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schestowitzI didn't have an account with Joindiaspora. But I think the way this team is going about it is absolutely great. Thank you for so much commitment. This is the spirit in which the Internet was created - long before commerce tried by all means to take it over.Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzWolfgang Strobl (vanishing account)Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzWolfgang Strobl (vanishing account) - about 16 hours agoMar 06 01:51
schestowitz@(((Dirk Weber))) I also find it remarkable and praiseworthy how this team proceeds and that it drives this effort at all. Don't underestimate the problems you run into when you don't want to just crash an entire system or replace it with something else. Especially if it is old, has not yet been fully developed and lacks any migration options. Personally, I don't necessarily want Usenet back, but I find it remarkable and gratifying that a worldwide Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzdistributed communication system, in which I participated more than 35 years ago, is available to me continuously and largely unchanged to this day. Mar 06 01:51
schestowitz"Mar 06 01:51
schestowitz(((Dirk Weber)))Mar 06 01:51
schestowitz(((Dirk Weber))) - about 18 hours agoMar 06 01:51
schestowitzIch hatte ja nun keinen Account bei Joindiaspora. Aber wie dieses Team da vorgeht, das finde ich absolut Spitze. Vielen Dank für soviel Engagement. Das ist der Geist, in welchem das Internet einmal entstanden ist - lange bevor der Kommerz mit allen Mitteln versucht, es zu übernehmen.Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzWolfgang Strobl (vanishing account)Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzWolfgang Strobl (vanishing account) - about 16 hours agoMar 06 01:51
schestowitz@(((Dirk Weber))) Wie dieses Team vorgeht und dass es diesen Aufwand überhaupt treibt, finde ich ebenfalls beachtenswert und löblich. Die Probleme, die man bekommt, wenn man ein alles System nicht einfach zusammenbrechen lassen mag oder durch irgend etwas anderes ersetzen möchte, sollte man nicht unterschätzen. Insbesondere dann, wenn es alt ist, bis heute nicht fertig entwickelt und bar jeder Migrationsmöglichkeiten. Ich persönlich wünsche Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzmir das Usenet zwar nicht unbedingt zurück, finde es aber beachtlich und erfreulich, dass mir ein weltweites verteiltes Kommunikationssystem, an dem ich schon vor über 35 Jahren teilgenommen habe, kontinuierlich und weitgehend unverändert bis heute zur Verfügung steht.Mar 06 01:51
schestowitz(((Dirk Weber)))Mar 06 01:51
schestowitz(((Dirk Weber))) - about 14 hours agoMar 06 01:51
schestowitzAckMar 06 01:51
schestowitzhttps://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ad4b9c307e3b013ae0ff52540086c3e0Mar 06 01:51
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.glasswings.com | And JoinDiaspora is "back"! As we've announced, the pod will be ava...Mar 06 01:51
schestowitzhttps://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/6fcf5c107e30013a5b3a448a5b29e257Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz"Mar 06 01:56
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.glasswings.com | Godspeed JoindiasporaMar 06 01:56
schestowitzGodspeed JoindiasporaMar 06 01:56
schestowitzJoindiaspora.com as a fully-functioning Diaspora* pod is no more. It was the first, and possibly largest node on the federated Diaspora* network, both factors of which contributed in part to its demise as detailed by its administrators and the Diaspora* developers team.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzIt will have some limited continued existence, see below and links for details.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzAt 20:01 UTC the site started throwing 502 Bad Gateway errors. This means that the planned maintenance has begun. According to previous announcements (see below), the site will return in a “limited-service mode” at some future point, precise time not known. How long the site will remain available in this mode has also not been clear, though suggestions are that it will be at least a month. I would hope longer.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz        On Friday, March 4th, at around 20:00 UTC, JoinDiaspora will go down for a long maintenance break. We cannot yet estimate how long this will take. We will use that time to move JoinDiaspora and its data from infrastructure maintained by Feneas to infrastructure maintained by the diaspora* Core Team. This work will not resolve existing issues with exporting account data. Our work on the export feature will start at a later time, see below.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz        When maintenance is completed, JoinDiaspora will be available again in a limited-service mode. In this mode, you will no longer be able to read or write posts or comments. However, you will be able to manage your account, and you will be able to export your account data.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz– An update on the future of JoinDiaspora.com 2022-2-22Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzAs has been typical of the shutdown, there was no final announcement that I’m aware. The #Joindiaspora hashtag has a few recent posts from members, though none from Podmins, and the announcement posts lacked any hashtags — the only real searchable Diaspora* mechanism — at all. Communications could have been much better than they were. I’ll be discussing this and other matters in future.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzThere has been an update at the Joindiaspora Sunset Team profile:Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    As announced in our announcement, the server migration is currently underway. Given the size of JoinDiaspora’s filesystem and database, this might take a couple of hours to complete.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzhttps://pod.diaspora.software/posts/5009540Mar 06 01:56
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-As announced in our announcement (https://pod.diaspora.software/pos...Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzI strongly recommend monitoring that profile for further announcements:Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzProfile: @The JoinDiaspora Sunset Team (joindiaspora-sunset@pod.diaspora.software)Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzURL: https://pod.diaspora.software/u/joindiaspora-sunsetMar 06 01:56
schestowitzI do want to thank Lukas Matt and others for their time and effort all the same. Joindiaspora, like the Diaspora* project itself, has been a volunteer and amateur effort, in the original sense of that last word, performed for love not lucre.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzStatus of my Joindiaspora contentMar 06 01:56
schestowitzI’ve taken pains to see that my own content from my Joindiaspora profile, @Doc Edward Morbius (moved to Glasswings), remains as generally available as possible. Specifically:Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    I’ve requested several data exports, the most recent of which created yesterday. I’ve engaged minimally on the platform in the past two months, since the shutdown was initially announced.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    As many posts as possible have been federated to Glasswings, and hopefully other pods, as possible.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    My earliest remote followers came from the following pods and dates, which should provide the most complete set of federated posts with comments: pod.orkz (25 December 2013), pod.geraspora.de (18 January 2014), diasp.eu (31 March, 2014), diasp.de (6 May, 2014), diaspora-fr.org (22 July, 2014), spyurk.am (11 August, 2014).Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    Glasswings (diaspora.glasswings.com), my new home, seems to have begun federating between mid-April and mid-May, 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic ramped up and I posted on that topic. Earlier posts may be present (mostly by recent federation triggered by me) but the comments date from the first federation event. Yes, Diaspora* federation is … complicated.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    WIth few exceptions, any still-extant content should be available under at least its joindiaspora.com original URL at Archive.Today, including full comments. This includes both my own original posts and reshares.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    I’ve made multiple attempts to save posts to the Internet Archive. This is nominally easier as it may be automated. It does not preserve comments. In practice, I’ve found over the past several months that automated submissions via the Archive’s own supported methods do not succeed consistently. I don’t know how successful those efforts have been yet, I do plan on assessing this in future. The Archive is useful in that many people and Mar 06 01:56
schestowitztools will consult it automatically for links which have expired. Archive.Today does not yet have a similar recognition.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    I do NOT plan to delete my Joindiaspora profile, as that would have the effect of deleting all my content, including federated content. This has been an issue I’ve observed from others’ deleted profiles as I’ve attempted my own data salvage operation.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzI’ve also created, and am continuing to refine, tools which work on the downloaded data extract and which provide both local access to that content and can create formats and exports which are useful in referring to older content. In particular, an “Archive Index” generator, which summarizes the content and provides links which should in theory point to extant copies still on line. Again, that’s ongoing work, though I’ve published draft Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzversions. Those tools, incidentally, assisted greatly in manually archiving and federating most of my 2,659 posts and reshares over the past two months. Tedious, but in my case, largely tractable. I’ll be posting a curated set of public indices highlighting more significant content in future.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzI write much of this in the hopes that it will be useful to others, most especially members of other pods either presently annoucing shutdown plans (#Pluspora most notably) or which do so in future.Mar 06 01:56
schestowitzSee also:Mar 06 01:56
schestowitz    Joindiaspora Shutdown Announcement (official)Mar 06 01:57
schestowitz    Further Shutdown Scheduling and Details (official)Mar 06 01:57
schestowitz    My own Data Migration Tips & Questions threadMar 06 01:57
schestowitz#Joindiaspora #JoindiasporaCom #Diaspora #DiasporaMigration #Migration #Diaspora #Help #Tips #DataArchves #Archives #PlexodusMar 06 01:57
schestowitz"Mar 06 01:57
schestowitz> FYI, the Joindiaspora-Sunset profile has posted an update:Mar 06 01:57
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:57
schestowitz> https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ad4b9c307e3b013ae0ff52540086c3e0Mar 06 01:58
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.glasswings.com | And JoinDiaspora is "back"! As we've announced, the pod will be ava...Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ad4b9c307e3b013ae0ff52540086c3e0>Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> I've visited the "limited-service mode" site. It's a bit ... bleak.Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> I'd also managed to salvage most of my own content online (federatedMar 06 01:58
schestowitz> elsewhere on Diaspora\*, at Archive.Today, and a good chunk at Archive.org).Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> See my own brief retrospective:Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/6fcf5c107e30013a5b3a448a5b29e257Mar 06 01:58
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.glasswings.com | Godspeed JoindiasporaMar 06 01:58
schestowitz> <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/6fcf5c107e30013a5b3a448a5b29e257>Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> I'd argue that for you the POSSE model probably suits you best.Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> https://indieweb.org/POSSE <https://indieweb.org/POSSE>Mar 06 01:58
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-indieweb.org | POSSE - IndieWebMar 06 01:58
schestowitzThere is an overhead associated with POSSE.Mar 06 01:58
schestowitzIRC, locally hosted, works best for us.Mar 06 01:58
schestowitzI've archived the above.Mar 06 01:58
schestowitzWe'll see how pod migration goes, if or when it does.Mar 06 01:58
schestowitz> Surprisingly, AT&T handled my complaint much better than expected. They are sending me a technician to install a new modem on Tuesday, March 8th. I have installed several of their modems in the past as they seem to last only about 2 or 3 years. This time I am going to watch their tech guy do it.Mar 06 02:00
schestowitzExcellent. Sounds like they upgrade a little. Make sure you and the technician wear a mask.Mar 06 02:00
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schestowitz"follow me directly using RSS feeds. Techrights: http://techrights.org/feed/ personal: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/feed/ Mar 06 09:48
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schestowitzhttps://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2021-0356_EN.pdfMar 06 09:48
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schestowitzhttps://www.emptywheel.net/2022/03/04/the-error-that-betrays-insufficient-attention-to-the-obstruction-standard-in-the-january-6-eastman-filing/Mar 06 09:49
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.emptywheel.net | The Error that Betrays Insufficient Attention to the Obstruction Standard in the January 6 Eastman Filing - emptywheelMar 06 09:49
schestowitzhttps://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2022/03/05/ipc-ask-china-why-games-anti-war-speech-censored/Mar 06 09:49
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 503 @ https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2022/03/05/ipc-ask-china-why-games-anti-war-speech-censored/ )Mar 06 09:49
schestowitzhttps://www.crowdjustice.com/case/equality-act-investigation-aga/Mar 06 09:49
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.crowdjustice.com | The Green Party must respect our sex!Mar 06 09:49
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schestowitzhttp://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-050322.html#tMar%2005%2023:17:16Mar 06 09:49
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, March 05, 2022Mar 06 09:49
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schestowitz> *Excellent. Sounds like they upgrade a little. Make sure you andMar 06 14:13
schestowitz> the technician wear a mask.*Mar 06 14:13
schestowitz> Mar 06 14:13
schestowitz> I try to be careful especially when in the presence of a tech who is inMar 06 14:13
schestowitz> and out of dozens of households weekly.Mar 06 14:13
schestowitzhttps://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/8299929Mar 06 15:13
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.psyco.fr | #joindiaspora shuts down in less than 5 hours from now (after more ...Mar 06 15:13
schestowitz"https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/8299929"Mar 06 15:13
schestowitz"We’ll miss you here. Take care."Mar 06 15:13
schestowitzhttps://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/8299636Mar 06 15:13
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.psyco.fr | #Famine and Radiations as Weapons of War; Or: Nobody Will Win in #U...Mar 06 15:13
schestowitz"Mar 06 15:13
schestowitzThe #Doomsday Clock has been updated, also with past events in 2021/2022. 100 seconds away from #Midnight by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock The graph does not (yet) contain 2021/2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#/media/File:Doomsday_Clock_graph.svgMar 06 15:13
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Doomsday Clock - WikipediaMar 06 15:13
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Doomsday Clock - WikipediaMar 06 15:13
schestowitzRoland HäderMar 06 15:13
schestowitzRoland Häder - 2 days agoMar 06 15:14
schestowitzOh, the past events around #Ukraine , #Russia and #USA seem to be not yet included.Mar 06 15:14
schestowitz"Mar 06 15:14
schestowitzhttps://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/8297718Mar 06 15:14
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.psyco.fr | Another #Chrenobyl But This Time Intentional? http://schestowitz.co...Mar 06 15:14
schestowitz"Do you have any beginning of anything that could tend to prove what you want to insinuate?"Mar 06 15:14
schestowitzhttps://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/8293955Mar 06 15:16
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diaspora.psyco.fr | 3D Printed Shoes Make #Bigfoot Tracks | Hackaday ⚓ https://hackaday...Mar 06 15:16
schestowitz"This design is not the slightest bit practical for ordinary people. Think of all the mid they collect"Mar 06 15:16
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1500496430171103242Mar 06 16:26
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@BrideOfLinux: Roy Schestowitz's take: How to Make the Free Software Community Look Like a Bunch of Bigots While Accomplishing Not… https://t.co/ES8y6rkDmtMar 06 16:26
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@BrideOfLinux: Roy Schestowitz's take: How to Make the Free Software Community Look Like a Bunch of Bigots While Accomplishing Not… https://t.co/ES8y6rkDmtMar 06 16:26
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schestowitzRe: Weblog still unavailableMar 06 23:03
schestowitz> Waiting for Tuesday, March 8th, when AT&T tech scheduled to arrive to install new modem.Mar 06 23:03
schestowitz> Meanwhile is there anything below that helps you helps me in my attempt to log in with:Mar 06 23:03
schestowitz> User Name: adminMar 06 23:03
schestowitzI think this is normal considering what you try to access.Mar 06 23:03
schestowitz"Mar 06 23:27
schestowitz(Roy here)Mar 06 23:27
schestowitzI’ve finally managed to export my @Linux data account (yay! Well done, devs!), not yet @schestowitz (it’s a lot bigger), and my understanding based on the documentation is that account IMPORT is not implemented yet, so we shall have to wait for a future release. If my assumption is wrong, let me know.Mar 06 23:27
schestowitzpavi@despora.deMar 06 23:27
schestowitzpavi@despora.de - about 3 hours agoMar 06 23:27
schestowitzA silly question: my profile data is 3.8 MB without pictures, is that expected?Mar 06 23:27
schestowitzThe JoinDiaspora Sunset TeamMar 06 23:27
schestowitzThe JoinDiaspora Sunset Team - about 2 hours agoMar 06 23:27
schestowitz    Can you someone please just explain how one goes about viewing this data in a readable form, thanks…Mar 06 23:27
schestowitz@Gary Hill The archive is meant for other pieces of software to import. It’s not really designed to be human-readable at all. The purpose of this file is for other pieces of software to consume it, not to give you a nice presentation of your data. That being said, this might be something we might change in the future.Mar 06 23:27
schestowitz    my profile data is 3.8 MB without pictures, is that expected?Mar 06 23:27
schestowitz@pavi@despora.de the main chunk of the export is your own posts and comments. Since that is mostly human text, the compression is very efficient. So, yeah, that’s not surprising. You can extract the archive and have a look at the JSON yourself. Also, that’s not a silly question. :)Mar 06 23:27
schestowitz"Mar 06 23:27
schestowitzhttps://pod.diaspora.software/posts/4984491Mar 06 23:27
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pod.diaspora.software | An update on the future of JoinDiaspora.comMar 06 23:27
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