If you are running an instance of pleroma and want to change the favicon you can place your new favicon.png in the /var/lib/pleroma/static directory and it will override the default icon.

https://rarlindseysmash.com/2022/11/21/mastodon-quick-start.html okay wrote this up, there's some things I couldn't figure out how to screenshot but hopefully it helps folks.

Here is the thing you have to understand about VCs (and therefore, companies and websites that have accepted VC money), always and forever. Repeat it like a mantra.

--- Venture capitalists do not invest in the company. Venture capitalists invest in the exit. ---

Eventually any site, app whatever has a Sell Out Moment. They get bought by a big established corp, they go IPO, something. There is an "Exit". If you accept VC money, you are *promising* that Exit day is coming and it will be *big*.

Them: Faving posts on Mastodon is useless, only the OP sees it.

Me, when a post gets faved: awwww, little internet hug ✨

To accelerate 2023 planning each manager will receive 9 copies of "The Mythical Man Month"

Certain folks believe Fediverse self-hosting should *never* be recommended to anyone because only eggheads should run social media.

To which I say:

1. The Internet is for everyone
2. If you want the technical acumen to self-host, you can learn it
3. There are risks, but the risks won't kill you
4. Leaving things in the hands of "experts" is unsustainable -- it's why so many laptops are designed to be unrepairable!

It's movie night on Twiiter because the automatic DMCA censorship is defunct. Next up: Hackers. https://twitter.com/AsleepMods/status/1594108188915372034

I was thinking about the "Baseline" scene from Blade Runner 2049 the other day and idly tried to search for a transcript of it, and immediately fell down a rabbit hole learning

1. The script for that scene was written by Ryan Gosling
2. The test itself is fundamentally based on an actor's exercise Ryan Gosling had been trained in invented by a Massachusetts Shakespeare company

I wrote a blog post on Cohost about "Dropping In" and the ins and outs of how this happened:

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/178201-the-baseline-scene