I've discovered the Baywatch channel on Plex; a show that deals with lost dogs, homelessness, autistic children, shoplifters, trying to find an apartment, fundraising, learning CPR to save lives, etc. Kind of a refreshing break from multiverse, space cowboy, superhero, serial killer TV shows we have today. https://watch.plex.tv/live-tv/channel/baywatch
@kurtsh Mac OS versions never change? That checks out. :)
@textfiles The heated swimming pool and bar on the rooftop is really awesome too. It's kind of awesome to relax in the infinity pool with jet airplanes flying all around you!
20 years of Wordpress, huh!? https://www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc/events/292924681/ #NYC #Event
WooHoo! I got this awesome FormSpammerTrap code (https://www.formspammertrap.com/) to work with PHPMailer's (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) SMTP sender!
@shawnwildermuth Ah, cool. Maybe I'll look into that too. The real issue is I want to integrate with this awesome form code: https://www.formspammertrap.com/howitworks.php Which only works with the Mail() function by default.
@shawnwildermuth It was easier when the built-in server worked. I guess SendGrid has their own library, huh? With PHPMailer I can connect it to any SMTP account set up with TLS, DMARC, and all that. I can already include IP & timestamps in the emails I get, so I don't know how much more tracking I need.
You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!
All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.
Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links, so Mastodon removed any practical need to use them. If you still use link shorteners on Mastodon, it will be obvious to everyone that you are just doing it for tracking purposes.
More info at https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon
Hey #fediverse Hive Mind: ❓
If you had to recommend a set of #hashtags to follow for brand new users, not knowing their particular issue set they cared about, what general, noise-free, but active hashtags would you suggest? Here is a thread of mine, please add in comments:
(HT top @feditips for some of these)
🧵 1 of X
#Introduction & #Introductions - New people on here, say hello
#Befound - lists of other lists of Fedi users
@jhpot Nice! I assume no Exchange/Office365 support either without turning on IMAP.
@rysiek Yes, of course. I was just trying to think of a way around it.
@rysiek Would blocking Google & other search engines from crawling your admin log-in URLs mitigate that issue? Or put a file system password on it?
Dolly 2.0 is a really big deal: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm
"The first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use"
My notes so far on trying to run it: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2
@molly0xfff
2005?! Pretty sure we were talking about Web 2.0 in the late 90's like all the time.
I'm getting pretty confident telling people if none of the following #VPNs are well ranked on a ‘review’ site - drop the site ❌
- @mullvadnet
- @ivpn
- @protonvpn
- Windscribe
Sites with the best #privacy & #security reputation consistently have these as their top winners, and for good reason - they’re pushing the envelope on keeping you safe, without insane sponsor/affiliate deals to buy out websites.
Love those HP ZBook mobile workstations! https://pocketnow.com/hp-zbook-power-g9-review/
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