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I'll be on the air as special event station K0K (Kilo Zero Kilo) for a bit on the Pride Radio Network. The special event is for Meme Appreciation Month. If you'd like the special event callsign in your logbook, along with my personal callsign too, head on over to the Pride Radio Network and make your call.

Let's start this with a bang, shall we?

Until August 15th I am running a station for the Meme Appreciation Month 2025. It's aptly named HF0AAAAAA, and as usual, it is all about opossums. Come say hi - or aaaaaa! Spelling out my full callsign in the readback earns you a very special place in my heart.

I'm usually QRV on evenings on SSB 80/40/20m, and later at night on FT8 30/20/17/15m. Watch out for surprises - there's risk of SSTV at any time and on all bands. ;)

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thanks @F4LUB and @atrus

I had tried to checkout the latest mastodon version but my config file was causing issues.

I ended up copying the file, git rm the file, checkout worked, then copied the file back in place.

help an admin who can't seem to search this ...

I have this message

config/sidekiq.yml: needs merge

I don't care, I have a copy of the changed file.

How do I get git to ignore the changes / merge FOR THIS SPECIFIC FILE and checkout over the top of it?

Well I guess I won't be buying random stuff from aliexpress (probably good!)

I registered to try buying a thing, my account was immediately frozen (hadn't even logged in)
I appealed - which was rejected.

Ho hum.

⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

@IU1KGS and @M0KHR - I prodded some things and was able to run the final migration step with opensearch, which appears to have make mentioning users work again - which I did to write this

Anyone understand ?

Trying to do the final step of the update which is to update the index and I get this error.

Validation Failed: 1: this action would add [1] total shards, but this cluster currently has [1000]/[1000] maximum shards open

OpenSearch is running on the same server as the mastodon software, so no AWS shenanigans, and I've not done anything to customise it for our server.