There are over 2200 active members on BookWyrm.social? Wow. Maybe I should sign up. 🤔

Thanks, all. 🤞

My son tested positive this morning. 😟 It’s all over his school, so this certainly felt inevitable. At least he’s asymptomatic, for the moment.

@prologic Basically, it’s another way of connecting to the Tor network; bridges, generally, are non-advertised means of doing so, such that infrastructure operators’ blocking of public Tor nodes doesn’t prevent their customers from connecting to said network, should they choose to. The added benefit of an obfs4 bridge is that the Tor traffic over it looks random: https://support.torproject.org/glossary/obfs4/

Looks like my obfs4 bridge is getting some use! 🧅🌉 ^x^

@fastidious Yeah, absolutely, that’d be the ideal, when I’m thinking about my new book club: https://pad.nfld.uk/p/bookclub_master

Either way, it’s about staying motivated to learn. I’m always on the hunt for recommendations; this one came via Tyler Cowen from Marginal Revolution iirc.

My reading has taken a massive hit since becoming a dad, though, believe me!

Really enjoying The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef, so far: https://pad.nfld.uk/p/the_scout_mindset

@fastidious big sigh of relief You are indeed correct, sir. :-)

@ullarah Oh, no! Must - not - look. >.< ^x^ It’s Infinity for Reddit, actually; don’t even know why it grabbed me, if I’m honest.

Btw, anything in my yarns having to do with stuff I’m running will be reflected on https://nfld.uk somewhere. It may not be straightforward to find, though! Getting a bit hefty, for a home page. ;-)

@prologic Sure! All the details are at: https://pad.nfld.uk/p/bookclub_master

@fastidious Comes close to spitting coffee Not wrong 😂

I’ve (sadly, I know) been pulled back to Reddit by a neat app, and, well, I had no idea just how much effort folks are now going to to stage stuff for views; really a step-change (at least!) from when I was last exposed to public videos regularly.

@fastidious Ha, no, I’ve got Wireguard, vaultwarden and yarn.social running on the 3A+, with just an SD card. I have Pleroma running on my 3B+, with a 1 TB external HDD. I run PostgreSQL there, and, now, all my databases have been migrated there (incl., for example, the one Etherpad is using), save for Matrix: my Synapse server and PostgreSQL running alongside each other on that Asus 1000HE (2008). All my other servers are in Docker containers now, on my mother-in-law’s old desktop: a 2005 Dell; the HDD failed on it last year, when I went down for a good week and a half, but other than replacing that, it’s still doin’ its thing. And now everything is backed up to my new Synology DS220+, with personal media further backed up to Backblaze.

Calibre server is now up and running for my new book club. :-) The custom Docker image has already been downloaded 31 times! Need to update the repo I forked off at some point, I guess, if folks are actually using of my work.

It’s my understanding that this is the best of limited options when it comes to hosting ebooks for others; any counterarguments would be most welcome! :-)

Nice one, mate!

@prologic One thing that really bothered me was the opaque nature of the process. “It’s not going to happy,” was the extent of the view they shared on their reasoning.

@eaplmx Maybe eventually. They’ve made impressive inroads in the German public sector, for example. But both Discord and Slack are still slicker imo. Enabling experimental features in the flagship client brings it a lot closer already, though!

@eaplmx double tick for me! 😂

@fastidious antiwork Discord

@prologic I’d sent a Discord admin a proposal about bridging a Matrix room of similar theme with a channel on their server. Got shot down. Then a third party raised the idea independently in a chat later, and I replied with enthusiasm, but also repeating what the admin had told me. At which point the admin jumped in the chat to slap me. 😅

Oh, wow; in-line is not a good look for that. A chance to try the other display formats, clearly! ^x^

Making friends and influencing people 😳

@prologic No DirtyDB file or some such was a default, I think. I went Postgres.

@fastidious Yeah, I didn’t do my own build (for now); that’s the latest Docker image. I think those themes are available with a skins environment variable, possibly; I’ve set loads, but not that one in particular.

Now I’m working on setting up a Calibre server for the club. 😁

@news Gonna use this as part of a new book club I’m setting up. 📖😁

@movq I didn’t actually think that was a driver behind either (no pun intended). I like both projects for their locked down deployments, by default. When they’re done well, the docs even suggest post-install connections that you might want to use and why. Mobile has been successful with that sort of model for some time, and I’m quite happy to have a bit of bloat to get it with my desktop. (Read something recently about the duplication Flatpak introduces.) Storage is cheap!

@eaplmx Yeah exactly.

@eaplmx Do what you want, mate. I’m only on here every other day, so I just plow on as before, enjoying the new releases.

@darch 👆➕😛

@fastidious I read that, in other, (relatively) comparable scenarios, paying people to participate is very effective.

I also read that, after recently changing the policy to require proof of vaccination for entry to all liquor and cannabis shops, Quebec saw a big spike in vaccine appointments. ^x^