!OpenWrt - Big shout out to egc on the #openwrt forum - forum.openwrt.org/u/egc/summar… - Who helped me sort out some wireguard routing issues that have been bugging me for ages!

Yesterday I sat down and spun up a test harness of openwrt to try to figure out how to get policy based routing working with wireguard and after a day bashing my head against a brick wall egc provided the clarrification, knowledge and experience I needed to sort this out.

Here's the chat - forum.openwrt.org/t/wireguard-… - yeah I didn't get it at first but feels so good to finally work this out.

!OpenStreetMap community - I know this is a bad way to express it but do wish that #streetcomplete and @MapComplete #mapcomplete would get together with @Panoramax and gitlab.com/ravenfeld/baba to have a baby.

Streetcomplete is so good when you are wandering past somewhere and think "That shop or thing should be on Openstreetmap" - so you pull together some details into streetcomplete - but then you think "A few photos of this place would be really handy" so you open Baba and take some photos of the exterior or street around it but while they are geolocated next to the location they aren't linked to the shop/feature or whatever.

I'm tempted to jump into Mapcomplete because yes if its an existing place I can fill in some more details (once I go through and find the location in the relevant filters ) but if I've just added it it won't be in mapcomplete even though I would love to add those photos - answer a few questions about the place and even pop in a review.

What I've realised that is random geolocated street photos are a mine of geocodble info.

Don't get me wrong - all of these apps are amazing! - I'm so thankful to all the amazing work that people have done on them ... I recommend them to friends but I just wish I was skilled enough to help bring them together and make something even more beautiful ...

!Friendica Admins - What are people's thoughs about enabling friendica to access posts from places like #twitter #Reddit, #facebook or other non-activitypub sources? I guess this might blow up a storm. I really like using friendica but I do wish I could at least monitor what is going on with people who haven't made the move from those networks and perhaps even post links to content on friendica and activitypub networks back into those networks. That might even encourage people to make the move across.

Its just a thought. I'm not really expecting this to go anywhere - I know that its completely dependent on people with the skills to make such a thing.

I know that there are #sociallistening and cross posting tools out there and API access on a individual basis is possible.

!Friendica Support - Hi, Hallo - I am quite a newbie when it comes to admining a friendica instance.
I'm running Friendica, version 2026.01. The database version is 1586/1586, the post update version is 1550/1550.

I'm having some peformance issues with my friendica instance - specificically [pool friendica] server reached max_children setting (12) -

I've increase memory limit in /etc/php/8.4/fpm/php.ini to 512M - as in earlier versons this seemed to fix performance issues but that hasn't resolved things. I also increased the max_children setting to 24 in /etc/php/8.4/fpm/pool.d/friendica.conf but this has not improved things. I suspect that this is not the underling cause as I am also seeing errors such as :

[24-May-2026 08:55:16] NOTICE: [pool friendica] child 184612 exited with code 0 after 896.680478 seconds from start
[24-May-2026 08:55:16] NOTICE: [pool friendica] child 186294 started
[24-May-2026 08:55:17] NOTICE: [pool friendica] child 184606 exited with code 0 after 898.334926 seconds from start

The errors seem to be triggered when users view pages on friendica server - (its only used by one or two people)

So my current thought is that for some reason I am getting child processes that are doing database queries maybe that are timing out? I'm not sure how to diagnose that.

Any thoughts ?

!Firefox - I periodically have thoughts about the challenges of sustainably developing #opensource software.

Ever since university days I have been very much aware of the limitations of accountablity in #Trusts such as #Mozilla - They are accountable only to their Trustees and without a democractic process of appointing Trustees its difficult for community members to hold them accountable to their stakeholders. They can go off on their own personal agendas or be captured by those that offer the most funding to the organiation.

For this reason I have though that it might make sense to create a coop out of users of open source software that adheres to some democractic princples that mean that contributors retain the ability to influence open source projects.

A #coop that gives voting rights to members to shape where resources collected are funneled would mean that their wants would be taken into account in where paid development is focused.

To avoid undue influence such a group would need to:

Only allow natural people (rather than legal entities such as companies and other trusts and charities) to join and fund their activities.

Impose some level of minimum and maximum contribution (or limit decision making to a one person, one vote basis)

I wonder whether templates for #coops of this type would encourage more to forum and encourage those who want to contribute to opensource development to do so knowing that their voices and opinions wouldn't be lost as successful projects attract other funding sources.