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in reply to Tomáš

did you know that you can use colors in oekaki? If you save a .theme with nasu, it'll use these colors instead. I know you like psychedelic colors
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

@neauoire of course I didn't... I've been approaching it like a neanderthal would a flaming stick.. with cautious care, but now... I don't know if I can handle this much power 🦓

only fossangels know what I'll come up with next! (in color no less)



Day 1: Ten Days, Ten Films.


I didn't put a hashtag on my first film. So, here it is again!
Over ten days you pick an image from a film without any title to give away where it is from, so that people can guess.
NO SPOILERS! If you recognise a film, don’t say what it is! Say something hinting that you know.

no spoilers
#TenDaysTenFilmsTenFriends or #TenDaysTenFilmsNoFriends
@Katherine Bond

in reply to Muse

As I commented the first time around: "Poison, She Wrote"


Check out this #GameDev bundle for a whole bunch of assets to use in your projects: humblebundle.com/software/2d-g… (partner)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I'm definitely buying this, and immediately assigning it to the same category as most of my Steam collection: "Someday, maybe never". I don't need fewer hobbies, I need fewer non-hobby activities and responsibilities. 😁


NASA Leadership to Participate in Global Climate Change Conference nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-lea… #NASA #ClimateChange #BillNelson #Earth


Day 9: Ten Days, Ten Films.


This is a lot of fun! So long as I don’t make this too hard or too easy!
Over ten days you pick an image from a film without any title to give away where it is from, so that people can guess. You can also nominate others to do the same. That way more people are in on the game! (or not–your choice 😀 )

But remember: NO SPOILERS! If you recognise a film, don’t say what it is! Say something that indicates you know, but allows others to guess as well. Your messages then become helpful hints!

I rewatched this one the other day, and was pleased after all these years that it was still quite good!

no spoilers
#TenDaysTenFilmsTenFriends or #TenDaysTenFilmsNoFriends
@Sam Smith

in reply to Muse

@Carsten Raddatz Have you re-watched it recently? It has held up well. Still a lot of fun!
in reply to Muse

@Sam Smith @Muse No I haven't seen this one for a small handful of decades. May I could... 😗


return to tradition: #fossangel in #uxn's #oekaki

'run whatever you want, what do I care...'

Despite its lackluster expression, intuitively you feel the angel has a preference, but you don't know what it is.

You're not sure who's side the monochrome divinity is on, but you hope it is the one you're on.

#unix_surrealism #monochrome #fediart #mastoart



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🇫🇷 Paris 📆 December 6-7

Learn what the AI revolution means for Open Source, Open Tech and Open Societies and visit us booth H32.

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#NASA


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Implications of access by the user www-data to all friendica folders


in reply to utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

> granting write rights only for the specific locations that need it

What folders would that be?

What I have seen so far that would be:
/storage
/view/smarty3
and
/config
but only while installing local.config.php

Something I don't understand is why I do have a few folders in:
/view/smarty/compiled
that belong to the user root.
How is that possible?
How can friendica create folders as and/or for root?

What should I expect to happen if I just delete those folders, or even delete the complete /compiled folder. I guess friendica would start from there to create the folder compiled and subfolders as needed?

I ask because there are those subdirectories belonging strangely to root and one of my issues is that when I switch to the theme FRIO I have no access anymore to the settings of that respective profile, not even to change back to VIER. That renders that profile nearly useless and I'm trying to get around that problem.

in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte That's a good list of exceptions.

Regarding the root-owned folders, it would prevent www-data from reading the cached template files and subsequently display the pages that uses the specific templates in this folder.

You should restore recursive www-data ownership to this or these folders. Please let me know if you need an example of a command line to do so.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I guess to just change all the folders/subfolders and files regardless of their ownership that would be:

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/# chown -R www-data:www-data compiled

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Just checked the settings page of one of the profiles in question and yes, that fixed it.
thx
👍

(again, how could this possibly happen, shouldn't we look for some bug somewhere or do we just assume some quantum entanglement?)

in reply to utopiArte

result:

What I don't get is where these ownership settings came from.
They were not even from a specific day or had anything specific in common:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…


Just checked all the 13 of 220 folders that were created as belonging to user and group root and that I consider shouldn't exist as owned by root i the folder /smarty3.

In general terms speaking I couldn't find a common property.

They refer to posts or replies by three different users.

Most refer to one specific post.

Two create a page:
Not Found
The requested item doesn't exist or has been deleted.
Request: XYZ

All were created with the theme VIER.


in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte @Hypolite Petovan this is most likely just some goof while doing something minor that you wouldn't have even connected to this at the time.

No amount of proficiency and watchfulness eliminates user error, it just becomes increasingly obscure.

in reply to Shiri Bailem

Even tho there have been some trouble while setting up this installation what calls my attention ist that those folders had kinda random different dates of creation:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 00
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 16 02:10 30
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 17 19:35 3e
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 01:57 49
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 16 22:25 4e
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 01:55 59
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 11:10 90
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 21 22:50 a3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 23 00:45 a4
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 23 19:15 ae
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 23 20:35 b4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 16 00:53 bf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 11:10 e2
in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte @Shiri Bailem Cache folders are created as needed. Since they are based on the 2 first or 2 next characters in the hash of the cached template, their distribution is supposed to be random. Not every page gets called every time, and then when you update your node some templates change and their hash with them.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Like to say this started with one folder being owned by root and from there others were created with the same ownership?
in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte @Hypolite Petovan it might be helpful to note: only root can create folders owned by anyone else, so those folders had to be created from friendica or some part of it running as root at the time they were created, this is why I said it was likely user error
in reply to Shiri Bailem

That's what astonishes me.

My access is only via console SSH to the VPS and that shouldn't create any kind of cross implications with the firefox webbrowser that accesses the friendica installation.

Also apparently the installation itself was created the 8th of November, the first folder apparently the 11th of November so there was no relation to that.

If friendica is able to create a folder and files as root that's kinda scary isn't it?

in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte @Hypolite Petovan it's not able to, and if it was it would be considered a massive linux security bug rather than a friendica bug.

SSH and VPS mean nothing for this situation, you likely just ran something with sudo at some point.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

> That's a good list of exceptions.

In theory I could there for run the following commands to set all folders except /storage and /view/smarty3 to root:

set ownership of everything recursively to root:
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/# chown -R root:root html

set ownership of storage and smarty3 recursively to www-data:
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/# chown -R www-data:www-data storage
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/# chown -R www-data:www-data smarty3

The change of ownership wouldn't affect the specific read/write permissions of files and folders and www-data would have only access to the folders needed.

right?

in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte Indeed, it is separate. Please be on the lookout in your log for message like "Can't open file: Access denied" in case we missed a crucial place.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I ended up doing the following:

First I created a backup folder of the existing html folder and subdirectories:

root@VPShosting:/var/www# cp -r html html_01.bak

By default that created a copy with all files and folders owned by root.

Than I changed the ownership of storage and smarty3 to www-data:

root@VPShosting:/var/www/html_01.bak# chown -R www-data:www-data storage

Screen of the new user and group owner ship setting of the /html folder

root@VPShosting:/var/www/html_01.bak/view# chown -R www-data:www-data smarty3

Screen of the new user and group owner ship setting of the /view folder

Once everything looked "fine" I moved the existing html folder to a new name.

root@VPShosting:/var/www# mv html html_www-data_old

By moving [mv] instead of copying [cp] the ownership of files and folders aren't affected. Than I moved the copy with the new ownership settings into place:

root@VPShosting:/var/www# mv html_01.bak html

Well see how this setup behaves.
In any case I'll have the old version at hand to change to it if necessary.

in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte security implications are minor, mostly because they can only edit the thing they've already hacked into.

But if that's a particular concern, you should be able to make the entire directory read-only as I don't believe friendica edits any of those files after initial setup (since all the edits are in database, or a separate storage folder if you're using the folder storage backend)

The writable in your quoted instructions is for the setup process while logged in under that user, so of course it'll need write to be able to download files and install them in the webserver directory. But there's no indication that it's needing write past that.



NASA Releases First International Space Station Tour in Spanish nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-rel… #NASA #NASAEnEspañol #HumansInSpace #InternationalSpaceStationISS #Missions


La NASA publica el primer tour en español de la estación espacial nasa.gov/news-release/la-nasa-… #NASA #NASAEnEspañol


A few folks have asked for details on my last post & I realize many may not know I am finishing a Ph.D. related to how Congress makes science-related policy decisions. sheril.substack.com/p/a-disser…

Nearly 20 years ago I worked in the Senate & now my research considers where staffers go for #science information & who they trust. The literature largely focuses on politicians, but staffers are responsible for policies w/o electoral accountability. I'll share more once it's published. #politics

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

it sounds like a great dissertation topic in an under explored area of science based policy making !


@Friendica Support

I just tried to display /.well-known/host-meta as described in:

/help/Install wrote:

Verify the "host-meta" page is working
Friendica should respond automatically to important addresses under the /.well-known/ rewrite path. One critical URL would look like, for example: example.com/.well-known/host-m…
It must be visible to the public and must respond with an XML file that is automatically customized to your site.

Instead of displaying the xml file my browser (firefox) just downloaded it.
I'm used to get this page displayed.

Any idea what this could be?

The page /.well-known/ itself is "not found".

in reply to utopiArte

@utopiArte It really depends on your browser. That you are given a XML file to download is enough to pass the test. The /.well-known/ path is a virtual path and as such we only support specific endpoints like /.well-known/host-meta, /.well-known/nodeinfo and /.well-known/webfinger to name a few.
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Three Palestinian students were shot in Burlington, VT on Saturday evening. The alleged shooter was a middle-aged white male — it’s being investigated as a possible hate crime. This is fucking horrifying. nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/pale…


"Most politicians are honest about not knowing enough science & rely on experts." [Source: nature.com/articles/d41586-023…]

As someone writing a dissertation on where policymakers seek out information related to #science policy, I wholeheartedly disagree.

Scientists & other experts are not a top source for information. They're not even a 2nd or 3rd source. #politics

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Have you read The Geek Manifesto?? I used to assign it in my research class!!


NASA Scientific Balloons Ready for Flights Over Antarctica nasa.gov/missions/scientific-b… #NASA #ScientificBalloons #AstrophysicsDivision #WallopsFlightFacility


Begin your week with these newly Steam Deck Verified games gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/begi…

#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Throwback to me being scared in VR in Half-Life: Alyx: youtube.com/watch?v=K2kjCn-fZy…
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I "hacked" this feeling with curiosity:
"move aside, monster, I have a plot to see".
Happened with soma, which has a lot of monsters and jumpscares but has the plot so damn good I was too busy discovering it to be scared.



TUXEDO Sirius 16 launches as an full AMD gaming notebook with Linux gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/tuxe…

#Linux #Gaming



Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/plas…

#Linux #KDE #FOSS



Over 5% of The Pale Beyond players were on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/over…

#SteamDeck #PCGaming



Create worlds for others to explore in creature capturing RPG Portal Fantasy gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/crea…

#Gaming #RPG #Linux #SteamDeck



PipeWire 1.0 is out now for modern Audio and Video on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/pipe…

#FOSS #Linux #OpenSource


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

i'd say that qualifies as pentest. google's security by obscurity approach to pagerank is starting to severely bite them in the butt
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

imagine having such confidence that you proudly announce you created vast quantities of garbage just so people would look at your site (which is filled with garbage) instead of another site (which presumably has actual information)


LBN 86: The Eagle Ray Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231127.ht… #APOD
#APOD


LBN 86: The Eagle Ray Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander

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#APOD




People laugh about how awful The Star Wars Holiday Special was. This is a Donnie and Marie take on the Star Wars story. Hilariously cringe!

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Latest Australian Honest Government Ad. We are encouraged to spread it around among our dear citizens! 😀

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One of my favourite Weird Al songs!

youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?si=ivHZuo…

@Cass M @Carsten Raddatz @Christoph S
Go to about 2:22 of this video and take a look!

in reply to Muse

Thrown like an asterisk in a vast text
I open my eyes to read what was next
To find that I was in my seat
At my desk, with nothing to eat

It was then when the Hurdy Nerdy Man
Came singing songs of code
Then when the Hurdy Nerdy Man
Came singing songs of code

"Hurdy nerdy, hurdy nerdy, hurdy nerdy, nerdy", he sang
"Hurdy nerdy, hurdy nerdy, hurdy nerdy, nerdy", he sang
"Hurdy nerdy, hurdy nerdy, hurdy nerdy, nerdy", he sang

Histories of versions past
Unenlightened debuggings cast
Down through the reposit'ry
The crying of humanity

in reply to Muse

@Cass M @Christoph S Secret showing at 2:22! But.. is that even possible? To like *spoiler alert * both Star Trek and Star Wars...? D:



Brilliant piece of comedy!

youtu.be/ggusO40W8_0?si=_mythc…

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