Tassels

The official app has a significantly shittier UX than the webui. Third party apps provide a better experience, but randos who haven't already been on mastodon for years don't know that. This is where I've found a lot of the friction lives.

If you get banned on Twitter or any other centralized service, you lose all your followers. If you get banned on Mastodon, you lose your followers on the instance(s) that banned you.

But generally it takes a lot to get banned by most fediverse instances. You basically either need to be a nazi or consort with nazis.

There are, of course, instances that would ban you for less than that, but these tend to be much smaller and trying to foster a very specific type of community. If they'd ban you, they probably wouldn't follow you either.

They're treating their mastodon audience as if it's a twitter audience and failing to read the room.

There's a lot more anti-cop folks on mastodon, so coming out right away with "We hired a policeman & it's going great" is probably not the best icebreaker. It's already gonna set folks on edge.

Then the quote is about hiding covert video and audio surveillance, which is also something that's not gonna be well received by the audience on mastodon.

They then doubled down in their responses to folks concerned with the toot. They started making edgy responses which simply shouldn't be how brands engage folks on mastodon. It's a different audience than twitter. Telling well-respected folks to unfollow and "chill" is unnecessarily combative, especially by saying condescending stuff like "bye bye now" and calling followers childish.

If they would have framed it as hiring a former security officer and then detailing what he's doing with the Pi, they would have been fine. But they framed it in just about the worst way possible, then doubled down with troll-y replies.

I ended up switching to Apple Music. I know, I know, Apple, but like Google Music, they allow me to upload any music I have MP3s of. That includes all the tracks I bought from bands I love (usually through bandcamp, or ripped CDs) who aren't on streaming services yet.

Just import them into the music app on my laptop, sync my library, and boom those tracks are available everywhere, just like google music. I actually like it better, since it's an actual app and I don't need to upload the tracks through chrome – I don't use chrome, I use firefox, and I used to have to use chrome just to upload my music.

If they got 10k in credits, it was likely through the Hatch program. You can read those terms here: https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/hatch-terms-of-service/

In short: No, those credits are not transferable. Also, mining cryptocurrency is against the terms for the Hatch program.

When an account on DO is late with a payment, you go through three stages: hold, suspension, termination.

The hold happens right away and prevents you from creating new billable resources.

Then a suspension happens several weeks later, which powers off your servers.

You don’t get terminated until a couple weeks after that, at which point the data is irretrievable.

The time between each stage can vary depending on how long you’ve been a customer or what your monthly payments in the past have been, but that’s the gist of it.

I mean, both Google and Apple analyze apps for any sort of detectable malicious libraries/code. It's not perfect by any means, but it's something.

I don't know why this business got banned. I assume it's due to the outsourced dev they used. I doubt they're technically competent and reviewed the app themselves, so who knows what kind of bullshit the dev stuffed in their or their other apps.

It's not that CA is just gathering data and using that data to target ads. That's normal. But they've also been using fake news, spy operations, honeypots, and other tactics in order to manipulate people. They've even boasted about their ability to manufacture sex scandals by sending prostitutes to a political opponent. That goes above and beyond what is "totally normal happening all over the place".

It's decentralized. Larger instances are funded by patreon donations, while smaller ones are usually run by the folks that use the instance.

The decentralized nature helps the network scale.

And yeah, it's an open source project funded by donations. Plenty of those exist, and if it gets big enough, it'll get more contributors and donations.

Looks like Docker is still Docker, they just tacked on CE at the end. The enterprise edition looks like a promising (and more obvious) way to monetize.

You might want to take a look at https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/ and/or https://www.digitalocean.com/customers/

But, if that Droplet goes down, so does the reverse proxy. You'd need at least two Droplets to ensure no SPOF.

You've got working backups though, right? Or at least a local copy?

The timeframe is 3 weeks until suspension, then another 2 weeks until deletion. At the time this user was affected, it was 3 weeks until suspension, then 3 days until deletion, but that period was raised to 2 weeks due to feedback that 3 days wasn't enough.

I'm not saying that excuses things, but it's far from "at the first sign of trouble".

For the record, that's not how it works at DO. The support department encompasses Platform Support (like T1), Trust & Safety (handles cases of possible fraud or abuse complaints), and CloudOps (sysadmins who help maintain the cloud).

I'm on Platform Support and while I can't access the actual hypervisor hardware like CloudOps can, we do not have "scripts", and we always do our best to help customers in any way we can. We also have a myriad of tools that we can use to monitor our platform and help troubleshoot any issues that may arise in our tickets.

My roommate and bestie is on CloudOps, and she sits right next to me at our HQ in NYC. While we have a great remote culture, all of us on support are in the US, with the exception of one guy in London (who started last week and is AWESOME).

Not only that, but I work very closely with all of the other departments here at DO, and our executives are extremely accessible as well. If we need to pass on feedback, we always do so.

We're also encouraged to go out of scope and do whatever possible to help out our customers, and I wouldn't change a thing. I love what I do, I love the people I help, and I love my coworkers.

It's not at the first sign of trouble, though. It's after ~15 email notifications over the course of over a month, and no contact back.

rsync.net is the shit. I can vouch for them 110%.

Also backblaze's b2 is pretty damn good/cheap. I use it as a secondary backup.

It's on his Twitter account that's linked in his profile. ;)

It's like on any Linux or BSD machine. You can build and install the kernel normally, and it just works.

Only some of the older images still use the old method of selecting the kernel from the Control Panel. The rest that Andrew mentioned use the bootloader and kernel from the droplet's image itself.

Some people just associate upgrades with paid products. My guess is they just wanted to stress that it's free.

They're sticking with virb. Check out http://blog.virb.com/post/64122176288/big-news-from-virb