the year.

We need better ways to communicate with (paid) members and (unpaid) “friends”.

What platform/tools could I use to, for example, let someone RSVP or express interest in an event series, check the box to get auto reminders and text notifications re: all events in that series. For example: “event is tomorrow at 9am. See you there!” or “it’s raining! We’re meeting at x instead.”

Ideally this platform could also do email. One-off campaigns/blasts with simple segmentation (members and/or friends) and maybe some automations (like a welcome flow for new members).

We can pay a reasonable amount; doesn’t have to be FOSS/self-hosted/linux/etc. 😜

(I’ve asked a similar question here before, but I think we have made progress clarifying our specific needs.)

Any thoughts on #CreditKarma or alternatives out there?

I used to like using it, but now that it's owned by Intuit (a company I despise), I'd rather look for alternatives, or just do without. XD

#HiveMind / #AskFedi

@Tusky is there a way to export settings so they can be imported into a new installation?

#askFedi
#tusky

Now when cooking beans in the microwave, do you take the paper label off the can or leave it on?

Don't want to mess up the microwave, you know.

#AskFedi

Hey #HiveMind / #AskFedi,

Following up to an earlier question, can anyone tell me if they've gotten visual voicemail reliably working on any #FOSS #Android dialer program (or dedicated FOSS vVM program, if such a thing exists)?

It doesn't have to be your OS'es stock dialer, but it has to be a FOSS one. Not "Google Dialer" or "${cellular_carrier} Visual Voicemail."

It would work like 10% of the time when I was with AT&T, but now not at all with Mint Mobile (T-Mobile #MVNO).

Maybe I should make it into a #Poll to get more interest ;)

J'ai toujours pas eu de réponse à la question que j'avais posée y'a environ un mois :
Qu'est-ce qu'il y a comme bonne musique libre ?
(tous genres, mais de préférence relativement accessible au grand public)

#AskFedi

Hey #AskFedi / #HiveMind,

Anyone got any pointers for setting up #VisualVoicemail on #Android #AOSP or #LineageOS-derived dialers with #MintMobile, or #TMobile or other T-mobile #MVNOs?

I called the number, set up my PIN and greeting, but I just keep getting "Can't activate visual voicemail" in the dialer, even after going to Voicemail in the settings, turning off Visual voicemail, and turning it on again.

When I was on AT&T, it would occasionally be able to fetch the VMs, but often fail. I'm hoping it might work better with Mint/Tmo. XD

I'm on #IodéOS (based on Lineage).

Is there anybody who still has the #SUSE Linux Enterprise 8 and 9 x86_64 ISOs? Only can find some outdated and corrupted i386 files..

Asking for a fun project

#AskFedi #Linux #SLES #RetroComputing

Thinking of setting up a mail server.

I really want to avoid ending up blacklisted, does anyone have any advice about running their own mail server?

please boost.

#askfedi #selfhost #selfhosting

I'm really disappointed to see #bitwarden falling into the slop hole. Can anyone recommend a #passwordmanager , ideally #selfhosted , that doesn't use LLM slop in its core product, OR in its contributing commits?
#askfedi

I need information (not money) to help out a friend in Switzerland. [Edited to add: they are a Swiss citizen.]

I have a friend in Montreux (Vaud) in serious crisis. They are considering voluntary self admission to a psychiatric facility. But there are obstacles:

- They have had terrible experiences in facilities in the past.
- They are on disability payments and are terrified of getting stuck with a bill they can't pay that ruins their life.

Can anyone in Montreux area recommend an appropriate facility that is guaranteed to be free and decent quality?

Or can you recommend where to go to get information and support for someone in Vaud who is in crisis?

This is high stakes situation, I live in a different country I don't need "let me google that for you" or random speculation, I need *reliable* information from people who know what they're talking about.

If anyone can help, I would be deeply grateful.

#Suisse #Montreux #Vaud #AskFedi

Any #Aristotelian #scholars on #fedi?

Can anyone recommend a good translation of the #Nicomachean #Ethics?

William David Ross' #translation is 99ç on #Kobo.

#AskFedi #HiveMind #Philosophy

Anyone has recommendations for road trip albums/playlists? 🏞️🚗💨🎵 #roadtrip #askfedi

Boosts welcome!

Alright, I need fedis help here

My OpenWRT for my servers router decided to die, which made me realize that I really need to fix something that is redudant.

Preferably something rack-mounted, something that can run OPNsense - and not something that costs to much.

Ideas?

#askfedi #opnsense #firewall

Need help from Lisp wizards — looks like I'm missing something simple and obvious (but not so obvious for beginner). I'm trying to build (with ECL) the simple program, which uses ql:quickload to load parse-number, then prints "Hello world". It builds without errors, but resulting binary could not be executed — it prints error message about unknown "ql:quickload" function.

QuickLisp was installed like described in the official documentation. It works in SBCL, it works in ECL REPL and it has the necessary lines in the ~/.eclrc:

;;; The following lines added by ql:add-to-init-file:
#-quicklisp
(let ((quicklisp-init (merge-pathnames "quicklisp/setup.lisp"
(user-homedir-pathname))))
(when (probe-file quicklisp-init)
(load quicklisp-init)))
(ql:quickload '(:slite) :silent t)

The program, itself, runs successfully if I just evaluate the next code in the REPL:

(ql:quickload '(:parse-number) :silent t)

(defpackage :test
(:use :cl))

(in-package :test)

(defun toplevel ()
(print "Hello world"))

(progn
(toplevel)
(ext:quit))

And it compiles:

ecl --eval '(progn (compile-file "test.lisp" :system-p t) (c:build-program "test" :lisp-files '"'"'("test.o")) (quit))'
;;; Loading #P"/home/drag0n/quicklisp/setup.lisp"
;;; Loading #P"/usr/local/lib/ecl-24.5.10/asdf.fas"
;;;
;;; Compiling test.lisp.
;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0
;;;
;;; Finished compiling test.lisp.
;;;

But doesn't print "Hello world":

./test

Condition of type: UNDEFINED-FUNCTION
The function QUICKLISP-CLIENT::QUICKLOAD is undefined.
No restarts available.

Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL 0x8295a3f80>.
>

#AskFedi #CommonLisp #ECL #QuickLisp

Alt...

~/g/dotfiles/bin/.cl-bin:master*? λ cat test.lisp (ql:quickload '(:parse-number) :silent t) (defpackage :test (:use :cl)) (in-package :test) (defun toplevel () (print "Hello world")) (progn (toplevel) (ext:quit)) ~/g/dotfiles/bin/.cl-bin:master*? λ ecl --eval '(progn (compile-file "test.lisp" :system-p t) (c:build-program "test" :lisp-files '"'"'("test.o")) (quit))' ;;; Loading #P"/home/drag0n/quicklisp/setup.lisp" ;;; Loading #P"/usr/local/lib/ecl-24.5.10/asdf.fas" ;;; ;;; Compiling test.lisp. ;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0 ;;; ;;; Finished compiling test.lisp. ;;; ~/g/dotfiles/bin/.cl-bin:master*? λ ./test Condition of type: UNDEFINED-FUNCTION The function QUICKLISP-CLIENT::QUICKLOAD is undefined. No restarts available. Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL 0x8295a3f80>. >

Complete this sentence:

"I experience #fediverse as a .."

#Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub

I see the #fedi announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse.

Is the #fediverse we have capable of avoiding #enshittification as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market?

Is our #ActivityPub landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized.

There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, and news readers, that all still exist. But web as a whole is predominantly corporate, arguably not commons based, for the people by the people.

Social experience design defines "commons based" as "where people are in control of their future on a path of healthy evolution and natural growth". A core principle is being sustainable at all times, and timely acknowledge and mitigate risks.

Is fediverse commons based? Did we cocreate the Future of Social networking?

#SX #SocialCoding #poll #AskFedi

Has anyone ever come across an Android media player that's both

1. Open Source (preferrably in the F-Droid store) and,
2. lets you rate (exact scale doesn't matter, binary, 5 stars, whatever) things from the now-playing page and saves those ratings either to file metadata or has a desktop equivalent that can sync them with itself?

I want to be able to quickly go through music and decide if it deserves a closer listen later or is bad and I should just delete it. Mostly to have a sort of pre-screen that I can do easily while on my bicycle (where I need to pay attention and can't dig through menus, but can hit "Like" or "4 star" and swipe to the next track). The only thing I'm aware of that can do this is Mediamonkey (which is not open source).

#AskFedi #OpenSource #FLOSS #Android #FDroid

There's a ladybug following me everywhere since yesterday.

She roamed near me as I did a video call from my child's room yesterday morning.

Today she flew on my computer monitor and wandered around for a bit. Then I went to shower and she followed me to the bathroom, planting itself on the window. She's very cute.

Do you have any ladybug care tips? How can I help her with food and water?

(My mom says it's still too cold to bring her outside... my 5-year-old is smitten too) 🐞

#AskFedi

My eldest teen is giving me presentations and sending memos on why they should have TikTok

Should I let them have TikTok?

Boost Ok

#askFedi

Complete this sentence:

"I experience #fediverse as a .."

#Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub