masto

joined 2 years ago
[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some Christmas traditions involve a red suit, others involve a bell, and some have…

https://youtu.be/hPfg20k5TE8

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not as bad as cholesterol.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 8 points 3 months ago

There are a million ways to do this, as have already been described in other comments. This is one more. I built https://photostripper.com/ a while back, when I was practicing building small web applications to learn different tech stacks. Lemmy is not the target audience - you folks know how to do this already, and why would you trust that I’m not keeping copies of your photos (I promise I’m not, but what is that worth?)

Anyway, I’m only mentioning it because it’s my thing and I enjoyed making it.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 1 points 4 months ago

And I'm back. Whew, that was a rough upgrade. I had to do some manual PostgreSQL surgery to get it past 0.19.3 - there were two versions of the hot_rank function so the migration script was failing.

Then I noticed the logs were full of pictrs spitting out "Read corrupted data..." and crash looping, and I spent a couple of hours trying to get it to do anything. I finally had to give up and nuke it, so I guess the few images I've posted over the years are 404s now.

I started to get discouraged and I was going to just decommission the server, but I'll try to learn my lesson and keep a closer eye on it so I can catch future problems before it's too late.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 8 points 4 months ago

Thanks very much!

I didn't realize it was outdated; I get emails from Elestio regularly (including just this week) that it was automatically updated to the latest version. Apparently I forgot (it's slowly coming back to me now) that at some point something broke on an upgrade and I must have pinned the version back in early 2024.

I just tried to move it forward and unfortunately, anything after that version breaks with a failing schema migration (maybe the same problem I had back then). I restored a backup for now and I'll figure out how to fix it over the weekend.

I appreciate the assistance and info.

 

I have been running a personal lemmy server for a long time and using Voyager (web app). The other day I updated as I have done dozens of times before, and it wouldn’t load any posts. I tried logging out and clearing my cache, but when I try to log in to lemmy.masto.community, it just says there was a problem connecting.

The server is obviously up and working or I wouldn’t be able to post this. And logged out, I seem to be able to browse public servers with Voyager. It has just suddenly become incompatible with… something? This is a managed service on Elestio, so it’s maintained automatically.

I figured if I waited a few days it would sort itself out since I can’t be the only one. But I don’t see any posts about this so now I’m wondering if I’m the only one. Any ideas? Thanks!

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 3 points 6 months ago

Hot damn do I love gloves. I bought a 5000-count case five years ago and I’m just about out of them. Turns out making it easier to touch icky things like the sink strainer was well worth the $50.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The part of my brain that needs to be interested in something to do it is actually very stupid and easily tricked. Sometimes when I’m stuck all I have to do is literally pretend I find the work engaging.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 2 points 7 months ago

This is a skill I do not have, and apparently I may be one of two people in the world who can’t do it.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

“Exploiting” means what, exactly? And what evidence do you have for it?

The content of your email is not used for targeting or profiling, it’s not being sold. Clear enough? The qualifier is because some “well ackshually” will point out that they have to scan it for spam filtering, virus detecting, adding calendar events, etc. These are features of the product, and I think labeling them exploitation would be a bit rich.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Google does not use the content of Gmail messages for ad targeting. Lots of misinformation here.

 

Teacher comments: Chris is a very slow worker. Chris can not tie his shoes yet. Reading comes easy to Chris but he needs to be pushed or he doesn't do his work.

And second grade...

Teacher comments: Chris' work is done accurately but is often not done neatly. Also, he does not use his working time wisely and often is not done on time. Chris has continued to do well with his school work, but he tends to be disorganized.

And third grade...

Teacher comments: Parent-Teacher conference. Christopher has shown an improvement with his school work. I'm sure he would receive straight As if he would finish all assignments and hand them in. He tends to dawdle away his time and accomplish nothing. Christopher continues to have the same work habits. He needs to change them for the better.

And fourth grade...

Comments are very long. Excerpt: Chris' ability is excellent. However, his efforts tend to be below expectations. Hopefully he will work to improve this problem. Chris is a nice boy!

Sometimes I wonder what the next 40 years would have been like if I'd gotten some help instead of just getting yelled at for being lazy.

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