Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

by Reverend

| AWS, Digital Ocean, DigitalOcean, ds106, Mastodon, rclone, s3, s3cmd, Spaces, Syndicated, sysadmin
April 26, 2023

These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore … Continue reading ?
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Record Store Day’s big score

by paul bond

| cinderella, ds106, shaft, Syndicated
April 23, 2023

There was some impromptu vinylcasting on ds106radio yesterday, ending up with Jim playing Sonic Youth’s Goo album. One of the songs was Cinderella’s Big Score. The title echoes the Shaft sequel, so it was just asking for the ds106 mashup … Continue reading ?
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Third Month of Double Dailies

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, photography, Syndicated
April 1, 2023

Not that anyone is keeping score… well I am! For 2023 my double daily habits, the DS106 Daily Create and my Daily Flickr Photo routine have notched another perfect month, bringing both to 90 completions at the end of March, the 90th day of the year. This follows my streaks for both January and Feburary. Can this blistering […]
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Humanery and/or Machinery

by cogdog

| AI, art, artificial intelligence, dailycreate, ds106, Random Musing, Rants, Syndicated
March 20, 2023

Despite the apparent demise of blogs the flat line of the RSS-ograph blips with a pulse from David Kernohan “on chatbots.” FOTA is alive! Unsure if my comment gets through the gate (a first one generated a critical WordPress error, sorry, David), but I have to at least assert my assertion, as if it blips […]
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OEWeek Eventness (or Madness)? 12+2+2 Unscripted Conversations

by cogdog

| ds106, Ideas, OE Global, Syndicated
March 13, 2023

How often do we get to participate in small group open discussions of our practices? I am not talking about blipping in social media. Last, I chose to to be organize/be in 18 of them, and energized more energetic than any zoom webinar. That week was full on for my organization, Open Education Global with […]
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Double Down on Daily Double in February

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, photography, Syndicated
March 1, 2023

The daily habit is on for a two month streak! Picking up in the January pace of batting 1000 for the DS106 Daily Create and my Daily Flickr Photo habit, by the 59th day of the year being 59/59 in both. As the kid asks… Daily Flickr Photos A bit of… Not quite the Ghostbusters […]
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Fetching Stuff from Mastodon (simplest brute force approach)

by cogdog

| coding, dailycreate, ds106, Mastodon, Syndicated
February 21, 2023

The clock is ticking for me to modify the WordPress theme that powers the DS106 Daily Create given that the slippery slope timeline for free, unfettered access to the Twitter API will sooner? later? tomorrow? hit the bottom. Just to be clear, nothing here stop the DS106 Daily Create site from publishing it’s 4050+ day […]
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That Toddling TDC

by paul bond

| Chicago, dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated, tdc4056
February 20, 2023

For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got Chicago (That Toddling Town) It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version: which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet … Continue reading ?
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Educate Ion

by Downes

| #tdc4050, dailycreate, ds106, education, Syndicated
February 14, 2023

@tdc #dailycreate #tdc4050 #ds106 #education The word 'education' with the letter 'e' inserted in electric blue to create the phrase 'educate ion', the white text superimposed over an image of neurons and synapses in lovely deep green, red ...
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Daily Double January 2023

by cogdog

| dailycreate, dailyphoto, ds106, photography, Syndicated
February 1, 2023

With grand intentions to stick to a schedule of daily challenges, by skin of my calendar teeth I am 31 for 31 days in both daily flickr photos and ds106 Daily Creates. I’ve held this pace before maybe 2 months? Does it really matter to get a perfect score (no)? But parsing some time to […]
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ETMOOC 10 Years Later: Ten wonderful things ETMOOC has done for me

by karenatsharon

| #learning, #olcmooc, #rhizo14, #tvsz, Alan Levine, Alec Couros, CLMOOC, Dave Cormier, ds106, ds106 daily create, etmooc, Janine DeBaise, Jesse Stommel, Jim Groom, Pete Rorabaugh, Rhonda Jensen, Syndicated
January 28, 2023

Hard to believe it has been 10 years since I first started ETMOOC.Why after all this time do I still engage with this community and with the people I met along the way? Because ETMOOC was the beginning of giving me a space to learn and grow,...
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Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106social, Mastodon, server, Syndicated, sysadmin
November 25, 2022

Now that I have a few instances of Mastodon running in Reclaim Cloud, I figured it was time to start optimizing them for resource usage, storage, and security. This post is an attempt to capture what I’ve done thus far—which … Continue reading ?
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Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’

by paul bond

| airplane, cormac mccarthy, ds106, Syndicated, the passenger
November 10, 2022

Who’s trolling who? I was reading more of The Passenger this morning, and on page 195 one of the hallucinatory ‘horts spouted the classic line from Airplane. So you know what I had to do. The face swap doesn’t quite … Continue reading ?
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“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now”

by paul bond

| book club, cormac mccarthy, ds106, Syndicated, the passenger, visualassignments, VisualAssignments24
November 6, 2022

I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls, I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and … Continue reading ?
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly Get a #ds106 Walk of Life

by cogdog

| #4life, connectedness, ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2810
October 15, 2022

Yikes, I had to dig deep in the archives to find the last time I did a DS106 Assignment. I would like to think there is one in there about making an excuse for not doing them. Well there was one in 2020 when I made a DS106 Assignment for NetNarr, then the assignment timeline […]
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Keep on walking

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, walk of life
October 14, 2022

So I made a few more Walk of Life edits: That worked nicely, I think. It almost seems appropriate, so I figured I should try a different track: That’s probably longer than it needs to be, or maybe it just … Continue reading ?
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The Notorious W.O.L.

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2810, walk of life
October 13, 2022

Yesterday a conversation popped up in my Twitter stream You’ve undoubtedly come across this, but just in case https://t.co/oJfgdLiUqh — Martin Weller (@mweller) October 12, 2022 which introduced me to the Walk of Life Project. The hypothesis stated on the … Continue reading ?
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Casting shadows

by paul bond

| dailycreate, ds106, shadow, Syndicated
September 9, 2022

Today’s TDC asked us to make shadow art. Naturally my first thought was of The Shadow, but I didn’t want to just find an illustration on the web. Then it occurred to me to make audio art, of sorts. I … Continue reading ?
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On Three Months Running #DS106 Daily Creates in Parallel with #MYFest22

by cogdog

| daily, ds106, life, myfest, On Sharing, Syndicated
August 23, 2022

You know, like “two great tastes that go together great” (uh oh repeat metaphor alert) the end of August is the end of 3 month run of DS106 Daily Creates that were also set up as an activity for MYFest22. The latter was a 3 month series of “recharge and renewal experiences” coordinated by Equity […]
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“Trapped In a World He Never Made”

by paul bond

| Daily Create, ds106, duck, Syndicated
August 9, 2022

@ds106dc #tdc3862 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is This is how Howard would do it. pic.twitter.com/xkKTJgpIuS — paul bond (@phb256) August 9, 2022 I only vaguely remember Peter and the Wolf, the subject of today’s Daily Create, from … Continue reading ?
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A MBS Recommendation

by Reverend

| Animated GIFs, blogging, Console Living Room, digital storytelling, ds106, Film, MBS, pop-culture, Reclaim Today, Reclaim Video, ReclaimVideo, Syndicated, Teaching, umwconsole
July 18, 2022

Last week I had the privilege of writing a recommendation for Michael Branson Smith to gain admission to the masters program in Interactive Data Visualization at the CUNY Graduate Center. And while I’m confident he will get into the program … Continue reading ?
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Videogriping

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, videogrep
July 11, 2022

Back in the day, friend of ds106 John Johnston made some awesome supercuts using Videogrep: I always wanted to try it, but I could never get it to work. I have a hard time finding appropriate directions for doing any … Continue reading ?
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11-7@7-11

by paul bond

| 7-11, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated, tdc3833
July 11, 2022

The oddest thing I found in a 7-11 store was a job. I worked the 11-7 shift in the summer when I was in college. What was odd, to me, was the way I got the job. A friend came … Continue reading ?
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brought to you by the Groom of the Stool

by paul bond

| Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
July 3, 2022

Today’s Daily Create asks us to make an antipodal tale – a story about side of the world. The opposite end of the planet from me is more or less Augusta, Western Australia. Its namesake is Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke … Continue reading ?
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Week 1 Summary

by @ungrac3ful

| CDS Work, ds106, Now THATS a Story, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
June 22, 2022

What an interesting start to this course I had. I have taken Digital Storytelling once before with a different professor, so I was anxious to see if the set up of the course with a new professor would be similar or different. After the fear of being p...
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Hey Siri, play Introducing Me from Camp Rock 2, by Nick Jonas

by @ungrac3ful

| CDS Work, ds106, intro, Now THATS a Story, Syndicated
June 22, 2022

”Do-do-dododo-do”…for those of you who understand this ~iconic~ song and movie reference…thank you, you get me. For those of you who dont..thats awkward. Let me try again: Hi! I’m Grace ? I am super excited to create and share new content with my pals in Digital Storytelling this summer. Fun fact about me: this is the second time I am taking DS106 (oops!) and this time, I’m ready to do it right! This class is starting while I am on a family vacation at the beach (glass half full: hey, at least class starts while you are at the beach!! glass half empty: …ew sucks you are at the beach when class has to start) and I decided to take a little bit of advantage of this fact and add it into how I was saying hi to everyone. Take a look!
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Grand Finale

by @FlOv_evelyn

| ds106, summary, Syndicated
June 17, 2022

Avery is on her way home from another 12 hour shift at work. She’s tired of hearing the same music she has on shuffle, while she does love it, everything just feels monotonous. Instead of taking her regular route to work, she goes the long way, willingly sitting in traffic just to be out of […]
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In the Spotlight

by @FlOv_evelyn

| design, designassignments, DesignAssignments1468, ds106, Syndicated
June 17, 2022

Original DS 106: Newspaper Design (4 stars) Avery has won the competition! Her grandparents don’t really work well with the internet so she’s excited for them to get the morning paper to see what she has accomplished. Her, on the front page? Everyone knowing who she is? This is the complete reverse of what her […]
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Road Trip Mems

by @FlOv_evelyn

| ds106, Syndicated, Visual, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2761
June 17, 2022

Original DS 106 Assignment: Two Image Graphic Spread (3 stars) Avery is beginning her 15 hours trek from Marfa, Texas to Sofi Stadium in California. She’s not sure how long it’ll really take or how much gas she’s going to spend, but it needs to be worth it. She was finally able to get a […]
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On the Road

by @FlOv_evelyn

| design, designassignments, designassignments1645, ds106, Syndicated
June 17, 2022

Original DS 106 Assignment: Design A License Plate (3 1/2 stars) Avery is on her way to the finale! One thing they don’t tell you is that you need to make you’re own way there… I get the whole investing in yourself thing, but have you seen gas prices? Plus thats 15 HOUR drive. Avery […]
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