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tfunken, 8 days ago

@thor Well, I guess because those commands are not really meant to be used for a regular, automated use.

You can define many of those things in the settings and mastodon itself is then scheduling the cleanup tasks.

tfunken, 8 days ago

@thor They are all part of the content retention settings.

The only thing that doesn't get called regularly is the remove-orphans function.

The function loops trough all folders and files on the S3 backed.
As many S3 providers charge also for every api call, this can become a very expensive action, very quickly.

As orphan files should not occur that often, it should only be used on a case by case basis.

tfunken, 16 days ago

@lea @lexi Where did you found it? 👀

tfunken, 16 days ago

@erincandescent @disarray I am still not sure if peering with HE is a good or bad thing tho :neocat_laugh_nervous:

Dealing with their network is kinda a pain :neocat_sad:

tfunken, 16 days ago

@erincandescent @disarray Well, that's the thing.
You can't do traffic engineering with them at all.

That might not matter if you just have one single location, but as soon as you have multiple and wanna do something like anycast or something, HE is such a pain because they just run one dumb, flat network worldwide.
No communities, no geo balancing no noting.

Lets say I have a PoP in DE and one in US.
Both with a tier 2 transit.

I do peer with He.net in DE.
Now all the US traffic flows to DE, because HE thinks this is the best route.

Now lets say your transit in US is buying transit form HE.net.
Now all the traffic, including the one form DE is going to the US.
You might think traffic form DE should go via your DE peering, because this is obviously the shorter way, geographically and also virtually (AS path), but transit routes have a lower metric in the HE network, so the route HE.net learned in the US has a higher priority, even in DE, where you peer with them.

Soo.. the only way to do "traffic engineering" (if you wanna call it that) with them is either by peer with them at all location you are present, no exceptions, or by avoiding exporting any route to them as a transit route (directly or trough your transits) so HE.net is forced to route via a different tier1 which allows you to do proper traffic engineering, via for example action communities.

tfunken, 19 days ago

@2ndStar @derpostillon Also Notwehr ist es nicht sofern es mildere mittel gibt, was in der regel der fall ist :neocat_laugh_nervous:

tfunken, 20 days ago

@thor "it's not unthinkable"?

Russia already failed completely with their actions in Ukraine.
They already struggle to hold lines, need to source material form countries like north korea or iran and the moral within the military and the country is, lets say crumbling.
Not to mention the internal fights within the military.

Even if Putin is completely brain dead, he still wouldn't be so stupid to attack any country with a reasonable military right now, especially not a NATO state.

Even in the long run I don't think putin will live to see russia in a strong position again.

Soo.. talking about "russias next targets" being NATO states is really fearmongering.

tfunken, 20 days ago

@thor Tbf, many people think he assumed his military was in a way better state than it really was. Which is overall a reasonable assumption.

Also Ukraine is a state with no real military alliances so any conflict would be between Russia and Ukraine.

Putin probably also thought it would go roughly like the annexation of Crimea where Russia had barely any resistance from Ukraine.

Soo, when you think about this scenario, and putins situation attacking Ukraine probably was a totally feasible thing.
Morally totally wrong and inhumane, but doable.

Attacking the NATO on the other hand was even questionable back when he thought russias military would be in a good state.
Now as he knows how bad russias military situation really is any conflict with the NATO is totally of the table.

I can imagine it must have been a really embarrassing situation for putin when he, the leader of "big & strong russia" needs to beg in north korea, which is barely able to feed its population, for decade old ammunition.

Not feeling bad for him, don't get me wrong.
Just wanna say that it's pretty sure that he knows how bad the situation is now.

tfunken, 20 days ago

@thor It would sound stronger, true but what does that mean exactly?

Lets say a russian brigade enters Estonia now.
What is "necessary" to do now?
Considering the size of the US military compared to the German military, a contribution of 10 regular soldiers seems reasonable, right?
Or shall we send a million soldiers because this are "all resources available"?
What is enough & who decides if a state didn't do enough?
What if the NATO state gets attacked as a result of a attack it started itself, shall we still protect the aggressor?

I know that statement is totally bs, but it helps to point out that strict rules in such agreements are not always helpful.

Overall it probably makes the most sense that every member contributes what is reasonable, needed in the situation and able and willing to do.

I really don't doubt that a attack from a non NATO state to a NATO state would end in a strong reaction right now.

But it's true that the NATO probably needs some reforms.
Overall not that happy with how some of it works etc.

tfunken, 20 days ago

@thor Not to mention that many countries probably would never have entered the NATO if this means they need to comply to a strict "if x happens you are forced to do y" catalog.

tfunken, 21 days ago

@tobi Wohoo, 700mb for 2 hours :neocat_facepalm:

tfunken, 22 days ago

@kaia What program are you using? :neocat_think:

Doesn't really makes sense to me either :neocat_laugh_nervous:

tfunken, 26 days ago

@natty @AnarchoCatgirlism I mean, you can.
We made pipes and what not out of it for a while.

But you probably shouldn't :neocat_laugh_sweat:

tfunken, 28 days ago

@Jain Too late :nko_giggle:

tfunken, 1 month ago

@ahhhhhhoniichan Some far right party in Germany :neocat_sad:

tfunken, 29 days ago

@shalien Actually, that has noting to do with net neutrality at all.

Hetzner is free do decide with who they are doing business with or not.
It's called "Vertragsfreiheit" in German law.

Also they had no problem to cancel contracts with various LGBTQ+ sites recently, so they are also free to cancel the contract with a nazi party.

tfunken, 29 days ago

@cybersmog Sure, but does that really makes any difference?

Not to mention that I'm pretty sure they have at least talked to Hetzner before they moved their site to them.

I previously was working for a hosting provider and we got approached by them. They where petty straight forward about who they are and asked for a confirmation from the management that we are willing to host them.
I can't say much about why they did that but it felt a bit like they made some bad experience with other providers that where kicking them sooner or later.

PS.: Our management back then had a Jewish background. Soo... they where not that eager to have them as a customer :neocat_laugh_nervous:

tfunken, 28 days ago

@parkellipsen If you want a totally honest recommendation, try to pick smaller providers and maybe not use what everyone else is using.

Even when we ignore the fact that they are kinda supporting the afd, its overall healthier for the internet and also for the fediverse if services more decentral.
Also, if one provider gets too big its crushing all the other smaller providers.
Its just impossible to match the price Hetzner is offering unless you are damn huge. (Hetzner is running 23 own Datacenters in Europe)

So, if it is in your budget please consider supporting a smaller provider.

Well, enough about that :neocat_laugh_nervous:
Some recommendations I have so far.

Small & Community Providers
(Usually more expensive but run by smaller companies or non-profits)

IN-Berlin
Location: Berlin, DE
Products: VPS, Colocation
URL: https://www.in-berlin.de

Run by a Association (Verein). Afaik some of them are CCC friends.
Is for example used by codeberg.org

Glauca Digital
Location: Leeds, UK
Products: VPS, Colocation
URL: https://glauca.digital

Run by fellow fedi citizens like @q
LGBTQ+ friendly and they have shorks :blobhaj_trans_heart:
Also offers managed hosting :neocat:

1984
Location: Reykjavík, IS
Products: VPS
URL: https://1984.hosting

Strong focus on privacy.

Mythic Beasts
Location: UK, US, NL
Products: VPS, Dedicated Servers, Colocation
URL: https://www.mythic-beasts.com

Nice people and also active on fedi @beasts
Afaik they also do managed mastodon hosting.

Aurologic
Location: Frankfurt, DE
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server, Colocation
URL: https://aurologic.com

Kinda expensive, but solid quality and a nice and helpful support.

Meerfarbig
Location: Frankfurt, DE
Products: Dedicated Server, Colocation
URL: https://meerfarbig.net

Also kinda expensive, but really solid quality and a nice and helpful support.

CommunityRack
Location: Zurich, CH
Products: Colocation
URL: https://communityrack.org

Less a provider and more a Association (Verein) which runs a couple of racks together.
Afaik requires you to become a member to participate.

Cheap & Lowend Providers
(Cheapish providers, includes bigger providers)

Active Servers
Location: Frankfurt, DE
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server, Colocation
URL: https://active-servers.com

Probably the best of all the cheap providers.
Support is okay, network is good and the dedicated servers are reasonable priced.

Netcup
Location: Vienna, AT & Nuernberg, DE
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server
URL: https://www.netcup.eu

They offer really cheap arm VPS.
But last time I've tested them they seem to oversell their system a bit.

Webtropia
Location: Dusseldorf, DE
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server, Colocation
URL: https://www.webtropia.com

Guess they kinda try to target the market segment of Hetzner.
Servers are okay, network is good support is.. okayish..
They also run something like the Server Börse from Hetzner at:
https://servdiscount.com

First Root
Location: Dusseldorf, DE
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server, Colocation
URL: https://www.first-root.com

Nice people, cheap VPS but the support is kinda slow and the hardware is already 2-3 generations old.

Host Hatch
Location: US, UK, NL, JP, HK, SG, AU, SE
Products: VPS
URL: https://hosthatch.com

They have a lot of regions available, VPS pricing is good but the offered storage options are really tight.
They are using kinda recent EPIC hardware and most locations are 10G or even 40G, so performance is mostly great.
The storage VPS on the other hand are really slow. So don't think about to run a nextcloud or anything on them. Just use them as pure backup storage.
The Support is really nice, but sometimes awfully slow.. Once had a ticket waiting 7 days for a reply...

Contabo
Location: DE, UK, US, SG, JP, AU
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server
URL: https://contabo.com

Often one of the first names you get when asking for cheap servers.
But.. I personally would not recommend them.
Last time I've checked the VPS servers where heavily oversold.
idk, if you have RAM intensive applications which don't really need that much CPU performance they are probably a good pick, but otherwise I would not choose them.

Datalix
Location: Frankfurt, DE
Products: VPS, Dedicated Server
URL: https://datalix.eu

Just recently discovered them, not tested any of their products yet. But they seem to be reasonable priced.

Please don't see this as a endorsement for those providers.
Just a couple of providers I had in mind right now.

tfunken, 1 month ago

@jwildeboer Mh.. RedHat Employee using MacOS instead of RedHat or Fedora? :neocat_think: :nko_giggle:

tfunken, 1 month ago

@jwildeboer Just was joking around.. wasn't my intention to cause any trouble or something

tfunken, 1 month ago

@ipg @j0 Well, the difference between Google and Mozilla is that Google is trying to to exploit you to gain as much money for their investors as possible.

Mozilla on the other hand is headless running around with the goal to gain new sources of income to survive.
While it's true that the lines between the Foundation and the Cooperation are not as clear as they probably should be, the Cooperation is still fully owned by the Foundation.

They might be both doing the wrong things, things we don't like but they still do them for a different reason.

tfunken, 1 month ago

@ipg @j0 O.o

I've never said "Cooperation" is a disregarding/downplaying sense, I made a clear differentiation between Cooperation and Foundation.

But as a Cooperation usually follows the will of their owners, I thought it's important to point out that the Mozilla Cooperation is fully owned by the Mozilla Foundation while Google is owned by Alphabet which is owned by their shareholders, like for example the Vanguard Group, BlackRock or JP Morgan Chase and so on.

There is definitely a lot of room to speculate what the intentions of the Mozilla Foundation are, especially of the current board members, but I'm pretty sure that we all have a pretty clear vision what the intention of those investment companies is.

So I've just pointed out that I think the motivations behind their actions are completely different.

Again, I dislike a LOT of what Mozilla is doing in the recent years. If you ask me they should completely drop everything non Browser related and cut the team down to max 100 people. A Firefox Foundation if you so will.

But when judging about people, groups or organizations, I think it's important to also think about why they act the way they act and not just what they did.

tfunken, 1 month ago

@yassie_j Just a stupid, uneducated thought but.. might Mozilla be to big?

Again just a uneducated thought but it feels a bit like they do a lot various stuff but, mostly with limited success and mostly driven by the urge to gain new sources of income.

The search for new income sources since years start to give me a bit the feeling they spend a lot of time with fighting for survival instead of fighting for a free and open internet :/

(not saying they don't do the latter too)