@jstatepost hope you're having good holidays, Mr. Nuts.🫡

@BeAware I'm always unsure what the "normal" is for the amount to remember. And then I randomly remember Cindy got mad at me in high school for asking to borrow a pencil, but I don't know where my other sock is.

I used to repair electronic test equipment and audio gear back in the 60s and 70s and had to clean off lots of stickers. Eucalyptus oil is hands down the best thing for removing any kind of dried on sticky or adhesive residue, without harming the substrate (the thing it was stuck to). If you're not in Australia, you can usually find it at your local chemist (pharmacy, drug store, whatever). Isopropyl alcohol isn't nearly as efficient at dissolving the gunk and will usually require lots of scraping, with a greatly increased chance of damaging the substrate.

@davidpmaurer sticking with this place for now cause at least I can host everything on my own hardware and have full control over who I federated with. BlueSky is just Twitter disguised as a decentralized system.

@snarfed.org I'm not sure what's happened to be honest, unless there was like 7-8 people I lost in the same day. Maybe they all just happened to disconnect from the bridge on the same day.

@sixohsix i think it might just be a mix of giving you too many parts and no instructions (or what instructions you have may be incorrect)for fedi, i’m pretty sure it’s the thing i pointed out about compatibility being valued more than correctness. which is to say: few if any of the “popular” implementations actually care about graphs. they mostly use AP only as a way to pass bits of arbitrary HTML and JSON around. then they throw away all that stuff after converting it to a “post”

They're pretty skittish by nature. Trying to handle them stresses them out, and stressed chooks don't lay very many eggs. They do build up bonds with people and can be handled by those they trust, but this can take several months and will try your patience. I'm currently trying to build trust with a mob of kangaroos, who are even more skittish than the chooks. For that, you've really got to be in it for the long game.

@erincandescent shared block lists really ought to be shared allow lists tbh

@pasty i was reminded of it nonetheless e_e

side note: i wish there was a distinction between html content and a full html document… if you try to render html content in a browser and it isn’t a full html document, weird things might happen

@kristophr I recommend using this script from @ricardhttps://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/

@BeAware I'm shutting down my self-hosted server, so I'm in a similar situation.