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Calling all FediFetcher users who are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action:Following recent changes by GitHub, and a poll, which...

Calling all FediFetcher users who are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action:

Following recent changes by GitHub, and a poll, which showed that only a single respondent actually relies on GitHub Actions without any alternative way of running FediFetcher, GitHub Action support for FediFetcher has been deprecated.

If you are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action, please refer to our new guide on migrating FediFetcher from GitHub Actions:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/wiki/Migrating-From-GitHub-Actions

You should have until 20th June to perform the migration, but if you don't migrate before then, FediFetcher will likely cease working for you shortly after.

If you have any questions, please free to open an issue on GitHub, or reply to this post.

And if you are that one person who doesn't have an alternative way of running FediFetcher: Please get in touch! I'd love to help you if I can.

#FediFetcher #SingleUserInstance #MastoAdmin

I’ve managed to fix all known bugs in our app!🥳💪

I’ve managed to fix all known bugs in our app!

🥳💪

I think this might be the first time I remember that we actually have it warmer at home in London than the in-laws in Cairo ☀️ 😎...

I think this might be the first time I remember that we actually have it warmer at home in London than the in-laws in Cairo ☀️ 😎 🏖️

Sorry to spam y’all, but if you are using FediFetcher and running it as GitHub Action, I’d really appreciate it if you could vote in...

Sorry to spam y’all, but if you are using FediFetcher and running it as GitHub Action, I’d really appreciate it if you could vote in this poll:

https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael/114420962728564499

Thanks!

#fedifetcher #singleUserInstance #mastoadmin

I’m not sure whom to root for here 🤔https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/29/amazon-trump-tariff-costs

I’m not sure whom to root for here 🤔

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/29/amazon-trump-tariff-costs

“When surveying Cloudflare customers […] 11% reported that they mistakenly inflicted the DDoS attack on themselves (self-DDoS)”😂...

“When surveying Cloudflare customers […] 11% reported that they mistakenly inflicted the DDoS attack on themselves (self-DDoS)”

😂 😂 😂

#cloudflare #ddos

“When looking at where the DDoS attacks originate from, specifically HTTP DDoS attacks, there are a few autonomous systems that stand out....

“When looking at where the DDoS attacks originate from, specifically HTTP DDoS attacks, there are a few autonomous systems that stand out. In 2025 Q1, the German-based Hetzner (AS24940) retained its position as the largest source of HTTP DDoS attacks. It was followed by the French-based OVH (AS16276) in second, the US-based DigitalOcean (AS14061) in third, and another German-based provider, Contabo (AS51167), in fourth.”

Yikes! Sounds like a who is who of our favourite hosting providers 😬

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2025-q1/

#hetzner #cloudflare #ddos

Following on from this, and the deafening silence from users I'm considering my options.Could users of FediFetcher please respond to this...

Following on from this, and the deafening silence from users I'm considering my options.

Could users of FediFetcher please respond to this poll so I can gauge how much of a problem this actually is.

If you have any other thoughts / comments / questions / details, please reply to this post.

Thanks!

#FediFetcher

I use FediFetcher, but not with GitHub Actions
I use FediFetcher with GitHub Actions. If GitHub Actions break I’ll find other ways of running it
I use FediFetcher with GitHub Actions. If GitHub Actions break I have no other way of running it.
I don’t use FediFetcher and just wanted to get a participation reward.

TIL Laravel's \Illuminate\Bus\Dispatcher::dispatch method ignores job uniqueness.If want to use unique jobs I need to either use the global...

TIL Laravel's \Illuminate\Bus\Dispatcher::dispatch method ignores job uniqueness.

If want to use unique jobs I need to either use the global dispatch helper (🤮) or the Job’s static ::dispatch method (🤮🤮).

Please tell me I'm missing something.

Is there really no way to use unique jobs in laravel with dependency injection?!

#Laravel #PHP.

I hope y’all have backups of your backup?!...

I hope y’all have backups of your backup?!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk/

Hey. If you are running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action I’d really love to hear from you. As you probably know, the Action recently stopped...

Hey. If you are running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action I’d really love to hear from you.

As you probably know, the Action recently stopped working, and we need to find a solution to this.

Please have a read here, and let me know your thoughts, either by commenting on that GitHub issue, or by replying here:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/issues/198#issuecomment-2832055708

#FediFetcher

Yesterday I had a fun discussion with my son who had written a seeder to create the inital admin user in his Laravel project.So that led me...

Yesterday I had a fun discussion with my son who had written a seeder to create the inital admin user in his Laravel project.

So that led me to write this blog post about Laravel’s PromptsForMissingInput interface, which I only discovered a few weeks ago, and absolutely love it:

https://blog.thms.uk/2025/04/prompt-for-missing-input?utm_source=mastodon

#laravel #php

Wife to the 10 weeks old, who’s falling asleep while eating: ‘Poor you. You must be exhausted.’Me: ‘Sure, the baby is the one...

Wife to the 10 weeks old, who’s falling asleep while eating: ‘Poor you. You must be exhausted.’

Me: ‘Sure, the baby is the one who’s exhausted in this house…’

😂😂😂

#parenting

I really really don’t get the thinking of the border guards in these sort of cases. These two aren’t from some war torn, economically...

I really really don’t get the thinking of the border guards in these sort of cases.

These two aren’t from some war torn, economically unstable country.

Do they really think that 2 German teenagers with a comfortable and legal life in Germany ahead of them, with ‘free’ healthcare and social security, without (for now 😬) a government of right wing lunatics, will just leave that behind and ‘abscond’ whilst on holiday in the US to become illegal immigrants in one of the most hostile western countries in the world just as it enters its dark ages both politically and economically?

It just makes no sense …

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/german-tourists-deported-hawaii-cbp-b2736655.html

This is really quite interesting: I never knew how these old meters worked in the UK.Very clever technology...

This is really quite interesting: I never knew how these old meters worked in the UK.

Very clever technology actually!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/powerful-programming-bbc-controlled-electric-meters-are-coming-to-an-end/

There is a really interesting video explaining the details of how these work is in the article, that is sadly extremely let down by just how terribly boringly and monotonously it's narrated …

If you are running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action it is really important that you read this Issue as well, as it contains additional...

If you are running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action it is really important that you read this Issue as well, as it contains additional important information.

TL;DR: versions prior to 7.1.16 are no longer working when running as GitHub Action. Version 7.1.16 will cease working in approximately 60 days, unless we find another workaround. Please read and subscribe to the issue for more info.

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/issues/198#issuecomment-2820574803

(If you are not running FediFetcher as GitHub Action, you are unaffected by this.)

#FediFetcher

I've just released v7.1.16 of FediFetcher.This version improves compatibility with Pleroma instances, and it also contains an important...

I've just released v7.1.16 of FediFetcher.

This version improves compatibility with Pleroma instances, and it also contains an important update for users who run FediFetcher as a GitHub Action.

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.16

#FediFetcher

👀https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34370#mastoadmin

👀

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34370

#mastoadmin

And it’s done.He’s now the proud owner of his own Hetzner account and his own VPS paid for from his own pocket money. All set up...

And it’s done.

He’s now the proud owner of his own Hetzner account and his own VPS paid for from his own pocket money.

All set up securely.

Ready to deploy his app after school tomorrow 💪

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewgj1p79j4o“the 20-year-old BMW driver was taking a woman home from their first date.”That’s...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewgj1p79j4o

“the 20-year-old BMW driver was taking a woman home from their first date.”

That’s quite the first date 😂😂😂