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I have moved. You can now find me on Mathias (npub1v6e…estu)

This server/instance will be shut down in a couple of weeks (from writing this, 2025-11-02)

Blog link (for verification): https://imakethingswork.com
Find me here: https://linksta.cc/@hellquist

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2025-11-02 10:37:16 UTC

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It is indeed a great place, with lots of great people. However, I'm not really looking to get yet another account (I think), I am more likely to "promote" one of my (many) test accounts to my new main account.

2025-11-02 10:31:17 UTC

FYI: I am doing a "following" export/import from here, to a couple of my other accounts, to bring them up to sync.
As it looks like right now I will be shutting down this account (mainly because I will be shutting down the actual server), so I will need to migrate somewhere else, when I have decided where that is.

2025-10-15 07:23:45 UTC

New version of excellent Linux distro Zorin has reached version 18.
I normally have at least one machine running Zorin as it...well..."just works". It is a great way to start testing Linux if you are currently using Windows or macOS.
They even have guides for people coming from Win within the actual system, so if you are looking for a specific Win software Zorin quite likely will suggest an alternative, or if there is an web app of the requested software, make that web software feel like it is installed software (when it basically is a wrapper).
Check out the new version of Zorin here:
https://blog.zorin.com/2025/10/14/zorin-os-18-has-arrived/
#Linux #Distro #Zorin #Zorin18

2025-09-23 07:17:31 UTC

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I am in no way questioning you, but what bugs are they? As far as I am concerned, using "all the platforms" with at least a test account, I find this (my Akkoma instance) to be the most full of features and functionality.
Also, in comparison, Mastodon has bugs dating back 9-10 years (regarding backfilling etc) which they don't seem to wish to attend in the slightest, so when Mastodon is getting new features they are merely trying to keep up with Pleroma/Akkoma/Sharkey/Friendica etc, which I still think Mastodon is terribly far behind. Gotosocial seems to have their own issues (but looks somewhat promising). Bonfire isn't a thing just yet, but if they deliver on even half the things promised, in a fashion that can handle the load, it will be very interesting indeed to see.
But that is just my take on it, from an end-user (and instance admin) perspective. I haven't looked at the code base in detail for any of the Fediverse projects.

2025-09-22 19:59:01 UTC

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It is definitely one of those things where you get what you pay for, and I've tried the cheap stuff = rarely worth it. I am looking at these guys though: https://www.shopmoment.com/lenses-filters

2025-09-17 22:06:05 UTC

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Dito. Been far too long.

2025-09-15 08:03:03 UTC

Having a bunch of Fediverse accounts, mostly for testing and trying out the differences in functionality, I have to say I really appreciate the functionality in Akkoma where I can set the minimum age of accounts that are allowed to send me messages/requests. It removes an incredible amount of spam and fake accounts, pretty much completely.
I don't post much from my other accounts (Mastodon, Sharkey etc) but they still get quite a lot of requests/spam from accounts that inevitably will be flagged by someone else who they also followed, and ultimately (normally) removed.
But here, on my main account, where I do post regularly (so should be more visible in streams/searches etc), I don't see any of those requests.
Nice.
#Fediverse #Akkoma #Mastodon #Sharkey

2025-09-14 13:38:04 UTC

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On that note (touch) I had no problems with Zorin. Also if you have the Pro version you can easily swap the "feel" of the window manager, to make it feel like "almost like before" regardless if the user comes from macOS or Windows, or prefer some regular Linux versions.
@npub10st…hwx0

2025-09-12 16:38:56 UTC

@npub1swc…y2dn This is me (on Akkoma) quoting your (Pleroma) quote post (original post from Mastodon), just because I am curious to see what happens when I view it on all the different platforms. Yay, we're having fun eh? 😆
#note19ee…qpze

2025-09-11 09:42:22 UTC

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Just a comment from the sideline:
Unlike Signal, which is very good but centralised to one single point in the US, DeltaChat is decentralised and can be self-hosted. There are other benefits in favour of DeltaChat too, but I see that is the biggest difference from Signal.
@npub1ee3…9kcl @npub17gp…nrxn

2025-09-11 07:32:46 UTC

Protons response regarding blocking an account from Phrack (hackers). I don't know about you, but it all makes sense to me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1nd07w0/comment/ndg6ip6/
#Proton

2025-09-09 19:37:46 UTC

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Oh yeah, forgot to add that: there is nothing wrong with my connection for sure.
Also, now I have updated the fourth Linux box. Status for Win11 update: 81% (and this is a good/fast machine, i9 CPU, 32gb ram, m2 SSD and not bloated).

2025-09-09 19:29:32 UTC

So, whilst waiting for the Win11 update to first download and then install I figured I should start my Linux boxes, one at a time, and update their systems too. It is a mixed bag of distros right now (Omarchy, CachyOS, Manjaro and Fedora Atomic Budgie).
Nevertheless, I have now started, updated EVERYTHING and shut down 3 of them. The progress of the Win11 update? 31%
Here's me going for updating the fourth Linux box.
#Linux #Windows #Win11 #Updates

2025-09-02 18:45:05 UTC

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I just saw that this was an old thread. No idea why it was kicked alive in to my feed all of a sudden. 😆

2025-08-30 21:50:06 UTC

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Om det känns bättre så kan jag berätta att jag säkerställt att jag INTE får intäkter från dem. Någon hade skrivit fel i STIM, så "Mats Hellquist" kredits för låtskrivning för ett par av deras låtar hamnade på mitt STIM konto, då våra namn är väldigt närliggande. Tack och lov upptäckte jag det innan pengar hamnat i ruljangsen och lyckades påpeka att någon gjort fel någonstans. 🤣

2025-08-30 17:02:01 UTC

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Pretty good lineup on the cruise I'd say. ☺️
https://hellquist.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/akkoma/429fd49414dada3b83007108df94c693308722019fe8e5df2989611e4f971fd8.png?name=image.png

2025-08-30 16:59:49 UTC

Listening in to The Haunteds latest album as I kind of haven't had the time previously. I am seeing them live next week on the Close-Up Boat.
Good to hear they still sound more like Slayer than Slayer ever managed. 🤣
#Metal #TheHaunted #Slayer #CloseUpBåten

2024-08-30 11:22:33 UTC

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Yeah, not too far off from professional writing I guess.
Yes, if you have the possibility and perhaps skills to record your own music in a way that you yourself have paid for it (you don't owe anyone else anything), that is the better route to go, as you then also own everything up until the point of figuring out how to distribute it.
The record labels usually have contacts with great producers though, and they can always say "_yeah, what you've done doesn't sound bad. But...it sounds dated...it could be soooo much better if..._" and nigh-on promise it will be the difference between millions of listens compared to thousands, and those are difficult things to measure in your own creation. Not signing can be very difficult for some.
Also it is the matter of marketing, but then again, small labels usually do a really poor job of that anyways. Big labels though, they smooch all the right music journalists and radio stations etc, so it is tricky to get in on that unless you are with the big guys, or you already are a big enough name to carry your own torch.
@npub1d7n…yxsc

2024-08-30 10:57:10 UTC

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Yeah, no, it isn't that simple. To confuse everyone completely, the rates are variable to start with. Streams from different user tiers pay the same song differently. Streams in different countries pay the same song differently. It quickly becomes difficult to do any estimate that doesn't involve guesswork.
Secondly, for very (too) many artists the money actually goes to the labels first. THEN the writers of the lyrics and music get split up. Depending on your contracts the label has the distribution as well, but it is more commonly not so, so that money then comes out of that as well.
For people like Rick Beato, who have money and contacts enough to do their own marketing and distribution, the numbers mentioned might apply. For 99.97% of the rest of the musicians, who don't have the money/muscles to distribute physical copies or marketing strength/contacts to "get the word out there", they usually have to pay someone to do it, or more commonly, sign with a label.
If you, via your label, have recorded your music in a quality studio (not cheap), the label will take pretty much 100% of the income from the songs until the studio bill is paid.
It is getting more and more common that artists record "at home" and only sign a distribution deal, but then there's usually less commerce for those songs too. Not many of the "big names" out there are not signed up with labels where they are big enough to dictate their own terms. Most artists cry of joy for getting a label contract that will lock them in for 5 albums (whatever that means in this day and age) and they themselves will get 5% of the money their songs bring in.
@npub16z2…mqty

2024-08-27 11:46:19 UTC

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Fortfarande ett otroligt fult ord, jag förstår varför det inte används nuförtiden (annat än i DN då). Strax bättre än ”fantastik” (mitt favorit-hat-ord, istället för Fantasy), men inte med mycket.

2024-08-27 09:04:42 UTC

"_Att lyssna på Rickie Lee Jones på Nalen 2024 är lika riskfyllt som att jumpa på isflak._" - DN
"_Jumpa_"? Är det ett svenskt ord? Som i att göra gymnastik på...? Eller hoppa, i någon svengelsk variant?
Texten exemplifierar med att man inte vet med säkerhet om man kan ta sig från ena sidan till den andra, så jag får gissar att de menar att man hoppar, i syfte att ta sig framåt. Det borde dock inte vara en rimlig anledning att våldföra sig på språket...om inte skrivande journalister kan uttrycka sig i skrift kommer våra unga inte heller att lära sig det.

2024-08-16 12:47:53 UTC

Something is very wrong in "regular" (algorithm-based) Social Media, when plain regular text is being put in to one image, which is turned in to a video, before sharing it.
#broken #SocialMedia

2024-06-25 12:44:40 UTC

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Mmm…you say “can”. I’m thinking we should consider if it “should”. I predict a *lot* of spammy broadcasting posts otherwise. People can obviously sift by chosing not to follow those accounts but…
It would make sense to be able to control the audience of a post, that indeed seems to be a requested feature, but personally I fail to see why I should be able to broadcast to “everyone” and then just pick a handful of people who can interact with my post.
The other way around, I am thinking if I limit who can interact with my post, it should **also** *only* be delivered to those people. It kind of “comes with the deal”. It also sounds rather fair (which obviously will be the main reason to why it’ll never happen).
To me, the general rule would be: “if you can read it you can interact with it”.
But that is me. 😄
@npub1y66…eusx

2024-06-25 12:26:18 UTC

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But…just to clarify your scenario: if you post to your friends only, only your friends can reply, right? But no one else will see it, right? Or is there a scenario where you publish it publicly, but only your friends can respond/interact with your post?
Another thing is that, currently, Fediverse services usually inherit the publishing level for the replies, though one can indeed tighten them up even further (I don’t think, but I do not know, if you can “open them up” further). But as it works today, if you post to followers-only, and I (who follow you) type my reply to you, also as followers-only, my followers will see my reply (as they follow me) but they won’t see your original post (unless they also follow you).
Wouldn’t it make sense that if Terence posts to followers only, and his followers replies, that the replies would be visible to Terence’s followers only, not the followers of whoever replied?

2024-06-17 16:46:22 UTC

He does have a way with words eh? I can totally see how so many go “wow, yeah…that’s my guy!”
https://hellquist.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/akkoma/cf30d4a2c9ef817fcc53f630d7f6ca1509bb930ef242970eaeeb9845819fb00e.png?name=image.png

2024-06-17 08:39:43 UTC

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Yeah, that one (3BP) is done and dusted. Was alright.

2024-06-17 08:34:41 UTC

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The new one. I’ve done another two episodes as I couldn’t be arsed to find something else, but I notice I am mostly flicking through things on my phone for large parts of it. It just doesn’t engage me.

2024-06-16 20:04:01 UTC

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Man kan ju vända på frågan: hur ska ett förbud efterlevas och följas upp? Ju fler orimliga och verklighetsfrånvända förslag som politiker lägger fram desto större blir politikerföraktet, vilket är en fara i sig.

2024-06-16 11:14:02 UTC

Ang "reklam"-inslag: vad ÄR ens "illegala tv-tjänster"? Exempel?

2024-06-16 10:40:10 UTC

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Grejen är ju att man ställer sig ofta den frågan i vilket fall, omedvetet, och det i sin tur påverkar arbetet man gör.
Hur många känner du som gör/ger 100% på jobbet varje timma, varje dag? Inte jag heller. Det går ju inte. Så man justerar och prioriterar så mycket som man kan komma undan med. “Vad är viktigt idag” osv.
Om man istället hade tid för att göra det man dagdrömmer om när man tillåter sig själv att inte vara 100% “på” på jobbet så skulle de timmar man faktiskt är effektiv på jobbet inte påverkas nämnvärt i många fall…man gör det redan, men många sitter garanterat av tid motsvarande 1/5 på sina jobb (om de är ärliga mot sig själva).
Andra saker som kan vara relevanta: <li>Man kan inte tänka snabbare, ens om man övar.</li><li>9 kvinnor kan inte klämma fram en baby på 1 månad. En del saker tar den tid det tar, och måste få göra det.</li><li>Det är i princip omöjligt att tvinga fram kreativt tänkande under långa perioder ifall man inte ger möjlighet till att skaffa ny input/inspiration.</li><li>Kommunikation och koordinering “kostar” massor med tid och energi. Att slänga mer folk på ett försenat problem/projekt gör oftast att det blir ändå senare.</li>
Jag tror att man i många yrken rätt lätt kan ta bort en arbetsdag och att det inte skulle påverka output negativt, och i flera fall tvärtom, bidra till bättre, högre och mer kvalitativ output.

2024-06-16 09:34:27 UTC

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Herrejösses vilken länk… 😮

2024-06-16 09:33:31 UTC

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Var ett tag sedan jag läste denna bok, men kan vara relevant i sammanhanget.
https://www.amazon.se/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficiency/dp/0767907698/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2RGVAFYV3RP70&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l5dLTMmJd61i5RdsunJOf7RYFtwTHcXilZlomY3-SaHvIT9Oyug4yw89dmLSjF0zVb7QtWu4RujV4Ftp_FDrV5XzK2B6Uocx-8U3bf-w7jJS3ssSC07M1FD5XbooBTMMlJyfpgro3tEOfJ2nPN-qlh6UnbxWmZPi6ZKOLTiPfPvb5WQ8MR7soM5tYeqM9aDvXCf8jkyMs4gqtNC0vVhmvRdz7ctQuiAAhGLAIXysef-AqZbrALqfqBUhfCVwzhC0pZFCSc94TrCFnsxB-ebqjzIOcjJItzu3mRsblZxjK6k.UgZ7sAzTxhqs9s6lIX-czjYNxIEUz9NvV6x284-dVeM&dib_tag=se&keywords=slack&qid=1718530255&sprefix=slack%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-2

2024-06-16 09:29:58 UTC

This looks really interesting when it comes to self-hosted photos etc.
https://immich.app
#Photos #Photography #Organize #AlternativesToBigTech

2024-06-16 09:20:54 UTC

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Faktum är att just det du beskriver är en av faktorerna jag har med i min bedömning när jag (halv-aktivt) tittar efter ny bil. Just nu har vi två bilar helt utan telemetri, centraliserad övervakning osv.
Vi kan åka vart vi vill och lämnar vi telefoner och devices hemma (hah!) så är vi ospårbara.
Inser att det är svårt att köpa en ny bil idag utan de sakerna, och vad värre är, de är oftast riktigt dåligt implementerade, ouppdaterbara och tydligen utvecklade av antingen idioter som inte sett vare sig människor eller bilar (alternativt av en utvecklarstudio med för låg budget och för snäv tidsram).

2024-06-16 09:15:49 UTC

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Jag hade börjat skriva något liknande när ditt svar trillade in, så nu behöver jag inte skriva samma sak, och håller mig till en: +1 😄
@npub1s4q…s6cy

2024-06-16 09:12:54 UTC

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Det låter nästan som att du inte bryr dig alls om aktieägarna i Meta och nästa kvartalsrapport de levererar. 😆

2024-06-16 08:03:32 UTC

I’m sure there are other ways to incorporate cybersecurity in to AI, but none could have been more blatantly open than this move:
https://www.securityweek.com/openai-appoints-former-nsa-director-paul-nakasone-to-board-of-directors/
#OpenAI #NSA #Privacy

2024-06-14 20:09:43 UTC

I started watching Dark Matter. 2 episodes in I have a problem bonding with it. Should I keep going?
#DarkMatter #TV

2024-06-14 19:25:15 UTC

Just…why? Why does Discord have 15 new updates EVERY SINGLE DAY?

2024-06-14 18:45:39 UTC

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God.

2024-06-14 18:37:13 UTC

Dirty. Sake. Martini.
This has to be tried. What could possibly go wrong!
https://hellquist.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/akkoma/3fc829e71e3f226db761af4fd583da95e833660931c7243c0e9a39adf47b0112.jpg?name=img_1_1718389778232.jpg

2024-06-14 15:57:21 UTC

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The Fediverse, via Akkoma.

2024-05-23 11:19:35 UTC

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*“…federated and decentralized are two ways of saying the same thing…”*
I *used* to think like that. So I set up two separate single-user instances, mostly because I could but also because I was thinking it’d speed up my selection process on which service to use (I ended up using both, and then some). I was thinking I contributed to the main goals of federation, which in my mind equaled decentralization. I was wrong.
I have since learnt though that the goals of Mastodon, the by far largest Fedi service, is not that. In the Fediverse we centralize, and are encouraged to do so, on just a handful of instances. They in turn federate with each other, so it is most definitely not the same as, say, Twitter et al, but it is also not encouraging *both* federation *and* decentralization.
In fact, if you (like you and I) are running your own single-user/small instance, there is a huge up-hill battle that will require/demand stamina, skills and to be able to endure lots (months) of lonely hours where literally no one replies to you (as you simply can’t be seen). A lot of how AP works, and Mastodons interpretation of it along with its default settings, directly punishes small instances in general, and even more so single-user instances.
The Fediverse is built around instances, not users. Those instances are meant to be central points that will forever grow with new users, and they federate with other known (big) instances.
The culture is that if you run a huge instance = great. If you run a small instance = you are likely a bad person. Join a big instance = congrats, just follow the rules set by someone else, and hope they don’t get burnt out and/or close you down. Start your own small instance = boooo.
@npub1hzk…ccy0

2024-05-17 13:41:59 UTC

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När jag bodde i London bjöd en annan svensk kompis/kollega på surströmming hemma hos en tredje kompis (från Sydafrika, men boendes i fina villakvarter i London). Ingen jättesucce. När burk och stor del av innehåll skulle slängas packades den in i dubbla plastpåsar och husets ägare gick 2-3 kvarter bort för att slänga.
När vi vaknade dagen efter (en sjujäkla fest) och drog oss hemåt såg vi att polisen kommit med stort pådrag och sökhundar ganska precis där burkarna slängts. Vi sade inget, kollade på varandra och gick raskt därifrån. 🤣
@npub1rqv…955v @npub1g8p…lqrl @npub1gcf…cnv0

2024-05-08 20:12:12 UTC

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This made me lol (in recognition of myself as that was the first thought I had when I first saw one of those). 🤣

2024-05-06 15:53:53 UTC

I have yet to work out a way to post once and the post ending up on Nostr, Fediverse and BlueSky, without having to double-post. :)