Our Friendica instance stopped pulling RSS feeds if you had them added to your contacts. This was an issue that lasted for more than a month. We may have fixed it. Check it please.
There are two major issues with our Friendica instance and I suspect they are not limited to our instance: 1. I cannot unfollow anyone... and 2. No RSS feeds work. This makes Friendica very hard for me to use and unreliable. All started since the last update I think. The first issue seems to be fixed for the next release based on this github.com/friendica/friendica… . But the RSS one is still a mystery github.com/friendica/friendica…
@Hypolite Petovan you guys planning to release a stable one this month?
Steps: Click on "Unfollow" button Receive a "contact has been unfollowed" message Contact page still says they're sharing with me Clicking again on "Unfollow" make...
Yes, this is the plan. The RSS issue doesn't feel good because it seems to be limited to your node. Hopefully it will go away with the new release, if it doesn't then we'll have to look deeper into your node's mysterious inner workings.
Sounds great! Btw someone else reported the same issue with the RSS feeds github.com/friendica/friendica… and I doubt he/she uses our instance. I asked, let's see. But also Twitter stopped working the same exact time....damn computers are complicated creatures...
Oh noooo BBC Frozen Planet vertical video ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=VwdwT-Mg1D… - what an atrocity! Vertical videos is the last bit of the retardation-nation. I hope they won't make full documentaries in this format.
Meet the animals inhabiting our fragile frozen worlds in Frozen Planet II. This is life on thin ice. ❄️
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Today I updated 3 laptops and a tablet to the latest TROMjaro, using our packages. Some of these laptops were not updated in like half a year. It was not that difficult despite having to add the chaotic aur to 2 of them, and for all to add our new packages. For some it was quite smooth. But things should be far far easier from now on because of our new packages that are basically pushing most of our custom updates directly to people's computers. I love TROMjaro and how stable it has become. Plus how functional.
Lots and lots of work for the so many projects that we have....but now my to-do list is quite skinny. Am going to start the work on TROM II again these days. And continue to work on it .... I hope so.
Finally a distro that does well in terms of usability. Not great. But good. I know these videos may be boring but there is a lot to learn from them. I am testing things that every distro should hard-code into their essence. And it helps me make TROMjaro better.
Linux Mint is doing ok. Better than the rest for sure. But there are some things that still make this distro less user friendly. And these things can be fixed.
Linux mint is one of the most stable and reliable distros I've tried so far. It does lack the app availability of AUR, but if you don't install a whole lot of apps then you could find most of what you need here.
And BTW, now you see how flatpaks can take up gigabytes of disk space for a single app. TBF, I've heard that this size issue gets better as you use flatpaks more, but even then for the avarage user its crazy to see such a small app taking GBs of space.
I cannot see any posts from any of my RSS feeds in Friendica for the past month or so. I reported it here github.com/friendica/friendica… - might be a bug. But be aware of that....
My RSS feeds, all of them, stopped working some 2 weeks ago. I checked a bunch of them, they all work outside Friendica. My instance version is 2022.06. I wonder what I can check or do. I have a lo...
If you are an older TROMjaro user and did not yet implemented the Chaoric AUR into your system, we highly recommend you to do that. Our Library of apps also relies on it. It is super easy to implement.
FINALLY! I wanted to do this for a year now. And we did it! Now TROMjaro is a lot better and much easier for us to maintain it. If you use TROMjaro you need to read this release's notes! Enjoy!
We worked a lot to make it so much easier from now on to keep your TROMjaro updated without making manual changes like you had to do before. This is mostly thanks to the wonderful @Roma and @Rokosun who did a wonderful job.
Ability to not allow resolutions higher than whatever you select as admin.
Awesome!
One little thing.... @PeerTube you have used a screenshot from our instance videos.trom.tf to showcase the old and new registration module. Ours as the "old" version. However we have a very customized theme so it does not make much sense to use our instance in that regards. Can be confusing. Just saying :D - Otherwise awesome job ofc!
Its good that they showcased your instance, but for that specific example maybe an instance that doesn't use a customized theme would be better. Otherwise if they weren't showcasing a UI difference then any instance is fine. @peertube
We are getting closer and closer to releasing a new TROMjaro ISO that will come with some really useful features for every TROMjaro user. In short, the changes we usually recommend for people to do (most of them at least) for each of our release, will be now pushed by us to everyone automatically. Thanks to @Roma and @Rokosun for the great work they've done for these past days.
As soon as we release this new TROMjaro ISO, the focus will shift once again on the TROM II documentary.
TROM is alive. And it has been since 2011. And we will continue to be. We plan a new TROM Meeting for the next year. We will let you know more details towards the end of this year. #tromlive
Great amount of wok on TROMjaro these days. @Roma worked like nuts! Then @Rokosun came to help. Both fantastic creatures. Our scripts look way better now. Before we had to run them every few seconds (bad), now we trigger them based on relevant changes of the system. This result in instant actions.
So, let me repeat, we are able to sync the system's theme, icon pack, and font, across GTK, GTK + LIbadwaita, Qt, QT5, QT6, and Flatpaks (the ones that support it). This is USABILITY, not simply fancy shit. And it works. Instantly. Makes the desktop fuckin' sane.
So bloody happy with TROMjaro. It is unfortunate that so few people know about it...but well...we will try to make it more visible...what can we do!? :D
In Friendica right now there is a very nasty bug where you can unfollow people and yet you still follow them. You'll see their posts and all that. As far as I understood it was already fixed. Can't wait for the update.
Tio: The wonderful Roma (a very special TROM-friend) is visiting us.
On top of having a great time together and very interesting discussions, we worked on TROMjaro these days a lot. We will release a new ISO soon that brings something we truly needed: packages for our scripts. We have a bunch of scripts for fixes, and for the layout and theme switcher. Now we won't have to ask the current TROMjaro users to do this or that change, everything will be directly pushed by us. We also fixed a few things and such.
We achieved a wonderful synchronization for theming. Basically now the theme, the icon pack, and the font sync across apps: GTK, GTK+Libadwaita, QT, QT5, QT6, flatpaks that accept theming. So awesome!
But the best part is that we can now improve these packages and push updates automatically to all users. Stay tuned for the release! And thank you Roma for being such a good human. A true human being :). #tromlive
We are so close to fully finalize the creation of some very much needed packages for TROMjaro. We finished the packages for the TROMjaro Layout and Theme Switcher, and for our script fixes - tho needs to be tested more. Likely these days we will have a full suite of packages that are so needed for TROMjaro. For normal users it means that you do not have to manually update any of the scripts that we do/update/change. ;) - and for us it means easy and fast changes/updates.
This packaging is thanks to @Roma who is visiting me and on top of having a great time together, we also do these things :). Awesome human! 10/10! :)
We found some alternatives to contabo.com where we host our servers. Contabo is a cunt, to put it simply, forcing us recently to remove perfectly legal links and such. By the end of this year or beginning of the next we should start the move from contabo to another hosting. I'd like not to....but I am forced to. One particular provider seems quite good and a bit cheaper, we could expand our disk-space for trom.tf.
I am concerned with how to move it all when it comes to friendica or matrix....their databases are immense.....but will see when the time comes.
our dedicated server prices in Romania are lower then compareable ones of the mentioned provider ;) If you need something specific feel free to contact us we will give our best to find a solution
How do you handle situations like OP's? Contabo received a complaint about a Nitter (Twitter mirroring service) instance, and forced OP to take it down. @tio @Xantulon @kaalki
Sounds great, however I looked at the prices and are quite high. To give you an example we pay some 32 euros a month currently for a 10 core cpu, 2TB of SSD, 1 GB connection and 64GB of RAM. We need a lot of disckspace since we provide a lot of free services via trom.tf. And we use some 30-40GB of RAM usually.
I'd love to use a hosting provider like you, but unfortunately I cannot afford right now... :(
i was only able to compare the given prices on the website which are already insane low for VPS ; however dedicated server are close to our prices while we include ddos filter etc. In such calculations there is zero margin for abuse handle and thats why they just ban you. Also german law is not in your favour. Hetzner did the same with nitter.
Do you provide any API access to management services? One thing Contabo is doing well is their cli tool for management. Even if there's no tool, having an API to script against is nice.
no API for VPS so far (work in progress, no ETA) , dedicated server are managed by KVM (ILO) however its for now behind a VPN for security reasons but we are working as well on an API ready solution.
The Contabo APIs allow you to provision, restart, etc, servers. They're adding DNS management (a big one, for me), vital for PTR, TXT etc if you're managing an email server. It's those sorts of interactions I'd really rather manage from a cli than a web interface.
ssh for ILO allows restart and remote acess for example to fix network or enter PBE password. DNS is related towards your domain provider (except ptr however you set that only once realy no need for an api) and not your hosting (unless you operate it together) For DNS entry we have an API (cpanel)
Yes if I could afford I would probably try your service. Maybe if you could provide some option to extend the diskspace a bit, and the RAM, for a custom price....
Bummer. I've been mostly happy with Contabo, and love their API-based admin work. The biggest issue I've had is really slow ticket responses to non-urgent tickets, but DMCA-ish takedowns with no conversation is disturbing. @Xantulon
Yeah wait until you really need to talk to them about something like takedowns. They do not care at all. I was really surprised to see this attitude...
Do they apply German laws everywhere? They're a German company, I know, but they also have servers in other places. It sounds like *any* company you host with, if the server is in DE you can't host nitter there.
My point: would a simple solution being to have your Contabo instance moved to another country? @Xantulon
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These days I am spending quality time with @Roma and when I have some time I fix our websites for mobile screens. So far I fixed most of them. Should be done in a few days time with the rest. Recently I fixed:
These days I'll also work with Roma to make a few packages for TROMjaro for our scripts Something I wanted to do for so long. If we do that I will be over the moon happy.
Next week I hope to start the work on TROM II again! #tromlive
Someone who wants to join our Friendica instance asked me if ours is blocked by other instances. Well...see folks!? How can I know!? On the fediverse any admin can block any instance without you and me having a clue if, what and when they do so.
I keep on telling you, this practice is ruining the fediverse as a whole. It is almost like burning down forests becasue you found some weeds.
We need a way to know who blocked what. Not only what my instance blocked, but what instances blocked mine.
However the best practice is not blocking instances at the admin level, EXCEPT when an instance is clearly full of spam-bots. Let the users decide for themselves what they want to block. There are many proposed solutions out there as to how we can deal with unwanted content, such as: disable the global timeline, shorter lifespan for remote items (so you don't really host any remote content), blocklists enforced by admins but that can be overwritten by users, or adblock-like lists that any user can easily apply for themselves.
Be smart, federated people! Think long term, not short term.
Kings and Queens are an insult to humanity. We are all humans. We are all important in our own way. We should work together and see each other as one species. Social classes, queens, bosses, rich people, doctors, celebrities....are all imagination. Human imagination. Some posses some skills (true), and we should focus on that (such as doctors), but it is mostly a sick game of labels in a messed-up society.
Tio
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