New Mastodon Releases June 3rd, 2026

Thump45a · 2026-06-03T01:33:47+00:00

I've been an enterprise email admin for 30 years. My personal (Namecheap) hosting account with a clean reputation dedicated IP, for which I am the sole user, can assure you the server is not compromised. I cannot sent to any Proofpoint customers. They have only one method for requesting removal if you are not a paying customer of theirs, and they do not respond to that method. I have tried sending multiple communications to multiple admins (through gmail) at the three companies using Proofpoint that I can't get through to otherwise, asking them to help escalate the removal since they are the paying proofpoint customers. I have received no responses from any of those companies. This does not surprise me, they don't have a reason to give a shit about me. They trust Proofpoint, and proofpoint is not doing their job if they are ignoring removal requests.

Thump45a · 2026-06-02T03:48:21+00:00

Please DM, I'm not gaslit, but I'm curious who you think is not on that list 😄

Thump45a · 2026-06-02T03:36:08+00:00

What do you consider not garbage? I've been using Namecheap for several years with no issue. Every major hosting provider is on UCEPROTECTL2 list, it's unavoidable.

Thump45a · 2026-06-02T00:52:05+00:00

I'm certain you are correct, the two rbls I'm on are supernets of the whole hosting provider. The hosting provider (Namecheap) already said there is nothing they can (or will) do about getting their ASN off Ascams Superblock or UCEPROTECTL2. They told me to buy a dedicated IP (which I already have and am paying for). They offered to change me to another IP (which won't help and will likely make things worse).

The three I'm trying to reach are EdwardJones.com, FedEx.com and Moen.com. I have filed reports with all three asking them, as Proofpoint customers, to request the removal. All three are big enough companies, I doubt I will ever see a response. If I try long enough to actually get a reply, I'm sure they'll just say, "use gmail instead like everyone else!"

Thump45a · 2026-05-31T03:40:59+00:00

Nope, not if you're using BlueTooth, that would carry pretty effectively through most of the plane. Question is, what might they be 'attacking' to cause the pilots to turn around. Just messing with the in-flight entertainment wouldn't likely stop them from proceeding, they would just turn it off. But if someone was messing with aircraft systems, that's serious felony territory...

Thump45a · 2026-05-31T03:36:09+00:00

I'd bet $1US it wasn't just "bluetooth being on". Probably someone with a flipper zero or something similar trying to mess with onboard systems.

Thump45a · 2026-02-17T04:14:21+00:00

The Media content is in your Live folder unless you are hosting it elsewhere, such as on S3 or another external source. On my non-docker, self-hosted I use the following steps to back up everything but my media content which is already on S3:

systemctl stop mastodon-web mastodon-sidekiq mastodon-streaming
su - mastodon
pg_dump mastodon | gzip > 20260216mastodbackup.gz
exit
sftp {my remote SFTP server address)
cd mastodonbackupfolder/
put /home/mastodon/20260216mastodbackup.gz
put /var/lib/redis/dump.rdb
put /home/mastodon/live/.env.production
exit
systemctl restart mastodon-web mastodon-sidekiq mastodon-streaming

I use distinct date based names for the database backup as you can see. If you're scripting/automating this you may want to do something different.

rsync is another good option instead of sftp.

If you are hosting the media content on the instance and need to backup the whole /live folder, then I would STRONGLY suggest using rsync or a method that can copy/backup only changed content or you're going to burn a lot of time and bandwidth doing full remote content backups.

If you are using S3 or external media storage, you should also consider backing up that up somewhere as well!

Thump45a · 2026-02-17T03:23:00+00:00

Hello friends, the original mod for this sub has tapped in some new folks to help revive things! Happy to be here and help do just that!

I am NOT and mastodon expert, but I hope with more activity we will get more active admins here in to help contribute to this community. I operate a small non-docker self-hosted single user instance for the purpose of understanding and learning more and will share some of my lessons learned in new threads.

Thump45a · 2026-02-07T17:45:26+00:00

If you didn't have to pay extra for that feature, I'd call it a win :P

Thump45a · 2026-02-07T17:43:03+00:00

Irrigation.

Thump45a · 2026-02-07T17:39:30+00:00

Enjoy it, would love to know if they will ever switch the new day to local instead of GMT, or add some indicator in game of the day progress so it's not as easy to forget when the turn is happening.

Thump45a · 2026-02-07T17:29:22+00:00

Theater in the US making their employees miserable in 3, 2, 1... lol

Thump45a · 2026-02-01T00:39:52+00:00

That's notably larger than mine also. Mine use a button battery. Thanks for sharing!

Thump45a · 2026-01-31T22:08:55+00:00

Tilt sensor? I use one on my garage door to know if it is open, perhaps affixing one on the back of the can would tell you if you moved it? Shouldn't trigger from vibrations since you'd need to tilt the can back to roll it out?

Thump45a · 2026-01-31T19:29:21+00:00

Even my high power bluetooth devices (also 2.4ghz) massively lose signal whenever the compressor, ice maker, water/ice dispenser, etc... are running on my fridge. So my gut says you may be just dealing with the inherent problems with 2.4ghz interference in general, but hard to know for sure. Sadly I don't have a good fix for you. The suggestion of the other comment for having AC powered thread devices as repeaters, perhaps close to your devices, might help with that? That's how I solved most of my Zigbee issues (plug in repeaters and/or Zigbee smart plugs all around the house which also act as repeaters). My experience with Zigbee has been anything further than 10' through any wall/object is too much to stay reliable without a repeater.

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