Stefano Marinelli

Watching @evan do the #FedicCon keynote and it's amazing to see such brilliant folks working so hard and so aware of our current issues. Can't wait to keep watching more videos.

Check it out here: https://spectra.video/w/eg35Kne91oEHcgyfvQWMhM

We just released Mastodon 4.4.3, 4.3.11, and 4.2.24.

These versions contain bugfixes, and a fix for a security issue if you use SAML. In 4.4.3 there are also changes to how quote posts are handled, as we continue to work towards full support for quote posts in the next main release.

Full […]

If your crawler is spoofing its identity because I have disallowed it from my sites, I consider that an attempted server breach. You are no better than someone trying to compromise my SSH connection.

#IT #SysAdmin #Perplexity #Crawlers

A quiet afternoon, then a sudden, beautiful interruption. An unexpected message from a stunning person, a silent force in the fediverse. They've done more for this place and for me than so many of the more vocal accounts - more than I have, even.

This is the very essence of what I adore about […]

@sborrill She has a great father!
I'd go with NextCloud - she'd probably feel fine using it.

Proud of my daughter: "Where's a good place I can upload photos from my various projects where I know they're safe and I can't get locked out or lose access?". This is a 20-year old iPhone user brought up on Google Classroom/Drive, etc. So I run my own servers across various datacentres, do I go […]

Perplexity 正在使用隐蔽的、未声明的爬虫来规避“禁止爬取”指令。 Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (blog.cloudflare.com) 21:39  ↑ 111 HN Points

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

#IT #SysAdmin

And they have the FTTH, here - while my "modern" building is still waiting....

A long, narrow, cobblestone alleyway in Via Delle Volte, Ferrara, Italy is lined with ancient brick buildings. A series of deep brick arches creates a tunnel-like effect, leading the eye down the path. The warm, rustic tones of the old bricks and the golden light evoke a sense of timelessness and history.

In ancient cities, the colors of summer bestow warmth and antiquity. Who knows how many people have passed through here. Who knows how many stories, how many tales, how many joys and how many dramas.
But today the street is peaceful, deserted, warm, and […]

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With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

Someone noticed that I had posted a picture of a dish that was inviting people to eat pizza, but then I didn't post the pizza itself.

I ate it, but on the way home, we had a bad experience and I lost the desire to post it.

We were just a few kilometers from home when a car in front of us […]

Sometimes I think my announcements about adding new cities to #FediMeteo could be mistaken for war bulletins...

@angel thank you! I really appreciate it.
I haven't seen that boy anymore (but we moved away from that place), but I hope to see him again next time we'll be there.

Make Your Own Kind of Music

The sound of classic rock from a passing bike on a summer evening, and the unexpected bridge it creates between two generations. A quiet reflection on the courage to choose your own music, and your own path […]

Thanks to SeaweedFS, I've set up two replicas of the BSD Cafe's media. One is on a backup server (for disaster recovery purposes only, also containing the hourly zfs-autobackup backups), and the other is on a Raspberry Pi 4 running FreeBSD, which is one of my home backup servers - just one meter […]

Sunset photo in a smoky sky with a pink sun just above a treeline on the far shore of the lake. The grey and slightly pink sky is reflected in the water.

For those keeping score at home, another smoky sunset in Michigan tonight.

August 3, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#sunset #sunsetphotography #photography #michigan #summer #art #sun #smoke #wildfire #MastoArt

OK, genuinely think this is a good development in the Linux world. PixiEditor started as a pixel editor but seems to be aiming for “pleasing FOSS alternative to Photoshop that also supports Linux.”

The node-based workflow for adding filters is genuinely interesting, too […]

This afternoon I tried to boot a KDE Linux image on my mini PC. Plasma kept crashing, so I couldn't try it out.
I'll wait for the next snapshot.

#KDE #Plasma #Linux

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year Helsinki has completed an entire year without a single traffic-related fatality, according to city and police officials. The last recorded death occurred in early July 2024 in the Kontula district. Authorities described the milestone as exceptional and credited long-term planning, targeted infrastructure changes, and lower speed limits. “A lot of factors contributed to this, but speed limits are one of the most important,” said Roni Utriainen, traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division.

Interesting: Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/27539-helsinki-records-zero-traffic-deaths-for-full-year.html

#Traffic #City

@ajlewis2 thank you!

I've switched the BSD Cafe Mastodon media over to SeaweedFS.
Posts from the last few hours might not show media, as I'm doing the final 'rclone' migration from MinIO and the ETA is around 3 hours.

Stay tuned 🙂

#BSDCafe #Minio #SeaweedFS #Mastodon

A high-angle shot from the ground looking up at a variety of lush green trees against a brilliant blue sky with a few fluffy white clouds. The dense canopy of a tall cypress or similar evergreen tree dominates the left side of the frame, while on the right, the sunlit leaves of a deciduous tree create a bright, lacy pattern against the sky. In the foreground, the tops of several other trees fill the bottom of the frame, showing a rich tapestry of different shades and textures of green foliage.

Happy Sunday!

#SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Nature #Summer

@angel two main use cases: media for Mastodon (BSD Cafe and other instances) and, recently, the Proxmox Backup Server

In 2013 I wrote up "Maintaining A Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms And Principles" (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/04/maintaining-publicly-available.html) . TL;DR: blocklisting is a kind of public shaming, be sure your process is verifiable and transparent.

Minor edits today […]

After conducting some performance tests, I believe #SeaweedFS will be the new S3-compatible software for BSD Cafe media storage. The results have been promising

#S3 #IT #SysAdmin

Recent new features in OpenSSH https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250802084523 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #newfeatures #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware #crypto #cryptography

A close-up of a white decorative plate with the Italian text "Se la pizza chiama io rispondo" in black cursive font, which translates to "If pizza calls, I answer." A small red heart is positioned on a thin black line below the text. The plate is stacked on other identical plates, and in the background, other household items are visible on a store shelf.

You should always follow the advice of a random plate you've seen.

#Pizza #Food

OK, Minio has decided to drop all the useful GUI features from the open-source (CE) version, making them exclusive to the paid version.
Personally, I prefer software that doesn't offer a certain feature at all, rather than one that, at some point, removes it and reserves it for "paying" […]

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

@angel Thank you! Have a great weekend, too!