Might start trying my hand at a bit of fiction. I’d be grateful for any feedback (positive or otherwise :) ): https://lotide.nfld.uk/posts/36

@vain@www.uninformativ.de They do! Or you can have a private ceremony, for the tidy(!) sum of £200. @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org He’s a representative of the King’s representative, in Hampshire. (Yes, that extra level of indirection was deliberate!) Nice chap. Great day, surprisingly. (Didn’t expect to get as caught up in it all as I did.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks! 😁

It’s official! 🇬🇧

@yuriichi@twt.nfld.uk Not so new, no. :) @prologic@twtxt.net started coding in earnest back in 2020, so, yeah, some ‘pods’ are a few years old now. But, welcome!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Man! You are gettin’ some crackers, mate. Bravo!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Love this! 😍

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, I meant to ask about that. OK, it is a known bug; cool. :)

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net They have monthly challenges, I think, but, yeah, this is just me picking it back up, apropos of nothing other than an author I follow touting the site. :)

Written over 5000 words over six days on 750 Words. Really enjoying this return to journaling. :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, the blurb is “[a]n open source voxel game engine,” but, to me, it’s indistinguishable from Minecraft (except it’s free ^x^). Ages back, I helped bridge the IRC and Matrix sides of a community based on a Minetest mod for what’s coined modular politics; looks like I may get roped into carrying on the work, lol. I consider it time well spent, though, as my kids love that interactive Minecraft stuff on Netflix; only a matter of time ‘til they learn they can play it! ;)

I’m compiling Minetest right now; feels like my kids shouldn’t know. :D

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, they are. I’m running Pleroma at social.nfld.uk, for example.

@prologic@twtxt.net I figured you meant him, but it’s true of me too. :) Roger that, re the rest.

@prologic@twtxt.net Hehe. I certainly do: I’ve been talkin’ up the ActivityPub integration on the Keyoxide forum and the Fediverse, only to return and find the family in crisis over it. D: Still not sure what the latest is, or which side I’m on.

@johanbove@johanbove.info Nice! Keyoxide?

@bender@twtxt.net I think it’s normal to go through phases with this sort of thing. (Or maybe I’m projecting.) But, yeah, if you aren’t developing some sort of relationships with peers on a platform, I’d say what you’re talking about is inevitable.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ha ha. That is an understatement. Still, super cool!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Interesting. I’ll check it out a bit later. :) But it already has me thinking about linguists carving out a new niche in computer security. ^x^

Issue #1147 created

Wow, that was nasty. Even had some 502 Bad gateway messages, so I thought that yarn wasn’t being published. I’ve backed out the activitypub feature for now.

@support@twt.nfld.uk Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H’m. Seems OK now…

@support@twt.nfld.uk Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H’m. Seems OK now…

Thanks, @adi@twtxt.net! In theory, it should’ve taken five years. In reality, it took me twice that time because I kept resetting that ‘clock’ by changing visas. Wasn’t cheap either, let me tell you! :P

lol @movq@www.uninformativ.de – h’m, only @vain@www.uninformativ.de populates on my instance still! – and thanks, all. ^x^

@prologic@twtxt.net Dang! Congrats, mate! Awesome comeback. :D

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with sincere pleasure that I inform you of my recent application for British citizenship having been approved.

@news@twtxt.net Amazing! Well done!

@prx@si3t.ch Yeah, I’m a big fan of it. :)

Another ActivityPub service up: BookWyrm @ nfld; let me know if you want an invitation. :) NB: I’m just getting familiar with the software, so I can’t claim it’s configured correctly or well at this stage. ;)

@ViGrey@vigrey.com 🙋

@bender@twtxt.net Ha! Amazing! :D

@bender@twtxt.net My, oh, my, what a lot of green ;)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, apologies, mate. Congratulations on getting it working, though. :D

My Pleroma instance is back up now too, fyi, if you want to use that as part of any testing.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, fair point. I mean, I’m devil’s advocate in this: you’ve outlined the dream, right there.

@nilfm@nilfm.cc I’d argue that only works for homelabs. Any business that follows that philosophy carries a huge risk of their resilience walking right out the door.

@retronav@twtxt.net I’m well, thanks! Nice to see you. :)

@bender@twtxt.net Got my Matrix bridging services to both IRCNow and Telegram restored in the last few days. Plus my homeserver can now handle rooms with five-figure membership, thanks to the aforementioned migration to beefier kit. I’m havin’ a ball! 😁

@hacker-news-newest@feeds.twtxt.net I haven’t read this – yet! I know, classic 😅 – but this advice has been indelibly absorbed by me, long before I had kids. I wonder where I first read it. 🤔

@anth@a.9srv.net I feel your pain, mate. 😂 I’ll check that out!

@prologic@twtxt.net Wow. Noted!

@prologic@twtxt.net I love this place so much. :)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org So cool! Thanks for sharing. :)

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Proper old skool. ;) Not much of that ‘net era has survived, let alone kept its calibre. (Lookin’ at you, /. )

@prologic@twtxt.net Holy cow! Sounds serious! Hope things continue to improve. 🤞🤗

We don’t go for promoting spam on this pod (or the wider community for that matter). You joined around the same time as two spam accounts, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, for the moment.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! :) Learned loads along the way as well, to where I was able to recover another database dump (for a different service) just by changing the locale in the dump file and creating the associated user ahead of the restore.

Well, I’ll be. Didn’t that just sort it. Amazing. matrix.nfld.uk rides again! With a much whizzier, if remote, database. Time to start building back the rest of these database backed services then, eh, @bender@twtxt.net? ;)

Latest attempt is using pg_dumpall; that and the restore will be done using 13.9 binaries (for different architectures, of course). Can’t say I’m feeling particularly optimistic…