Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 3
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:47 JST 
Alexandre Oliva
interesting. I thought 'woke' meant the corporate-driven, coopted, weaponized version of the fight for human rights, that ends up as a fight against human rights -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:38 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I'm afraid I haven't seen that word used to refer to such people, but from what you say, I can't tell whether you're speaking of enlightened, unionized workers, or about sheeple wage slaves being weaponized by their masters against each other. IIUC the latter is the one that fits better "normal working class people", but you seem to suggest that 'woke' would apply to the former as well (instead?)
not a native speaker here, rather someone who's often made incorrect assumptions about the meaning of words I've only seen in specific contexts online, who's often been surprised when finding out the guess was wrong, and who's now expects to find out about more of those ;-/ so please bear with me, and, as far as I'm concerned, feel free to have however many breaks you can ;-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Sep-2022 20:22:13 JST
Alexandre Oliva
there's yet another way that doesn't require any Javascript: go to your own profile page, click on "following", then "remote", then enter the remote (or local) address you wish to follow -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-2022 02:13:39 JST
Alexandre Oliva
is it a regexp? '.' would match any character if so. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 20:38:14 JST
Alexandre Oliva
apple fans already claimed it had great design some 30 years ago. I suppose it always took a fan to believe it, it always felt like a cult to me. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 22-Aug-2022 20:38:10 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I'm afraid so, a lot more than I'd have preferred, especially in the first half of the '90s, which was when the apple fans around me (several professors at the uni where I was student and sysadmin, including of a lab for students, full of macs) were most vocal about its design. I was not impressed -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2022 16:49:49 JST
Alexandre Oliva
wheee, it looks my communication with mastodon, pleroma and other activitypub implementations may be reestablished, thanks to @administrator's efforts (and perhaps a last-minute intervention from beyond by Commander Uhura :-)
long story short, my posts haven't federated for a while, IIUC because of a bug in GNU social that required dead accounts to be pruned from my follower list to work around.
if you're on the activitypub side of the fediverse and you can see this post, would you please respond or like or something to make me a much happier person by confirming that my posts are getting through again? thanks in advance,
while at that, in case you follow me and wondered what I've been up to during my long apparent silence, you might want to catch up with my interactions that failed to reach you at https://gnusocial.net/lxo -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jul-2022 16:44:46 JST
Alexandre Oliva
was it leslie lamport who said that a distributed system is one that doesn't work because a server you've never heard of is down? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jul-2022 04:58:38 JST
Alexandre Oliva
done. I had missed the public message indeed, or rather not reached it yet. I may have got a notification, I'm not sure. want me to check? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jul-2022 02:40:56 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I sent gstester a response. it looks like I have to subscribe to a user before I send a DM, otherwise their address doesn't appear in the "To:" drop-down menu, and there's no "reply" button like in public messages. is that really the case? I haven't used DMs very much -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Jul-2022 08:15:50 JST
Alexandre Oliva
:-( thanks for your persistence! -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Jul-2022 08:15:47 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I know very well how that feels :-(
please do let me know if you'd allow me/like me to help investigate the issue. (sorry, I should have offered it long ago) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Jul-2022 05:33:15 JST
Alexandre Oliva
fingers crossed :-) please let me know -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jul-2022 17:28:43 JST
Alexandre Oliva
thanks. I wasn't really planning on switching accounts (it's painful, and whatever happened to this one would probably happen to the other as well), just testing effects of liking, responding and otherwise interacting with posts from this account from the other, which might enable us to figure out what the problem with this one is -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jul-2022 05:19:22 JST
Alexandre Oliva
may the clue be fruitful!
thanks again for devoting so much time and effort to figure this out -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jul-2022 21:42:47 JST
Alexandre Oliva
now, where is that control to reenable propagation of posts through AP that I must have accidentally disabled? :-D (if only) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jul-2022 21:32:12 JST
Alexandre Oliva
still... I've had those tags since day 0; how could they become a problem only now? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 20:32:15 JST
Alexandre Oliva
both arrived, thanks. I'm only going to "like" the other, to test a different kind of interaction -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 04:21:29 JST
Alexandre Oliva
here's an oddity that might or might not be related, and that might provide a clue about what we're running into.
the other day, while scrolling down my timeline, eventually I got to a point in which it wouldn't add more posts any more. today, this happened to me again.
using explicit paginated URLs, when I hit that same point of the timeline, the page doesn't finish loading (the right sidebar isn't displayed, nor is the bottom box, and the last appearing post is incomplete)
other attempts to load pages concurrently with this one often fail altogether, timing out or yielding 504 errors.
it's almost like there's a hard disk failure and the system keeps on retrying the read, slowing the entire system down, until it eventually fails.
maybe this is affecting my outgoing queue too?
(to be continued) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 17:44:51 JST
Alexandre Oliva
your efforts are appreciated, and I'm sure we're going to eventually figure it out
thanks for that, and for the suggestion; I've started adding explicit mentions; can you tell whether it made any difference in today's posts?
how about posts that start a thread, rather than adding to a preexisting one? I guess those aren't propagating either (e.g. linux-libre announcements often get some likes and reshares; yesterday's got none here)
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