Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@adamsweet Welcome to the party!

@bigcalm Gitlab CI has the concept of services which might be needed during a build, eg a test database: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/services/

@bigcalm Smart home protocols and standards are a total mess of walled gardens and interop issues.

Zigbee and ZWave devices are fairly well standardised and talk locally but you need adapters. It's also not uncommon for devices to require a manufactures hub to update.

For WiFi connected devices there are no widespread standards that I'm aware of and it's very much down to the manufacturer's design.

This looks really interesting for encrypted volumes on Linux: https://shufflecake.net/

@dick_turpin @tig you miss an important point. He had agreed to buy it before he walked away. He tried to weasel out of a contract he signed, one that he purposely waived due dil on. He brought it because his ego got threatened, which has all turned out correct.

@dick_turpin I'm not paying the same price as Amazon Prime to get 50% less ads. But I think the key thing is, he's made it uncool. And given people a reason to branch out by rocking the boat. If he had been slow about it, the rats would not flee the ship.

@dick_turpin I don't think it has anything to do with free speech BS. It's simplier than that. Twitter needed ad revenue to exist. Musk's uncertainty and inconsistency has scared advertisers, they pulled there spend. He's now in a rock and hard place having lost 1B revenue loss for 2023. Great advantage of Mastodon is not having to rely on ad revenue.

Setting up my Mastodon server made me think about #PostgreSQL availability and backups.

At the moment it's just a single database instance.

Harald's #pgconfeu talk on Reasonable Availability, did a great job in explain that we don't always need the complexity.

However it prompted me to think that there are many times where sensible backups probably should be the first port of call rather than availability.

Pretty happy to have finally dipped my toes into Mastodon. Late to the party as usual.

It's super cool to see non-tech people joining and some organisations, definitely feels like some momentum building.