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I think the real problem is that nobody keeping the lights on at SDF is using Lemmy on the daily.

Anyway the data recovery from the long outage seems to have partially restored 2 communities I created before it happened, so as best I can tell they now exist as zombie communities with no moderator? Fun stuff. /c/DrugNerds and /c/Virology.

It seems weird that the admins would be blocking that server as this is a low-fediblock server. I’m not sure that prior thread conclusively proves it’s intentional.

That’s very weird.

I see traffic from lemmy.world all over the place, so it can’t be a full defed.

Yeah same. Seeing that they’re working on these issues increases my resolve to keep using the server as long as it stays viable.

Yeah, as of a few weeks after it came back up I’ve noticed it’s seemed faster and less broken.

I’ve long been meaning to start participating there - I was a daily-active BBSer til the mid 2010s - but life is oppressing me, so I haven’t done it yet.

It also looks like the sidebars got nuked.

hmm, I haven’t tried recreating the ones I made which were lost with the last instance crash, maybe that’s a good thing.

I wish this server were more stable because low-fediblock nodes are important in the ecosystem, but sadly I’m only just starting with NetBSD and have almost no money to donate, so I can’t help much. I did send in the random few bucks left in my paypal account when they got the server working again at least.

I’ve also thought about volunteering, but AFAIK everything they host runs on NetBSD and I just started learning it (and any BSD) a couple months ago.

Very easy to find good deals (and parts) on these 1L business PCs!

some electronics on messy shelves

Testing an image post from Voyager client…

I only own the gear marked A and B, which lives above the couch I call home.

A is my web services 24/7 Proxmox box, an Intel 8500T; 2 routers; an 8TB HDD; and a Back-UPS Pro so old its ethernet surge protection is rated for 100bT, with a brand new LFP battery in it. The UPS powers both A and B.

B is my personal Proxmox box which I use for development and running desktop OSes which I remote into, plus a GL.iNet Slate AX router. These come with me if I stay someplace other than the couch (not pictured). That’s why they’re on different shelves. Also, there’s a USB wifi dongle w/antenna connected to B which I used when some stupid website demands I drop my VPN (all traffic from everything pictured is routed thru 24/7 private VPN endpoints, aka a $2/mo VPS or three).