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poVoq

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Admin on the slrpnk.net Lemmy instance.

He/Him or what ever you feel like.

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This English speaking “europe@feddit.de” was always a bit out of place on a primarily German speaking instance. The same would be true for feddit.org, I guess. Maybe we should just depreciate this community and see if another English speaking Europe community takes over? As long as it isn’t the one on lemmy.ml (which has major moderation issues), I think I would be fine with that. I only stepped up moderating it on feddit.de because it was very active at the time and the previous mod stepped down.

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Because there is a lot more metadata than just IP addresses.

poVoq ,
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You seem to be unaware of how Matrix works. It is inherent to the protocol that room metadata is shared with other servers. It is not fixable as it is working as intended. This feature is nice for censorship resistance, but it is pretty much a nightmare for metadata privacy.

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Like all of it. It is not a "leak" if it is working as intended.

Anyone can spin up a Matrix server, join a room with it and the Matrix network will happily push a complete copy of the room metadata (all the way back to the point the room was first created) to that new homeserver.

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There is a lot more metadata than just avatars and reactions. Accounts and their room membership over time, timing of messages (and thus online times), individual interactions between specific users (based on the timing of their messages) and so on. That is all in the unencrypted metadata of a Matrix room and can't be moved to the encrypted message part like avatars and reactions.

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I think the term often used is "NAT reflection".

poVoq ,
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Power-line tends to be quite slow and error prone. If you have existing coax, that is likely the better option. You can get up to 2.5gbit adapters for it: https://til.simonwillison.net/networking/ethernet-over-coaxial-cable

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One thing to keep in mind which he didn't mention is that these PCMs change volume slightly, thus sealing them in fixed containers is a bit problematic.

But yes, these are very interesting and I have also been thinking of a nice thermal storage project with them. Putting a pack of higher temperature PCMs behind a basic wood stove for example might simulate the effect of a much more advanced thermal storage clay stove pretty well.

poVoq Mod ,
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Absolutely and with great game engines like Godot it has never been easier to make open-source games from scratch as well.

poVoq Mod ,
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Anything metal or wood will probably create too much dust etc.

Maybe get a 3D printer?

poVoq OP Mod ,
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Our instance on https://movim.slrpnk.net is only a few commits behind this release, but I'll likely update it later today.

poVoq ,
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Mostly fine, but at this point I would wait for the new Battlemage GPUs that should come out soon.

What is the one year message limit on the Matrix server?

I have read in the TOS for the Matrix server that all messages are deleted after one year. If I am talking with someone, does that mean that messages that are older than a year are deleted on my side, or both sides of the conversation? What if the chat is E2EE? If I am using a device that is signed in and has seen old messages,...

poVoq ,
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That's not how Matrix works. Matrix runs an internal DAG that stores all messages basically permanently.

poVoq ,
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I assume the part in the TOS refers to an experimental feature of Synapse that allows setting a message retention time. I think what it does is to set a deleted flag in the DAG and maybe overwrite the internal storage...but deleting anything on Matrix is surprisingly difficult and this experimental feature comes with a big disclaimer in the config file.

However, the ever increasing storage requirements are a serious issue for large public Matrix servers, having resulted in some of them shutting down permanently and the tchncs one had to do expensive hardware upgrades solely because of that.

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Its not a big deal to have one more user.

Beluga whale pair move from Ukraine's war-torn Kharkiv to Spain's Valencia ( www.reuters.com )

MADRID, June 20 (Reuters) - Marine biologists have moved a pair of beluga whales from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv - the target of daily shelling by Russian forces - to the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, in what they described as a long and risky international rescue operation....

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As much as I think these animals should not be held in captivity, seeing Beluga whales in Valencia years ago left a deep impression on me.

They have a large underwater window where you can try to interact with them if it isn't too crowded. Maybe I was more impressionable back then, but these animals are incredibly smart, almost an alien experience.

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Almost as if it is a bad idea to use any kind of social media run by for-profit, venture-capital funded businesses... (sarcasm obviously).

poVoq ,
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protest does shine a light on humanities superficial respect for historically important monuments and cultural sites

Interestingly the former leader of the Taliban argued exactly the same way when asked why they destroyed some world famous statues in Afghanistan (but compared it to the total lack of care for the actual humans living in Afghanistan, which is ironic considering the source... but hey, everyone is the hero in their own story 🤷‍♂️ ).

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The entirety of Dubai doesn't count?

poVoq ,
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Yes, I could easily configure our Podman containers to auto-update, but given how there have been significant breaking bugs in Lemmy releases before, I think it's better to not automate it.

poVoq ,
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Systemd is very useful for managing (rootless) Podman containers.

poVoq Mod ,
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Looks really nice... I guess a good time to visit the Alpine glaciers before they are gone completely.

poVoq ,
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It's not that bad actually. Uganda has a very progressive refugee policy (likely because the President once was a refugee himself). But yeah, anything that could be seen as a threat to his decades long presidency is clamped down hard on.

"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this?

After a year online the free speech-focused instance 'Burggit' is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states:...

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Here it isn't so heavy on CPU, but the database eats RAM like crazy. My guess would be that their server is constantly swapping out stuff from RAM due to insufficient surplus RAM and this as a result creates the high CPU load.

poVoq ,
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They are not included. You need to divide the 3.600€ by two main developers and then add up the irregular NLnet payments to that. So as a result it comes to approximately 3000€ for each of the two devs per month (6000€/month total). At least that is my understanding from what is written above.

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Hmm, I think there are more people that are #1 and #2 the same time (not me though) and the bigger divide is between those that rent a VPS and those that run a homelab.

poVoq OP ,
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You can compile it from source.

poVoq ,
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Usually* there is a database for the file meta-data that will benefit from faster access times of a SSD, the files themselves can be on a HDD.

*not sure how Immich specifically does it.

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You forgot adding a link (or more likely the stupid Lemmy 0.19.4 post submission bug at fault again).

poVoq ,
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Yeah, sounds like the same bug that prevents cross-posting to work properly on lemmy-ui.

poVoq ,
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Probably too hot to do hiking in central and southern Italy during that time.

poVoq Mod ,
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Hmm, interesting project from a technical perspective for sure, but I am not exactly sure why anyone would use it for anything other than testing some Linux distribution.

I mean unlike Waydroid, which helps to run "that one Android app" you need on a mobile Linux device, there isn't really "that one Linux app" you need to run on an Android phone.

poVoq Mod ,
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Hmm, yes maybe running GNU/Linux on a Lapdock could be an interesting usecase for this. Didn't think of that, thanks!

poVoq ,
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Perceived inflation is not the same as actual inflation as measured by the official inflation basket. Quite often you have a situation where day to day goods are increasing in prices (and thus driving perceived inflation), while more permanent expensive but rarely bought goods (TVs, cars etc.) are dropping in prices, so that on average the official inflation rate isn't increasing that much.

poVoq OP Mod ,
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Upgrade to 0.19.5 was a quick one. Please let us know if this fixed the main issues with the lemmy-ui interface on 0.19.4.

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