… don’t forget about the backups.

And if your major issue is putting things in wrong locations… Maybe learn about some abstraction layers, so next time you’re able to just move it, instead of tearing it down?

Totally agree. First of all with the Linux vs Meme… Yeah, we’re all living in more than one dimension. Guess I more or less wanted to say, most helpful advice I got on what non-spec combinations of RAM and computers work etc… I got from Reddit. I think it’s a bit an amount of users thing.

I’m also for human connection. I’m also here to talk to people. Especially in the comments. Also why I sometimes disagree with people on what the Threadiverse needs more of.

With the pamphlet bombings… Well, the internet changed a lot in my lifetime. We had times we thought it was a bit unethical to do statistics on what software you install, hence what packages in Debian are installed how many times. As a more privacy-oriented person you were told to just put it out there and not worry about collecting that kind of data… Or just write your Blog mainly for yourself and maybe some people will like it as well. I think as of today, that’s very niche way of thinking. Thanks to the advertising industry, we need exact page impressions. And everyone expects social media to come with all these engagement metrics, how many people saw the post… Not only professional “influencers”. I’ve heard random people will also have a look at the numbers. And your local youth organization also wants to know about the propagation of their invitation to the summer party. What the algorithm does to their posts, etc… Just counting how many people showed up isn’t how communication works any more. At least in my experience.

I’ve upheld the opinion, the change in the MAU is probably a rough indicator on our attractiveness. If a place is nice, people will come and want to join the party. But it’s a bit of a diffuse metric and doesn’t tell anything in specific. Plus it’s not the only factor.

If my quickly written down SQL query is right, those are the numbers for the last month from my instance’s perspective (my subscribed communities):

 num_comments | upvotes_on_posts | downvotes_on_posts | num_posts 
--------------+------------------+--------------------+-----------  
       188597 |          1646685 |              46461 |     13928  

So without the boosts, it’d be a total score of 135.

I guess with statistics, you’d always better ask a very specific question. I mean, these are just numbers, I guess? And if you’re fixing an old Linux computer, there is no point in lots of people commenting on meme posts. You want the one person who’s done this before to be part of the network, read your post and then reply… Or if you want to discuss politics, all the people re-posting the news articles on geopolitics don’t really count, you’ve already read the newspaper, now you’d like nuanced opinions in the comments. I’m a bit unsure whether a single abstract number means anything.

For the health of the overall network, I think MAU isn’t even all that bad. There’s probably a strong connection between “health” of a place, and how many people think it’s worth subscribing and then coming back on a regular basis.

Nice work! I’ve been looking for something like this as well. I’ve been using Speech-to-Phrase for a while. And it is a bit similar in that regard. It also tries to match the speech to something in its vicabulary… But from my experience, false-positives are a bit annoying. I had the TV trigger the satellite’s wake word detection several times. And sometimes it’s above whatever threshold and the Home will do random things. Wonder how this performs. But I guess if I can tune the parameters, I might as well try.

I think the added benefit of an OpenWRT router is, you get 3 more ports (for your TV, Playstation and PC), plus a Wifi network. And it’s really hard to break it. But a MiniPC with OPNsense, of course will be more powerful. And some more advanced things have been notoriously difficult to set up in OpenWRT, maybe OPNsense does it a bit better.

Yeah, It’s a weak point anyway. While the graphs aren’t detailed research, there’s also no reason to believe dbzer0’s perspective on the same network includes 8 times as many new users as LW for some reason. Or all the users in their communities have 8x worse karma for some external reasons. So we probably need further research.

It’s the “anarchist” mindset 🫣

I have a port forwarding without any tunnel to third parties and Wireguard.

I think there’s two concurrent, but different definitions of the word Fediverse. One means, software that can speak the ActivityPub protocol. And the other one means, social media service which is able to interconnect between different websites.

The first one is more useful if you want to use it and know whether it connects you to your friends on Mastodon and the other big ones. The latter is the more technical definition and includes older protocols as well, as well as newer ones and alternative approaches to form a network in a certain way. I guess it’s the more correct one. But it doesn’t tell you a lot as a user. Maybe technically it can exchange your user statuses but nobody uses it so you can’t really do anything with it in reality. Or there’s two approaches and you were talking about a different manifestation than somebody else, and you’re both federated but not part of any compatible ecosystem.

I think there’s pros and cons to everything. That way would have been less of a dickhead move towards the Forgejo developers. But a big letdown to admins as they don’t know what’s up with the software they’re running on their servers. The way the author chose gives some new intelligence to admins, and they can now act on it, since it’s public knowledge. But it’s annoying to the devs.

I guess I as a Forgejo user am kinda greatful they did it this way. Now I got to learn the story and can allocate 2h on the weekend to see if my personal Forgejo container is isolated enough and whether the backups still work.

(But that’s just my opinion after reading one side of the story. Maybe there’s more to the story and they’re being a dick nonetheless…)

Edit: And regarding just dropping the security team an informal mail… I don’t know if that’s clever. You’d normally either follow some security policy, or don’t engage. Sending them other kinds of mails which violate their policy (an internal carrot) might not be the best choice.

Thx very much. That’s valuable info. I edited my comment and crossed it off my list of software to evaluate for future projects. I already got the vibe-coding and a bit of sketchiness by scrolling through the latest commits and issue tracker.

Thanks for pointing it out. Yeah it does. I just copy-pasted what I found and didn’t check.

Sure, I’m not debating that. And there’s other ways to destroy or impede (with) something to generate attention towards it. Sorry for getting political here, but other example that comes to my mind is how people supposedly cut cable ties of the German train system to draw attention to the cause of climate politics. It is massively annoying for all commuters, and people who are already on board for a more enviromentally friendly way to get to work. Because now everyone is 2h late, except people with a car. And I always question the validity of it.
But ultimately it’s completely unclear who does it. Could very well be people trying to make climate activists look bad in some false-flag-operation. And in this instance (post deletion) I’m willing to believe it’s genuine.
But the gist of it is the same… Is it going to archieve the long-term goal? Because the short- and mid-term way of working is, you’re being destructive to tear down the remaining good things about something faster, so it eventually is going to have to get replaced… And I’m more on board with, focus on direct constructivism. For example I just left Reddit and went here. And I’m somewhat happy the crowd working towards something is more pronounced than the people immediately trying to destroy it as well. I mean theoretically we probably should - by that reasoning. I’ve seen the AI scrapers hammer my Fediverse instance, too.

Uh. I hate the power deleters. It mainly makes conversation worse for the remaining humans on Reddit.

Yes. I’ve been somewhat lucky as well. Upgraded my homeserver to 48GB to run a few virtual machines and maxed out my old laptop well before prices skyrocketed. Got to check if I still pay the ~8€ a month for my netcup VPS or if they increased price for existing customers as well…

Was pretty much clear since last year. At the latest in December when they switched to “maintenance mode”. And now they archived it.

https://blog.vonng.com/en/db/minio-is-dead/

Alternatives include Garage, SeaweedFS (and RustFS).

Edit: RustFS looks very sketchy. Read object Object’s comment below before using it.

I think I get those emails twice a year. And it’s usually same price and double storage for the VPSes. Can recommend netcup.de as well. They used to be a bit cheaper than today, but I guess every hoster increased price within the last year.

I’d let the home server connect to the VPN on the VPS so there’s a direct tunnel between the VPS and the home server. And the router is pretty much irrelevant. You can of course choose to terminate it on the router as well, bus as you said, that requires either a second forwarding. Or the entire home network to be bridged or routed.

I think a few people already mentioned some good solutions. I just wanted to add: A port forwarding in the firewall of your router is the basically the same thing as a port forwarding on your Linux computer’s firewall. You could just set up any VPN, SSH tunnel or whatever and then use your firewall (nftables, iptables) and forward the VPS’ extetnal port to the internal port on the VPN. It’s the same thing you do on your router, just that you don’t get a graphical interface to configure it.