Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
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I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
Therin lies the rub:
AFAIK there is no standard solution for this right now. So I was gonna just try to make one myself 😅 Greenhouse was just the beginning of that
The biggest part of it is how to handle replication and fail-over without requiring apps to be reconfigured. VM systems can do that pretty well as I understand it, I was thinking about trying to make my own system that is more oriented around Linux containers. I made a diagram about it:
https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/one-size-fits-all-replication-failover.drawio.png
@fack Yeah, true, I do think it's not gonna help much unless you have tons of apps tho.
But as a way to learn how to use kubernetes it would be great!! I just only have eyes for a multi-locality cluster these days because it would theoretically make the homebrew apps exponentially more reliable. I'm pretty sure Kubernetes cant help with that
@fack Well I just asked on the Free Geek discord today and they said they do sometimes have those thin clients there.
But I expect ebay would still be worth it. Free Geeks said the most of the thin clients even support SATA, just only in the SOM form factor. So no HDDs, you have to buy an SSD and then take the tin cover off of it for it to fit. Like this:
@fack Ah I see what you mean, so more about splitting multiple apps across multiple devices within the same locality (all under one roof)
I was about to go off on my "Kubernetes clusters can't span multiple localities" rant again 😛
That sounds intriguing, are you set on Kubernetes? Do you want to just do it for fun within your own home, or are you wanting to try to actually use the cluster capability for replication+failover in the context of homebrew servers?
I just published a new blog post about hardware choices for home-brew servers:
*[Shut] Up the Punx!!!*
Bomb the Music Industry
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Mastodon 4 adds a new endpoint, /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks
This endpoint contains your instance's block list in an easily machine-readable format. As far as I know, the only tool that currently uses this endpoint is the kiwifarms one.
The endpoint does not require any form of authentication, so it's very easy to scrape. I recommend editing your web server configuration to prevent access to the endpoint until there's something legitimate that uses it.
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@chanda See ya'll, this is what I mean by "toxic politeness".
This woman had a horrible experience in her first foray into the Fediverse, was treated horribly by the already-existing residents here(The same ones panicking about us Twitterers "colonizing" their perfect safe haven), and the conversation surrounding this is about whether she should be allowed to speak about it, because you all don't want Mastodon to look bad. Ya'll want it to APPEAR to be sunshine and rainbows when it isn't.
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Random people run a Mastodon instance: Bad, they can read DMs and stuff
Random people run an entire platform with zero transparency: Good, obviously better than the former, what could possibly go wrong
I believe it has the same Heterogeneous Multiprocessing design from cell phones, a combination of low-power and high-power cores, which helps a lot in terms of power efficiency especially when the software can take advantage of it.
Anyways, it's happening. The meek little SBC has grown up, it's a Real Computer now. Yes, things like graphics drivers and virtualization support are surely lacking. And it's not $35 any more. But as an affordable server platform for linux-based apps and containers, these little boards just keep getting better and better.
a user on the radxa discord quoted 18 Watts at the wall under 100% CPU stress. 4-5 watts at idle was a little bit of an underwhelming result, but it may be tune-able to get that figure lower.
RK3588 CPU has been picked up by Radxa, Orange Pi, and Firefly, and it pushes **serious** numbers on the CPU benchmarks, almost 4x better than the Raspberry Pi 4. Comes in 8GB and 16GB RAM flavors.
Listening to *It's all about the Pentiums* by Wierd Al Yankovic while obsessively researching the newest SBC releases of the year
That would be a bold move on their part -- some fediverse admins will ignore it, some will fediblock right away. The more blocked tumblr gets, the less metadata they can collect from this fedi excursion.
Yes, injecting ads is standard practice for social media -- but injecting ads that masquerade as real posts has traditionally been done via "hiring an influencer" rather than by simply inserting rows into a database somewhere.
I think centralized social media is a very carefully orchestrated frog boiling operation, and tumblr probably can't afford to do something this drastic.
ESRB rating: Blood and Violence (of software)
Wow this is an incredibly long and detailed read, great for desktop / integrated software developers like me to understand how these kind of attacks work and how to prevent them
re: Coffee posting
Sure, I can purchase a new computer with more RAM, but I just don't like that solution. I'd rather invest in GoToSocial development. Computers have been "fast enough" for 10 years now, I dont think we should have to keep buying new ones all the time
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
