chikorita157

chikorita157 , 23 days ago to Random stuff

Now I got the BlueSCSI after finding out I put the SD card in the wrong way, it’s time to install the OS

I have a bunch of adapters so it can connect to the network and modern monitor

#vintagecomputing #bluescsi #powerpc

Monitor showing Mac OS installer

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

I admit, I am never a big fan of Discord. Now that Discord is getting worse with ads and even a lot of questionable choices that I wish there is something better.

Yes, I’m getting rid of Discord in a few months for our server that my mods use for a self hosted chat server that is open source. I did consider Matrix at one point, but given all the drawbacks with lack of moderation tools and protections against channel raids, besides poor UX is why I decided against it.

The problem is, the other option has it's drawbacks too either in feature set or ease of use. I have used XMPP and IRC in the past, but the ideal solution for a Discord alternative is:

• Self Hosted
• Open Sourced (ideally)
• Easy to use interface with good onboarding and user experience
• Have good moderation tools and integrations for bots
• Uses an open and decentralized standard for chat

open standards, open source and the ability to self host is the defense against enshittification.

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

I finally found the culprit as to why the server is loading slowly.

[12-Apr-2024 16:52:20] WARNING: [pool www] seems busy (you may need to increase pm.start_servers, or pm.min/max_spare_servers), spawning 32 children, there are 0 idle, and 63 total children
[12-Apr-2024 16:52:21] WARNING: [pool www] server reached pm.max_children setting (75), consider raising it

I needed to raise the max children setting, so I set it to 200 since I have a lot of free memory. Probably having authorized_fetch increased the load on the server for Wordpress since it has to do the signatures.

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Handheld gaming PC...

Web3...

Burn it with fire! ​:neocat_evil:​

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/arstechnica/statuses/112254343688838229

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Talking about anime music sales, CD sales in Japan may be inflated because of idol music releases.

If you are into idols, idol groups sell CDs with things like handshake or election tickets. This allows the fan to buy a ticket to have a handshake session with their Oshi or vote for them in an election, which is a popularity contest to see who will get to be the center. As expected, it’s a big money maker :leafeonmoney:

You might be wondering, what happens to those CDs after the person use it to get the tickets? Second hand shops will only buy two and there is only so many people that will accept them when one give them away. Where they end up utilmately? In the trash or littered on a mountain :neocat_facepalm:

https://www.theidolcast.com/translationsposts/the-end-game-for-mass-purchased-idol-cds-proselytizing-garbage-recycling

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Happy eclipse day!

Taken at 3:20 PM

#eclipse

A dimly lit sky with the sun in eclipse.

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Anime Boys

In a recent anime industry report, about half the industry workers work over 225 monthly hours.

About half of people in the Japanese anime industry said they work over 225 hours per month, highlighting the long working hours compared with other fields, a recent survey by an industry association showed.

The number greatly surpasses the full-time workers' average of 163.5 hours in the health ministry's survey for 2023, according to the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association.

This is simply not sustainable and we know for a long time the working conditions in the Japanese animation industry is just bad.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/04/413425dd9a4e-half-of-anime-industry-workers-log-over-225-monthly-hours-survey.html

#animeindustry #anime

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Deleted my Bluesky account that was for my anime blog. I see no point in Bluesky since it won'r get any engagement there anyway. Not to mention, there is no tools to autoshare that works reliably.

Bluesky isn't it.

#bluesky

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Invidious is finally fixed. Took a while, but good to have it back.

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

It's obvious the Invidious devs are flooded with issues that it stopped working. I guess it will get fixed eventually, so I guess it’s back to using Youtube with UBlock in Orion and hope I don't get that dreaded adblock message.

If only there is more competition for Youtube... but here we are, they have a monopoly and they can get away with stuff like making the user experience worse.

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

At least Vultr admits that this content ownership thing was a mistake and they took it out. I’m surprised they kept such a boilerplate text before it got caught.

That is probably why it’s good idea to read the ToS and even EULAs. You don’t know what clauses that is lurking there. At least their response is reasonable, unlike Hetzner with how they handled the SFW yuri image debacle.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/vultr_content_controversy/

#vultr

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

We’ll see if Canva keep their promise or not. :bunhdthink:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Here is some trivia about Sakurajima.

There is a good number of things named after it, besides our servers, which includes:

• The Volcano
• A former neighborhood in Kagojima
• A rail line in Osaka and a station
• A character named Mai Sakurajima from Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
• A type of Japanese Radish (Sakurajima daikon radish)
• A type of Japanese Orange (Sakurajima komikan orange)
• A ferry that goes between Kagoshima Port and Sakurajima Port
• A novella.

The more you know.

Shooting Star GIF

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

I took a lot of photos of Sakura after work. Literally I’m touching Sakura for two hours

Time to head back home

chikorita157 , 1 month ago to Random stuff

DOJ EU
🤝
Breaking Down Apple’s Walled Garden

chikorita157 , 2 months ago to Random stuff

Another helpful resource I found that is now purchasable from the Dicitionary app is the Nihongo Bunkei Ziten: English. It’s basically a dictionary that has all the Japanese grammar with English explanations. It can be a helpful resource, if you use an iOS device or a Mac.

https://www.dictionarystore.com/en/dictionaries/jgp

#learningjapanese

chikorita157 , 2 months ago to Random stuff

It seems the SPAM has stopped two hours ago. Did the script kiddies got bored and gave up?

Note: We already suspended the affected instances that are abandoned. I will clear out the temporary limits tomorrow.

#spam

chikorita157 , 2 months ago to Random stuff

Looks the Spammer is at it again (did he get out of jail and started spamming again or a copycat?)

If only we had global filters, this would be an easy one to get rid of

#spam #mastoadmin

literalgrill , 2 months ago to Random stuff

Seeing folks suggesting Tumblr users moving to the Fedi to try cohost instead...

And look, I know instances here can be iffy on funding now and then, but why send folks to the place that has actively said they don't have enough money to function and will cease existing if one person stops basically gifting huge numbers so they can function?

Perhaps we should suggest stable options for people so they are less likely to need to move again?

#Tumblr #Cohost

chikorita157 , 3 months ago to Random stuff

While I like Apple products, their business practices does leave a lo be desired as they try to walk around the compliance of the EU Digital Services Act.

It’s only a matter of time until the iOS walled garden has to be more like macOS. I would prefer it if they gave choice instead of being forced into downloading apps from the App Store.

It's not like they are going to lose a lot of money as most average consumers will still buy apps from their app store and use their services. The difference is they have more control over their devices if they want and also more competition.

I have a bad feeling that if Apple keeps being punitive against EU’s DSA, it will end badly with more countries including the US taking action than just fully complying with it.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/apples-reluctant-punitive-compliance-with-regulators-will-burn-its-political-and-developer-goodwill/

#apple

NaraMoore , 4 months ago to Random stuff

How dare you make an app better than ours!

You are financially hurting us because people will not buy our shitty app if you provide something better.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/

Arataka , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Remote media for Headers and Avatars fully cleared a total of 42.9GB over 180K+ accounts, my goodness lol.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #esper

chikorita157 , 4 months ago to Random stuff

I finally got a response over asking about authorized fetch support for the ActivityPub plugin. There is a constant I need to set to true. I will try this when I get home.

I wonder if it’s enabled by default for wordpress.com sites.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorized-fetch-support/

#wordpress

chikorita157 , 4 months ago to Anime Boys

Article from a few days ago, but apparently this is a thing in the Japanese movie industry. People just buy tickets just to get bonuses rather than watching the movies, giving headaches to their employees.

Of course the movie companies entice fans with bonuses because :leafeonmoney:

https://animehunch.com/its-no-longer-clear-if-were-showing-anime-movies-or-just-distributing-bonuses-theatre-staff-expresses-frustration/

#anime #Japan

chikorita157 , 4 months ago to Video Games

It seems like these live services gacha games are dropping like flies.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-12-28/danmachi-memoria-freese-smartphone-game-international-versions-end-service-on-february-28/.206024

#videogames #gacha

chikorita157 , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Do i smell enshittification? Amazon plans to put ads on their streaming service unless you pay $2.99.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29

#enshittification #amazon

chikorita157 , 4 months ago to Random stuff

I’m happy that I made the move to @Sharkey in late November as I was not really confident in the direction Firefish is heading. It was evident with the slow performance and local timeline would fail to load. Activity was decreasing on Sakurajima Social before the move because of how bad of an experience it was.

After the move, activity started to pick up again thanks to the improved performance. Misskey 13 resolved all the issues Misskey 12 forks are facing that caused Foundkey to go EOL with Firefish in the mess it’s currently in (Iceshrimp has the same scaling issues, but at least from what I heard, that team is at least responsive.

With Firefish Social in a worse mess as there are reports no new posts are being fetched, making the timeline 5 days old and the admins completely unresponsive. At this point, I don’t know if it’s even possible to migrate the account off Firefish Social if federation is not working on that server. This is why we dumped Firefish for Sharkey.

With that, besides our server, a handful of established Firefish servers are starting to jump ship to IceShimp or Sharkey. Infosec Exchange’s Firefish server transitioned to IceShimp. It should be even easier to migrate to Sharkey as there are documentation on how to do it.

I do recommend Sharkey over IceShrimp since it has a public timeline view (for visitors), more moderation tools and performance. The Sharkey Team is very responsive and helpful. Of course, they are adding back features that are in Firefish.

But I have a feeling that at the rate things are going for Firefish, it may have a bleak future ahead unless it can turn things around.

It’s unfortunate to see Firefish turn out like this, but it’s not surprising.

#firefish #sharkey #iceshrimp

chikorita157 , 4 months ago to Random stuff

It seems that one of the biggest Firefish server the Firefish main dev has stopped working completely. It’s been down for over two weeks. I am worried that this fate will happen to Firefish Social as well. You should probably migrate your account elsewhere.

If you are on Firefish, I suggest jumping ship to either Sharkey or Iceshrimp. I do recommend Sharkey since it scales better and most of the Firefish features are coming back, especially in the upcoming release.

#firefish

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Good.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/adobe-gives-up-on-20-billion-acquisition-of-figma/

#adobe #figma

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Have been busy giving the ban hammer to the spam DM bots from Mastodon Social at our Sharkey instance. We already got 6 reports at Sakurajima Social. :kannaban:

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Serves them right...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/12/14/adobe-faces-big-fines-from-ftc-over-difficult-subscription-cancellation

#adobe #ftc

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Apparently, Tumblr federation is still being worked on after they said they stop work on it.

Hmmm.. :bunhdthink:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/tumblrs-fediverse-integration-is-still-being-worked-on-says-owner-and-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg/

#tumblr

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

It’s not too surprising to see Japanese being a popular language for people to learn. When I was taking the JLPT at Georgetown University, there were a lot of people taking the test.

And, my studies are still continuing. Have been studying the language on and off since late 2011.

https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-language-drops-popularity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japanese-language-drops-popularity

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

I would like to implement Tape Drive backups instead of relying on a backup service since they have a lot of capacity, you can hold up to 45 TB on a LTO-9 drives.

The only problem, those drives are just really expensive. Like 6k. LTO-8, close to 5K.

Wish these stuff was a bit cheaper to store bulk data without relying on bunch of external drives or maybe building another server and hosting it somewhere.

If Backblaze decides to enshittify, which is a possibility, I guess I save money to build another TrueNAS server and host it at my parents house.

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Believe it or not, these Japanese TTS programs are pretty useful for listening practice, and surprisingly accurate due to advancements in TTS. Since there is a sale on them, it may be worth sharing my thoughts on which one is the best for those who need more listening practice or want to create content, in Japanese. Also, voice banks from well known Seiyuus as well.

https://amausaan.tokyo/japanese-tts-software-comparison-good-for-listening-practice-can-it-do-pitch-accents/

#learningjapanese #cevioai #voicepeak #aivoice

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Besides Intel pretty pathetic attempt to bash AMD over their naming scheme, AMD in 2024 is planning to sell the same Ryzen 7840U and brand it as a 8840U, the average consumer is going to see the 8840U being faster than the 7840U, when in reality it's not. It's just a rebrand with minor changes. It's an anti-consumer move and pretty deceptive since an average consumer isn't going to know which is the fastest CPU on a laptop.

Intel of course is guilty of the same thing, but of course they do the same. Also, Intel made a sleazy slide deck calling AMD out for selling a 2019 year APU in 2023, although it has energy efficiency improvements.

Yep, Steve from Gamers Nexus calls out Intel on this. (yes, it's about that slide I shared before with Intel trying to convince us a 15 year old needs to get a Core i9 laptop for Machine Learning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUT4d5IVY0A

#intel #amd #gamersnexus

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to PlayStation

Sony enshittifies their Playstation experience as they are basically removing access to movies users bought on thee Playstation store.

Things like this makes it morally correct to pirate media.

#playstation #sony #enshittification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AErqBYbJK8

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

For those who are thinking about jumping ship from Firefish to Sharkey, the official instructions to migrate your server from Firefish to Sharkey is now out.

The only reason we had to take more steps is because we were using the 1.0.4 beta build of Firefish. The Dev team is helpful if you run into any issues migrating. You should probably upgrade Firefish to 1.0.5 RC1 before migrating

https://docs.joinsharkey.org/docs/install/migrate/#from-firefish

#firefish #sharkey

chikorita157 , 5 months ago to Random stuff

I figured out that you can use the role system in Misskey/Sharkey as a user directory since you can add remote users too. It can make it easy to find new people to follow and even see the timeline of the members that are in that role.

This is a neat feature, which Firefish didn't have.

#misskey #sharkey

Example of the list of users in an assign role.