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submitted 3 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

It's been a while and we're overdue for a new release. Not a whole lot has changed, mostly refinements here and there. The same, but better.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 97 points 6 months ago

I'm going to go way out on a limb here and guess nothing will happen if I do neither.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 35 points 6 months ago

Now people want recall?

[-] tedu@azorius.net 27 points 6 months ago

It's so weird.

Due to the fact that Facebook has chosen to involve software that will allow the theft of my personal information, I do declare the following: on this day, 30th November 2014, in response to the new Facebook guidelines and under articles L.111, 112 and 113 of the code of intellectual property, I declare that my rights are attached to all my personal data, drawings, paintings, photos, texts etc... published on my profile since the day I opened my account. For commercial use of the foregoing my written consent is required at all times. Those reading this text can copy it and paste it on their Facebook wall. This will allow them to place themselves under the protection of copyright. By this release, I tell Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, broadcast, or to take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The actions mentioned above apply equally to employees, students, agents and/or other staff under the direction of Facebook. The contents of my profile include private information. The violation of my privacy is punished by the law (UCC 1 1-308 - 308 1 -103 and the Rome Statute). Facebook is now an open capital entity. All members are invited to post a notice of this kind, or if you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you have not published this statement at least once, you will tacitly allow the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile update. Do not share. Just copy on paste on your wall.

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submitted 6 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

There's now a (none) group, which is where posts that don't belong to a group land, instead of being dropped. This improves compat with microblog oriented services. You can't browse the none group yet; the URL just 404s, which actually seems appropriate. I still think different interfaces for different purposes is the way, but this was pretty low effort. Maybe there's one person always posting links and you'd like to see their posts on your cool links aggregator.

I pulled in a few honks from myself.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 44 points 6 months ago

A simpler explanation is that users are tired of everybody with a customer support issue running to daddy HN and making a big fuss trying to get their way.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 61 points 6 months ago

So weird, that's not what I see.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 57 points 6 months ago

I'm impressed the verge was able to refer to the issue without using the word nudes in the headline.

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hashtag support (azorius.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

Tags are now linked at the bottom of each post and viewable on the web, such as /tag/activitypub or /tag/c.

Didn't get to parsing hashtags out of the post body yet, but that's not so urgent. #done.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 39 points 7 months ago

Real talk, the mastodon traffic stampede isn't that bad for a properly configured website.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 128 points 7 months ago

There's plenty of dumb to go around, but the word frunk by itself is the dumbest thing about this story.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 184 points 7 months ago

I like how the verb in the headline evolves every time I see this story. First he was surprised. Then he was shocked. Now he's alarmed. Maybe I'll check back tomorrow and learn he's horrified!

[-] tedu@azorius.net 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The full quote if you don't want to read the article.

Another significant challenge was the impact of December workforce reduction. Although there’s no question that it was the right strategic decision, it did disrupt our day-to-day operations more than we anticipated. It took us some time to find our footing, but more than four months into this transition, I think we’re back on track and I expect to continue improving on our execution throughout the year getting us to an even better place than we’ve ever been.

And the full transcript of the earnings call if you want to read the whole thing.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4685308-spotify-technology-s-spot-q1-2024-earnings-call-transcript

[-] tedu@azorius.net 54 points 8 months ago

I am going to guess that Google will not be broken up right now.

[-] tedu@azorius.net 64 points 8 months ago

He doesn't just want the links to change. He wants the mindshare to change. To erase twitter.com from consciousness. Because X is like, super cool, man. So the solution is to rewrite tweets so it's impossible to say the ungood name.

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Source Control Management (SCM) Systems, have a long and rich history. As the systems evolved, so have their concepts, use cases and adoption over time. While SCMs are ubiquitous in modern software development, they have been fairly novel in the 80s and 90s, and arguable it took the rise of Git and Github for them to be used nearly everywhere.

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composite groups (azorius.net)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

I've implemented basic support for composite groups (groups of groups). (Formerly named meta groups.) There's a lot of redundancy because of the federated nature of the azoriverse, with similar groups duplicated across multiple servers. Composite groups are a solution, by presenting users with a (somewhat transparent) single group that collects all of the posts.

I've created two groups, metaprog and technoscience, for demo and testing.

This is still preliminary, so federation doesn't quite work yet, but eventually the goal would be that you can follow a composite group, and it will forward activities. Instead of having to individually chase down every new programming group that gets created, you could delegate that the metaprog admin (me) to keep the group list updated.

Some basic federation is now working. I think it probably won't work from Lemmy, ironically, but azorius, honk and mastodon, etc. should be able to follow these groups. (Don't follow from azorius until after updating.)

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First, I tried Googling the answer and found the following definitive blog post: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ The ten-year-old write-up, along with some later YouTube tech talks, gave me a starting answer: “because performance.”

But I wanted to go deeper and hear from the original deciding engineers. With the help of a teammate, I posted a question on the ex-Facebookers group asking about the history. I also cold-emailed two of the original engineers working on the project to migrate onto Mercurial - they were kind enough to call me off the record and give personal accounts of the project.

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So I asked about people’s favourite git config options on Mastodon:

As usual I got a TON of great answers and learned about a bunch of very popular git config options that I’d never heard of.

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submitted 9 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

Mostly bugfixes and some refinements.

  • Some performance improvements.
  • Newest sort for comments.
  • Activity tab shows active threads.
  • Add some improved support for compat with Note activities.
  • Only accept and serve activities with the correct content type.
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short update (azorius.net)
submitted 9 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

There's a few changes in the pipeline to work a little better with mastodon (sigh). It's gone through a few iterations of live testing, but once I think it's stable will release.

Don't want to wait too long, this also has the security fix for activities served with the wrong content type.

A few other tweaks that I may get to, or not.

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submitted 10 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

Minor update. A few refinements and fixes.

  • Fix 32 bit support.
  • Close database to give the wal file a chance to checkpoint.
  • Reply notif links to comment.
  • Collapse and expand threads.
  • Dedupe posts across groups.
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Deduping (azorius.net)
submitted 11 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

Finally got around to fixing a common annoyance. There's four different groups covering "technology" and the same link gets posted to all of them every time. These are now deduped in the main feed.

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submitted 11 months ago by tedu@azorius.net to c/azorius@azorius.net

New release. Not a lot of changes, mostly bug fixes and some interop improvements. Biggest feature of note is post previews.

There's not a lot happening. I like it.

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