sdub @EssDub@radical.town

Interests include:

🏴 leftism/anarchism
💞 empathy and justice
👥 building community
🌐 decentralizing
💗 relationship anarchy/ethical nonmonogamy
🐈 cats
🔌 cyberpunk
♟️ board games

...to name a few.

Also might go lewd on here now and then? I miss pre-pornpocalypse Tumblr, where the culture seemed to support treating sexuality just like any other interest or part of life.

Anyway, hi, glad to be here!

// #introduction

Hey y'all! I'm tentatively moving over here because my old instance, mastodon.cloud, was just kinda... dull. I like the vibe here.

#introduction: I'm Spencer, a Millennial in his late 20s living in Oregon, USA. I'm big on decentralizing and cultivating small-scale community, 'cause I think that's how we avert the cyber-fascist future we appear to be barreling toward.

OH MY GOSH I DID IT

I successfully installed the latest version of #friendica on my server!

I'm now a stone's throw away from my dream of having a private social network for my friends and myself.

Big thanks to @darius for his "Run Your Own Social" guide, which kicked this off for me, to @hypolite for ongoing work on Friendica, and @tobias for help upgrading the YunoHost installer script.

I'm nearly jumping for joy. 🎉😁

I'm running up against the limits of my understanding in both my 3D printing and my attempt to fix the Friendica installer for YunoHost, and it's a decidedly frustrating feeling.

Hey @tobias, thanks for providing a roadmap for upgrading the Friendica for YunoHost install script. Turns out that was just enough direction for me to get in there and start making changes myself. I appreciate it immensely. :)

Really wishing I could square the circle and set up a #yunohost install on my own computer that could also send and receive mail. My ISP seems to have other plans.

Winston is being a snugglebug. #cats #catsofmastodon #mastocats

"While the company was dodging me, it was also monitoring me. At my request, a number of police officers had run my photo through the Clearview app. They soon received phone calls from company representatives asking if they were talking to the media — a sign that Clearview has the ability and, in this case, the appetite to monitor whom law enforcement is searching for."

fucking fuckity fuck

https://nyti.ms/2NEbiJZ

After printing nothing but bed-leveling tests yesterday on my new Ender 3 Pro, today I printed my first actual prints: the Ender test dog and a Cali Cat. They turned out mostly okay! The cat has a slightly droopy chin and some rings on its tail, but other than that, it's good.

I started printing a PCB cover, but my first layer went down so lousy that I stopped the print. I'll try again tomorrow. #3dprinting

Groups that have an unusual amount of overlap:

🔹 polyamorous/nonmonogamous people
🔹 mental health professionals
🔹 hobby board gamers
🔹 pirate role-players

Replying here because I forgot to tag #yunohost, which seems to be a somewhat more active hashtag.

If anyone has the know-how and time to spare on updating a YunoHost package, please check out my toots upstream. The #friendica package is out-of-date by about a year, and fixing that could help make the Fediverse even more available.

**Ingredients (approximate)**
- 2 oz Seedlip Grove 42 Citrus
- 4 oz fresh orange juice (canned *absolutely* won't work)
- 2 tsp homemade clove simple syrup
- 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
- 1 oz. Good Earth Sweet & Spicy (Mango Spice) tea, brewed strong for at least 10 minutes

**Directions**
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into an ice-filled tumbler and garnish with an orange slice.

It also used Good Earth Sweet & Spicy chai, which tastes nothing like actual chai but does carry some nice notes of cinnamon and mango.

Anyway, I figured I'd share my rough recipe. I haven't tried this again since that night, so I don't know if the proportions are exact, or if it even tastes as good as I recall! I offer it in the spirit of adventure. 😜

Last week, I mixed a drink up for my wife that I remember as being surprisingly tasty and complex for a non-alcoholic drink. I say "I remember as" with some uncertainty, though, 'cause I was pretty high at the time. 🙃

It uses Seedlip non-alcoholic "spirits", which I discovered a year ago and have found pretty cool for booze-free mixing. Specifically, it uses their Grove 42 Citrus, which is made with three varieties of oranges, lemon, ginger, and lemongrass.

I'm assuming it's outside of my grasp, that is. If it's as simple as changing a variable for the source file name and some checksums, that's one thing, but if just about *anything* else needs done (databases? new certificates? I dunno, configuring APIs?), I'm clueless, and I don't know how to tell if that's necessary.

Does anyone have the time and know-how to update the [Friendica package for YunoHost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh)? It's currently packaged with #friendica version 2019.01, and the latest release version of Friendica appears to be 2019.12.

The [YunoHost contributor documenation](https://yunohost.org/#/contributordoc) has information on packaging apps.

This is outside of my technical understanding, so I don't feel capable of doing it myself, hence the call. All help would be greatly appreciated!

I ordered a 3D printer after Christmas and I'm *so* eager for it to ship. It'll take some tweaking and setup, but I don't mind.

I can't wait to start printing board game inserts and accessories. 😁

#3dprinting

My #yunohost installation went so smoothly last night! In the course of an evening, I went from having nothing to having a server with OwnCloud, Wallabag, RainLoop, DokuWiki, and Bitwarden installed.

There's still a little bit to iron out with some of the individual apps (Bitwarden in particular doesn't work; the session times out as soon as I log in), and I wish I could radically change the apps screen because the Adobe-style tiles don't work for me. But otherwise, huge success!

After months spent progressing at a snail's pace on getting my server set up, I've rediscovered #yunohost tonight and it's almost *exactly* what I want.

I had given up on my goal of having my server up and running by the year's end, but it actually may be feasible after all!

"Hmm, something must be wrong with Signal, it's sending my subtext in plaintext"

is a flirty text I sent today, and by god, I didn't get as much appreciation as I was owed for that piece of art

dating advice: The most attractive thing is to be confident!
me: ok
me: *(confidently flirts with crushes)*
me: *(confidently tells crushes all about my insecurities and anxieties)*
dating advice: wait a sec

"I, an experienced Police, also may have murdered the unarmed Black man" is uhhhhhh maybe not the defense you think it is

jesus fucking christ