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@jlj Well, Pleroma is non-trivial to set-up. And there is no archived source of support, that I've found. May abandon the idea for now.
@jlj @prologic I've really struggled to test under 'net-based proctoring this past year, for professional certifications; can't imagine taking a math exam that way. >•<
@prologic I'm reading up now. There are two different Proctorio legal challenges in the news right now: one against a teacher and one against a student, I believe. They conflated them on HN, so now I'm confused. :-D
@sdk T-T\nSorry to hear that. Glad you're back, though. ^•^
@lyse I was wondering! D:\nLovely photos; thanks for sharing. :-)
@maya Wow. maya.land is amazing. ^⨰^
@antonio @movq @prologic Yeah, I got Synapse running and federating, but it was a bit tricky with my reverse proxy set-up. It isn't public, though, and I couldn't imagine my family using it or Element! Tech support nightmare! @xuu mentioned Session, which does look promising (minus the crypto-currency eco disaster).
@prologic Oh, wow. Didn't notice that. Yeah, that does seem expensive.
I keep going back 'n' forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what's involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better yarn.social advocate. ^⨰^
@lyse Oh, good to know. Ta!
@darch H'm... Isn't that an error message that you get when you haven't yet built the dependencies? Specifically the go.rice dependency? I think that running make deps -- to build *rice* and *minify* -- first *might* solve your problem. :-)
@antonio Yeah, that's right. Interesting. My wife got Moderna.
@prologic Oh, good. ^×^ Room for improvement/sourcing/etc., obviously. But happy to hear you like the bones of it. :-)
@antonio Nice! Got mine too -- of AstraZeneca -- last week.
@darch Heh. Yeah, just hoping for some comments/suggestions at this stage. ^×^
@maya Agreed. I like them. :-)
Huh. Just did a two-hour, recorded handover of Terraform code I wrote for a client. They had me destroy all the infrastructure live, pull the code apart in separate files, and build the infrastructure back up again. Exhilarating, and exhausting! Time for a beer. :-)
@pwr Oh! Writing a novel?
@movq Oh, wow! Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. :-)
@prologic @mckinley Actually, I think you worded it well. Certainly makes sense to me. Swap "open source" for "free/libre software" and I bet even #rms would've been happy with what you emphasised. :-)
@prologic @lazarus I would never call you ignorant. ;-D But #rms would take umbrage with your conflating open source and free software, I'd imagine. '...“open source” doesn’t fully convey the importance of the movement and the potential long-term social problems caused by proprietary software. [FSF et al] sees OSI as being too concerned with promoting the practical benefits of non-proprietary software (including its profitability and the efficiency of a community-driven development model), and not concerned ethical [issues]...' https://envs.sh/PH
@lazarus While I don't disagree with the points you've raised, I do think there are other aspects to consider on the subject #rms and the FSF: e.g., the future of the latter as a vibrant, thriving organisation in the next decade and beyond; in particular, I think some comments on the recent LWN article raise good points regarding this.
Wow! "The current state of the art is humans, mostly quadriplegic people, with chips which let them control robot arms with enough accuracy to pick up small delicate objects, play games, and type by thinking words. Current state of the art implants let people get tactile feedback too - they can intuitively know the position of the arm they’re controlling and feel the amount of pressure on each finger tip." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747773
"In the larger sense, entrepreneurship in America is very much dead. That doesn't mean that it isn't thriving in a specific Silicon Valley subculture, that to be fair makes massive contributions to the broader economy. But it should make us question what makes the Valley so different from Main Street, USA. If not just to figure out how to export the model from Palo Alto to Oklahoma." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26781681
@hecanjog Hear, hear! Drives me batty; that, and references to how "obvious" or "simple" such and such is. My friend, you don't have to think about any particular subject you might choose for more than a few minutes -- particularly from the perspective of others -- before such statements look naive and foolish. For goodness sake, I was reminded but a few hours ago that no two people see the same rainbow: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cTqRE4F6qJ4 -- YT, sorry.
@prologic I didn't mean "in favour of my pod" btw, to clarify! I love it here! :-D It's just the way my brain works: off in ten different directions at once, on any given day.
I've decided to join IRCNow. :-) You know, 'cause I'm not busy enough as it is. :-P I will get back to that manifesto++ soon, @prologic, promise! :-D
@xuu Nice! That'd be great! My German is very rusty, for example. ;-)
@adi lobste_rs (#7rhdpna) Interesting. Been around a long time as well.
@prologic @mckinley I've spent probably an hour in total, over the last month, trying to understand this. I've failed. It seems far too expensive for what amounts to bragging rights; I must be missing something.
@movq I know! I was disappointed; can't lie.
Birthday weekend refreshment! 
Pint of Deya's Steady Rollin' Man And it's a local brewery, to boot, right in town.
@maya Wow. That looks like a really cool site! Thanks for the pointer!
@prologic @readfog Oh, wow! This is awesome! Thanks so much for your efforts. :-D We're actually rewriting a lot of the documentation now, as part of rebranding the whole project; we'd love more of your help, if you have the time. :-)
My IPFS node is up and running on my Pi. :-D It's steady at around 60℃ right now, which is OK, I think; read that it should be under 70℃. I'm able to browse through that IPFS gateway on my main desktop -- using the native support in Brave -- and load pinned files. I've decided that a further fun project would be hosting a static site there, and I'll be using mkws to generate that, I think; :-) might even buy an Ethereum domain name for it. :-)
@prologic Man, that shot over your shoulder really puts it in perspective, so to speak! Again, well done, indeed, sir! :-D
Think I'll abandon the mail server idea, at least for now. I've been playing around with the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS), and it seems to scale for all sorts of set-ups, including RPI. Curious to learn more about DWeb in general.
@prologic Amazing! Very impressive. :-) And congrats on the PB! :-)
@xandkar Absolutely. I guess I had a completely different introduction to the concept, and putting it into practice... Which I can't recall, off the top of my head. But, yeah, hopping on to your subsequent post, what other babies are often chucked on the wood pil... U'm, no, that isn't quite right... ;-)
@prologic @xandkar Ahhh, I see. :-D _Those_ hashes are just part of my world now; didn't even consider that you were talking about them. :-)
@prologic @codebalion U'm... Yikes. I don't think I want to know what's at that URL. :-( And, yeah, two weeks on Aether has appreciably dragged down my faith in humanity once more. :-(
@niplav Fascinating. :-) Suspect #RMS would have a violent physical reaction -- accompanied by some salty language -- after even a moment's contemplation of life under such complicity. :-D
FSFE statement re #RMS: "... Therefore, in the current situation [FSFE] see ourselves unable to collaborate both with the FSF and any other organisation in which Richard Stallman has a leading position. Instead, we will continue to work with groups and individuals who foster diversity and equality in the Free Software movement in order to achieve our joint goal of empowering all users to control technology." -- Seems like they would've been less upset with the decision if they'd been given a heads-up; just me?
@xandkar Sorry, I don't follow. Do you mean just one-word tags? Or camel-case? Or snake-case? It was more of a joke, if you're talking about the post I'm thinking of. Or are you referring to the #RMS topic more generally? That's how would group this meandering conversation on birdsite. :-)
@alip There are a few threads here that might be of interest. cc @prologic Wonder whether topics would help with this...
Boy, Thunderbird's really come a long way since I last used it. OpenPGP support is pretty seamless; think my folks could even use it without too much trouble!
@usr @prologic He certainly is. :-) That's probably the one thing everyone can agree on. :-D
@usr Yeah, we were talking about it yesterday; is it gathering momentum? Wonder what the rate of signatures being added is.
@adi Morning! Just sitting down to my first proper cuppa. :-)
@prologic Yeah, particularly when it's capitalised like that.
Just bought a copy of 'HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship' off the back of that. :-)
@lazarus Wow. What a fantastic piece; particularly the excerpt from Nadine Strossen. Thanks for sharing!
@xandkar Oh, indeed, very interesting! Cheers!
@jlj @xandkar Well, brain development, and power and influence in relationships.
@xandkar I think that's it: rational engagement; it seems to be missing. But I haven't delved too deeply, tbh. Ugh, Twitter. I mean, that thread you linked to screams cancel culture, to me. The Telegram group was more nuanced, linking to a Fediverse post requesting that people use CW or content warning on their updates, as the author found the whole subject triggering. Specifically on age of consent, if RMS has now walked back on his earlier posts, that would be enough for me, I think: it's about brain development, or lack thereof, not liberty, etc.
A good summary of the situation; echoes what I read in the Telegram group devoted to diversity in open source projects, minus the personal accounts of being triggered by the news. :-(
Many are very upset about the return of RMS, and how that could be seen to legitimise his views. I knew nothing about his views, really, controversial or otherwise. I'm currently correcting that. I do like how he's acknowledged that his views on certain controversial subjects has changed since 2013; an admission that he was wrong. I guess an important question is whether his new views on said subjects align with the current moral standard. More reading required...
@gugod It's certainly old! :-) Like fine wine? ;-)
@prologic I'd been trying to start a conversation on Twitter. Just explicitly replied to a tweet of his, this morning. (He doesn't allow open DMs.) Fingers crossed! Sorry again about missing the meeting; I was in bed by 8pm, again. :-/ cc @darch
@mckinley @movq @lyse Yeah, I've been running Rockbox on high capacity iPods since 2007. :-)
@ionores Oh, wow! Thanks for the pointer. :-)
Sleep Is The Mate Of Death: "Put these two lines of research together and you get something like: synapse density increases over the course of the day, then sleep prunes it down again. Depression is associated with low synapse density. So it would make sense that depression gets better over the course of the day (including the extra-long artificial days of sleep deprivation) and then gets worse again after sleep."
@movq I'm right there with you. :-) That look she can give the camera... :-P
@codebalion Amazing! Absolutely amazing! I've used his weather code for years and didn't know about this. Wonder whether I could get working golang, just from converted pseudocode. :-D
@prologic Have to check my daughter's schedule. ;-D
Just built the latest release of Audacity -- version 3.0.0! All ready for editing my next impromptu 'podcast' lol. ;-)
Sorry, @thewismit: I tried to go back, to see what you're up to, but Mastodon amps my anxiety too, it seems. RSSHub+Miniflux to the rescue, for me, anyway. This is what you'll look like, to me, from here on out. :-D 
@adi It's 64-bit version of their Debian Buster port, which they call Raspberry Pi OS, and folks -- in the Matrix room, at least -- call Raspios; they're the ones that pointed me to these beta builds: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/ -- Thing is, I only went 64-bit for poste.io; docker-mailserver actually has a 7l 32-bit build too. Thinking about stepping back to that, away from the bleeding edge. ;-)
Got the rpi up and running on arm64 (i.e., v8), all headless! poste.io doesn't support that architecture, though, I belatedly discovered. But docker-mailserver does, which I found through that blog post I linked to previously. I've got it running on the rpi now, but haven't configured it. I'm now wondering whether I should run it behind a proxy. A tough slog, overall, as I really know very little about running a mail server correctly. :-P
Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online, Nature 17/03/2021: "Together, these studies suggest that when deciding what to share on social media, people are often distracted from considering the accuracy of the content. Therefore, shifting attention to the concept of accuracy can cause people to improve the quality of the news that they share." One for the yarn.social manifesto, I think; how users can't fish for likes on our platform.
@prologic @darch @adi lol. Love it. :-) So much inspiration for my site, once I finally start it. :-P