Getting full Mastodon interop in PieFed is going to be a long road. I urge you to bite off a smaller piece to chew until you get comfortable - https://join.piefed.social/

Yeah there are multiple ignored GitHub issues about Mastodon’s federation of replies, going back many years. It’s never getting fixed. This realisation sent me on a multi-week quest to find a platform that does replies properly. Akkoma and Friendica seem better at replies but have other shortcomings.

If you get a chance, go to Riga in Latvia. They have whole streets of architecture in that style - https://theculturemap.com/art-nouveau-architecture-in-riga-where-to-find-it/

Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB

I use my searxng instance several times a day.

DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can’t browse anything.

I also selfhost a SaaS that I built. It’s essential to me that it’s available to my customers although I don’t use it personally.

I love the movement in this one

China raises the price to $6 to compensate, Taiwan to $5.90

Not quite. It’s not the foreigners who pay the tariffs, it’s the locals. The tariff is charged at customs when the product enters the country and the people paying that are the people doing the importing. Tariffs don’t bring more money into the country, they just penalize local people who import goods from overseas. It’s a tax. Back when Republicans were consistent they hated all taxes, heh.

From the point of view of the local consumer it makes no difference - the price rises unless there is a locally made substitute they can buy instead.

Ehh, it’s ok in the case of JetBrains - if your subscription lapses your license converts to a ‘perpetual fallback license’ so can just continue using the version you installed when the subscription was originally purchased.

I’m using a 4 year old version of PhpStorm with no issues and no subscription. My PyCharm sub ended 6 months ago and I’m staying on the 2023 version of PyCharm because the latest version comes with lots of AI which makes my CPU fans scream continuously.

Same goes for downvotes - giving something a downvote is the equivalent of giving everything else an upvote.

So good, these two are absolute gems

After X attempts to log in, it bans the IP address.

It will scan your wordpress files and alert you if any of them have changed in suspicious ways (hacked).

It can disable the xml-rpc endpoint which is rarely used and is a big vector for hacking.

… and a lot more but those are the main ones for me.

There are not as many sysadmin job these days because so many on-prem deployments have moved to the cloud. Consider becoming a cloud version of a sysadmin (whatever they’re calling it now…). Every platform offers lots of free learning resources and has a certification process.

The WordFence plugin is a must-have for security.

If you use Caddy instead of Apache then you get SSL automatically. You’ll need php-fpm as well, tho.

Ok if trying a memory limit of 512MB doesn’t work then I’m out of ideas, sorry.

Any interesting things in Reports -> Status? Sometimes there are warnings in there which point to config issues.

So weird!

Very unlikely to be a proxmox issue.

134217728 bytes is only 138 MB so your php memory limit is set lower than you think. Your php config needs work. Restart Apache and php-fpm (if using) after changing php.ini and use phpinfo(); to check that your changes were applied successfully.

A memory limit of 256 MB should be ok.

I was a drupal dev for 10 years.

There’s no way it should use that much ram. You probably have a contrib module installed that has a bug in it. Try a process of elimination till you find the module it is.

Nightmare fuel