Jonah Aragon :MN:

https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at Privacy Guides (npub1dm2…7754) and Triplebit – AS 401332 (npub14mj…f0xw) (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https://mstdn.party, https://mstdn.plus, and https://neat.computer

[ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

Homepage: https://www.jonaharagon.com
Privacy Guides: https://privacyguides.org/team

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2026-06-29 14:08:39 CEST

Do Europeans actually refuse to use A/C, or is this just an “online discourse” sort of fact?

2026-06-18 18:35:14 CEST

Long shot, but does anyone have an original Microsoft Surface (the table) I could buy? 👉👈

2026-05-30 17:04:36 CEST

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well Proton has 100 million+ accounts, which is more than the population of Germany. I meant largest single user, it's possible that combined there are more GnuPG users total (although even that I somewhat doubt).
It's also been brought to my attention that the German government supports RFC 9580 (thereby rejecting LibrePGP), so actually it doesn't really seem to matter. https://lwn.net/Articles/1074146/

2026-05-30 15:57:47 CEST

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tried to sum this stuff up: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/replace-gnupg-with-sequoia-pgp-actively-warn-against-gnupg/38238

2026-05-30 15:57:34 CEST

RE: https://floss.social/@hko/116459621169318785
I hate pretty drama in most/all open source communities so much
#note17fg…qupj

2026-05-22 03:36:57 CEST

Much like Nostr, given the sort of content that is on Freenet, this is not surprising to me in the slightest.

2026-05-16 09:00:38 CEST

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Also if someone wants to tell me what the second one means that’d be great lol

2026-05-16 09:00:37 CEST

I feel like any profession could put out billboards that would be indecipherable to the layperson. Tech nerds are the only ones insufferable enough to actually do it.
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/582/951/117/787/769/original/0d7c37ee83849cd7.jpeg
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/582/951/120/494/124/original/e67b3d860d81878c.jpeg

2026-05-15 04:50:46 CEST

Sony: You’ve tried normal photos. What about making them as shitty as possible? It’ll only cost you a datacenter in your backyard!
(real ad yes https://nitter.net/sonyxperia/status/2054853108988047562)
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/576/287/582/135/857/original/41431a53cf61442a.jpeg
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/576/287/566/341/952/original/e512eaf75f8b1cd2.jpeg

2026-05-14 15:50:25 CEST

Fucking-AI-ass posts from Cloudflare and GitLab 🤮
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/573/242/568/251/110/original/aa74557b709ff618.png
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2026-04-30 21:22:12 CEST

Crazy to me we’re putting solar panels in the middle of nowhere when the average American shopping center looks like this. Solar carports and roof panels please 🙏
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/495/273/718/741/392/original/e5b868a7c394ea3d.png

2026-04-23 05:05:01 CEST

for how much porn gets posted to mastodon i'm surprised there isn't a fediverse onlyfans yet

2026-04-21 04:12:13 CEST

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enterprise like devices for office workers, or enterprise like VPS and web servers?

2026-04-20 21:45:36 CEST

Noticing a trend where lots of people are supportive of my posts here, I get a lot of favorites and don't typically get negative feedback, but far fewer people are willing to actually boost them to their own circles, besides the most uncontroversial possible statements.
I can only assume I'm either still too boring, or my takes still remain a tiny bit too spicy for casual Mastodon conversation 😂

2026-04-20 19:36:10 CEST

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not to break out the flawed political compass, but there is a reason the answers are nearly always distributed like this. Right-wing libertarianism and left-wing authoritarianism are nonsense ideas that do not work in the real world.
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/438/230/441/285/138/original/a9045ab048067657.png
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/438/232/390/971/190/original/b3484ff5efb9864b.png

2026-04-20 16:32:32 CEST

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116435835882195004
Can we instead stop ceding all the words that are useful descriptors to the right just because they start using them?
I also have this issue with libertarianism, which should describe a useful political position about liberty from government abuses independently from your views on economic policies, but now just makes you sound like a gun toting nut. This makes it harder to defend against the narrative that everyone on the left is rooting for some authoritarian communist society.
The same goes for many internet memes and sayings that were once universally used, e.g. Pepe the Frog. It is no wonder members of younger generations keep falling to the alt-right, when the right is co-opting all the things they enjoy, and everyone else not only lets them, but actively works to make those popular things be seen as hateful. In this example, the popular idea that Pepe the Frog is a hate symbol stems almost entirely from some uninformed, reactionary article the Clinton campaign posted to try and smear Trump, then got the media to repeat forever.
#note144n…qf02

2026-04-12 04:11:57 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/116389306329768008
Apps should NOT be able to tell when you've denied notification permissions in your OS (or when you're taking a screenshot, etc.) 😠
#note1v7x…rp0w

2026-04-12 02:29:17 CEST

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sharing my personal tech stack? sounds like an opsec fail to me

2026-04-12 01:35:05 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides/116388654332393519
I like this tbh. Not at all enough to switch from Zen Browser, but a decent idea nonetheless.
#note10uu…03q4

2026-04-11 19:56:14 CEST

Do big tech companies understand consent?

2026-04-05 18:30:58 CEST

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jk I love em dashes and did speak out. Justice for em dashes 💪

2026-04-05 18:30:57 CEST

First they came for the em dash
And I did not speak out
Because I did not use em dashes
Then they came for the Oxford comma…

2026-04-04 01:59:24 CEST

“There may be new information” they’re gonna send a patch update to this piece of paper?
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/343/486/356/648/538/original/08f97c25dc50a2d4.png

2026-04-03 19:54:52 CEST

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wow I'm glad you like it, thanks for the kind words! 💛
@npub12w6…2axu @npub15jt…z2e8 @npub1dm2…7754

2026-03-31 20:00:31 CEST

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if she’s available, you should talk with @npub1gmn…zh7q here herself about this topic, especially if you need good perspective from someone other than a technical server operator 👀

2026-03-31 17:21:31 CEST

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I’m really interested in getting my podcast set up for video this week, and looking at Acast and Transistor. Are videos actually available on Transistor yet if I sign up? I wasn’t seeing it on Apple’s list of supported hosts 🤔

2026-03-30 08:08:22 CEST

It remains ridiculous that #Mastodon refuses to indicate when a post has more than 4 images.
Fine, be stubborn about limiting the number of images you display in Mastodon itself, but give us a “show more on original site”-type button so people can at least know they exist. #Pixelfed is huge at this point.

2026-03-28 17:03:57 CET

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Like, ultimately, to pretend that Rossmann is really sitting around hoping GrapheneOS will forgive him when they sent him messages like that is just ridiculous.

2026-03-28 16:54:31 CET

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sure, they can be pissed. They can be pissed forever.
They can be pissed at me forever for once working with Techlore too. Even though *he* once published *my* private DMs out of context and with misleading/false context (which does make the whole “they’re private” argument a whole lot less weak in my mind), I don’t really care.
I’m just saying that now that the messages are out, it’s clear to most people that they were out of line. Should they have been shared at all? Probably not, but my point is that *if they are serious* about actually wanting to make amends they have to take *some* responsibility for their actions and meet people halfway.
If they can’t do that then their statements about being willing to forgive seem hollow. All parties involved need to forgive *each other* and not pretend like one party is above everyone else.

2026-03-28 03:18:50 CET

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good thing 3 of them are then, but the zooms are fun lol

2026-03-28 02:52:33 CET

Moving on up from my one 28-75mm lens :)
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/304/289/197/488/546/original/c1b94193276d8170.png

2026-03-28 02:46:19 CET

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I believe they don’t like this video because Rossmann started streaming their DMs. https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0
It’s interesting, because in the thread I just linked to they said they were mad at Rossmann for streaming “someone who had just been […] swatted,” so they do recognize that their messages to Rossmann were out of the norm, given the whole situation going on. Yet I’ve never seen anyone at GOS ever go “hey I shouldn’t have messaged you like that, it was a crazy month, let’s figure this out” 🤷‍♂️
Anyways yeah, there are probably more cases since I didn’t check all their posts, but if they handle this list that I could find with quick 5-minute search, I’ll consider that enough of a good faith effort, and I won’t even care about other posts or getting an apology 🙂

2026-03-27 21:16:14 CET

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they just don’t like me. And the guy who used to run Calyx (and now runs Phreeli) *really* doesn’t like me either, so I’m out of luck in the Android world no matter which direction I go haha
GrapheneOS is alright though, it’s really the only reasonable way to get a de-Googled Android phone these days, so I’d stick with your plans 👍

2026-03-27 20:23:36 CET

Surprise, surprise. T-Mobile acquired my ISP and I’ve had more outages this month than the entire rest of the time I’ve been with them. Monopolies suck ass, it’s insane T-Mobile and AT&T are allowed to scoop local fiber providers up like this.

2026-03-27 20:18:14 CET

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💯🤞
This is why we’ll continue to publish GrapheneOS content with or without their support, but ideally with their support would be better. As we saw with Proton recently, working together benefits everyone involved 💪

2026-03-27 20:14:58 CET

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not sure that rhetoric helps mend things, to be fair 🤔

2026-03-27 18:46:22 CET

[Apparently](https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116302200980197011 ), GrapheneOS is "offering forgiveness" to people they are in conflict with.
A few weeks ago I let them know I would be willing to accept if they were willing to remove the many lies and personal attacks they've posted about me over the years, and I provided a short list of a few examples to make it easier for them.
I have not heard back since, but I'm hopeful they will follow through on their efforts to mend our relationship 🙂
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/302/360/853/359/075/original/912742d1568db3e6.png
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2026-03-24 16:35:44 CET

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I’m very sure those countries have been thinking about shifting away from US goods for many years now, they’ve got to have a plan in place.

2026-03-24 16:26:50 CET

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https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/116284849865899644

2026-03-24 16:26:35 CET

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nerdpr0f/116284818497116048
Cisco’s sitting pretty. They were responsible for the last major Chinese attack on the USA by not issuing security updates for faulty products they sold, but that’s ignored in favor of hurting consumers and the Chinese boogeyman.
Security updates should be like vehicle recalls. Some NHTSA-equivalent agency should make corporations issue updates until the products they sell are safe to use. The move fast and break things mentality in tech is broken.
#note1l89…9g0s

2026-03-24 16:08:28 CET

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@brian_greenberg/116284562781393607
They are only banning “consumer routers.” I wonder how they differentiate. Is Ubiquiti consumer grade? Are we going to see an explosion in “small business routers”?
Little text that says “not for residential use” like how people are buying peptides/drugs online that are “not for human consumption” these days?
Is this a ploy to get everyone to use cell phones that are more easily tracked?
Once again, like “stopping terrorists” or “protecting children,” this is another attack on the American people in the name of “security.” When will we stop accepting “security” as an excuse?
#USpol #RouterBan #Trump #Security
#note195k…clyn

2026-03-23 06:08:22 CET

I don’t understand why people need to ping me first to let me know they’re defederating. Just do it, or don’t do it, you’ve already made up your mind 🤷‍♂️

2026-03-23 01:35:26 CET

RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/116275402285550922
I will say it’s a bummer Artemis by Andy Weir was never adapted to a movie though, or maybe it would make a great TV series if anyone from Apple TV+ is reading this 😉
#note1xa3…sld8

2026-03-23 00:23:56 CET

Wow, I’ve seen Project Hail Mary twice now (with different people, since I have AMC A-List free tickets lol) and it’s so good, I love this movie.
I also loved the book, and it’s a rare book-based movie where watching the movie only compliments the book rather than takes away from it.
I would seriously nominate this for Best Picture and him for Best Actor. 10/10
#ProjectHailMary #Movies

2026-03-20 05:00:53 CET

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I’ll think about how we can clarify this a bit.
I can tell you that the main point is that we should get along with people with differences in opinion *on privacy* (or the best way to be private, etc). For one example, we often see privacy-focused companies take down their competitors in this space, instead of “punching up” (collectively) towards Big Tech.
With incompatible people for reasons unrelated to this singular core value of privacy, not so much 🤷‍♂️

2026-03-20 04:11:25 CET

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are the tags available in their RSS feed though? I wonder if you are expected to filter client-side… If the tags are only visible on the front-end though that would suck.

2026-03-17 16:44:03 CET

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Ghost, absolutely.

2026-03-17 16:35:57 CET

I hate to admit it but Waymo rides are pretty slick, I can see why tech bros are obsessed with self-driving.

2026-03-12 23:29:59 CET

This movie came out 1.5 years ago but I still feel like the original music for the Smile 2 movie had no right to go this hard

2026-03-10 18:45:17 CET

This is so strange, because Facebook already owns a social network full of AI agents called "Facebook" 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/
#Facebook #Meta #Moltbook #AI #AIslop

2026-03-05 06:33:02 CET

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yes, but had they used the current A19 Pro instead of the A18 Pro then they could've had 12GB, which would've been the sweet spot for this machine :(

2026-03-03 17:21:06 CET

🤔
#PrivacyGuides
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/166/154/001/474/755/original/c7a1631d089d6423.png

2026-02-18 02:56:58 CET

All of the Switch 2 / Mario Kart World haters were wrong, this game fuckin’ slaps

2026-02-14 20:25:19 CET

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I agree but I don't think fedi likes are equivalent to blog pageviews, and I get way more replies on fedi than comments on a blog.

2026-02-08 21:07:06 CET

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drawbacks of copy/pasting GitHub's UI

2026-02-08 18:03:29 CET

There’s no way you know how much a Bald Eagle’s nest weighs, this can’t be common knowledge 😆

2026-02-07 21:39:18 CET

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wow kinda actually, that's pretty cool. I think I was thinking more for sellers/crafters who ship things out rather than sell in-person like FB marketplace, but still...

2026-02-07 20:49:10 CET

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this makes me wonder if it is possible for us to somehow makes the difficulty level so HIGH that it is actually unfeasible for miners to make it through the next "desert."
Like if humanity collectively combined all its computing power for 2 weeks to Bitcoin mining, and then pulled the plug, could that kill Bitcoin? I'm not sure 😆
(Unfortunately, I think the answer would be that if it happened, Bitcoin developers would be able to code a fix and simply convince 50+% of miners to install it, since the alternative for them would be no Bitcoin. So it remains more of a social problem than a technical one.)

2026-02-07 20:40:46 CET

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this should just be a matter of racing to convince over 50% of the network that you are the winner.

2026-02-07 20:40:00 CET

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actually I'm a little bit off when I double-checked my memory: it's every 2016 blocks, not precisely every 2 weeks. So if nobody mines the next 2,016 blocks, it could take much longer than 2 weeks for the difficulty to be adjusted downwards.
But once 2,016 blocks are eventually mined, then the difficulty will be adjusted downwards, and the amount it is adjusted downward is exactly proportional to how long those last 2,016 blocks took to mine.
Apparently in July 2021 blocks took 20-120 minutes to mine instead of 10, after China cracked down on mining. Once those 2,016 blocks went through though, the difficulty dropped by 28%.

2026-02-07 20:31:31 CET

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new blocks are added every time someone mines a new block. The current difficulty level is adjusted to make it average out to 144 per day and end up at one block approximately every 10 minutes.
I guess if collectively nobody mined a block in 2 weeks the difficulty level would be lowered to some insanely low value where practically anyone could mine one?

2026-02-07 20:26:37 CET

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I think wallets will have to adjust transaction fees to meet what the current mining network requires to process the next block, so it is just a matter of supply and demand. If people are unwilling to pay the market amount for transaction fees then simply no transactions would take place.

2026-02-07 20:18:18 CET

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Bitcoin transaction fees will definitely take over, and miners will subsist solely off of those transaction-based rewards. The initial block rewards you can get now are only meant to be a subsidy for miners to kickstart the network, but Bitcoin's ideal world ends up with transaction fees covering everything, yes.
And I believe you are correct about mining prices decreasing as the number of miners decreases too, so it would be self-sustainable economically in that sense too.

2026-02-07 19:31:41 CET

ActivityPub Etsy when?

2026-02-07 19:25:41 CET

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also, not to disparage my fellow Americans, but I have never heard anyone here ever use the word "duty" to describe any sort of taxes in the USA, and I honestly think a good number of people here who are not in the shipping world would read "duty-free" in your description and not immediately understand what you mean 😆
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/030/749/244/957/940/original/5c1b2f85aa5fba80.png

2026-02-07 19:15:06 CET

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to be honest, I did not even know sellers could cover import fees since I have been billed at the door so many times lol
Etsy also makes the product description hard to find and discourages reading it IMO. Maybe you need to add a tacky "🍁 Made in Canada 🇺🇸 No Tariffs for Americans!" badge to the first product image or something if you really want people to notice this. Guess it depends on how many of your sales are American 🤷‍♂️

2026-02-07 18:43:50 CET

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?
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/030/581/002/927/828/original/4f04938771040efe.png

2026-02-07 02:24:40 CET

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the problem with vagueposting like this about Trump is that it’s impossible to nail down what specific thing you could be talking about, there’s just so many instances

2026-02-06 23:57:25 CET

It should be illegal for a piece of technology to ask me, a real live person, a question unprompted.
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/026/149/880/428/287/original/d017870f462a0e1c.jpeg

2026-02-06 18:34:52 CET

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only for approved nonprofits

2026-02-06 17:09:31 CET

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each server appears to be on a dedicated Hetzner Cloud VPS (public info based on their IP addresses) so this should not be a factor.

2026-02-06 16:51:53 CET

RE: https://mstdn.games/@britt/116013094706931728
So, I helped Britt out with moving her instance to a new server provider this week.
While the people at toot.io were relatively helpful in our email chain (once she was finally able to get a hold of them in the first place anyways), the setup at toot.io was a bit strange and not optimized for an instance of her size. The actual server itself was well *over*powered for her to be seeing the slowdowns she was, and Mastodon & especially Postgres just weren’t using those resources to a full extent.
Honestly the biggest red flag 🚩🚩🚩 to me isn’t what toot.io is doing now necessarily, but that it was apparently sold(?) to completely new management without notice to customers. In a niche service industry like this, that seems like a big problem to me.
The previous ownership is probably more at fault for this relatively speaking, but it’s probably a good opportunity for toot.io customers to reevaluate their hosting options… Even if you ultimately end up sticking with toot.io, you simply might not be fully aware of what’s going on over at your own hosting company anymore, and that’s always worth double-checking 👀
#MastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #MstdnGames #InstanceMigration #Tootio
#note1efy…kpyw

2026-02-05 23:52:09 CET

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it depends on the font I'm using, because sometimes—like this—I will use an em-dash without spaces, and sometimes – like this – I will use an EN dash with spaces, depending on what I think looks better.
Em dashes with spaces seems superfluous to me in all cases though.

2026-02-05 21:21:35 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116019693415934993
Surely nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft is probably Neocities' biggest competitor in the free static site hosting space (GitHub Pages), and Neocities might make people stop giving their websites to the GitHub AI machine.
#note1um3…2x6k

2026-02-05 17:11:23 CET

Who are these people that watch my videos? lmao
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/116/018/887/347/599/657/original/6ef383ff73909f85.png

2026-02-04 20:49:35 CET

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I agree, but I'll take any opportunity to shill Ghost to people who write newsletters 🙂

2026-02-04 20:43:23 CET

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well, check those timings in the logs with journalctl first, good chance they'll say what's up.
The built-in metrics Mastodon added in 4.4 (iirc) are pretty nice to have in general though.

2026-02-04 20:35:33 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jab01701mid/116013979425553055
I really hate to see virtually every 'independent' journalist centralize themselves on Substack 🙁
#note1n2w…l8tc

2026-02-04 20:20:56 CET

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you're aware Puma's backlog is connections that have been established but not yet processed by something else, and not a backlog of connections right?
What are the requests waiting for when they're in this queue? Like, if you look at the logs for the mastodon-web service, each line should include something like: duration=5.78 view=0.00 db=1.27
Do you have Prometheus metrics enabled?

2026-02-04 20:02:41 CET

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oh, if you have pgBouncer already then that is good. I see... where are you getting this backlog number from?

2026-02-04 19:02:23 CET

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1500 connection limit? 👀
I have double your active users running on under 30 direct postgres connections most of the time. WEB_CONCURRENCY=24 and MAX_THREADS=15 (this is specific to my 44 CPU core count, don't overdo it...)
This might be over-explaining, but this is my setup:
1. You need to install pgBouncer https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/#pgbouncer
I have max_client_conn = 10000 and default_pool_size = 30 and reserve_pool_size = 120 set in pgbouncer.ini
This allows practically unlimited connections from Mastodon, but only 30 will be opened with postgres. It will scale up to 150 if absolutely required but that very rarely ever happens.
2. You should set max connections in Postgres itself to 300 and check https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua again.
Use OLTP instead of Web as the DB type. If your DB is on the same server as Mastodon don't just enter your total core count and RAM, enter only what you want dedicated to Postgres (so... probably about half).
Some settings depend on what max connections is, so if you ran pgTune before and then increased it they're probably wrong, best to double-check them all.
3. Profit

2026-02-04 02:54:34 CET

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my instance has been having the exact same issue completely out of the blue as of a few weeks ago, with no changes to PeerTube nor my object storage whatsoever 🤔
I haven’t had much of a chance to take a look yet, but I’ll look at it tonight and let you know if I find anything that might be helpful.

2026-02-03 03:26:19 CET

Say what you will about AT&T, but now I might actually get native IPv6 within this decade on my Quantum Fiber uplink lol

2026-02-02 19:36:00 CET

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what kind of hosting and technical assistance do you need?
(I mean, do you need a generic web server provider where you admin Mastodon yourself, or do you need a Mastodon-specific service provider similar to masto.host that is responsible for installing updates and other admin things on your behalf?)

2026-02-02 18:11:49 CET

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I mean it’s not easy to obtain IPs, but for the people who are actually serious about it, it’s not really a problem. I obtained a /24 and a /22 last year without much hassle to be honest.
Whereas it is literally completely impossible to become a DNS authority unless you are a mega corp. The difference is significant.

2026-02-02 17:49:00 CET

Can I start putting Nobel Prize Nominee on my resume now?

2026-02-01 23:00:54 CET

It’s so annoying that they basically hand out IP addresses if you want them, but if you want your own TLD in DNS it’s gonna cost you like a million+ bucks.
ICANN is a shitty company anyways, between removing their price cap on .org domains to sell it to private equity, and giving the .amazon TLD to Amazon the company after 7 years of dispute, instead of Amazon *the region that makes up half of South America.*
So I wouldn’t want to give them a dime anyways, but weren’t there any DNS nerds in the 80s & 90s who could’ve stopped this corporate nonsense?
#ICANN #DNS

2026-02-01 22:49:57 CET

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heeey wait a second… yeah 🤨

2026-02-01 04:34:33 CET

Trying to get better about remembering to use the notes section of my website to actually note down random things that aren't worth a blog post https://www.jonaharagon.com/notes/my-theory-about-apples-limit-precise-location-from-cellular-networks-feature/

2026-01-31 20:59:23 CET

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TIL “demented” refers to dementia actually

2026-01-31 20:41:35 CET

What the hell, is this how much people pay for illegal drugs? Or was Epstein scamming them? How could regular people afford to do drugs at prices like this? (I know nothing about drugs lol)
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/115/991/392/424/900/296/original/6ade42cd0d930170.png

2026-01-31 17:04:36 CET

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and what law allows them to do that?

2026-01-30 17:46:37 CET

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Microsoft Windows by 2027:
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/115/985/061/203/720/010/original/8a9635773d2703df.png

2026-01-30 15:30:49 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115983962410922493
This is how all teams should think about their products. If you don’t care enough about it yourself, maybe don’t release it to the world.
#note12vf…euny

2026-01-30 07:32:53 CET

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this is how I find out Cohost closed? 😂

2026-01-30 06:48:21 CET

Unfortunately some cutting edge research still does crop up on Twitter from time to time, gotta hand it to them.
https://mastodon-cdn.neat.computer/media_attachments/files/115/982/458/712/446/687/original/73990a3a21c779eb.jpeg

2026-01-30 05:56:46 CET

Social media is so warped, because getting like 20 likes/favs on a post is kinda whatever, but if one day 20 different people independently complimented me or something I said in real life, I would probably never forget that for as long as I lived

2026-01-29 22:33:36 CET

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115980421498763461
Can they please 1) stop announcing these like a single day in advance, and 2) stop doing them on Fridays?
I'm not saying weekends obviously, but what if we turned the universal worst day of the week (Monday) into a protest instead? 😄
#note1qy8…7lpq

2026-01-29 16:28:36 CET

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@feistyduck/115979035108218406
Certificates for IP addresses but still not .onion addresses. Pls Let’s Encrypt I’m begging
#note1ld3…kykm

2026-01-29 07:07:09 CET

When will people realize that if #AI could really do all the things that they say it can do, then they wouldn’t be trying to sell it to you?