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venia_sil venia_sil @fedia.io

I'm a worldbuilding consultant and fanfiction writer for the Pokémon fandom, also work with computers 'n' stuff. Linux user (but not Arch, btw).

I have a Mastodon btw as @VeniaSilente .

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Landlords didn't get their job for their brains, also ALAB.
  • "We" are not polarizing ourselves. We are just describing a polarization that already exists to opress us. Be it ACAB, ALAB, whatever you find, the thing is, it just is.

  • I watched both
  • As a comment in Youtube about the Aang vs Ozai video said, more or less: "There's Avatar, and there's the military movie about blue cosplayers".

  • classic opsec mistake
  • See? CEOs get criminal liabilities! Capitalism works!

    (/s alas)

  • Popular IRC client HexChat gets a final release, is no longer maintained
  • This. Sometimes a software is just finished. IRC itself has not seen change in like... about all the time I remember.

  • Meeting of shareholders
  • "The shareholders will now decide your fate"

  • GUYS AFTER MONTHS OF WANTING A CAT, ONE LITERALLY WALKED INTO MY LIFE! IM SO HAPPY!! MEET STAR 🌟
  • "Your cat has been delivered" – USPSPSPSPSPSPSPSPSPS

  • Stop using Fandom
  • Starting up wikis is so easy nowadays that there's no excuse. I maintain a few Dokuwiki-based ones, it's my preferred engine for simple wiki stuff, but Mediawiki (the same one that powers Wikipedia) is not bad either and not really too difficult, just a bit more demanding storage-wise. Heck, you can currently fire-and-forget DW-based wikis on SDF's "one payment" access tier, even! Probably on Neocities too, haven't checked.

  • (IPTV) 🌍📺This frequently-updated github list gives you TV stations from around the world [x-post]
  • Sounds (heh) good in theory, but so far it hasn't been able to pick any radio in my country (Ar) or nearby. Inspector says any attempt to load a radio ends in a HTTP 403 error.

  • Brief maintenance outage evening of Oct 31
  • Thanks for your work! I honestly don't say this enough.

  • Windows eats partitions
  • Protip:

    Just don't have a live Windows partition.

  • The major political views/philosophies/ideologies about predator-prey relationships that I have come up with so far in my world inhabited by intelligent animals. Can you come up with any others?
  • Okay so, lemme see if I understand, these animals all biogenetically modified themselves, at species-wide levels, to be able to eat both meat and plants? Even the ones who are philogenetically obligate carnivores?

    Because if so, there is one philosophy / ideal that I'm not seeing reflected: "I'm not a cat [ / dog / whatever]. That species was molded by millions of years of history by their need to hunt meat to survive, their skills, body shape, prowess, all relies on such a fundamental inter-species relationship in nature remaining fundamental. So, if I was made to not need to eat meat, before being born to boot, I was forcibly deprived of an important part of my identity before I was born, all to placate a social norm. Thus, this society is built wrong, and I must fight to fix it / make it pay."

  • "The MonsutāBōru Colony (Pop culture dystopia)" by Filip Hodas
  • Pretty nice, "failed to capture Primal Groudon and the world ended up like this" vibes!

  • Signal is Flawed, Why XMPP is Amazing! (new animated video)
  • To be fair (and this is something I don't recall being established with or dealt with in the video) you need to at least trust that the backend is there. Currently if "lol CIA AWS" servers are not working, you don't have an option (Advanced Settings or whatever) in Signal to choose another provider, such as say a self-hosted community server.

  • this is all
  • 68 men plus the driver makes 69, amirite?

  • At first I honestly couldn't tell if the comic was satire or not
  • I need the Chile's 9/11 edit of this, pronto!

  • meow_irl
  • This is what capitalism prevents us from achieving! True catness!

  • Semi-random HTTP 500 errors everywhere around the site: some reproducible examples.
  • Yeah the most annoying part is middle-clicking a link to a post in fedia to see it later in another tab, and not know in advance if the tab is going to Error 500 out or not. Admittedly makes browsing general on fedia a harder sell.

  • Microsoft removes functioning OneNote Web Clipper add-on from AMO, stating "people should use a modern browser like Edge"
  • Didn't even know you could do the debug addons thing! Thanks! Hopefully this info helps more people.

  • Microsoft removes functioning OneNote Web Clipper add-on from AMO, stating "people should use a modern browser like Edge"
  • One would think that Firefox would have a command somewhere to re-export the currently installed extensions. Useful for migrations, replications etc.

  • Consider SQLite
  • I use SQLite to power up lots of stuff I'm working on. It's lightweight, fast, simple and well-documented for small projects — like a Postgres but very local. Saves me from having to deal with containers "just to store data", let alone for moving stuff to other machine where I would also need the permissions to configure and run containers in the first place; whereas all you need to pass SQLite databases along is scp / rsync.

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    Semi-random HTTP 500 errors everywhere around the site: some reproducible examples.

    Just about that. I know there's been important updates lately but I'm wondering if they are being pre-checked and how. I notice that there's various features around the site that throw HTTP 500 error pages randomly, or on certain generic inputs. To name a few examples:

    • If I set my homepage to "all" it always 500-errors out; if I set it to "sub" it doesn't.
    • Thread lists (eg.: /m/media) sometimes 500-errors, but microblog seems to never do.
    • Going to my user profile to check my email 500-errors, but checking my avatar doesn't.
    • Exploring magazines with the "All" (federation) filter and going to page 2 onwards of listing 500-errors randomly.
    • Search seems to 500-error depending on the search terms. In this instance for example, "cats" and "support" always 500-errors out for me, but "dogs" and "games" never do.

    I guess there's lots of things that are going on behind the scenes, but anything I can do to help diagnose from the browser side?

    (Already tried clearing browser cache. Doesn't seem to have an effect on the "always" reproducible cases, no idea how to check if it has an effect on the others)

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