Looks like things aren't going so well on the bird app:
"Banks, that loaned multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk an appreciable $13 billion for his ill-advised $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in late 2022 are getting ready to offload billions of debt they accrued as a result…
"The hope is to minimize the hurt as they sell off the debt, a massive scar haunting the mercurial CEO's disastrous social media platform shopping spree.
"And after a chaotic couple of years, and Musk seemingly doing his best to wipe out what was left of the platform's largely ad-dependant revenue with increasingly erratic behavior, X-formerly-Twitter's finances have yet to recover. The company is still drowning in accumulated debt while loaners are struggling with massive interest payments.
…
"'Our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even,' [Musk] admitted [in an internal email to X staff]."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/leaked-email-elon-musk-defeat-twitter
[#]Musk #ElonMusk #Twitter #X
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So I spent part of today trying to set up an NFS mount on an Ubuntu server earlier today, and kept running into problems.
Fortunately, I found out what was causing the issue.
To hopefully save someone else some trouble, I want to share what I discovered in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
My first step was to run the command "sudo apt nfs-kernal-server" on the Linux server.
I kept getting the error message "Unable to locate package nfs-kernal-server".
I tried a bunch of things. Checking repositories. Checking router settings. Checking firewalls. Nothing seemed to work!
Then I noticed the source of my troubles.
Turns out the command I was looking for was "sudo apt nfs-kernel-server". With an "e" in kernel.
So what does it mean if you run into this same issue?
Probably that you grew up with a Commodore 64 or an Amiga as your first computer 😂
[#]Amiga #Linux #SysAdmin #Commodore #RetroComputer #RetroComputing #C64 #Ubuntu
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Anyone here use @writefreely?
I've just set up a self-hosted WriteFreely blog as a first experiment with self-hosting instances and using @yunohost (huge thanks to @_elena for your tips! 🥰)
It's visible on the Fedi at @ajsadauskas@blog.sadauskas.id.au (Being a brand new account, good chance it hasn't pulled across to your instance yet!)
At least from initial setup, it looks like only the first line of the post and a link is pulling across to Mastodon.
Is there any way to make the full post text visible on Mastodon?
I can see who's following the blog, but not any comments. Any way to turn on notifications for this?
Also, is there any way to follow an account from WriteFreely? (I'm interested, because it would in theory allow me to follow BridgyFed, and make the posts visible on BlueSky.)
Are these limitations of the platform? Or is there a setting somewhere I missed?
[#]Fediverse #SelfHosting #FediHelp #WriteFreely
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"Democracy becomes meaningless if a [corporate] king holds all the power anyway." — Adam Something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgQgrfGPQP0
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The enshittification of Spotify continues.
You signed up to pay $10 a month to hear your favourite artists.
After taking your money, they began slowly substituting real artists with muzak.
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally?r=1licy&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
[#]music #Spotify #enshittification
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If there's one particularly dehumanising piece of corporate jargon I hate, it's the word "resources" when referring to people.
A term that invites the listener to think of humans as inanimate objects to be exploited for profit. #business #capitalism #work
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Many in the retro computing community: The Atari Jaguar was an awful system that couldn't handle decent games!
Homebrew developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mRvi8qzE0
[#]Atari #AtariJaguar #RetroComputers #RetroGamjng #RetroComputing #Homebrews
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Like many back in the '90s, I had assumed that Netscape were the lesser evil in the browser wars.
I never thought I'd say this, but thank you Bill Gates for creating Internet Explorer.
Sure, it was a buggy malware magnet from the ancient masters of tech monopoly capitalism.
But it turns out the guy who ran Netscape is a bigger prick than we realised.
In hindsight, trying to put him out of business was completely and totally justified.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/opinion/marc-andreessen-manifesto-techno-optimism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE4.DBxD.LaVCX9lb2Ptx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
[#]Microsoft #Netscape #InternetExplorer #tech #IT #politics
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I'm looking to set up a single-user instance sometime this year. And I want this account to be the single point from which I interact with all the Fedi, including Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc., as well as BlueSky (over Bridgy).
What I'm looking for is a platform that has:
I'm thinking about using something like @phanpy as a webUI, plus an Android app like Tusky and Tokodon on my main Linux PC.
I've looked at Friendica, but are there any other options I should consider that are good "all-rounder" platforms for interacting with the Fediverse?
[#]Fedi #Fediverse #FediHelp #Mastodon
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Some would say Mark Zuckerberg's actions this week accomplished little of value.
But I'd disagree.
Just look at the 138,900 cat photos that are now on Pixelfed 😹
[#]cats #Pixelfed #Meta
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Tech news websites are really starting to notice Pixelfed 😊 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixelfed-launches-mobile-app-3516668/
"Unlike today’s Instagram, Pixelfed defaults to the chronological feed, is decentralized, shows no ads, and is open-source. While the app itself doesn’t feature a dedicated tab for Reels, the developer is testing a separate app called Loops for short video sharing. Otherwise, Pixelfed supports private messaging, 24-hour expiring stories, albums, likes and comments, photo filters, and more. It’s similar to the old Instagram, prior to Meta’s acquisition and the consequent downgrades."
[#]Pixelfed #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Meta #Instagram
Seen this @dansup?
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Really insightful video (as usual) by @philip on a forgotten piece of Melbourne's transport history: The Alphington to East Preston Railway Line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk11IhoazxU
The what?
Apparently, an act of Parliament was passed after WW2 to serve new housing and industrial estates in Melbourne's northeast.
The line would have featured stations at Northland and Latrobe's Bundoora Campus.
It would have also connected to a proposed tram line along Bell St from Essendon to Heidelberg.
In hindsight, it's a real pity this one was never built!
[#]train #trains #railways #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #trams #Melbourne
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Anyone here using Pixeldroid or Pixelix as Pixelfed clients?
If so, what's your experience like?
[#]Android #Pixelfed #Fediverse
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Another growth surge coming for the fedi and new social media apps then?
[#]Elon #TikTok #Twitter #X #Fediverse #ElonMusk #BlueSky #Mastodon
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/china-tiktok-sale-elon-musk?CMP=aus_bsky
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Just finished installing KDE Neon on my new second-hand desktop PC.
Really liking it so far 😊
[#]Linux
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The past few days, I've been toying with the idea of setting up a single-user Mastodon instance.
I'm currently looking at Masto.host as a hosting provider. The prices seem reasonable?
First, for those who have rolled their own instance: How has the experience been? Any advice you'd share with a self-hosting newbie? Any pitfalls or downsides?
Have you gone with a specialist managed prover like Masto.host?
Are there any major advantages or disadvantages over a vanilla cPanel web hosting provider that supports Mastodon?
Another option I'm toying with is using a single instance of Friendica as my Fedi home, and consolidating everything there, including photos.
Are there any managed hosting providers that support Friendica?
[#]Fediverse #FediHelp #Mastodon
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Captain Snooze (the dodgy property developer who takes great pride in not being woke) would be shocked to learn what happened to the Whitehouse the last time America invaded Canada... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
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If it became a condition on all Australian government tenders over $1 billion, state and federal, that your business does not post on X, and has to have an active BlueSky and Mastodon account.
This all includes universities, schools, and hospitals too. #auspol
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Seriously, just imagine if Anthony Albanese announced all departments and agencies (including the ABC, SBS, and AusPost) were to immediately stop using X, and had to create official Mastodon and BlueSky accounts instead. And all Labor government states and territories followed suit. #auspol
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Leaders who are upset at Musk, but maintain official X/Twitter accounts, are a joke.
If you really want to send him a message, order all your departments and agencies to stop using X, and to create official accounts on BlueSky and Mastodon.
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