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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's much more efficient space wise.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago

Ironically this video was autoplayed to me by youtube's algorithm.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

It's there. Hetzner helped with issuing a lets encrypt cert for the mitm proxy. The only reason they got caught was because they forgot to renew it. So while the real owner had all certs in order, the mitm proxy was serving an expired one.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

I was looking into it, but the more I learn about it the more I'm leaning towards something else - misskey, akkoma, etc. Same function, but, supposedly, fewer headaches hosting.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I host a lemmy instance.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

As much as I dislike php - nextcloud seems to be developed in a decent way. Been running a personal publicly exposed instance for 7 years now - no security concerns so far.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I think none of us have to worry about privacy on hetzner too much - we're simply not that interesting.

Having said that, ideologically I cannot use them due to them facilitating a MitM attack. Not sure if this is the original, but if you're curious about the low level detail - you can read through it here.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

It's nice to see content from a different platform. Thank you!

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 days ago

This ia the kind of post I'm missing most after leaving reddit!

THANK YOU!

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm trying to use simplex, mainly for the instance's chat. 2 things to say:

  • notifications work perfectly even without play store
  • every device has a separate account - I can't reuse the same one. Not the end of the world, but it's really annoying
[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess it's similar to cooking in cast iron - it's effective, just not a be-all-end-all solution.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

Find an instance that blocks grad. Mine does.

There's a public /instances endpoint exposed on all servers by default - check the blocked tab.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/statecraft@lemmy.cafe
 

It appears Trump is going to be the next president of US. I'm not sure such a thread is needed in the first place, but here goes.

Feeling anxious? Desperate? Got the expected result?

What do you think went wrong? What do you think went right? What do you think the future holds?

EDIT: it's official - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/us/results

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/graybeard@lemmy.cafe
 

Bloody solarwinds

 

Leaving a builder account enabled after build has completed is a fairly big oversight.

 

Everything went through smoothly, but please do report if you notice anything.

 

Lemmy Cafe will be having its database upgraded.

Reasons

  • PostgreSQL 17 has been released and the changelog is promising a lot of IO improvements. Lemmy sure could use it given the constant stream of small events flowing in.

Plan

  • Point nginx to the maintenance page
  • Shut down PostgreSQL 16
  • Run the upgrade tool
  • Start up PostgreSQL 17
  • Point nginx to lemmy

Expected downtime

About an hour, if things go well. More if not so.

Will try to keep the maintenance page updated.

Here's the timezone converter.

 

Manners maketh man.

 

This does imply a cups server being open to the internet or an already breached network.

3.6 roentgen.

 

Hey, we own a few thousand of those! Oh, wait...

Might be a long few days coming 😮‍💨

 

There used to be a www-apps/jellyfin, but it is now gone. Anyone heard of a reason?

 

Admittedly, I have a fairly serious bias against Microsoft, so it's unlikely they'll every say much I can trust; but I am genuinely surprised their marketing department didn't even bother coming up with another name to try selling this atrocity.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/general@lemmy.cafe
 

Due to the recent @Soup's post I have decided to do some housekeeping. I've been getting frustrated at lemmy's performance at times as well and this simply was a wake up call, if you will.

I am sorry about no advance downtime annoucement - Sunday is the only day I can really put any meaningful amount of time into lemmy.


Things done today:

  • Upgraded database VM 1 core 2GB -> 2 cores 4GB. Double the compute, double the memory.
  • Adjusted database config to account for increased resources
  • Adjusted hugepages config to account for increased database's requests
  • Updated both lemmy and database VMs
  • Rebooted the lot

Thank you for your patience. I will also use this moment of focus to write up a financial report in a separate post.

Also, thank you, @Soup!


EDIT: I've also marked all instances known to lemmy.cafe as active. What this means is that lemmy.cafe will now keep retrying to federate to everything very aggressively. This is a compute-intensive process and will also impact performance for a few hours, until exponential backoff kicks in. I've done it to revive any falsely-marked-as-dead instances; there's no fix for it on lemmy itself.

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