Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mastodon.technology)

Oooh snap I had no idea @ThomasWaldmann (of BorgBackup fame) is on fedi.

Something tells me that a lot of people will have to soon learn where Makhachkala is.

@ParadeGrotesque yup. Protesters even "de-arrest" people - stop police cars and force them to release those arrested.

Looks pretty damn serious.

👏 Protocols, not platforms.
👏 Communities, not corporations.

Hi and welcome to @tek@todon.eu , not to be confused with @tek@freeradical.zone. They are both excellent humans, but they are different. 🙂

@feditips great list. One more though:

Reddit ➡️ @LemmyDev

There are many Lemmy instances these days (here's an anarchist-leaning Polish instance, https://szmer.info/ @szmer ), and they federate: for example, one can follow the Solarpunk community on Szmer by following @solarpunk.

Gotta say I am pretty excited about Lemmy joining fedi.

@trebach @tagomago @tomasino @esi já halló!

@tagomago let me introduce you to "ch" and "h", "u" and "ó", "rz" and "ż" in Polish, then. xD

Set up a new #KMail instance, to manage a specific mailbox, and guess what, trying to send e-mail ends in a grayed-out e-mail composer window and no error message. It just... hangs there. 🤷♀️

It's been 10 years since #Akonadi fscked up #KMail, and the developers *still* cannot get it to a working condition. This is beyond silly.

I am not blaming the current developers. I am blaming whoever made the decision to implement this over-engineered boondoggle that Akonadi is.

TIL: There is an island in Kiribati called Vostok ("East" in Russian); and it was first discovered by a Russian explorer called Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Island

If anyone is wondering, it's not getting any better. Snapchat, AWS, Twitter, several major mobile providers (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon) joined the "seems down" club.

#sysadmin 🍿

Seems like FB's authoritative nameservers are down, and long enough for DNS caches to start expiring:
https://nitter.exonip.de/jrssnet/status/1445055086196047877

"Large cloud providers are very competent and never go down", episode over9000.

#sysadmin

#Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 was released ~2 weeks ago:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2021/08/msg00040.html

"We modified our privacy policy.
Pray we don't modify it any further."

@snikket_im nice!

Somewhat tangent question, is there any talk about creating some sort of XMPP certification scheme that would certify XMPP clients and servers as implementing a certain well-chosen set of XEPs?

As you correctly note on your Goals page, fragmentation of that ecosystem is a serious problem, and that goes all the way down to protocol level.

I think it would make a lot of sense to have some kind of a common baseline like that.