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  • Instagram to pixelfed migration

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  • Manually backdating is one thing, but importing them from Instagram with the original timestamp is a different. That's why #2871 is still open and #4558 was closed as "not planned", I guess.

  • Instagram to pixelfed migration

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  • There's already a feature request for that: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2871

    So far, I only know of GotoSocial that allows backdating new posts. And it even has a "gallery" theme that you can set as default to get something remotely similar to Pixelfed.

  • NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.35 released!

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  • For everyone else who's deep into the Apple world: No iOS app and thus no sync to Apple Health.

  • What was the smallest python hobby project you worked on?

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  • What I did when starting out with Python: I've bought a book similar to the O'Reilly Pocket Reference and read it cover to cover to get an overview of the structure, syntax, and available objects and methods. Then started piecing my tools together by looking at other people's code and copying the bits I could use. If you want some inspiration, have a look at my Python projects.

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    Welcome to the Fediverse where mods and admins alike will ban you for no reason whatsoever

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  • Not much to expand. Some German left-wing politicians "ordered" a report on the German right-wing party. That report was deemed "secret", so nobody was supposed to see it. Left-wing politicians told everyone that this secret report is the ultimate proof the right-wing party is extremist and can finally be forbidden and banned. Which is the part I said I doubt until there's a way for everyone to see the actual report and verify the findings. (I've compared that to "Sure, I did my homework. But then my dog ate it.")

    Someone reported me with the note "supports <name of Germany's right-wing party>". And that's that. Shadowban for life. No way to contest it or explain myself as support auto-responds with "we only answer to actual members of

    <instance>

    ".

    (And yes, that "report" leaked later and turned out to be just a collection of quotes from social media from party members. Nothing against the law and lots of quotes were taken far out of context. It was great stuff for the media for a week or two but that's it. Nothing ever came out of it.)

  • imaging question in python

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  • Locked

    Welcome to the Fediverse where mods and admins alike will ban you for no reason whatsoever

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  • I've earned a lifelong shadowban on the largest Mastodon instance just because I doubted a political paper (which later turned out to be as unsubstantial as I said it would be). And there's no way to contact support as support only answers to actual members, not people from a different instance. So, ever since, whenever I reply to someone from there, they need to approve my comment before anyone else from that instance can see it. Same for when I want to follow someone new from there. It's ridiculous.

  • What do you want out of a coding monospace font?

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  • Ligatures, slashed zeros, clearly distinguishable Il1/O0, not too big of a gap between lines, and maybe script-like italics. My current main monospace font is IosevkaTerm Nerd Font.

    I also find the idea of using retro pixel fonts interesting, but so far couldn't get myself to actually try some of the fonts mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708411 .

  • Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch

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  • Yes, besides Gopher and Gemini, “small web” usually includes traditionally coded HTML+simple CSS+handmade/small JS websites. I.e. websites that are not using a big JS framework or huge amounts of CSS.

  • What are some OpenMediaVault alternatives?

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  • There's also XPenology - a hacked Synology software to run on non-Synology systems. Awesome when you've got it running, can be somewhat adventurous and/or nerve-wrecking when a major update is due.

  • mastodon.social has some serious hickups today (and lately)

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  • This is your sign to find a smaller instance and support that one instead. Or, maybe even go the selfhosting route and setup a GotoSocial instance for yourself.

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  • "Do you have natural freckles or did you use that shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype again?"

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  • The main problem here is persistance. Most users are on machines that get turned off.

    This! It only works if you have a server that's online 24/7. Can be a VPS in a data centre, can be some Raspberry Pi running at your home with a DNS name pointing to it.

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  • If you are not a Gitea customer, you are not being informed of security updates in a timely manner

    I don't need a notification of issues, I need a notification of when there's a new version to roll out. And that can be solved by using things like WatchTower or setting up release notifications on GitHub.

    And, of course, a comparison hosted on ForgeJo's webpage will make it out that they're "the better choice".

    Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later.

    Oh no, it doesn’t do the big feature™. I guess it’s unusable now.

    Well, that was the one big distinguishing thing between the two, back when ForgeJo was the new kid on the block. ForgeJo wanted to make it a priority to implement federation.

    And I never said it's unusable - it's just that I, personally, don't see any reason to switch from Gitea to ForgeJo.

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  • I’m staying with Gitea. They’ve created the Ltd. so they can sell professional support as most businesses will want a proper invoice. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later. And, the one time I’ve tried ForgeJo it shit itself when I’ve added an emoji to my username. For some reason Gitea didn’t have any problem with that.

  • Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the F

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  • It works in both directions. I’ve been shadowbanned from mastodon.social because one user misinterpreted my comment about something political (related to Germany), reported me and apparently their (German) mod was either lazy or followed the same misinterpretation and shadowbanned me - for life.

    And there’s no way to object this as their support only answers to members. Which I am not.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • But did they use oxygen-free copper (OFC) wire? Because otherwise the results are skewed as regular copper sounds just as bad as a banana stuck in wet mud.

  • Pixelfed.social and gram.social abnormalities

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  • Posts can also get synced if someone from gram.social searched for a direct link to a post. E.g. if you go to gram.social and search for https://pixelfed.social/p/pixuser/1234, it'll get synced in the background and show up if you follow @pixuser later on. (Depending on how long the instance caches it.)

    Likes and Reshares of external posts are local to their instance. Those won't get sent to other instances. E.g. on my private GotoSocial I don't see the correct amount of likes or reshares of posts from other instances. I'll have to visit the posts on their original instance for that. (But then, I rarely care.)