travis

@travis@xinsto.xyz

#SmallBusiness CEO of https://xinsto.xyz/@hostingintellect. #UNIX and #Linux nerd. Views are my own. Never stop learning. Not a #programmer but I like to program in #PHP. #IPv6 advocate. I run #webhosting companies: https://xinsto.xyz/@nodespace and https://xinsto.xyz/@sshvm. I’m #neurodivergent with #adhd. The struggle is real, even if you don’t understand it. My posts are searchable on tootfinder.ch.

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travis, to opensource

I’ve decided that since “Xinsto, LLC” is gone, it’s time to start moving towards changing the name of this server. I registered nodespace.social so I think that’s the next logical move. But since you can’t change domains (this is a flaw in the ActivityPub protocol), or even redirect them, a new server is in store. @travis. I kinda like it.
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New company name NodeSpace, LLC? NodeSpace Hosting, LLC? NodeSpace Technologies, LLC?
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I want to grow our forums but I think non-established forums are dead (that and we really haven’t been pushing it). We have a (/n offline) Matrix server we want to push and get rid of Discord.

Can I build this business on more open source? I hope. I’m going to try.

arrdem, to random
@arrdem@macaw.social avatar

I DO NOT WANT TO CALL YOU FOR A QUOTE. I NEVER WANT TO CALL SOMEONE FOR A QUOTE. LIST YOUR PRICES OR LOSE THE BUSINESS

travis,

@arrdem I’m not a fan of Musk but if SpaceX can post their prices on their website, then so can you!

QasimRashid, to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

The so-called party of “law & order” is so dangerous that the Judge ruling over Trump’s sexual abuse conviction trial is compelled to warn jurors to remain anonymous “for a long time,” lest harm come to them.😳

The is the GOP today. Smh. Horrible.

travis,

@epicdemiologist @QasimRashid This is where all the mobile apps suck (assuming he posted via mobile). Mastodon web at least can detect text in images. But yay for iOS and being able to copy/paste text from images.

Text in image:

Judge tells jurors they can now identify themselves publicly but advises them not to
From CNN's Lauren del Valle
Before dismissing the jury, Judge Lewis Kaplan informed them that they are now allowed to identify themselves publicly, if they choose - but he advised them not to.
"My advice to you is not to identify yourselves. Not now and not for a long time," Kaplan said.
"If you're one who elects to speak to others and to identify yourselves to others, I direct you not to identify anyone else who sat on this jury, Kaplan added. "Each of you owes that to the other whatever you decided for yourself."

travis, to random

The Fediverse community is so much better than the Twitter community.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Porsche to use Mobileye’s “SuperVision” system in future cars

The sensor suite includes cameras, radar, and a driver-monitoring system.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/porsche-to-use-mobileyes-supervision-system-in-future-cars/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

travis,

@arstechnica I used to be a bus driver and my transportation company used Mobileye. They eventually stopped using it because it was generating so many false positives. Drivers would get flagged for speeding (like 45 in a 25) but when the GPS data was pulled, drivers we’re actually doing the right speed. It would also mid-read yield signs for stop signs.

elonjet, to random
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

Landed near Corpus Christi, Texas, US. Apx. flt. time 31 Mins.

travis,

@kioken @elonjet No just wants people to believe he’s “saving the planet” with his electric lemons.

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP:

  1. “I thought 32 bits ought to be enough for Internet addresses.”

  2. “I didn’t pay enough attention to security.”

  3. “I didn’t really appreciate the implications of the World Wide Web.”

Source https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mistakes

travis,

@nixCraft Hindsight is 20/20. To be fair, in the 90s, the internet was “just a fad” and it was for “geeks”. I don’t fault Vint at all for the shortcomings. And some of the 32-bit addressing problems we have is from poor governance. We have Class D & E addresses we can’t/won’t use, the US DoD has TWELVE /8 blocks, yet none of them are used externally.

travis,

@agent_after @nixCraft Yep. It comes from a time when this (https://www.google.com/books/edition/ARPANET_Directory/M6opAQAAIAAJ?hl=en) was your “DNS” server and global address list. If anything, Vint should be impressed its held up this far. Now we just need full global adoption of IPv6 and we can finally put 32-bit addresses to bed.

travis,

@agent_after @nixCraft I've only come across two types of people who refuse IPv6: those that refuse to learn it and those who own IPv4 blocks and are making bank leasing them out.

Though, I think I know who employs the people who refuse to learn IPv6...

atomicpoet, to random

People keep bringing up the very tired “Linux on the desktop” meme to dismiss the Fediverse.

But a meme is just a meme.

In the real world, Linux dominates.

Your phone? Probably Linux. Your car’s infotainment system? Linux. Your router? Linux.

Chromebook? Linux.

Windows has a Linux Subsystem too.

Linux has won.

The “Linux on the desktop” naysayers don’t even realize it.

The Fediverse should be so lucky.

travis,

@atomicpoet Bingo. People fail to realize that there will (and is) a lot of great tech being built on top of ActivityPub. It's really exciting being able to watch this protocol evolve and develop in real-time. I said it back in December when I finally moved over here full-time, I haven't been this excited about tech in a long time!

TechDesk, to space
@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar

About half of the 8,000 satellites in orbit belong to SpaceX, but astronomers, already discarding data contaminated with satellite light trails, aren’t impressed. Extreme Tech has more on a problem that’s likely to worsen.
https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/latest-starlink-launch-pushes-spacex-past-4000-total-satellites

travis,

@TechDesk More space junk! And given what a coworker has experienced with Starlink, it’s not much better than a rural WISP. And it doesn’t even support

travis,

@rayrob @TechDesk Well about time! Now they just need to deal with the space junk problem.

travis, to random

More reasons to Gitlab - your data in the cloud is being used to train LLMs. Also, “Google” and “privacy” don’t belong in the same sentence. https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366536417/Citing-data-privacy-GitLab-syncs-with-Google-generative-AI

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social avatar

If Apple ever wanted to build a search engine, now would be the time to do it.

While search companies are breaching the contract they have with content creators, Apple can counter-program the fad and bring a quality experience back to search.

travis,

@khalidabuhakmeh Rumor is they are. They have been crawling the web for a long time with Applebot (which makes references to “Apple Search”).

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social avatar

AI search is the death of individual voices and personal blogs.

We'll all be churned into a homogeneous answering machine goo.

Thanks big tech 👍

travis,

@khalidabuhakmeh I blame Facebook. My friends all abandoned their blogs around 2007 because by then everyone was on Facebook. Today, the only two major search engines only care about other big tech sites, I can really only find blogs though really crafty keywords or Reddit.

nazgul, to random

Far too accurate.

travis,

@nazgul Actually, I think Ford and Musk are alike. Only Musk has the internet. Ford didn’t. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/

QasimRashid, to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

This Week:
—FL GOP banned DACA status lawyers from practicing law
—NC GOP legalized voter discrimination against Black citizens
—TX GOP gave the Governor power to unilaterally overturn election results

THIS WHAT FASCISM AND ELECTION FRAUD LOOKS LIKE.

Abolish the filibuster—Pass Voting Rights.

travis,

@tylermumford @QasimRashid I’m waiting for the GQP to try and make Gregory “Supreme Emperor of Earth” 🤦‍♂️ They’re delusional enough to try it.

travis, to random

I really love that on my firewall, I can just ask my ISP for a /56 prefix and it gets allocated automatically allowing me to use VLANs internally with native IPv6. I feel really bad for the people who have ISPs that don't understand IPv6 and limit them to a /64 like 128-bits is some precious resource.

evan, (edited ) to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

Do you post here for work?

travis,

@Andres @evan Yeah, my instance was setup so my business could own our social media accounts. I use my account as a mix of work stuff and personal. The business accounts are business though. But that’s what they we’re doing on Twitter anyways.

travis, to random

Well here it is! The new knowledge base theme has been expanded past articles! The only thing left to theme is the search results.

thedarktangent, to random

Any have ideas how mastodon.social plans to scale? With the sign up focus on them for ease of onboarding - if it works - could see their numbers grow rapidly. I hope it forces them to find ways to optimize. Otherwise all their donation $$ will go to cloud costs and mobile development while I wish it was all focused on Mastodon development.

travis,

@thedarktangent I think mastodon.social has the advantage of being run by the developers so who else could easily scale it out than the people who know the code better than anyone else? But for other instances, scaling isn’t well documented but I found this blog that is actually pretty insightful. https://leah.is/posts/scaling-the-mastodon/

But as an IaaS provider, I can tell you that they’ll definitely be burning money on “the cloud”. I wrote about this on our site (https://www.nodespace.com/blog/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-overages-a-case-for-traditional-hosting/). The TL;DR is that our 2vCPU 4GB VPS goes for $20 and so does AWS’ similarly sized EC2 instance. But once you factor in the additional disk space and bandwidth, AWS will run you ~$44/month for the same VPS you can get from us for $20.

travis, to random

Borked the mastodon instance by rebooting the host… yeah I don’t know! Ahh, the internet. It’s black magic!

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

HDDs typically fail in under 3 years, Backblaze study of 17,155 drives finds

Seagate still stands out.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/hdds-typically-fail-in-under-3-years-backblaze-study-of-17155-drives-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

travis,

@arstechnica My experience with HDDs are that there are good batches and bad batches. Once ordered like 20 Dell laptops and started deploying them in small groups. Like clockwork, 6 weeks after they were issued, the WD drives in them failed. After the first few, it became a pattern and I actually started contacting users who were issued these laptops to do backups and prepare for failure. I ordered a bunch of replacement drives from separate vendors and as the drives failed, I’d replace them.

Except Seagate drives. They always fail.

travis, to internet

Seeing Twitter turn into “pay to play”, I’m reminded of Friendster. https://www.cnet.com/culture/friendster-a-little-cash-goes-a-long-way/

travis, to random

I’m probably one of the few honest and transparent business owners out there. Today, I’d like to share openly why @nodespace shut down our European services. Buckle up, it’s a journey.

In 2021, we acquired a web host that had shared hosting and VPS hosting. Services were split between Hetzner and OVH - two providers that completely boggle my mind why they’re still used. We bailed on Hetzner when they changed their IP price policy. While we’re seeing price increases from our partners here in the US, none are as drastic as Hetzner. We moved servers to OVH, where we had existing servers. The IP policy at OVH was too good to be true and even they knew this. In October 2022, new orders were charged monthly instead of a one time payment.

Unfortunately, good things must end. Before we knew it, OVH was charging monthly for netblocks. Which, we’re used to. But the previous owner left us in a bad spot. There was zero foresight in how the VPS subnets were allocated. /29 here, /28 here, /27 there. And after a few forced consolidations, we eliminated large blocks of IPs. This lowered our bill until contract renewals hit and another round of IP cost increases and a change in IP billing policy.

Meanwhile our US VPS hosting had no problems. We sized our IP blocks appropriately. Our partners don’t hit us with surprise cost increases.

And this is where I wonder how the hell OVH stays in business.

  • Tickets take DAYS to get even an initial response. Even billing tickets! Before anyone says “unmanaged”, that’s no excuse. We also provide unmanaged servers but the worst initial response we’ve ever had was like 4 hours.
  • Servers are a depreciating asset. You know how I know? We have racks of them. They get written down on taxes annually. Therefore, it’s ABSURD OVH charges MORE for the same hardware the next time the contract comes around.
    1/2
travis,

2/2

  • OVH’s network is basically blocked everywhere because their bad support is bad at dealing with abusers.
  • Bad network standards. What network provider forces you to register MAC addresses? If it’s to “prevent abuse” then they’re already failing.
  • Long contracts for better pricing. But you pay monthly. And if you want to keep good pricing, you have to renew for longer times. And you have to keep this up. Or you’re going to end up paying a lot more monthly.
  • Legacy IP pricing is going up because of management’s poor ability to plan ahead with a limited resource.
  • Poor handling of Legacy IP. Want a /24? No problem! Just open your wallet. No justification needed!
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