If you want to, you can set your Mastodon account to automatically delete your own posts after a certain time period (for example posts older than 90 days). You can also set it to retain certain types of posts even after the period has elapsed.

There is a step-by-step guide about how to use this feature at:

➡️ fedi.tips/deleting-posts-autom…

The guide also answers lots of questions including why deletions sometimes get delayed, and whether auto-deletion stresses server resources.

#FediTips

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Many mysql processes "/usr/bin/mariadbd" and CPU at 100%,makes Friendica unstable


Hello @Friendica Support I need your support please
I have a problem for a few weeks now which makes my server unstable , and makes Friendica inaccessible, the simplest and fastest solution is to restart the server.
I noticed that this problem also happens to me when I send friend requests

Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
Friendica version 2024.08
mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.11.8-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper

As you can see from the screenshot there are many mysql processes , /usr/bin/mariadbd , and the CPU is at 100%

Some help please...

Thanks
Cheers

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

Hi @Michael Vogel
I tried to change my configuration /etc/mysql/my.cnf I added

[mysqld]

join_buffer_size = 2M
innodb_log_file_size = 1G
tmp_table_size = 512M
max_heap_table_size = 512M
wait_timeout = 60
max_connections = 500
skip-name-resolve
query_cache_size=64M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=4600M
key_buffer_size=1G
innodb_file_per_table=1
innodb_log_buffer_size=212M
innodb_buffer_pool_instances=5
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT
open_files_limit=40000
table_open_cache=2200
wait_timeout=28800
interactive_timeout=28800
max_connections=1000

This is the current configuration,I made small changes at a time, but the problem is the same (Bad Gateway Error 502), with the other configurations I had little RAM usage but the CPU was at 100% .

It could be an inefficient/Slow query? 🙄


#ProblemasDePrimerMundo
Hay un disco que tengo en MP3 de baja calidad... no lo venden.. no está en torrent.. no esta en plataformas... hay un disco en acetato/LP/vinil en 🇨🇱 Chile... aunque decidiera pagar por el disco y el envío, no tengo como digitalizarlo..
discointrepido.cl/punto-de-ent…

de casualidad no hay alguien en #Santiago con un #tornamesa digital que quiera ayudar?

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#PSA #PayPal is changing their privacy statement/terms of service starting November so that they can sell your information to merchants.

You CAN opt out, but you have to do it before they start:

Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

ETA: this is probably country specific, due to differing privacy laws.

You can try privacy>settings>recommendations

Check replies, people have found the same toggle under a different header.

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¿Apoyar la creación de un impuesto europeo sobre las grandes fortunas? Dónde hay que firmar? Aquí :ablobjam: tax-the-rich.es/

No hace falta firma digital, con número dni también. Y es una iniciativa oficial a nivel europeo, no un change.org

Joer, me ha llevado menos de 60 segundos y lo había retooteado muchas veces y aún no lo había firmado

Faltan pocos días y aún no se ha llegado al mínimo. No hagáis como yo y retooteis sin haber firmado antes, son 40 segundos 😅

#taxtherich

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WTF is wrong with people worldwide?!

“#Austria's far-right Freedom Party is heading for unprecedented general election victory under leader Herbert Kickl: projections..based on initial results, give Kickl's party 29.1% - almost three points ahead of the conservative People's Party on 26.2%, but far short of a majority.

Freedom Party has been in coalition before, but the second-placed conservative People's Party has refused to take part in a government led by him”

bbc.in/3TOHeNI

Oh man! I was cringing for the poor guy just listening to this. What a pro.

In the 11 o'clock hour on Friday morning, an outage in the newsroom led to WBBM's signal coming off the air and news gathering systems going down. WBBM NEWSRADIO
Anchor Rob Hart was in the studio and brought people up to speed while things got running again. WBBM NEWSRADIO 780AM & 105.9FM is in Chicago, Illinois.
Owned by Audacy, Inc.

And while this was resolved quickly enough, it does raise some serius issues about how the public would be kept informed if some sort of sustained cyber attack was launched that took out newsrooms like this.

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in reply to Evangelische Akademikerschaft

Ui, vielleicht hier gar nicht so einfach unmissverständlich und in aller Kürze umfänglich genug darzustellen...

Bei Kirchens sehe ich eine weite Spanne: Von der digitalen Totalverweigerung bis zu den Superhipstern.

Kleinere Gemeinden im ländlichen Raum sind mir vielleicht am nächsten. Da gibt es manche, die steht vor dem personellen Kollaps...

Praktische Unterstützung im digitalen Bereich vor Ort könnte ein Aufgabengebiet sein. Grundlegende Medien- und Digitalkompetenzvermittelung an konkreten Aufgaben, z.B. wie organisiert man eine Vorbereitungsgruppe für den Weihnachtsgottesdienst digital:

* Einsatz eines fairen Chatsystems für die Arbeitsgruppe
* Bearbeitung gemeinsamer Dokumente in einer selbstgehosteten Cloud des Kirchenkreises
* Nutzung von Trackingfreiem SocialMedia, nicht um 1000de Follower zu bekommen, sondern lokal ansprechend wahrgenommen zu werden
usw. usw.

Das alles auf eine Art und Weise und mit Tools, die beispielgebend sind für eine #selbstbestimmtDigital e Arbeit, in der wir unsere besonderen Skills auspielen, siehe z.B. hier:

procial.tchncs.de/notes/9yh18b…

in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Ein anderer Aspekt könnte praktische Unterstützung für Vernetzung sein:

Es gibt in D eine breitgefächerte, professionelle und trotzdem an der Basis gebliebene Szene, die sich für eine freiheitlich-demokratische #Digitalgesellschaft einsetzt.

Ich sehe #digitaleKirche nur in wenigen Ausnahmen in dieser Richtung konsequent unterwegs. @librechurch@kirche.social wäre eine solche Ausnahme.

Hin und wieder wird aus der Szene mal ein Speaker für eine Keynote zu digitaler Kirche eingeladen, aber die praktische Arbeit in den Gemeinden vor Ort (und auf höherer kirchlicher Ebene?) scheint mir sehr weit weg davon.

Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:

"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"

newscientist.com/article/24491…

How can this possibly be legal?

Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.

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in reply to Seirdy

ok I think I made a joke that was just for me.

Google’s technical writing in practice isn’t actually that bad. the things the style guide chooses to be opinionated and lax on are just a bit odd. very lax on ambiguous terminology but opinionated about using contractions.

the joke I was going for was that the official app icons give me that exact vibe. very ambiguous, very different styles, yet somehow too coherent. it’s actually a bit unsettling.

Meet, Chat, TV, even Calendar: all empty rainbow squares that look the same. Prioritizing similar aesthetics over uniqueness.

Yet most older apps with an existing brand not tied to their empty-rainbow-outline icon guidelines seem recognizable: Classroom, Earth, Voice, YouTube (different palettes, not empty shapes). But some of these will likely join the graveyard of abandoned Google products.

New silly conspiracy theory: Google sunsets old products so they can be replaced by products with icons conforming to its newest icon guidelines.

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in reply to Seirdy

I mean yeah, some icons are just bad

but e.g. from GNOME perspective that was absolutely the right move. At one point we had icons like this: 3.bp.blogspot.com/-UBhifwD1gzU…
Well, that's an idealistic lie. In reality, they were like this: news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/…
See, only about 3 people in the entire world knew how to draw icons in that specific style and it tooks weeks to make a single icon. Yeah, there were guidelines, but it's way too elaborate for anyone to bother, and so no one did. Every single third party app (except those jimmac/etc made an icon for personally) had crappy icons. I mean corebird on the second screenshot is actually a GNOME app.

So, we drastically simplified icons and made them very geometric, as well as got rid of all the 5 or 6 different sizes and just have a single svg per app. Result? Even the less polished apps have reasonable looking icons. I mean look at this: apps.gnome.org/ - there isn't a single app with a crappy icon there. (ok ok, being in circle already implies a baseline level of quality, but take a look at apps designed for gnome on flathub and it's same story there)

Same story for symbolics - some people were pissed that GNOME uses symbolic icons for apps instead of tango style, but like? I'm not an artist at all, and yet I managed to draw a bunch of these icons for highscore just fine. Previously I'd have to ask a designer.

And well - same for UI styles. Yeah, iOS 6 apps looked very very elaborate, but good luck doing that without an artist. The barrier of entry is so so much lower without an expectation that your app will use wood/leather textures (which were not a part of the platform btw! it was a custom thing in each app, unlike Mac OS X brushed metal)

in reply to Alice

@alice yeah i was thinking about like. official apps and components that progressively simplify the design at the expense of usability.

Apple honestly didn’t do nearly as badly here as MS did, but at least MS supports WHCM to put bring borders back so I can identify boundaries between components.

I’m biased. I really struggle with identifying boundaries without prominent borders or gradients, remembering icon purposes, etc. so I’ve mostly been noticing years of regressions that I’ve had to theme away.

Russian law could ban the child-free lifestyle.

Russians who promote 'child-free movement' could soon face hefty fine, Putin says woman's purpose is to birth children and basically, being childless is a threat to national security and state longevity

They are trying to consolidate that the woman’s role boils down to exclusively bearing children

Now we know where JD Vance got his anti cat woman, pro birth woman talking points #USPol
nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-…

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