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pabs
anyone know of a mastodon instance related to FOSS that accepts bots? fossjobs.net had an account posting the RSS to fosstodon, but thats apparently not allowed
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myself
there's always botsin.space
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Doranwen
Oh joy, of all the days for the Mint forums to be down, it's when I'm trying to find help for why I suddenly can't send any emails. (And neither of the two threads I want to look at are in the WBM.)
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Doranwen
It's giving me a "sending of the message failed / error writing temporary file" error and all the other search results are like a decade old and for Windows systems.
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JAA
Have you checked Google's cache? The search results I'm getting are there.
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JAA
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Doranwen
Oh, it's the usual - my root folder's too full.
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Doranwen
I didn't plan it very well when I set this up ages and ages ago.
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Doranwen
*partition
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» Doranwen ran through the set of quick "free up space" commands she has and freed up a few hundred mb which let it work.
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Doranwen
I could tell right away as soon as I opened up a terminal window - it complained about not being able to set stuff, and I was getting errors elsewhere about issues with privileges.
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Doranwen
I think I need to figure out how to partition something to take some of the space off of /
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JAA
Ah yes, that'd do it.
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JAA
Reminds me that I need to resize my laptop's rootfs sometime.
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that_lurker
I like to just wait for linux to inform me shits full and nothing works.
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fireonlive
reminds me of that OOS that crashed all my grab-sites
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fireonlive
xP
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fireonlive
'whoops hello'
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» Doranwen goes to see how she has the partitions set up again
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Doranwen
Yeah, swap, root, and home. Swap's nearly full, home's the one with the free space - but I've never tried resizing a partition with data on it before.
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Doranwen
And I don't think I can do it without rewriting everything - because I can't make free space at the *beginning* of the partition, only the end.
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JAA
If it fails to write temporary files... split out /tmp into its own partition (or use a tmpfs if you have the RAM).
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JAA
Or as a quick-and-dirty fix, you could try to set the TMPDIR env variable for Thunderbird. Not entirely sure whether it respects that, but it really should.
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Doranwen
One page I came across suggested creating a /tmp file, rather than a separate partition. I was like, what??
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Doranwen
A /tmp partition of its own ought to be doable.
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JAA
Yeah, that's another hacky option.
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JAA
File on another partition, then bind-mount it to /tmp.
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Doranwen
Well, that would certainly be easier than creating a new partition. Question is, are there tradeoffs?
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JAA
Partition changes are just always a pain if you're already using the full disk. I'm using LVM and haven't allocated the entire disk, so I can always grow or create extra partitions as needed.
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JAA
It's possible to shrink partitions, but make sure you have a good backup before you try it. :-)
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JAA
s/bind/loop/ above, bind-mounting is replicating a directory instead.
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» Doranwen files the info away
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JAA
Loop-mounting has some overhead since you're effectively stacking file systems. I'd say it isn't ideal for /tmp. But it would work and solve your immediate problems.
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Doranwen
Well, I cleared old logs and got rid of 200 mb and that got me out of the errors.
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Doranwen
But this is likely to reoccur.
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fireonlive
i was running DiscordChatExporter in 'fancy' mode with the progress bars etc and it almost filled up / on my primary friend-colo server
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fireonlive
just 20GB of logs of it redrawing the bar graphs i assume
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Doranwen
I supposedly had 1.5 gb free but it didn't like that for some reason.
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Doranwen
I remember when I had 5 gb free - it keeps shrinking, and I can't figure out what's taking up the extra space. All the programs I've checked and rechecked, uninstalled anything I don't need, etc.
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Doranwen
Anyway, I think I'll try the /tmp file method later - I've got to run in a few minutes, but that sounds promising. Thanks for the info!
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rewby
I was just thinking about the whole reddit api debacle. Some people had mentioned ideas in some threads about federated reddit alternatives and I had some theorycrafting in the shower.
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rewby
I was thinking "what if we had individual "subreddit" servers and much users had home servers kinda like how mastodon does it"
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rewby
Then your home server could provide you a view into the subreddits they peered with
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rewby
The home server provides the identity
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rewby
The subreddit servers provide the community and posts and such
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rewby
This way moderators of a subreddit could still, you know, moderate
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rewby
And users could be free to access using whatever tools they liked
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rewby
And then I realised: we had this years ago
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rewby
It was forum software with the original openid
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rewby
Your openid provider provided the common identity
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rewby
And each forum was hosted by/for the community that lived on it
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rewby
The only really new thing in this idea is a single unified interface that allows you to view many independently hosted forums
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rewby
And even then that's not really true
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rewby
It's really just a unified api for accessing data from these forums
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JAA
Tapatalk?
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JAA
They're trying to establish a walled garden for an open ecosystem, but still, it's something like that. You can self-host your forum, and people can access it with the Tapatalk app in a unified interface.
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flashfire42
Only problem tapatalk fucking sucks
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JAA
That's what I've heard. Never actually tried it since I have no interest in closed-source software.
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JAA
I did use the API before to archive some forums though, and it's pretty nice to get the data in a consistent format across different forum softwares.
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threedeeitguy
What about lemmy? I've seen lots posted about it but not had a chance to look into it at all.