Sunny TheLastZombie

On the 30th of June, my cloud provider, Oracle Cloud, decided to shutdown all my servers hosted on two Oracle Cloud accounts.
It is known that this provider will randomly ban accounts without any reason.

Why yewtu.be doesn't accept new registrations nor logging into an account?

Unfortunately and this is 100% my fault for forgetting that, I only had data duplication between servers located in the two Oracle Cloud accounts and no backups.
I thought that I wouldn't get all my accounts in trouble at the same time and able to recover the data from one of the two accounts but unfortunately this turned out otherwise.

Implementing some backup was something I had in my notes for a long time but I think I forgot about it, maybe due to the huge amount of work I spend on the open source projects.
I'm deeply sorry if you have lost your subscriptions list or playlists or watch history. I did try to contact Oracle Cloud for recovering the data, I'm waiting for their answer but you should be certain that they

Source and credits

Everything below the separator bar is a mirror of the "Find Alternatives for Ourselves Megathread: Third Strike" post by bettervanilla on the r/RedditAlternatives subreddit, found here.

It was last updated on 2023, Aug 6 at or around 1325 EDT. It may or may not get updates going forward, depending on how much free time I have (e.g. don't expect me to update it but I might if I have time). Also, if bettervanilla decides to move his post off of reddit, I plan to update this page to redirect to the new location.

Also found one more really nice list mentioned on the r/linuxmasterrace sub while trying to find where they are migrating to. Thanks to /u/ball_soup for sharing!

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

[This portion of call begins at 25:47]

Me: I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We're good. That's mostly a joke.

Reddit: Six months of use? What do you mean? I know you said that was mostly a joke, but I want to take everything you're saying seriously just to make sure I'm not - what are you referring to?

Me: Okay, if Apollo's opportunity cost currently is $20 million dollars. At the 7 billion requests and API volume. If that's your yearly opportunity cost for Apollo, cut that in half, say for 6 months. Bob's your uncle.

Reddit: You cut out right at the end. I'm not asking you to repeat yourself for a third time, but you legit cut out right at the end. "If your opportunity cost is $10 million" and then I lost you.

Reddit Dec 5, 2022 10:46 AM:

Hi Christian,

I hope all is well!

I’m reaching out because we noticed a spike in Apollo's request rate on December 2nd. It was from approximately 14:17 to 14:23 UTC to /messages/inbox that went up by around 35% before returning to baseline. We are hoping you could help us understand what might have happened.

The source IPs were in AWS us-west-2: redacted, redacted, and redacted and had the Apollo UA server:apollo-backend:v1.0 (by /u/iamthatis) contact [email protected]

DeutschlandTicket Anomalien

Einige DeutschlandTickets sind anders als die anderen. Preislich soll es für 49EUR starten und für ganz Deutschland einen bestimmten Featureset mitbringen. Folgende Verkehrsverbunde wollen allerdings Zusatzoptionen anbieten:

Falls Ihr noch weitere kennt: einfach unten als Kommentar oder via Twitter ergaenzen

Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (DVB) @ Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) bzw siehe PDF vom VVO
- Deutschlandticket Plus Mitnahme (+10 EUR)
  Berechtigt zur Mitnahme im Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) von einem Hund oder einem Fahrrad ohne zeitliche Einschränkung sowie einem weiteren Erwachsenen und bis zu vier Schülern bis zum 15. Geburtstag von Montag bis Freitag zwischen 18 und 4 Uhr sowie ganztags an Wochenenden und Feiertagen.

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

...and obviously we're building a workaround. But I'm absolutely flabbergasted that a standard <input type="date"> HTML field, in a standard browser, from a company that bases its reputation good design, could be so dreadful.

The context

I'm the developer for a startup that sells a genetic test to recommend medications for high blood pressure. For medical reasons we need to know our customers' birth date. Most of our customers are in their 60s or older. We've found that many of them use iPads or iPhones. And they're the ones who complain to our customer support that our site is unusable.

The problem

Installing KDE on WSL2

Inspiration: https://www.most-useful.com/kde-plasma-on-wsl.html

Setup

Update WSL
- In windows command prompt run: wsl --update
Add systemd to ubuntu

In ubuntu prompt run: sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf

Making Windows 11 Usable

Remove Garbage

Sophia Script for Windows

Keep in mind that if you're not careful when selecting the settings, not only will it remove the preinstalled TikTok app but also the default photo viewer. Other than that works great.

Fix Explorer and Right Click Menus

Explorer Patcher

Script to fix sound in Progressbar95 (requires ffmpeg)

By default Progressbar95 has broken sound due to game reading mp3 files as raw format (wav) This script converts all .mp3 files to .wav and renames converted .wav to .mp3

How to use

bash ./fixLinuxSounds.sh <path_to_game>

Example:

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Vanished Tweet Recovery
	// @namespace https://d23.dev/
	// @version 1.2
	// @description Detects whenever a tweet mysteriously vanishes from your timeline for no reason and allows you to re-open it
	// @author angeld23
	// @match ://.x.com/*
	// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=x.com
	// @grant none
	// ==/UserScript==