I pipe the Mastodon media files cleanup script on berserker.town to my inbox. It doesn't know it's being piped though, so it dutifully prints the progress bars anyway...
@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.
holy fucking shit applications need to STOP FORCING THEMSELVES INTO THE FOREGROUND when i switched to another window after launching them. steam takes fucking 30 seconds to launch during which i cant do anything else because itll just steal focus randomly rahh
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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)
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.
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.