Kentaro @Kentaro@awoo.space

If I can't solve those, my alternative seems to be to walk away from the company I've been trying to build for the last decade, and somehow re-enter the corporate job market as a trans person interviewing for a whole host of jobs that I only want for survival purposes.

How do you even land a job when "excited about their work" is a requirement in tech and you're absolutely not excited about your work? Oh, and you're trans.

I've come to a near complete shut down of my ability to do the one thing that brings in an income. The work is highly stressful, and I'm doing something like 5 jobs for the salary of less than one and no health benefits. (Upsides are a 1/3 share of all profit and I can't get fired for being trans).

It's terrifying. Contributing stresses are approaching homelessness and lack of access to HRT. I feel like if those weren't an issue, I'd be able to do my work again.

People should definitely lock their accounts if they need to feel safe.

That said, if we have a bunch of people locking their accounts to feel safe, this whole experiment is headed for failure.

Abuse is abuse, even when it's done with righteous intent. If we can't or won't expel the abusers among us, we are just the bird site with a different coat of paint.

Anger exercised against people who hold no power over you is probably anger you shouldn't have exercised.

@vahnj These seem backward to me. If someone's joining my awoo, I'd think my awoo would be louder, as in boosted. While someone booping my snoot is more of an "I noticed you" interaction.

@Mike0091 Welcome!

@wolf@mastodon.social Haha. I can't watch notifications and type new posts at the same time. All that mess I just sent you details what you just got working.

@wolf@mastodon.social Oh, right. I was half-right. The s and H options were what I was looking for, not i. The sudo -i option uses the shell configred in /etc/passwd. The -s option uses your current shell (essentially) and the -H option tells the new shell to ise whatever home dir is configured in /etc/passwd.

Make sure your mastodon user has something like /home/mastodon in their /etc/passwd entry. Then use:

sudo -u mastodon -sH
("sudo -sHu mastodon" probably also works.)

@wolf@mastodon.social Have a link to what you're trying to follow?

@wolf@mastodon.social I may have been mistaken then. It's possible that the user must have a legitimate shell in order for you to do an interactive sudo of them.

I do wonder why the instructions you've got have you trying to sudo -i in the first place. There shouldn't be a need for that.

@wolf@mastodon.social Hmm... username should have changed, but I guess it depends on how your terminal prompt is generated. You can always type "whoami" to see what user the shell thinks you're logged in as.

@wolf@mastodon.social The sudo command executes any command you give it as if you were another user, root by default. The -u option specifies another user besides root to temporarily run as. The -i option gives you a new shell instead of running a command.

So, "sudo -u mastodon -i" would make you become the mastodon user and log you into a shell (one way to get a shell as a /dev/false shelled user). You can "exit" back to your previous shell when done.

@wolf@mastodon.social All processes run "as a user" on your OS, and that user is used to determine the permissions that process has when interacting with the file system. You'll be running the server as if it had been started by the mastodon user, and so it will only be able to read/write files in directories that the mastodon user has been given permission to wrtie in. The server probably has a way whem starting it to specify which user it is supposed to run as.

@wolf@mastodon.social Setting a user's login shell to /dev/false in /etc/passwd ensures that user remains an internal system user, not permitted to log in (terminal or remote) because /dev/false is not a valid shell.

Desperately seeking help finding an affordable place to live in Seattle.

@Ratttz If not for the zip ties, I'd say it looks like it came out of some kind of light-up plush toy.

@Aradia@mastodon.social I have a tendency to apply the latter to larger sizes.