I have to keep my broken finger in that cast for 12 or so more days....can't really write much. I have a bunch of articles I want to finish but so difficult to write... I'll focus on TROMjaro these days, some TROM.tf work and such. I am testing a Pixelfed instance for our TROM.tf :) if anyone is interested to join let me know ;) - I want to start to post my photos there since I love taking photos of nature/night sky. And they are auto-reposted on my Friendica too, so that's fabulistic!
Also these days I will update our Friendica.
Work as usual :).
If you enjoy what we do please support TROM here tromsite.com/donate/ - we need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support all that we do, kinda forever.
No way I can do that to write articles. My brain needs my fingers as a filter, else a vomit tsunami will spill over :D. I need to craft my writings, write, rewrite, take notes, etc. :P
A technical tip/request: Please make your videos available at a much lower resolution like 360 or 480 pix. Most of the time this is enough and it saves a lot of bandwidth, energy and in the end also the Earth
But think about it: if we enable that plus 720p plus full hd, that would take a lot more diskspace. I would not release these clips only in 360 or 480, those resolutions are very low quality. HD and FullHD I think are totally reasonable resolutions for 2024.
Most of the times I watch (YouTube) video's on a laptop sitting in a comfy chair and use 480px. 360px is indeed often too low, But I rarely need to go to 720px or higher, most of the time only when trying to follow a tutorial that involves things on a computer screen with high resolution and small text.
Keep in mind that a doubling of resolution takes 4 times as much data, bandwidth and energy!
If you try to change the world as it is now, please don't use an excuse like " HD and FullHD I think are totally reasonable resolutions for 2024." It's an arrogant attitude that totally accepts #BusinessAsUsual driven by consumerism and ever more, more more
I think focusing on these little things, for these little platforms like ours, makes no difference and sense. I can clearly see a huge difference between 480p and fullHD. Changing the world should also keep us reasonable. Should we also measure the energy it takes for you to start this conversation? :)
For now HD and FullHD are very much reasonable resolutions. If the internet speed is an issue for some, I am sorry but enabling one more lower res will put too much toll on our server's diskspace. We cannot afford it.
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We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.08. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by apexrabbit, Devilx86 and ponlayookm – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.08 are
the usage of system resources and performance has been improved in various parts of Friendica,
added monitoring endpoints for e.g. Zabbix and Grafana,
added shortened display of links (default 30 characters, admins can define the length in the config file via the display_link_length)
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
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We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.08. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by apexrabbit, Devilx86 and ponlayookm – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.08 are
the usage of system resources and performance has been improved in various parts of Friendica,
added monitoring endpoints for e.g. Zabbix and Grafana,
added shortened display of links (default 30 characters, admins can define the length in the config file via the display_link_length)
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.08 release would be cd friendica git pull bin/composer.phar install --no-dev cd addon git pull If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
Due to problems with the build pipeline we cannot provide archive files at the moment that contain all dependencies as usual. We will update this documents as soon as possible.
Do not use the archive files provided by github as they do not contain the dependencies.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure update from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
As a note, I upgraded a test server with a very small database size and it was stuck with a white screen for several minutes. No idea how long that is going to be on a larger db. Anyway, it does come back automatically, so no need to worry if anyone encounters this. The error in the log was:
Call to undefined method Friendica\App::getLoggedInUserNickname()
which seems to go away after the server comes back.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
For the past few days we managed to trigger the auto-transcription for thousands of our peertube videos videos.trom.tf - All of our TROMcasts, our TROM documentary snippets, all of our videos indeed and all of the VideoNeat trailers now have an English caption. While it is not perfect, it is impressively accurate considering that it is automated. @PeerTube is a real alternative to Youtube, in all regards.
Every new video that is going to be uploaded to our Peertube will have a caption from now on.
How do you make money with content posted on peertube? Not that that functionality is any good on YouTube, but it's functionality it has. It is ad-based on YouTube, so not trustworthy as far as I'm concerned. Does Peertube support that? If so, how?
There are plugins for Peertube as far as I know that enable such features. They are made by 3rd party devs. I would hate to see ads on Peertube and we will never enable that. In that sense peertube is not an alternative to youtube and I hope it stays this way.
Sorry to shock everyone but no, you do not get a cold from the AC....you do not get it from cold air, air current, drinking cold water, snow, or any of these "cold" things. It is unfortunate that it is called "cold". People are confused by that I guess.
I keep on hearing more and more people complaining that they got a cold from the AC and I want to rip my head off :D. The "cold" is a virus infection. Period.
So no, there is no evidence that cold temperatures decrease your immune system's ability to cop with a viral infection, unless you may have hypothermia and then you have more problems than the virus.
I thought this is a myth only found in Romania, where I am from originally, but I've met people from Belgium to South America who believe this.
Yes, it has been a common historical (and present) misconception everywhere on the planet I've lived.
People still think you "catch cold" from getting wet feet or rainy hair, not wearing a hat in snowy weather, leaving your coat unzipped, or a cold draft in the bedroom while sleeping. 🤦🏻♀️
In general, yes, but it's one of those things that started out based on an empirically true statement - it's superstition now because something was done about it, though not everybody needs hypothermia to push their immune response over an edge making the difference between "happens to be fighting off the cold virus" and "has symptoms" either - there's a lot of ways to find yourself a bit dysregulated.
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(and SO good to eat! I'm drooling 🤣 )
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