Jussi Halla-aho (Finns) boosted his support in the final stages of the campaign, but it was not enough to dislodge either of the top two presidential contenders.

I'm looking for a service I could install to archive a huge pile of letters, preferably in PDF form, to a database. I'm living in a country where paper is still king, and digital services are either non-existent, or loathed (Germany). My current situation is that I have a mailbox with lots of PDFs all over the place, but also many folders of paper sent in 2007 etc. that I have to keep, but I also have to find them every five years or so.

So what I'd like to have is a service to my homelab, where I could scan these and copy these, that would index them, clean them, OCR them and all that good stuff. It should have really good metadata abilities, because my files are usually named in a very random way, so if I could copy these, and quickly categorize them, that would be really awesome.

There is one service called Papermerge, that kind of fits to my use-case. I spent one afternoon with it, and there were a few issues:

• crashes quite often
• when sending a large folder of PDFs, uses all the CPU and crashes again
• categorizing functions are not very good, it takes time to get everything together and clean when organizing files

This might not be very interesting if your country has digital services for everything, but for us needing to suffer this paper madness, a service to do so would be great.

I'm running a small Lemmy server using the Ansible setup modified to our needs. Now, we do not post that many (if any) images, but I'm also running an Akkoma server with Cloudflare R2 setup for images, and I was wondering is there an easy way to just set the Lemmy server to use this bucket? Would be better than to just keep them lying around in the server disk for sure.

If somebody else did this, is there any written documentation on the best practices? I might need to (again) modify the Ansible scripts, but I'd love to not waste time making mistakes if there's a good way to do this.

How would a man wear pants?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nauk.io/post/126239

Akkoma is an active fork of Pleroma, which implements ActivityPub protocol underneath and serves an interface similar to microblogging platforms such as Twitter or Tumblr. It implements a complete Mastodon client API, so all Mastodon clients work with it without trouble, even the Mastodon web UI can be installed and used with Akkoma.

Why Akkoma over Mastodon? It's written in Elixir, so it's faster and uses less resources than Mastodon. You can also define a character limit to your posts, use markdown formatting, quote posts and add emoji reactions. Perfect for small personal instances, you can run it super cheap.

Trying to follow Kbin communities from my Lemmy instance is a bit broken. If I try to open one, e.g. https://lemmy.nauk.io/c/linux@kbin.social from my instance, It gives me 404 and the logs show the following error:

2023-06-11T11:01:46.475407Z  WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: couldnt_find_community: error decoding response body: missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182
   0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::resolve_actor_identifier
             at crates/apub/src/fetcher/mod.rs:16
   1: lemmy_apub::api::read_community::perform
           with self=GetCommunity { id: None, name: Some("linux@kbin.social"), auth: Some(Sensitive) }
             at crates/apub/src/api/read_community.rs:30
   2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
           with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.nauk.io http.target=/api/v3/community otel.kind="server" request_id=e1b55819-fd89-4c89-a145-3ba606fb28b7 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"
             at src/root_span_builder.rs:16
LemmyError { message: Some("couldnt_find_community"), inner: error decoding response body: missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182

Caused by:
    missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182, context: "SpanTrace" }

Is this a known error in 0.17.3, if not, I should file an issue.

Edit: filed an issue

I'm trying to follow myself in Lemmy from my Akkoma instance. I can search for @pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io from my Akkoma instance, and find myself just fine. Clicking follow sends a follow request, but it just pending forever and I see no notifications or anything on my Lemmy instance. Do I need to do something from Lemmy to allow following from other instances? Should this even work?