Joltrast @joltrast@mastodon.social

Please, if you have a bot, make it post in unlisted rather than in public. There is so many bots posting in public now that the federated timeline is becoming unusable.
I don’t usually ask that, but can you boost this to spread awareness?

Hello Direct Messages! 🥳

Now available on updated instances.

#pixelfed #direct #directMessages

active participles #esperanto
https://yeslearneo.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/active-participles/

Tucked into this article about a weird Boeing software bug is something that I can't understand anyone being OK with:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/08/boeing_737_ng_cockpit_screen_blank_bug/

Windows 7 is going EOL. KDE Plasma wants to capture the marooned Windows 7 user base.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJzfaqRLfpY

#Windows7 #kdeplasma

"The Cobra Effect"

The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi.

The government therefore offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward.

Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

So, I finally shut down my Pleroma instance: https://social.jlelse.me

Excited to be speaking at Civic Tech Toronto's hacknight this evening. I'll be talking about #IndieWeb. Event starts at 6:30 https://www.meetup.com/Civic-Tech-Toronto/events/pfzllrybccbkb/

Due to an unfortunate event, the world has been gifted a lot of 3D art video tutorials, that were previously only available for money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0XX0La4JM
#3dbuzz

I don't have a lot of experience in #Golang, can anyone who does take a look at this code and help me figure out why its memory usage goes up to 12 GB when exposed to traffic.

https://github.com/tootsuite/gamo/blob/master/gamo.go

I've used pprof to try and figure it out, seems like NewImageOps is staying allocated, but I'm not sure why. I sure call Close() on it...

Registration is now open! Tell your friends 😎

A new Pixelfed instance, dedicated to photography.

Launching Soon!

#piconic #fediverse #photoSharing

PSA: Did someone link you a post somewhere else on the fediverse? Copy and paste it into the search bar, and you can read it all from the comfort of your client, and interact with things without dealing with the clunky "remote whatever" OAuth business!

#Mastodon

Company held hostage by ransomware shuts down, tells 300 employees to find new jobs.

A ransomware attack should never be enough to kill off your company.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/ransomware-shuts-company/