I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware’s live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.
The web is built on hot linking hypermedia. It is more fragile obviously, but it distributes the bandwidth and storage load. If nobody hotlinked, then small forum admins/Lemmy admins/etc. have considerably more cost to bear.
True, you’re correct. I’m just not sure how you did it without corrupting the sled db. Maybe I’m just unlucky
Interesting, when I tried a while back it broke all images (not visible on the website due to service worker caching but visible if you put any pictrs url into postman or something)
I wrote a patch for Lemmy a week or so ago if you want to skip the caching: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3897
I think deleting images from the pictrs storage can corrupt the pictrs sled db so I would not advise it, you should go via the purge endpoint on the pictrs API.
Just a note that my PR there doesn’t disable pictrs for your own instance’s users. It just disables the caching of remote content.
Grounding cables do not exist in The Federation
A functional reactive programming language no less.
I feel like twitter has been around long enough that people that want to use a platform like it will be aware of the concept of a hashtag for finding posts on a topic, etc.
Twitter/microblogging is a weird thing in general but you seem to have the idea. It can be useful for following events or people who write interesting things.
Mastodon hashtags are the way to discover conversations and people to follow, they go across instances in search.
I use Alpine Linux quite a bit, which is a Linux distro that doesn’t use the GNU coreutils or glibc.
Also even giving GNU such a high level in the name on a distro like Arch makes little sense imo because other components like systemd are arguably much more important than one of many libc libraries you can optionally use and a bunch of coreutils you can also optionally use.