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- Comment on Why did Zuck green screen himself outside in a back yard? 1 year ago:
As the CEO of a company that run several major social networks, he know the importance of privacy and choose to use a virtual background.
- Comment on Tailscale with zero clients connected takes 7% of CPU time: is this normal? 1 year ago:
I just checked my AMD box and tailscale there can consume ~15% of cpu time when the tunnel is under active use. When it’s not used it’s ~1.5%. But it’s a low power old AMD cpu though (AMD G-T56N), so I’m not use if it compares to Ryzen 5. On my intel machine, it’s ~5% when under active use, and idle at ~0.5%.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
I got curious so I start digging into how mastodon do it. It’s more like a hack, really. Mastodon uses WebFinger to resolve user account, so when you change domain, you can leave the old domain up so your federated servers can still resolve your users and realized the domain has been changed and update their federation data. But it turns out you can’t exactly retire the old domain either because it’s still tied to user account internally. So if you lose control of your old domain, you’re probably as screwed as fmhy.ml.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
I’d like to think FMHY was true to their name and didn’t pay for the domain.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
.ee is owned by Estonia. Just pray Estonia wouldn’t do the same shenanigan and cause your instance to go down.
- Comment on Tailscale with zero clients connected takes 7% of CPU time: is this normal? 1 year ago:
On my machine it’s consuming about 0.5% - 1.0% of cpu time, which is higher than zerotier in the same machine (almost zero).
Tailscale does a lot more things than just tunneling though. For example, on default installation it’ll catch all outbound dns request on the machine and route them through MagicDNS (100.100.100.100).
- Comment on What are people using for webmail software these days? 1 year ago:
Whelp, nextcloud isn’t known for being fast. I don’t have hundreds of thousands of emails yet so I can’t comment on that, but one thing for sure is as you put more and more data on it, you’ll have to add more CPU and RAM to it or it’ll getting more and more sluggish.
- Comment on Selfhosted virtualisation learning kit 1 year ago:
I think using container instead of VM should be better for maximizing resource utilization in a raspberry pi. Instead of partitioning your 8gb RAM into 3-4 VMs, you can run a dozen of containers and probably still have some free RAM.
- Comment on What are people using for webmail software these days? 1 year ago:
Believe it or not, NextCloud. It actually can work as an email client. And it can sync calendars, contacts and todo list too.
- Comment on "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" 1 year ago:
At least for Lemmy, you can “force” it to sync a particular post or comment by pasting the url into your instance’s search bar.
- Comment on Q: should I increase my current VPS capacity or spin up a new one for the same price? 1 year ago:
I always look for excuses to get more servers, so if you ask me, I’d say yes, get that new server. There’s no such thing as having too much servers since there are so many things I want to self-host.
- Comment on Am I Crazy or is the Mali Government Reclaiming the ml Domain Now is too Convenient of a Time? 1 year ago:
It has happened before with the .ly domains about a year before the US invasion.
- Comment on Am I Crazy or is the Mali Government Reclaiming the ml Domain Now is too Convenient of a Time? 1 year ago:
- A company somehow secured a contract with Mali government to manage .ml TLD
- Said company then offer free .ml domain registration, with a catch (the domain is not actually yours). They also sell the domain and if you pay for it, the domain will be really yours contractually.
- The contract between the company and Mali government came to an end, and the control of .ml TLD has been transferred back to Mali government
- Mali government decided they want all those free domains back and did just that. Those domains will likely available for sale again later on.
- why Lemmy.ml is not affected? I’m not sure. Does Lemmy.ml use the free domain service, or actually paid for the domain?
- Comment on What Happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml? What Happens if an Instance Disappears? 1 year ago:
Heck, I haven’t been able to get a comment deleted in ALL instances so far. Instances that don’t directly federate with my instance doesn’t seem to process deletion reliably.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
Even worse, the free .ml domain is not actually yours when you get it for free, but actually owned by the company that previously managed the .ml domain. I suspect Mali government has reclaimed all those free domain registrations now that the contract with the company has been expired. The .ml domains that still up was probably paid domain and Mali government are probably still honoring the contract.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
The problem is with the federation. Other instances will try to federate with the old domain and won’t recognize the new domain. AFAIK work is still underway to allow migrating to a new domain and allow other instance to recognize the domain change.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
You might still buy your old .ml domain once Mali government open up registration again, assuming domain squatters didn’t grab it first.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
Afaik mastodon has a way for instanced to migrate to a new domain, but the old domain must be up during the migration process. Lemmy on the other hand don’t even have any domain migration procedure yet. People will probably go nuts about this on their GitHub issues portal.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
Eh, you can self host your name system though. OpenNIC does exactly that. The problem is convincing other people to use your resolver instead of using ICANN.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
Are you using the free domain deal, or are you paying for your .ml domain? I suspect they only revoking those unpaid .ml domains.
- Comment on lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] 1 year ago:
Somewhat related. Basically, the management of the .ml TLD are being handed back to Mali government, and they seem to revoking.ml domains left and right.
I suspect they’re revoking registration for .ml domains that was registered for free. the company that originally managed .ml domains had a free domain offers where you could register any .ml domain for free, the caveat is you don’t have the ownership right to that free domain. Maybe Mali government doesn’t honor such free domain registration and wish to revoke them all.
- Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down 1 year ago:
It was doubly hilarious when the US was at war with Libya, yet the white house spokesperson and us politicians were still tweeting using bit.ly and ow.ly url shorteners.
- Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down 1 year ago:
A while ago Libya suddenly requires all companies that use .ly domain to have a presence in Libya it have their domain reclaimed by the government. bit.ly (and other internet startups that use .ly domains back then) suddenly found themselves in a precarious position. It was pretty hilarious as .ly TLD was hip back then.
- Comment on What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use? 1 year ago:
Here is the documentation, pretty bare though: docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/…/oauth2.html
- Comment on What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use? 1 year ago:
I use keycloak. Pretty steep learning curve, but once properly set up, it can do pretty much anything.
But if you’re in a pinch, NextCloud can act as an OIDC auth provider out of the box.
- Comment on VPN blocked, how can i tunnel my VPS to home network? 1 year ago:
Does ssh works? If yes, you can use
autosshto create persistent ssh tunnel to your VPS. - Comment on Can someone please explain like I'm five the controversy involving Oracle, Red Hat, and SUSE? 1 year ago:
Red Hats / IBM did this to themselves when they decided to kill CentOS. There are rumors that said Red Hat/ IBM was pissed that Rocky won a NASA contract, so they decided to pull the rug, stop releasing RHEL source code to non paying customers, and add clauses to their ToS to terminate contract with customers that redistribute the source code.
But you know what, if Red Hat/ IBM didn’t kill CentOS, Rocky wouldn’t exist. Oracle Linux wouldn’t be as popular (because people would use CentOS), and SuSE wouldn’t provide free support to Rocky and Alma. Red Hat would still be the open source darling of the linux community, and IBM would still made a buttload of money.
Instead, they got greedy and think that all those CentOS downloads equals to lost RHEL sales (classic piracy equals to lost sales fallacy) and decided to kill CentOS to increase short term profits, which sprung Rocky and Alma (which truly eating their lunch because they also offer enterprise support). Red Hat didn’t learn it’s lesson and double down, and now have burned all of it’s remaining good reputation in the open source community.