Andrew

This is like when supermarkets put the short-dated food in the ‘reduced’ section: I kinda always expect it to be ‘was £3, now 30p’, but it’s usually ‘was £3, now £2.89’

£390 is so close to the retail price for new, that if was going to get one, I’d probably just do that.

Very late reply - the ‘app’ at the moment is just a PWA, so it requires a manual check

I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

I’ve had that problem too (messing around with test instances) - for anyone else wondering why: it’s because the RSA keypair for me@mydomain has changed, and remote instances fail to validate message headers signed with the new private key, because they’re still using their copy of an old public key.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

I’m not sure that it ever quite worked - the videos currently on Lemmy are likely to ones brought in manually, rather than new ones that have come in via federation.

The community copies (on lemmy.ml, endlesstalk.org, etc) all show 0 subscribers. At a guess, it’s because the format of the Followers collection on PeerTube is slightly different - it doesn’t have the empty ‘items’ array that Lemmy expects, so it just rejects it. As such, any new posts will also get rejected by Lemmy (the same way it does if a community genuinely does have 0 subscribers). A couple of Updates have come through, so maybe Updates circumvent that check.

I think they were asking if you were a bot because your account has been set up as one: your profile on mstdn says ‘automated’, and if you do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://mstdn.social/users/internetisscary | jq . then it says your ActivityPub ‘type’ field is ‘Service’ rather than ‘Person’.

Not much for beets. My config.yaml is just:

library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary2.db

import:
    move: yes

terminal_encoding: utf8

plugins: fetchart embedart

(so fetchart and embedart are the only plugins)

(from then on, a Navidrome server hosts the music, and I tend to use a Windows app called ‘Feishin’ to play it)

It’s hit and miss. Some instances are sending the same activity 2 or 3 times, and there’s a theoretical maximum on the number of activities that an instance can process, so whether federation of a particular thing happens depends on how whelmed a server is at the exact moment you send it.

I’ve also seen a comment from lemmy.ml not being acted on by LW, so there are some drops happening.