anniemo @anniemo71@toot.wales

successfuly updated #yunohost to 4.4 or something (from 4.1?) and realised my #funkwhale _ynh instance actually works (I thought it doesn't) then started an upgrade of funkwhale_ynh and it failed miserably because there was not enough free space since it wanted to make a full copy of the media folder. it failed so hard it lost most of media! I already lost all hope then realised vps has backups. Now rebuilding the vps but it's taking 11minutes already?!?!

#sysAdmin #hetzner

@jens @rysiek @web3isgreat #Hetzner used to be great. But their web interface failing for months to allow me to update my CC details and the support refusing to do it manually (effectively forcing me to click through PayPal every month in order to pay the invoice), together with two price increases throughout one year, make me increasingly less happy to use #Hetzner.

Thinking about weed suppressant fabric. I don't really like the idea of using all that plastic in my allotment, but the weeds are really bad

Former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley wrapped things up on Saturday with a barnstorming speech in the company of another Welsh icon, Dafydd Iwan https://nation.cymru/news/watch-all-the-speeches-and-images-from-the-cardiff-march-for-independence/

🚜 A young Welsh animator has put together a short film with the intention of encouraging farmers to reach out and ensure they get the mental health support they need. https://nation.cymru/culture/watch-animator-makes-film-to-tackle-the-stigma-around-welsh-farmers-mental-health-struggles/

I wrote up some instructions on how to enable the "Edit button" on your Mastodon instance, if anyone's interested.

Basically edit
1. app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_action_bar.js
2. app/javascript/mastodon/features/status/components/action_bar.js

Uncomment menu.push({ text: intl.formatMessage(messages.edit), action: this.handleEditClick });

Do a yarn run build:production and restart your Mastodon services and that should enable it!

Boost appreciated 🔁

https://phocks.notion.site/How-to-enable-Mastodon-s-secret-edit-button-on-a-v3-5-3-instance-8c63841befec40a090f44eb85967bc8b

Not sure if I've told y'all this, but my dream is to move the writing industry into the world of FOSS.

Just seen that #Hetzner, my 'go-to' cloud site (at least the one that I use when I can't find an app on #Pikapods) now has an installer for #wireguard!

Good news for people in the market for a #VPN. Costs less than £5/month.

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/apps/list/wireguard/

Of which Wales is William the Prince? Is it a Wales where people sleep rough in doorways, where working-class people of every race, colour & creed are struggling to get by? ✍️ David Llewellyn
https://nation.cymru/culture/this-walking-life-canton-to-adamsdown-monday-19th-september/

'As a lifelong Conservative, you can imagine my surprise at agreeing with Plaid Cymru this week after the Tories' 'Kami-Kwasi' bombing run.' ✍️ Andrew Potts
https://nation.cymru/opinion/im-a-lifelong-conservative-but-im-agreeing-with-plaid-cymru-on-the-kami-kwasi-tax-cuts/

I'm standing in my garden in T-shirt and shorts, enjoying the warmth of the sun on my skin. In the UK. In October. That's not supposed to be possible.

We are in *so* much trouble.

If you have an indepdently hosted WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server using a special plug-in. This means that people on Mastodon etc. can follow your blog and interact with it.

You can install it on your blog by logging into the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New, then search for "ActivityPub". The plug-in you want is called "ActivityPub" and is by Matias Pfefferle.

You can also see more info about it at https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub and the author is on the Fediverse at @pfefferle

Once it's installed, you can find the blog's Fediverse address in your WordPress dashboard's Users section, it's listed at the bottom of the user's profile options. You can copy and paste this address into the search box on Mastodon etc to interact with that user's blog.

You'll also see an ActivityPub section in the Settings menu.

Note : This plug-in only works on independently hosted WordPress-powered blogs. It doesn't work on Wordpress.com free blogs.

#WordPress #Fediverse

@anniemo71 I'm not sure I would get a flash with lots of Linux options preinstalled like that. I'm not sure how well that's going to work.

The simplest option is to get a blank flash drive and then put manjaro onto it. Which isn't very hard, instructions here: https://linuxways.net/manjaro/how-to-create-a-live-usb-for-manjaro-linux-on-windows-10/

@davidoclubb

My 2y old nephew figured out how to use Signal to start a video call with me, so now he keeps calling and asks if he can come over to play with my Lego 😂

@anniemo71 where are you (roughly)? I can ask my group of open source people in Wales in case there's someone in the area to help

@Sbectol @anniemo71 a flash drive will work fine to try it out and see if it'll work, even if it's not very practical in the long term

"Finland wants to transform how we make clothes"

#Finland #Clothes #Clothing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62806565

Good morning. I hope your apiary is sweet and calm 🐝🍯

My relatives were starving in SW England. They came to work in the most dangerous coal mines in Wales because the only other choice was death.

If you ask people in this valley, the majority have great or great great grandparents from England.

There is solidarity between exploited, ignored and brutalised people. There is nothing in common between the workers and the wealthy in castles and palaces on either side of the Severn.

‘Our voices often lost in the melee of elitism; our desires and intentions and triumphs rarely known.
But when we pool our resources, we can become a veritable storm of power’ ✍️Laura Mochan https://nation.cymru/opinion/power-to-the-little-people/