Hey y’all! Just got hit with an acute case of #layoffs. My entire team at Okta was laid off (including yours truly), and a few sibling teams were sacked as well; dozens of people I used to work with, gone in a day. Still processing it all.
If you know of a good company looking for a solid Software Engineer (Node, JS/TS, Tailwind, edge, k8s, CI/CD, you name it), please let me know.
Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!
We can help you transition away from:
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Dropbox, iCloud, etx
Amazon/Audible
Google
Almost anything else!
You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!
For those unfamiliar with it, Lemmy is basically a federated version of Reddit, distributed across multiple servers like Mastodon. (For anyone who wants to delve further, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and aussie.zone are three popular Lemmy instances.)
From Mastodon, you can follow any Lemmy group by following its handle, exactly the same way that you would follow a Mastodon account. Any new posts to that group will then begin appearing in your Mastodon feed.
Even better, if you start a thread on Mastodon, you can also post it to a relevant Lemmy group just by including its handle in your post. (Please note this only seems to work with the first post of a thread.)
A question: Has anyone done a survey on the cost of running a #Mastodon instance - both in terms of expenditures for running and maintaining the software on a server, and the time the admins have to spend on running and administering it?
And how does this scale depending on the number of users? #FediHelp
Ich brauche mal Hilfe für eine Freundin: Sie möchte diese Casio Retro-Uhr von 1973 repariert haben. Trotz Batteriewechsel funktioniert sie nicht. Kennt ihr Dienstleisterinnen, Expertinnen oder sonstige Anlaufstellen, vielleicht sonstige hilfreiche Tipps? Ein "normaler" Uhrmacher konnte nicht helfen. #FediHelp#FediHilfe
1/ One part of the #Fediverse which I think is still criminally underutilized is #BookWyrm . I, too, created an account months ago, only to ignore it for a long time. But now I'm finally making strides in indexing my library, and I want to share what I have learned about making this process as smoothly as possible.
First, of course, you will need your own BookWyrm account - the following website can help you with choosing an appropriate instance (as with Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms, there are multiple instances to choose from).
Has anyone experience with transporting a newborn by bicycle? I researched a ton and am truly surprised how nontrivial it is. My main question is: at what age did you start transporting them by bike and with what equipment? My kid is just a month old now but I really would rather not want to rely on public transport until she is 6 months.
some years ago, somebody posted on mastodon that they produced a zine that contained simple graphical representations of different drum patterns. anyone remembers this? who was it? is this still available?
Hallo liebe Leute, wollt ihr meiner Band und mir helfen?
Da unser Gitarrist leider Deutschland verlassen hat, sind wir nun auf der Suche nach einer neuen Gitarristin die wir in unserer Mitte aufnehmen können.
Wir proben für gewöhnlich ein mal die Woche entweder Dienstags oder Donnerstags in #Hamburg Hamm
OK, Probably won't get chance to do this for a week or so, but I think the time is coming for me to get off .social, and find a new instance. Anyone got any suggestions as to where I would fit as a maker type, woke, veggie and lazy half read anarchist? Basically if there is a server where people are using PCB hotplates for delicious falafel whilst misquoting Proudhon... also feel free to post links to nice guides on how to migrate with minimal disruption! #fedihelp#mastodon
OK maybe I can try this in English too. I'm looking for a #horror#comic or short #graphicNovel that was published in the #eighties or earlier and was a graphical representation of the well know “boyfriend's death” story (Sheriff finds the girl variant) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-boyfriends-death/
It was published on an Italian comics magazine in the 70s or 80s, but I'm sure it was American. I can't find the issue anymore. Anybody knows it? Boosts welcome for reach.
I have an #eWaste problem that I would like to solve: two #dell laptops that refuse to boot. One lights up for a couple of seconds, before shutting down again. The other seems completely dead, even after replacing the battery. The laptops are otherwise in decent conditions and I would like to revitalize them for my kids as they come of age.
So I'm definitely going to have to move off a Stux-run instance. I am #queer, #disabled, #neurodivergent, I like #VideoGames, #SciFi and #plants and I'm an #immigrant in the #UK. Anyone got any instance recs? Good moderation and robust systems to stop one mod from nuking the instance very much wanted. #fedihelp
Ich bin Mieter eines Proberaum in Hamburg-Hamm und suche Untermieter*innen
Der Raum wird momentan von drei Bands genutzt wovon eine zum Ende Februar auszieht.
Die monatliche Miete beträgt (je nach Anzahl personen) ca. 35€ inkl. Nebenkosten Pro Person
Bei Interesse gerne eine DM oder E-Mail an mich
mike@logbuch35mm.de
Ich bin auf der Suche nach einem Möbelscharnier bzw. ein Teil davon. Es gehört zu einer Tür eines Sideboards von Dieter Rams/Vitseo aus der RZ57-Serie. Leider ist es abgebrochen und daher bin ich auf der Suche nach z.B. einen Shop für solche Originalteile. Kennt jemand der jemanden kennt der …
I have a non-Masto friend that lives up there, and wanted to suggest a local instance, but I was surprised to not find any!
Would anyone know of a friendly, smaller instance for a progressive Presbyterian minister who is into geek culture and lives in the north Wisconsin / Minnesota area?
Eine Kollegin von mir sucht eine deutschsprachige Übersicht, auf der Eigenschaften oder Stärken von Kindern mit Autismus dargestellt sind. Hat jemand eine Idee, wo es sowas gibt?
Liebe #vegane Leuts & #Allies, wenn ihr zusammen #essen geht, bitte geht in vegane #Restaurants. Bei Gruppen von veganen + nichtveganen Leuten geht's meist in "Gemischtwarenläden", weshalb vegane Läden weniger Zuspruch haben. Sie sind aber — neben ihrem ethischen Beitrag — eine der wenigen Zufluchtsorte für die veganen Freundys, wo sie einmal nicht mit all dem #Tierleid konfrontiert werden.
Derzeit gehen viele vegane Läden kaputt.
Bitte helft diese Orte zu erhalten.🙏
Teilen erwünscht. #fedihelp
möchte jemand aus #hamburg oder #berlin diesen freundlichen #samojede|n im juni 2024 betreuen? ich brauche dringend urlaub und wir können ihn leider nicht mitnehmen. boosts wären super. #fedihelp#dogsitting#samoyed