A photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt #Photography
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Skipton starling murmuration chimney photo 'a fluke'
Skipton in North Yorkshire has seen regular murmurations since the start of the year.BBC News
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I think that the "Mastodon is hard" vibe comes largely from folks who expect to be able to "find everyone on one app". I think when we tell folks leaving Twitter/Bluesky/Facebook/whatever about the Fediverse, it's important to address this disconnect with honesty and patience.
No, it is not "just like email". Because for 90% of folks email is "just another app".
It's more like webrings.
“How much for the antidepressants?”
“They're cream eclairs, sir!”
“...How much?”
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Not as much as she would appreciate some eclairs...
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How to Save the Internet by Nick Clegg review – spinning Silicon Valley
Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking pointsNick Clegg chooses difficult jobs. He was the UK’s deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015, a position from…
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Midcounties Co-op celebrates 20th anniversary with raft of member offers
Midcounties Co-op celebrates 20th anniversary with raft of member offers - Co-operative News
Midcounties Co-op celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, announcing a series of exclusive member offersMiles Hadfield (Co-operative News)
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Deshittification
My life got so much easier these days when I stopped asking myself "what can this new thing do for me?" and instead immediately check "who owns it?" right when I'm first exploring a new product, service, or tech.
This spares me of the #enshittification cycle of getting attached to it, finding out the owner(s) are enshittifiers or have trashfire beliefs, then struggling to leave for a better alternative (or getting stuck when there isn't one). Instead their offer is just an automatic no go to me, they never get to infest my life in the first place.
For the best #deshittification I tend to look for three symptoms when I'm deciding whether to try a new thing:
1. Is the ownership for profit?
2. What are the beliefs of the ownership? (easily found usually)
3. Who are their sponsors? (investors, advertisors)
If any of those three things are out of alignment with my goals or ethics, then idgaf what their offer does, it's dead to me before I even bother to give it a try nor recommend it to friends.
I no longer have to do any hand wringing about "oh no the thing I like is controlled by bad people". I just had to stop giving bad people my patronage in the first place. And it has generally cleared space for me to discover much cooler things made by much better people.
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Getting Started with Proxmox
Hello everyone,
I finally managed to get my hands on a Beelink EQ 14 to upgrade from the RPi running DietPi that I have been using for many years to host my services.
I have always was interested in using Proxmox and today is the day. Only problem is I am not sure where to start.
For example, do you guys spin up a VM for every service you intend to run? Do you set it up as ext4, btrfs, or zfs?
Do you attach external HDD/SSD to expand your storage (beyond the 2 PCIe slots in the Beelink in this example).
I’ve only started reading up on Proxmox just today so I am by no means knowledgeable on the topic
I hope to hear how you guys setup yours and how you use it in terms of hosting all your services (nextcloud, vaultwarden, cgit, pihole, unbound, etc…) and your ”Dos and Don’ts“
Thank you 😊
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My proxmox setup is like multiple nodes (computers) with local (2 drives with ZFS mirrorig), they all use a truenas server as NFS host for data storage.
For some things I use conaitners (LXC) but other thing I use VMs.
I moved to Proxmox a while back and it was a big upgrade for my setup.
I do not use VMs for most of my services. Instead, I run LXC containers. They are lighter and perfect for individual services. To set one up, you need to download a template for an operating system. You can do this right from the Proxmox web interface. Go to the storage that supports LXC templates and click the Download Templates button in the top right corner. Pick something like Debian or Ubuntu. Once the template is downloaded, you can create a new container using it.
The difference between VMs and LXC containers is important. A VM emulates an entire computer, including its own virtual hardware and kernel. This gives you full isolation and lets you run completely different operating systems such as Windows or BSD, but it comes with a heavier resource load. An LXC container just isolates a Linux environment while running on the host system’s kernel. This makes containers much faster and more efficient, but they can only run Linux. Each container can also have its own IP address and act like a separate machine on your network.
I tend to keep all my services in lxc containers, and I run one VM which I use for a jump box I can hop into if need be. It's a pain getting x11 working in a container, so the VM makes more sense.
Before you start creating containers, you will probably need to create a storage pool. I named mine AIDS because I am an edgelord, but you can use a sensible name like pool0 or data.
Make sure you check the Start at boot option for any container or VM you want to come online automatically after a reboot or power outage. If you forget this step, your services will stay offline until you manually start them.
Expanding your storage with an external SSD works well for smaller setups. Longer term, you may want to use a NAS with fast network access. That lets you store your drive images centrally and, if you ever run multiple Proxmox servers, configure hot standby so one server can take over if another fails.
I do not use hot standby myself. My approach is to keep files stored locally, then back them up to my NAS. The NAS in turn performs routine backups to an external drive. This gives me three copies of all my important files, which is a solid backup strategy.
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@MyYeeHaa @abeorch I think the individual bars are probably correctly sized for that but it looks like someone changed the labels rather than reordering the bars...
A&E = prescription
District Nurse = GP Appt
GP Home Visit = District Nurse
Average Prescription/GP Appointment = GP Home/A&E Visit
You can tell it's older, though, because they're trying to reterm A&E to Emergency Department, to stop unnecessary attendances...
tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data
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Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •My server federates with some, not with others. There are places on the Fediverse where folks will not see me- at least not with my consent.
This carries the "IYKYK" spirit of webrings (if not the technical undercurrent, don't chase me pedants).
With webrings you were an active participant. You had to curate, or your webring died in chaos or worse yet, heat death.
This whole thing is familiar to folks who were online in the turn of the century, and is a far cry from "there's an app".
Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Your webring members could have been part of multiple webrings. Some of those you might have argued with. Some you might have even found disqualifying!
But nobody accidentally joined a webring. Nobody would have been able to consolidate a loose collection of websites into a single organized structure where all information was visible.
Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •The internet at the turn of the century was undoubtedly harder. Information was scattered, search was laughably complicated, connections were slower.
But here's the thing I'm learning as I keep growing up: our brains? They like work.
Google providing information in the blink of an eye sped up my results and thrashed my attention span. Why train my brain for complicated research if I can just access information instantly?
Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Since the advent of wireless internet, always-on connectivity, and mobile computing, the "time spent working on learning" for the average netizen has decreased. For me, that's made me a less patient person, and I'm someone who deliberately **shuts off the internet** every day.
Mastodon? Fediverse? I'm willing to bet for a very-online person these are increasingly really hard concepts to grasp.
Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I don't think that the solution to getting folks to adopt the Fediverse is to change the Fediverse.
I think the solution is to show folks how great it is to have to curate your life. How wonderful it is to have to *work* for discovering new information. How challenging your mindset and stretching your grey matter is a positive.
To start with, when I talk about the Fediverse, I always say "the jank is a feature".
Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that my posts aren't seen by everyone.
On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that I have to ask questions because search is less-than perfect.
On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that in order to host on your own domain you have to spin up infrastructure or work with someone who can.
On Fedi, it is **absolutely** a feature that there are entirely closed-off networks inaccessible from the outside.
These are features. Jank is a feature. Embrace it.