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Kia Ora,
I am happy to announce that @xrobau will be taking over hosting and administrative tasks for mastodon.nz and pixelfed.nz.
We genuinely believe that this is the best move for this instance as there is existing infrastructure and knowledge to support future growth and any potential issues that may arise.
We have scheduled a maintenance window Monday morning to migrate everything across to the new host. We have allocated a 5 hour window from 8AM NZT until 1PM NZT Monday. I'm aware this is during a busy morning period - but we want to be awake to make sure it all goes smoothly.
Thank you for all of your support
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The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft underwent another surgery in March.
The team had to revive a thruster used for roll control whose heaters had failed in 2004. The tubes of the backup thrusters currently in use are getting clogged and may fail this year.
The delicate operation required turning on the failed thruster and flipping a switch to enable its heater and 🤞
All very tricky and risky operations, performed from 23 light-hours away on 1970’s era hardware.
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jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyage…
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.
Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: facebook.com/help/contact/6359…
Instagram opt out: help.instagram.com/contact/233…
Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says
EU users have less than two weeks to opt out of Meta’s AI training.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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"Instead of using actual spray cans, some artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces and they are calling it reverse graffiti"
(This one is by Paul 'Moose' Curtis of the Reverse Graffiti Project )
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I'm thinking about networking, and there is one thing* that is a mystery to me. Can someone please explain it in a very, very ELI5 way?
Let's say I have IP cameras, and adhering to good practices, they are on a separate VLAN, let's say 192.168.10.X.
And then I have another VLAN, 192.168.20.X for my laptop and my homelab server.
The server is running Frigate for the cameras.
So the cameras somehow would need to reach my server in another VLAN.
What is the correct, industry standard way to do it? Create routing to punch through VLANs? Connect my server to two VLANs (with two NICs?)
- there are a lot of things in networking that are a mystery to me, but let's tackle them one thing at a time :)
Both options are good. And you have a third option: you can make your server communicating on the VLAN trunk level. So you can just declare, that this physical NIC in your server now are two virtual NICs, each in one VLAN.
I know, this is not ELI5. I will sit at the computer in a few minutes, and I'll write more.
@RaccoonForFriendica This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject
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Fediverse Report – #115
PeerTube has a new update for their mobile app, the Mastodon team is growing, and more.
The News
- PeerTube has officially launched their apps as a v1, some four months after the apps became available in beta. Some new features include the ability to log in with an existing PeerTube account (up until now you’d log in with a local account that only existed in the app itself), commenting from the app, and playlist and channel management options.
- Mastodon announced some updates on how their team is evolving. The organisation is currently in the process of setting up a Foundation in Europe. Mastodon is also growing their team, and the organisation now consists of 15 employees. Mastodon’s news update is a followup on their announcement from January 2025, in which Mastodon said that current CEO Eugen Rochko would step down. A new CEO has not been announced yet by Mastodon. In the previous update, Mastodon also said that they would need a €5 million annual operating budget. There are some new team members related to fundraising, but Mastodon has not made a clear statement yet on how exactly they will raise the money needed for this budget.
- Evan Prodromou of the Social Web Foundation has published a first version of places.pub. It is a service that “makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects.” The goal is for other fediverse software to integrate with places.pub to have a standardised way to refer to geospatial objects via ActivityPub.
- A follow-up on last week’s news regarding the Fosstodon server: the server administration will be taken over, with an update and introduction by the new admin here.
The Links
- A recommendation algorithm for PeerTube videos. It is a browser extension that records your PeerTube viewing history, and uses that to generate recommendations to watch.
- PieFed development updates for April.
- The fediverse statistics site FediDB is getting an update, and can now be self-hosted as well.
- Talking Protocols With Evan Prodromou – FediHost Podcast.
- How To Make Your Mastodon Feed More Algorithmic – FediHost Tutorial.
- Ghost now gives blog authors the ability to block users.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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Blocking users
Introducing controls for who can interact with you in the fediverseGhost (Building ActivityPub)
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Hey Fediverse friends 👋
We're happy to help make the web a little more connected and open.
With our ActivityPub plugin you can connect your Discourse community to Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Check out all the details in our latest blog post:
blog.discourse.org/2025/04/dis…
Discourse and the Fediverse!
Two years ago, we started working on a plugin that brings Discourse and the Fediverse closer together. Discourse communities are online spaces that facilitate open collaboration and communication.Penar Musaraj (Discourse)
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📢 abra v0.10.x is finally here 📢
TLDR; "abra upgrade" 👍
Upgrade docs:
docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgra…
Migration guide:
docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgra…
A huge thanks to everyone who helped get this release done ❤️🔥 Happy Hacking 🫂
-- d1
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Quick patch release is out to fix some nasty bugs that got through the release candidate and test suites 🙈
"abra upgrade" once more 👍
Release notes v0.10.1:
git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/ab…
Project:
git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/-/…
-- d1
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Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance?
The following was asked on a #Mastodon forum on #Reddit - I replied and a sort of converation started. I felt that it wa better to have the discussion where others with valuable inside could chip in so I have- with the OP's permission posted the following:
For years I have the same question:
Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance or any other fediverse instance?
Many admins say it is a lot of work and they put a lot of effort, money and energy in it. Some even close their instance after few years, because it is just too much.
After the new political development in the USA, the fediverse got a new wave of interested people from all over the world, but the question stays.
In my opinion it makes only sense if you already have a community, like, if you're an influencer or part of an NGO or similar projects with several people, who will support you creating and maintaining it with money and own time.
What do you think and do you own an instance or work on one?
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IMO no.
Small instances can have issues with federation and now showing all replies/content.
There's also the aspect that you'll need to moderate content stored on your server, if someone posts something illegal and your server caches it, you're responsible for cleaning it up.
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Black holes swallow all information you feed into them. But information can't be destroyed, instead the information is slowly emitted as hawking radiation, impossible to reconstruct in practice but technically there.
This makes them just like Atlassian Confluence
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Mifos - Open Source Core Banking system for Credit Unions and Micro finance
!Open Source - This coming week along with regular working groups meeting #Mifos are also have another volunteering call on 24th April at 2pm UTC. you can register for the call here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Mifos is built on #Apache #fineract (also Open source ) - fineract.apache.org/
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Mifos - Open Source Core Banking system for Credit Unions and Micro finance
!Open Source !Selfhosted This coming week along with regular working groups meeting #Mifos are also have another volunteering call on 24th April at 2pm UTC. you can register for the call here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Mifos is built on #Apache #fineract (also Open source ) - fineract.apache.org/
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Mifos Volunteer Onboarding - April 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Monthly call to onboard new Mifos volunteersZoom
An @OSM #OpenStreetMap contributor wrote : "Updating railway stations tagging diagrams."
🎋 Read their awesome diary 👉🏼 openstreetmap.org/user/darkonu….
Updating railway stations tagging diagrams
I’ve suggested an updated version of the diagrams explaining the tagging of railway stations. The goal is to make them simpler to understand, especially for newcomers, without losing the core meaning.OpenStreetMap
Find your Flow with Nextcloud's new data automation tools!
Discover how Nextcloud Flow streamlines your business processes, improves customer interactions, and enhances digitalization efforts in your organization
See #NextcloudFlow in action!
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You say ##NextcloudFlow but the video only shows #Windmill Automation. windmill.dev/
Could you please elaborate on that? Because what I can see in (my) Nextcloud Flow is nowhere near what the Video advertises.
Is Flow getting replaced by Windmill?
Windmill
Turn scripts into auto-generated UIs, APIs and cron jobs. Compose them as workflows or data pipelines. Build complex, data-intensive apps with ease.www.windmill.dev
Mastodon.me.uk is an open, user-supported, corporation-free Mastodon server for the UK:
This server has been operating since April 2017.
You can find out more at mastodon.me.uk/about or contact the admin @Floppy
#FeaturedServer #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #England #Scotland #Wales #NorthernIreland #GreatBritain #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
mastodon.me.uk
Open, user-supported, corporation-free social media for the UK.Mastodon hosted on mastodon.me.uk
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From that one time I saw the most perfect window scene and felt obligated to capture it.
I was inside the capital building of Antigua #Guatemala and as I walked up the stairs I looked out the stairwell window to see this gorgeously framed flower pot. Someone had to have put it there on purpose! I particularly enjoy the effectively black canvas created by the dark interior behind.
#WindowFriday #feinsterfreitag #fineartphotography #artphotography #photography #fujifilm #FensterFreitag
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Something I stumbled upon recently. Considering the number of book lovers around Mastodon, this seems like a must-share.
"Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost."
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