Posts by ian@phpc.social
(DIR) Post #APZzeu2zURHL4SyeHY by ian@phpc.social
2022-11-14T01:51:03Z
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@alejandrobdn That server sounds like it does more verification than Twitter Blue does now.
(DIR) Post #APlkpYXSdDAq8KN0pU by ian@phpc.social
2022-11-19T18:01:23Z
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@leo dot-social and which other?tbf throwing money at dot-social *does* finance the busiest instance, and dev to keep that site up should ripple back into smaller instances being able to run better/more cheaply.But if you aren't on one of those big two instances, definitely worth checking if your own instance needs the money first :)
(DIR) Post #APuI9XRNEwR3C9ATAW by ian@phpc.social
2022-11-23T20:24:22Z
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@robin @aurynn Actually of a similar opinion. Injecting ads into outbound federation is a hard pass, but adding them into their own users' view as an alternative to asking people to donate every five minutes is...just another way to keep the lights on for themselves.My bet is they'd have an ad-free/paid tier too.Basically no different than e.g. Twiterriffic was in 2008, and I had no particular problem with that then.
(DIR) Post #AQxt4Uj2EWEKuAHYDw by ian@phpc.social
2022-12-24T22:25:59Z
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@ariadne @rabbigabriel wait hold up people are wanting to make it harder to build instances? Whyyyyyy
(DIR) Post #ASFJn4LmcBs6mLgQnw by ian@phpc.social
2023-02-01T20:03:54Z
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@stux Depends on the area. Around here enough people are in tech that whipping out an editor, terminal, or IDE in public is par for the course :)
(DIR) Post #ASsRKjKffr4mPXUPEu by ian@phpc.social
2023-02-20T17:02:08Z
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@mastodonusercount Welp this appears to be broken
(DIR) Post #AWejyTrS5RSfZaxAlk by ian@phpc.social
2023-06-13T17:53:24Z
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@stux As someone who does PHP things for a living, I'd imagine the thing written in Rust is gonna perform better than the thing written in PHP.
(DIR) Post #AZMV079cXZojkxZx44 by ian@phpc.social
2023-09-02T16:17:08Z
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@stux it seems slick because it is slick. 10/10 would recommend
(DIR) Post #Aa9Qgfgkofl6auaBf6 by ian@phpc.social
2023-09-26T02:34:06Z
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Apologies for the outage on phpc.social. Bit of an order-of-operations issue when attempting to start the Mastodon 4.2.0 upgrade. On the next attempt, we'll run OS package updates well *before* attempting the other parts of the upgrade.Queues are catching up from the outage. Once those are caught up, I'll reindex search; we restored from a backup on the app server (database/Redis/file storage were not affected) so search will be a bit behind 'til we get that complete.#MastoAdmin
(DIR) Post #Ac220nU1fnvIzUGDGi by ian@phpc.social
2023-11-19T19:03:11Z
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@jerry @admitsWrongIfProven Our report felt human generated because a bot wouldn't be quite that specifically deranged.
(DIR) Post #AcquAF77QjEgoC3LaC by ian@phpc.social
2023-12-16T01:56:52Z
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@skobkin @ramsey @itsjoshbruce We're on Vultr now, as we outgrew MastoHost from a pricing perspective. The infra diagram on https://slides.com/ianlittman/mastodon-12-clouds-2022 is largely accurate, just with a few instance size bumps here and there as we've grown a bit further.
(DIR) Post #AhZxapF3MnHTJZiIEa by ian@phpc.social
2024-05-05T11:05:41Z
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@thor The costs don't scale linearly. Storage requirements on the object storage side don't get all that much worse, and you can get $6/TB/mo from a few places (Vultr, Backblaze B2, Wasabi), and while there are definite breakpoints on compute costs "enough to run the Rails app that is Mastodon" scales you up a fair amount.
(DIR) Post #AhdoUROYzcYufAskpU by ian@phpc.social
2024-05-06T09:58:08Z
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Thanks to borrowing an eSIM from @zonuexe, I've now tested all four physical Japanese mobile networks, including the elusive Rakuten Mobile. My phone didn't lock onto their #5G, but seeing #LTE on them was good enough.That's in addition to LTE and 5G on SoftBank and NTT, plus LTE on KDDI, that I was able to source myself :)Yep, I'm that much of a cell network nerd. Any questions?
(DIR) Post #AspEMgzDB9b9HhtsR6 by ian@phpc.social
2025-04-06T14:52:42Z
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Happy defederation day to all who celebrate! Apparently Hands Off protests are a troll magnet. If other admins want to check our blocklist, it just got four instances longer today. #fediblock
(DIR) Post #AuVRQny8uEiHRSd0N6 by ian@phpc.social
2025-05-26T23:59:53Z
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Folks using PHP don't relize how good we have it for things like "a nice datetime built-in" and "reasonably secure defaults on password generation and randomness."And the three things I mentioned above have been around since 2006, 2013, and 2015, respectively.
(DIR) Post #AuVRQotDU2MoITKaKe by ian@phpc.social
2025-05-27T02:47:04Z
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If anyone thinks I'm reacting to someone saying "PHP sucks" and defending the thing that pays my rent...no, actually.Over the last year, ~11% of my time has been on PHP projects. ~13% has been on JS projects, and ~75% has been on Go backend, JS frontend. And I still like that 11% enough to make sure @longhorn happens.
(DIR) Post #B2C3rXlF4d7EQY1nE0 by ian@phpc.social
2026-01-12T01:20:01Z
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@kboyd @ocramius If Xitter wasn't allowing for AI-gen'd CSAM-or-close-to-it (I don't know which firsthand fortunately), I'd say merely "all governments should move off of it in nay official capacity and tombstone the accounts."As it stands, pitch Musk in jail, disconnect Grok from Twitter, seize xAI, sell Twitter so a functioning adult, and spend the proceeds on energy infrastructure.