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thunderbird , 2 days ago to Random stuff

If you’ve visited the Thunderbird website, maybe you’ve noticed something. Is it more modern? More organized? Dare we say it, a little shinier? ✨

@freehive has worked their magic on our website. Read all about the changes, check out the new and much improved site yourself, and add Freehive to your contacts for whenever you or your project needs a creative agency! 🎨

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/the-new-thunderbird-website-has-hatched/

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

thomas , 5 days ago to Random stuff

What does "Voidkind" mean? DVNE's new album is called Voidkind, but I could not find any translation.

Is the word made up? What could be the meaning of it?

#English #dvne

HauntedOwlbear , 7 days ago to Random stuff

@thomas Oh yeah, the stickers arrived yesterday! One for the laptop, one for Small Owlbear, and the rest are going to Motocultor in August!

I'll throw a few euro in the pot when I get paid!

stefan , 11 days ago to Random stuff

The web can be such a small world sometimes. Has this ever happened to you?

You look up an answer to a question you have, or come across someone's fun side project, look at the author, and -- hey, that's a friend of mine!

#poll #internet #TheWeb

ZDF , 12 days ago to Random stuff German

Hey, vielleicht habt ihr es schon mitbekommen: Zusammen mit der ARD positionieren wir uns neu am Streaming-Markt und starten mit einer der größten Open-Source-Initiativen Deutschlands. "Streaming OS" heißt sie. "OS" steht für "Operating System". Heißt: ARD und ZDF stellen zentrale Komponenten ihrer beiden Streaming-Plattformen öffentlich bereit, also etwa Player, das Login-System, Empfehlungscode oder den Kern unseres Designsystems.
Hier findet ihr mehr Infos: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/in-eigener-sache/zdf-ard-mediathek-streaming-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=ZDF

thomas , 12 days ago to News from fediverse

Are Reddit alternatives still a thing or did we agree to just accept Reddit? 😅

#fediverse

AqiDrago , 28 days ago to Random stuff

FREE STICKERS

Are you a #Metalhead or just also love #Metal #Music?

#MetalheadClub instance admin @thomas is offering free stickers and you don’t have to be a member of the Metalhead.Club. Of course, you’d be welcome with enthusiastic 🤘🏻🤘🏻 if you’d like to join our very awesome instance with lots of great people and metal music.

But wait, there’s more… We have a #MetalheadClub t-shirt! You can order one right now.

Come on over and have a look.

From: @thomas
https://metalhead.club/@thomas/112308310457246136

thomas , 1 month ago to News from fediverse

I have written down in my blog how I carry out the metalhead.club T-shirt campaigns and which suppliers / materials I use.

Maybe it will help some other Fediverse admins who have similar plans

https://thomas-leister.de/en/selling-t-shirts-for-mastodon-metalhead-club/

#fediverse
#mastoadmin
#tshirts
#metalheadclub

Gargron , 3 months ago to Random stuff

There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

thomas , 3 months ago to Random stuff German

Golem hat das neue @frameworkcomputer 16 Laptop getestet

Das Notebook, von dem Nerds träumen - https://www.golem.de/news/framework-laptop-16-im-test-das-ist-also-das-coolste-notebook-in-diesem-jahr-2401-181514.html

... Und ich schiele ja auch schon seit Jahren auf die Framework Laptops. Leider (und zum Glück) funktioniert mein aktueller noch gut. Aber sollte ich bald etwas neues kaufen müssen, wäre Framework auf jeden Fall in der engeren Auswahl.

#FrameworkLaptop

thomas , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Could somebody from the US ping metalhead.club and let me know the ping performance data?

thomas , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Are there already elegant solutions for distributing Let's Encrypt certificates to multiple hosts?

Of course, you can have each host request certificates individually, but then you run into ACME API limits at Let's Encrypt relatively quickly, depending on the number of hosts and simultaneous accesses.

I do not want to have to fiddle around.

#letsencrypt #server #selfhosting #infosec #tls #certificates #hosting #acme

thomas , 4 months ago to Random stuff

I've set up a GeoDNS aware authoritative DNS server with Bind9 following this guide:

https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01149

It works, but it comes with a drawback: I need to maintain another full copy of my original zone file.

Is there another, more elegant way to achieve the same goal if the "Country XY" version of the zone file is mostly the same as the default one, but has different IP addresses just here and there? Is there some way to implement a "record override" with GeoIP?

#bind #dns #server

thomas , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Now that the first official, federated connection from a Fediverse account to a single (!) Meta threads.net account has been made, the Threads topic is boiling up again.

Many of us Fediverse citizens see this as an opportunity for the Fediverse to gain in importance.

At least as many are sceptical about whether we should be exchanging data with Threads at all.

As an instance admin, I'm worried about making a decision that could alienate users on both sides. 😓 🧵

#metalheadclub #threads

thomas , 5 months ago to Random stuff

Let's see if I can perhaps publish a first version of my software for http://watch.metalhead.club today. I still need to tidy up the code a bit and document it properly so that it can be useful for others.

#metalheadclub #software #fediverse

thomas , 6 months ago to Thunderbird German

Vielleicht hat es der ein oder andere noch nicht mitbekommen, daher nochmal: Microsoft macht mal wieder Unfug mit E-Mail.

So wie immer.

https://mailbox.org/de/post/warnung-neues-outlook-sendet-passwoerter-mails-und-andere-daten-an-microsoft?nl=d

Drecksladen. Alternativen: So gut wie jeder andere Mailclient. Zum Beispiel @thunderbird 😊

#Microsoft #email #thunderbird

thomas , 6 months ago to Random stuff

My FediWatch tool is still in very alpha stage, but if you feel lucky, try out https://watch.metalhead.club and watch our instance communicate with the rest of the Fediverse :)

(server-to-server communication only - user data is not analyzed!)

#fediverse #federation #realTime #metalheadclub

thomas , 7 months ago to Random stuff

This tool lets me monitor the #ActivityPub federation traffic from/to my Mastodon instance metalhead.club.

You can clearly see the other server locations - mainly in the US and Europe.

The tool is not ready for the public, but once it's finished and stable, I'll let you know :)

#golang #federation #mastodon #fediverse

Video is showing a 3D globe in a web browser. Colorful arcs across cities in the globe show active ActivityPub connections.

thomas , 9 months ago to Random stuff

Metalhead.club t-shirts will elevate metalhead.club User Meetups to the next level 😎

thomas , 10 months ago to Random stuff German

Elektro mit Metaleinflüssen? Celldweller und die Nachbarprojekte von Klayton kenne ich schon, aber hat noch jemand Empfehlungen?

#Elektro #Musik #metal

thomas , 1 year ago to Random stuff German

Ein neu eröffnetes Hotel an der Schlosslände in #Ingolstadt und nix als Stein. Kein bisschen grün. Alles im selben Ton.

Wer hat entschieden, dass das die Stadt attraktiver machen würde? thaenkin

Dasselbe nochmal aus einem anderen Winken