I grabbed 4 1TB Kingston KC3000 NVME disks, and as I plan on using them in a proxmox server. I’ve investigated their LBA (Logical block addressing) format support to gain better performance by using the larger native block size. Bonus fact: Some NVME drives also have LBA formats that support […]
I’ve recently started building a 2U rack server, and went to install the 20pin TPM that I had spare. While the unit worked fine, I noticed the firmware was the original/oldest possible firmware version. Finding the latest firmware releases The Trusted Computing Group has a list of verified firmware releases […]
This should federate to Mastodon.
At the time of writing, there are two Mastodon instances called mstdn.party and mstdn.plus, run by the same person… There are currently over 15 thousand active accounts shared between the two, and the instance appears to have been abandoned. I have tried to contact the administrator, as several other instance […]
The official “Mastodon” is a bundle of reference designs – The reference Web FrontEnd (WebFE), a reference BackEnd (MastoBE), and a pair of reference mobile apps (iOS/Android) – All third-party clients, forks, clones, and Mastodon-compatible “ActivityPub” servers (including Cloudflare’s Wildebeest) are all based on the core teams approved concepts, designs, […]
The following are the answers I gave to a journalist during the second or third major burst of members coming from Twitter. Obviously, the journalist only took one sentence and didn’t capture my mood. 1: How many people have joined Mastodon in Australia since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter? Do […]