[Link to week 3](https://beehaw.org/post/165775) Use this space to update everyone on your progress heading into the final week. Is something going particularly well? Is there something you would like help or advice on? Share anything and everything you would like to about your project!

A little over a year ago I was fortunate to make it onto the beta testing team for Beeper. TL;DR Beeper is a unified chat application (i.e. all major chat applications, including SMS, in one app). Beeper recently announced that their basic service is now free https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free. However, they will be slowly working their way through a wait list. The convenience of this service can't be understated. Also, encrypted services such as Signal are supported. Just go to https://www.beeper.com/ and click the 'Get started' button to join the wait list.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/227554 > I tried and was drawing blanks

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For things like Samsung, can just not buy their phones as a drop in the ocean, which is better than nothing. But afaik, some weapon manufacturers don't make consumer products Yeah there's the obvious stuff like writing letters to local rep or participating in like antisamsung protests ( happens in S. Korea)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/219572 > As a "mean girls" zealot, mine is https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore > > [Lore/drama](/c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca)

also if you wear top left with all black skinny clothes and turtleneck you'll be a special kind of hipster.

Every community should understand this. I think we do a pretty good job here, but there are a number of other communities that don't.

I really liked oceanic themes from Library Of Fragrance but they no longer sell large vials of 100ml. I'm quite a newbie in perfume world and have no clue how to approach the search there. sooo... Does anyone know how can I find similar ones from different brands other than relying on the name?

> https://www.reddit.com/r/beehaw/ > > https://www.reddit.com/r/sopuli/ Doesn't really matter if it's officially beehaw or not, fan accounts exist. Afaik fan accounts exist on twitter for hexbear: https://twitter.com/Hexbear_io https://twitter.com/chapo_chat Similar to elon, posts on twitter dont have to be about any topic in particular. Eventually an enemy of the bees will make a fake official looking beehaw acct to make the bees look bad. I would do it, but i don't toot or tweet enough. But i will subscribe to you if you make an acct. Could even do it as a join acct to enable enough daily action There is a beehaw redddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/beehaw-lemmy there are also (official?) wolfballs and lemmygrad promotional reddit accounts.

"As I'm sure you know, it's policy to neither confirm or deny the presence of specific news concerning my person" From John Kirby's: "As I'm sure you know, it's US policy to neither confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons at any specific location " 😆 I do intend to say this line cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/207972 > - John Kirby

I've been wondering about these questions for a while now but the docs were scarce. 1. Does loading an image (cache/thumbnail) from external hosting takes up any server storage? **[UPD: yes, it does](https://beehaw.org/comment/53887)** If so, is it cleaned up when original image deleted? 1. Do (internally hosted) "orphan" images (not linked to any post/comments) get deleted? 1. Any recommendations for image hosting? Preferably freemium+donation based, open source, able to keep spinning until end of times -- all that jazz 1. In relation to creating posts on lemmiverse: any hints for streamlined workflow uploading images to external hosting? (bookmarklets, scripts, custom frontends) 1. Are there any promising Lemmy initiatives for optimizing storage usage? Got any questions of your own about image hosting? Let's hear it

I just wanted to see if I can make a post here from my Friendica account 🙂 [@chat](https://beehaw.org/c/chat)

How's your Friday going?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/215588 > Since they talk about 100% productivity, prob stims. Sedatives/tranquilizers to sleep afterwards? > > Antidepressants? Since feeling emotions and being a human machine sounds depressing.

[edit] Just to clarify - I don't like downvotes and would be utterly happy if they were disabled as much as it's possible.

Ex findasubreddit, but on lemmy. So instead of posting to like r/findasubreddit, one posts to c/findasubreddit and uses that to find a subreddit. Since, imo, esp for niche topics, the lemmyverse isn't big enough to stand on it's own. But the lemmyverse could still reduce the number of posts to say reddit. Prob possible to use it for like other platforms, like follow for follow instagram hashtags.

When Beehaw was first launched our disk usage (physical space on the server) was approximately 45%. Right now we are up to 72% and this will continue to climb over time. At the moment, I can only see two options. Firstly, go up an additional tier with our server host which would increase the monthly hosting cost. Secondly, figure out a way to remove old and inactive posts. Hopefully, there is a batch process for this or something similar. I'm not an expert in this area, sadly. What are your thoughts?

Fiction, non horror. Young adult stuff could be fine, but no like books aimed at like folks younger than that. Preferably not like detailed violence or detailed sex scenes. For movies I generally like dramas, but i dont consume books so I don't know what kind of books I'd like.

When one is the subject of love bombing it is really hard to "feel" the downsides of it It's very easy to go down the path of logic and keep telling myself typical rational mantras, but this doesn't exactly help on the emotional level We all seek love and, however unhelpful, love bombing does provide it. Which puts me in a weird conundrum -- why shouldn't I accept love when I clearly need it Do you have any tips or stories how you've let go of love bombing addiction? > Credit for the pic goes to original artist Nacho Arjona | naolito.com

My profile is [here](https://masto.ai/@remington). I, mainly, set this up to see how Mastodon interacts with the rest of the Fediverse including Lemmy. So far, I'm impressed with the simplicity and functionality of Mastodon.

offline normie population = only online to post selfies and food shots on instagram/bigtech Like sheer fact that I'm ok with trans ppl being trans people is sorta extremism in my city.

This is both scary and infuriating.

Until now Mastodon has done marvelously well but I'm kind of worried how long it can continue do so. The influx of people from the bird side is far from over or so it seems. 

Hey y'all! Apologies for the late post, my life has been busy which I will elaborate on in my post below. This post is your chance to showcase anything you made from the month of October! Feel free to title your project, tell us about your creative process, or anything else.

hey I am a genious I will simply make a social space (or social media website) without any rules. So everybody can do whatever they want. *Someone spamming horse porn everywhere* okay maybe let's have some rules, like no spamming or illegal stuff. *People keep posting my little pony content or gore to unrelated sub forums* Hmm let's just make a full CoC that basically only permits the kind of right-wing thought that we like. End result is a shithole that nobody likes using, since right-wingers don't even like their own people. genius

[Link to week 2](https://beehaw.org/post/158460) Use this space to update everyone on your progress so far. Is something going particularly well? Is there something you would like help or advice on? Share anything and everything you would like to about your project!

[Link to week 1](https://beehaw.org/post/150800) Use this space to update everyone on your progress so far. Is something going particularly well? Is there something you would like help or advice on? Share anything and everything you would like to about your project!

[Link to roll call](https://beehaw.org/post/144513) Use this space to update everyone on your progress so far. Is something going particularly well? Is there something you would like help or advice on? Share anything and everything you would like to about your project!

I'll confess I don't do backups regularly 🙀 In the past, I always followed the same routine: I start backing up my files but quickly run into issues and give up. Recently I corrupted one of the system files, nothing major but I have to reinstall the OS in near future So it prompted me to think about the whole strategy of backup. Before I waste 2 weeks trying to build "the perfect backuping systemTM" (and give up), I would like to get a peak how others are doing it. Choose any number and tell me I'm an idiot for even asking that 🤣 1. how much (of you personal) time you spend to assure regular backuping? 1. how do you backup settings of your software? 1. how do you deal with software that doesn't provide explicit export of settings? do you do it manually by an occasional export once in a blue moon? 1. do you use configuration managers like Ansible to quickly install/restore settings? 1. do you backup binaries/installation packages? 1. do you backup mobile apps and their settings? 1. do you backup snapshots of OS? if yes, please explain your strategy dealing with them 1. do you include temporary personal files into backup? For example: a shopping list 1. do you copy system files in a separate folder for further backup or instead put the paths of system files for backup software to grab the latest version? 1. do you backup logs? if yes, please explain your reasoning and situation. 1. what's your folder (hierarchy) of the drive where you store the backups? How did you come up with it? 1. do you keep all backup files on a single drive/RAID or you have a separate storage for groups of backup files? For example such groups: drive for Windows backups, drive for networking hardware, drive for mobile devices, drive for server related stuff, drive for grandparents' backups (😄) 1. do you keep files residing only in a cloud (excluded from backup)? 1. do you backup your emails? if yes, how do you filter them to exclude junk from backup? 1. do you backup your online profiles? like Facebook & google 1. how and when do you clean old backups? 1. what do you consider when buying a new drive for backuping needs? 1. how often do you test your backups?

As mentioned in the [previous post](https://beehaw.org/post/130403), Make Something month is going to be a little event where you can participate by making something! If you would like to participate, then feel free to post in this thread what you hope to accomplish this month. Also, if you have any questions, comments, or ideas for the event, feel free to post those too! There will be posts like this every Saturday throughout October for people to give updates on how their project are going. Then, to give people time to be able to figure out how to display their projects and add finishing touches, there will be a showcase thread on November 5th.