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Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail

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Cake day: December 27th, 2023

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  • How long would you say it takes to change your username and pfp on Matrix if you know exactly what you’re doing and have done it plenty of times before? 20 seconds? Pluralkit can do a proxy in 2 seconds. 20 seconds is not an acceptable delay to sending a chat message to most people, but 2 seconds is.

    And what if two members of a system are in a conversation, possibly with a third person? Is it going to retroactively change the username and pfp on the old messages? Cause that would turn the conversation to complete nonsense. Imagine I’m having a discussion with some friends, two of whom are in a system, I step away to go to the toilet, and when I come back 5 minutes later I can’t tell who was talking in the last 5 minutes.






  • Plurality is a lot more common than most people think. The existence of pluralkit exposed a LOT of people to the idea of plurality and got them realising they were already plural. Myself included.

    It’s kind of like how a lot of lesbians didn’t understand their own identities until they heard Katy Perry sing “I kissed a girl”.

    Furthermore, imagine you’re on a server with 500 active members, and there are 5 systems who use pluralkit. That server has probably had the “why are you a bot” “I’m using pluralkit” conversation dozens of times. All 500 people know how important pluralkit is. On Discord, there are dozens of allies for every one system.








  • I’ve never used docker before. It’s a strange newfangled technology I don’t understand. Back in my day you either used apt-get, or you compiled it yourself. I want to learn, and I thought installing Lemmy would be a good learning opportunity, but I’m finding myself chasing my own tail instead. My docker version is Docker version 24.0.2, build cb74dfc, and google is seeming to indicate that’s docker engine. I can’t see how docker desktop would be trying to run on ubuntu.







  • I’m starting with sudo docker compose up -d and my docker-compose.yml is:

    version: "3.7"
    
    x-logging: &default-logging
      driver: "json-file"
      options:
        max-size: "50m"
        max-file: "4"
    
    services:
      proxy:
        container_name: proxy
        image: docker.io/library/nginx
        ports:
          # actual and only port facing any connection from outside
          # Note, change the left number if port 1236 is already in use on your system
          # You could use port 80 if you won't use a reverse proxy
          - "8536:8536"
        volumes:
          - ./nginx_internal.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro,Z
          - ./proxy_params:/etc/nginx/proxy_params:ro,Z
        restart: always
        logging: *default-logging
        depends_on:
          - pictrs
          - lemmy-ui
      lemmy-ui:
        container_name: lemmy-ui
        image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:${LEMMY_VERSION}
        environment:
          - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536
          - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=${DOMAIN}
          - LEMMY_UI_HTTPS=true
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes
        depends_on:
          - lemmy
        restart: always
        logging: *default-logging
      lemmy:
        container_name: lemmy
        image: dessalines/lemmy:${LEMMY_VERSION}
        hostname: lemmy
        restart: always
        logging: *default-logging
        environment:
          - RUST_LOG=warn
        volumes:
          - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson:Z
        depends_on:
          - postgres
          - pictrs
      pictrs:
        container_name: pictrs
        image: docker.io/c:0.4.3
        # This needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson
        hostname: pictrs
        environment:
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__EXTERNAL_VALIDATION=http://pictrs-safety:14051/api/v1/scan/IPADDR
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO_CODEC=vp9
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_WIDTH=256
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_HEIGHT=256
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_AREA=65536
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_FRAME_COUNT=400
          - PICTRS_OPENTELEMETRY_URL=http://otel:4137
          - RUST_LOG=debug
          - RUST_BACKTRACE=full
          - PICTRS__API_KEY=${PICTRS_API_KEY}
          - PICTRS__STORE__TYPE=${PICTRS_STORE_TYPE}
          - PICTRS__STORE__ENDPOINT=${PICTRS_STORE_ENDPOINT}
          - PICTRS__STORE__BUCKET_NAME=${PICTRS_STORE_BUCKET_NAME}
          - PICTRS__STORE__REGION=${PICTRS_STORE_REGION}
          - PICTRS__STORE__USE_PATH_STYLE=${PICTRS_STORE_USE_PATH_STYLE}
          - PICTRS__STORE__ACCESS_KEY=${PICTRS_STORE_ACCESS_KEY}
          - PICTRS__STORE__SECRET_KEY=${PICTRS_STORE_SECRET_KEY}
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z
        user: 991:991
        restart: always
        logging: *default-logging
        deploy:
          resources:
            limits:
              memory: 690m
      postgres:
        container_name: postgres
        image: docker.io/postgres:15-alpine
        hostname: postgres
        environment:
          - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER}
          - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
          - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB}
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z
          - ./customPostgresql.conf:/etc/postgresql.conf
        restart: always
        command: postgres -c config_file=/etc/postgresql.conf
        logging: *default-logging
      pictrs-safety:
        image: ghcr.io/db0/pictrs-safety:v1.2.2
        hostname: pictrs-safety
        container_name: pictrs-safety
        environment:
        - FEDIVERSE_SAFETY_WORKER_AUTH="${PICTRS_SAFETY_WORKER_AUTH}"
        - FEDIVERSE_SAFETY_IMGDIR="/tmp/images"
        - USE_SQLITE=1
        - secret_key="${PICTRS_SECRET_KEY}"
        - SCAN_BYPASS_THRESHOLD=10
        - MISSING_WORKER_THRESHOLD=5
        ports:
          - "14051:14051"
        user: 991:991
        restart: always
        logging: *default-logging
        depends_on:
          - pictrs
    

    I’m following this guide: https://patrickwu.space/2023/11/04/install-lemmy-simplified/. My .env file is:

    LEMMY_VERSION=0.19.3
    DOMAIN=lemmy.soulism.net
    # postgres
    POSTGRES_USER=admin
    POSTGRES_PASSWORD=**redacted**
    POSTGRES_DB=
    # pictrs
    ## keys
    PICTRS_API_KEY=stars
    ### 15 random characters
    PICTRS_SAFETY_WORKER_AUTH=p70nkXCN1UEcyN3
    ### 80 random characters
    PICTRS_SECRET_KEY=**redacted**
    ## storage type; by default is filesystem for object storage please set it to object_storage
    PICTRS_STORE_TYPE=filesystem
    PICTRS_STORE_ENDPOINT=
    PICTRS_STORE_BUCKET_NAME=
    PICTRS_STORE_REGION=
    PICTRS_STORE_USE_PATH_STYLE=false
    PICTRS_STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
    PICTRS_STORE_SECRET_KEY=