Shadow

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[–] Shadow 3 points 6 hours ago

Active radar, rather than just passive that looks for transponders.

[–] Shadow 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Is there a reasonable Canadian alternative to shopify for a small business?

[–] Shadow 24 points 1 day ago

Too bad there's no SEC to force him into the interview like when he offered to buy twitter.

[–] Shadow 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hmm, I can find myself on mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/media but it's missing a bunch of content

I tried following myself from mastodon and then making a pixelfed post, and it showed up immediately on mastodon. I think this is just the way AP works, it only pulls if someone is subscribed. It's not ideal though.

[–] Shadow 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hah your mention of my pixelfed name tagged me in this post - https://pixelfed.ca/i/web/post/800802356226915923 Navigating lemmy threads in pixelfed is not a good experience.

[–] Shadow 1 points 1 day ago

What do you mean? If you're a pixelfed user who followed another user on an outside instance, you'll now see their last ~50 posts instead of just what they've posted since we stared.

If you're an outside pixelfed user, this doesn't impact you at all. It's only for pixelfed.ca

 

With some hacking at the database and APIs, I've put together a python script that allows backfilling of posts. I've now pulled in the most recent 50 posts of anyone that one of our users is following.

You may now bask in cats. https://pixelfed.ca/i/web/profile/797991200484212751

Hopefully that'll help it feel a little less empty!

[–] Shadow 4 points 1 day ago

Oh I just heard back from Dan, old images are fixed now too!

[–] Shadow 4 points 1 day ago

This was a misconfig on pixelfed.social that's been down for a few days, they just pushed a fix today. I'm not sure if they can fix the existing images.

They seem to have moved their CDN and bungled the http redirect codes a bit.

[–] Shadow 7 points 1 day ago

Really nice work. You've given me some ideas to level up my cats shelves.

[–] Shadow 27 points 1 day ago

Mine used to be best friends too, until the cat started being an asshole and now the dog doesn't trust him.

[–] Shadow 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No we don't have any Geo restrictions or anything like that. It sounds like your isp might be having an issue reaching cloudflare

[–] Shadow 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah right now it only supports mastodon for any sort of shared login. Lemmy doesn't have the backend support to do this yet.

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submitted 1 week ago by Shadow to c/pixeld
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submitted 1 week ago by Shadow to c/main
 

Sorry about the brief downtime there!

Wasn't related to the new users or high load, but was a combination of two problems:

  1. Our fw02 took over for some reason TBD
  2. Opnsense isn't keeping haproxy configs in sync and fw02 had a broken config

Still digging into the root cause, but shouldn't be any more issues =)

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Shadow to c/main
 

Just a heads up that we're now running on lemmy 0.19.9.

Change log here - https://lemmy.ca/post/38913840

 

Sorry about the ~20 minutes of downtime there!

I was working on migrating the lemmy.ca domain out of a personal cloudflare account, into a shared one for Fedecan. Missed one little setting that took me far too long to track down!

 

Unfortunately the pictrs database migration yesterday seems to have skipped migrating a ton of data.

Since cloudflare is caching our images, almost nobody noticed. We've now been running on the new instance for over a day, collecting new images into a new incomplete db. Fun.

I now have two copies of pictrs running, one with the postgres db and one with the legacy sled-db. Requests that fail against our updated one, will be retried against the legacy one. This should result in all images working properly again for now, while I figure out a better long term solution.

Please let me know if you still see any issues with images loading!

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Shadow to c/main
 

I'm curious if anyone here actually finds value in the reddit posts brought over by lemmit.online, since I'd like to defederate from it otherwise.

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they're going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it. TBH I forgot it existed until Tesseract showed me its posts again.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Shadow to c/main
 

Hi everyone!

Tesseract is now available as an alternative front end at https://tess.lemmy.ca/

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