prologic
twtxt.net
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Okay, I've built full search capabilities for yarnd 😅 Let's see how many bugs I've created 🤣

Sorry folks, it was a total disaster 🤣 Had to disable the new feature 😢

  • ran out of disk space
  • blew up the db on this pod (corrupted)
  • lots of missing features and. broken shit™

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prologic
twtxt.net
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Hey @bmallred 👋 Can you see this? 🤔

The weird this is I still see your profile as

bmallred may not follow you

I assume you share your followings publicly, I see them on your feed, so I assume so. I was going to debug this on my side too today to see if.I goofed something up but my pod is rather busy so I hadn’t done that yet 😅 (actually working again finally on search)

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » I was able to take a photo of the large sunspots that made the news these days:

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks 😅

This is my setup, I think I posted these before:

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It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 (originally bought for bird watching, not a telescope) with a special adapter so that I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The sun filter is just a generic filter for 100mm scopes. The tripod isn’t very good and actually rather annoying. 😂

It’s not a very complicated setup. 🤔 Being able to mount the camera directly is crucial.

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Another thing that doesn’t work anymore after blocking network traffic from my Android phone: Some push notifications.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com It would appear so. 🤔 (I’m too lazy to set that up, though, I rather just don’t use notifications. They’re not that important in this case.)

I was not aware that I needed a cloud service for something as (seemingly) simple as local app notifications. 😳

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)

Another thing that doesn’t work anymore after blocking network traffic from my Android phone: Some push notifications.

I run a Matrix server for our family. I use “FluffyChat” on my phone. Traffic from the phone to my Matrix server is allowed and chatting in FluffyChat works.

But I don’t get any notifications anymore on new messages.

So, what’s going on here? Does FluffyChat, which only really needs to talk to my own server, rely on some cloud service for notifications? Seriously? 🤔 How does that work, does this cloud service see all my notifications or what?

Anyone around who did app development on Android? Can you shed some light on this?

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prologic
twtxt.net
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » @prologic Regarding the static URL: The hostname at least is a CNAME record and resolves to something at cloudfront. What I meant was that I, as a user, cannot configure this URL anywhere in the Android UI. 🤔

Oh so it really does hit some stupid arbitrary endpoint at AWS 😱

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » @prologic Hmm, have you used a GPS device 15, 20 years ago? I had one in my car. It would take a long time until it got a first “fix” of your location. That’s because it can take up to 12 minutes until you have gathered all the data directly from the satellites. These days, GPS trackers on smartphones get a fix within seconds, maybe 30 seconds tops, because they get pre-seeded with (approximated) satellite positions via A-GPS.

(The old device I’m referring to was a handheld device. It was not built into the car and was not running 24/7.)

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)
↳ In-reply-to » One thing I’ve learned from locking down my Android phone (see #pknsrda):

I’ll make an experiment: I’ll keep blocking all the phone’s internet traffic and then we’ll see how bad the GPS performance will get in a couple of hours/days. 😅 (If I got it all wrong and it still works fine, that’d be great!)

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