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A lot of Fediverse software has a HEALTH-CHECK URL.
But not all Fediverse does.
It would be better if ALL Fediverse software had a HEALTH-CHECK URL.
...
A HEALTH-CHECK URL is a special URL that tell others if the system is running properly.
It would return "200 OK" if everything is fine. And return "500 Internal Server Error" if there is a problem
...
A HEALTH-CHECK URL is important to those who actual run and administrate Fediverse servers
A HEALTH-CHECK URL would, for example, make sure:
• the web-server is up,
• the database connection is fine,
• maybe query one or more important tables to make sure that still works,
• make sure any 3rd party APIs are working,
• etc.
If any of those things has a problem, then it would return "500 Internal Server Error".
Else (if everything was fine then) it would return "200 OK".
A lot of Fediverse software has a HEALTH-CHECK URL.
But not all Fediverse does.
It would be better if ALL Fediverse software had a HEALTH-CHECK URL.
...
A HEALTH-CHECK URL is a special URL that tell others if the system is running properly.
It would return "200 OK" if everything is fine. And return "500 Internal Server Error" if there is a problem
...
A HEALTH-CHECK URL is important to those who actual run and administrate Fediverse servers
Head of Homeland Security can't even secure her purse.
CNN: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night. Noem, who was asked about the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll, acknowledged the incident & said the matter has not been resolved.
The Secret Service, which provides security for Noem, reviewed security camera footage at the restaurant & saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask steal her bag & leave the restaurant. The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.
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Who the hell carries around $3000 in cash?!? Did she just take a bribe or something?
hard to fix Tusky bug 😒
So there is one bug that I'm aware of since at least a year and already spent days trying to fix it.
Here is how it goes:
You click a post in the home timeline, but a different one opens. You click an image, the app crashes (because it tries to open an image from a different post that has none).
I have seen it myself multiple times and got it reported often, but I have no idea what triggers it.
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#Tusky
hard to fix Tusky bug 😒
So here is my call for help: If you see this bug again or have seen it recently, please tell me everything that could help me track it down.
• What did you do before it occured?
• Which Device and Android Version?
• How many and which instances are you connected to?
• How was the network connection?
• Did you change any Tusky settings from their default?
• Any weirder than usual posts in your timeline that could have glitched the app?
• etc
thx 🥺
hard to fix Tusky bug 😒
So there is one bug that I'm aware of since at least a year and already spent days trying to fix it.
Here is how it goes:
You click a post in the home timeline, but a different one opens. You click an image, the app crashes (because it tries to open an image from a different post that has none).
I have seen it myself multiple times and got it reported often, but I have no idea what triggers it.
(continued in next post)
#Tusky
Being able to reproduce a bug is like 99% of the effort. Once I can reproduce a bug I usually have it fixed in no time.
Schedule for April 14th ~ April 20th
vmmgr.sh
Now with WEB
I am really touched by how many people have sent me messages about my essay. I write a lot of things in a lot of ways: THIS thing is not written for everyone and was written to be challenging. I think those for whom it was written have found it!
There are a few reasons for that difficulty: I think it's fun. I like it. It's how I think. It's also effortful in the same labyrinthine way that trying to figure out why you never BELONG in tech is labyrinthine.
@LyleLyle Solla-Yates Oh actually the remastered version of the NES version is the best one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgfACE1rN70
@LyleLyle Solla-Yates the end version is good too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnhHFtYsnU
I heard about people using ChatGPT to write their regular expressions based on their English description.
After spending all morning working with LLMs and regular expressions: DEAR LORD DO NOT DO THIS.
Tips to repro bugs on Android
• If you know where it happenend, try to use an environment as similar as possible. Device, Network, Appversion, etc. For fedi apps, same instance, same post, etc.
• Try with spotty network and offline
• Try after a cold start, and after bringing the app to the foreground.
• Turn on the developer option "don't keep activities". This helps simulate the system memory killing old activities and can expose very weird behavior.
• Rotate the screen
Tips to repro bugs on Android
• click fast
• or super slow
• Not all bugs happen in debug versions. Code shrinking etc should not but can alter the behavior.
• To repro race conditions I often manipulate the code to make stuff take exactly as long as necessary for the race to occur
• For visual glitches, turn animation speed down in developer settings. You will see exactly what is happening.
Tips to repro bugs on Android
• If you know where it happenend, try to use an environment as similar as possible. Device, Network, Appversion, etc. For fedi apps, same instance, same post, etc.
• Try with spotty network and offline
• Try after a cold start, and after bringing the app to the foreground.
• Turn on the developer option "don't keep activities". This helps simulate the system memory killing old activities and can expose very weird behavior.
• Rotate the screen
남편이랑 근처 호숫가 산책하고 비어가르텐 가서 맥주도 한잔 했다. 극우성향 가족을 어떻게 대할 것인가 이야기했고 나름 결론을 냈다. 마음이 한결 낫다. 독일에선 코로나 때 갈라진 가족들이 많대. 코로나 터지고 예방주사와 마스크, 격리 조치에 반대하는 시위에 나가는 가족 구성원 이해하기 vs 내란세력 지지하는 가족 구성원 이해하기😇
With this release, Ivory now UNOFFICIALLY supports additional fediverse platforms such as GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET. I've tried these platforms with mostly success.
The better the Mastodon API support on your platform, the better your experience will be. Obviously, platform specific features like emoji reacts or reply controls aren't going to be available. Still nice!
Edit: SNAC and Hollo work as well now!
screenshotting this Bluesky history as the point where they weren’t verified 🫡 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3lndjyecwcs2a
#야구토돈 그래봤자 기아빵에서 삼성 선수 나온다던가 하겠지
Reddit briefly down for users worldwide https://tcrn.ch/3Y8suLW
Bluesky launches blue check verification https://tcrn.ch/3Ycn6Yi
RIP to the author of Laudato Si', the careful and consistent ecological manifesto that calls to task the irresponsibility of late stage capitalism and requires world-wide cooperation to avert environmental catastrophe:
you: keeping up with the Commodore
me: getting down with the Commodore
Bluesky launches blue check verification https://tcrn.ch/3Ycn6Yi
うぃｐ
If you know only one thing about me it should be that I love the Ducktales theme song
Reddit briefly down for users worldwide https://tcrn.ch/3Y8suLW
3. Trusted Verifiers are in keeping with our ethos -- that Bluesky shouldn't be the sole verifier, and that there should be systems that exist outside of us as part of a robust civic infrastructure. The world shouldn't depend on massive social companies as the sole authorities 2/2
A couple of quick thoughts on this before I disappear for my morning block of meetings
1. Domains are still valuable identity signals! Multiple methods are good to have
2. Identity verification will continue to evolve from here
1/2
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3lndjyecwcs2a
you: keeping up with the Commodore
me: getting down with the Commodore
#wildlife #nature #birds #picnickingbirds
Picnicking Birds 🪶
#wildlife #nature #birds #picnickingbirds
Picnicking Birds 🪶
남편은 도토리라 그러던데 산책 중에 땅에 떨어져서 벌써 싹이 난게 보여서 가져 왔다. 심어봐야지ㅎㅎ #DolmengsGarten
Join us this Wednesday at 11ET for the second episode of our advice show, Open Up w/ 
@geoff & @smashingconf.com!
We'll dig into the deeper human aspects of design/dev: finding purpose, managing the changing landscape, layoffs, mental health, and a lot more.
HAPPY NEW WEEK!
just 5 more sleeps until North Bay Python returns! we are excited!
<insert flippant reminder to buy a ticket here> https://nbpy.link/tickets
Happy 19th birthday to my bicycle. I take absolutely no care of you. I leave you out in the rain. I ram you through snow and mud and up and down kerbs. I make you drag stuff too heavy for you. I rarely remember to feed you with oil and air. I fling you onto trains and into hedges and into any space you fit, or don’t. And yet you always work, cost little to maintain and nothing to run. And you give me easy exercise. And I will never be too old not to think Wheeee! as I freewheel you downhill.
Uv has a PR open to add pylock.toml support!
#wildlife #nature #birds #picnickingbirds
Picnicking Birds 🪶
#wildlife #nature #birds #picnickingbirds
Picnicking Birds 🪶
Schedule for April 14th ~ April 20th
@xhaosxhaos ⁂ and friends are running an open call for short films to be screened in Essen, Germany
https://pixelfed.social/p/xhaos/819892679166229728
終於完成了一點東西
超慢慢來
정신적으로 취약한 상태에 있는 사람이 듣기 좋은 말만 해주고 + 누군가를 적으로 지목해 함께 적대감을 불태우는 방식으로 건강하지 못하게 단결력을 가지는 에코체임버에 둘러싸여 정신적으로 악화되는 상황에 놓여있을 때 거기서 빼내기 위해 쓴소리를 좀 해줘야 하는데, 문제는 그런 상황에 처한 사람들은 쓴소리도 다 적으로 간주함… 얼마나 잘 돌리고 돌려서 말할수 있는지 심리 이해와 화술이 관건인데 모두가 오은영이 될 수는 없으니
tutorials on #fedibotClub are now interactive!
https://fedibot.club/tutorial/1
let me know what you think?
3. Trusted Verifiers are in keeping with our ethos -- that Bluesky shouldn't be the sole verifier, and that there should be systems that exist outside of us as part of a robust civic infrastructure. The world shouldn't depend on massive social companies as the sole authorities 2/2
Dr. Anna Latour
Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live
Glyph
MJ
