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[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just be happy that the jpg is not embedded in docx

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Itself embedded in an auto extractable zip executable.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ikr

svg, lossless webp, or png are way better options for an image of text

[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

JPEG XL would be the true future format, unfortunately Google killed it

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

After a month and a half downtime all the users will have moved on to other instances. This is essentially a death sentence for the instance and its communities.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

They didn’t need you anyway.

[–] TrackShovel@lemmy.today 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You underestimate the userbase. I made a temp account in the mean time, but we are a hyper tight knit community. We will probably lose accounts - no question - but the core userbase will return

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You may underestimate user dedication. I love my instance and totally would come back after a few months away temporarily.

You got me on the communities though.

Fediverse is designed to handle servers with less than stellar reliability.

[–] Kris@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Lets see. I think a relaunch on Piefed might interest some people to come back, and most slrpnk communities are rather niche and will probably stay. /c/climate might move though.

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 week ago

Alt text:

Slrpnk.net is currently offline due to an unforseen hardware failure in combination with the main system-administrators having no physical access to the server location until mid July due to work or summer-holiday related travels.

We are very sorry for this unforseen down-time, but slrpnk.net will return for sure and we already have some plans for a nice relaunch, so stay tuned!

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Assuming slrpnk stands for solar punk - that produces funny little theories in my mind about the server location.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Their servers are located in Portugal I believe and do indeed run on solar power! They gave details of their set up on their wiki page but... that was on the server that's gone down so... have a read in July I guess?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 week ago

it's on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20240223204706/https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/server-hosting

Server hosting

This is a work in progress
Slrpnk.net is hosted by F-hub.org, a volunteer driven and non-commercial effort to host federated community services in a resource efficient and ethical way. F-hub.org grew out of a community of open-source game developers (freegamedev.net) that has existed since the early 2000s.

All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed fibreglass connection.
Hardware

The F-hub.org servers are based on second-hand consumer PC and data-centre hardware, but optimized for low energy consumption. Battery backup power is provided and data is stored with triple redundancy (off-site backups are still a work in progress). Electricity is currently provided by the utility grid (about 60% green-energy, mostly from a geothermal power-plant) but it is a work in progress to upgrade to a on-site solar PV system for near 100% renewable power.

Slrpnk.net itself currently runs on a dedicated 6th gen Intel CPU server with 8 threads, 16GB RAM and SATA SSD storage in raid configuration. Image uploads are stored on a large HDD raid array. All data is snapshotted and transferred for backup to a second shared server on daily basis.
External services

Given how difficult it is to have outgoing email accepted by the large email providers, all emails are currently routed through an external SMTP server hosted by OVH in France (same as the domain registration and DNS routing).

There are backup plans to move the servers to a co-location data-center owned by Altice, should this be required for scaling. However, monthly rent of rack-space is quite costly (starts at around 300€/month), thus this will require a substantial regular donation base to be possible.

[–] technohippie@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they're located in the Azores, and yes, running their own servers on solar (of course) and other renewable energy. Coolest instance out there.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago

We will, promise! :D

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lol in my head it stands for slurp nick

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one lol

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's clearly "slurp nook," that nook where you can go to slurp soup as loudly as you want without being judged.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Makes most sense

[–] TrackShovel@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thank you so much for the update - I hadn't had access for about a week and was getting worried. Couldn't reach them on XMPP either.

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[–] souperk@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wondering if a volunteer could go to the physical location necessary to restore service. If it's in Athens Greece, I can make the trip.

Edit: The server is located in Azores, the flight would cost 415eur, I cannot afford that, maybe someone in Portugal could help?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Off topic, but in Portugal was the first time me, a Central European, ever ate a ripe Papaya. Yum! Thanks to the Azores. The shit you get in the supermarkets round here is useless. Same for mangoes, usually.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

You are in luck then, because both are climacteric fruits, meaning they continue to ripe after being harvested, due to producing ethylene gas that triggers the ripening

Throw them in a paper bag and let them rest at room temp. If you want to speed up the process, add a ripe banana or apple (or other ripe climacteric fruits)

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[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is it in a data centre or someone's house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?

Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.

Sounds like they could improve their setup.

Too much of a single point of failure.

[–] Kris@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Slrpnk.net admin here.

The failure seems to have been in the main firewall, if it had been the server itself we could have easily restored it on another server from the backups on another machine. But as it stands, remote access is entirely cut off.

There usually is another person with hardware access, but they are on summer holidays. This seemed like an acceptable risk at the time...

An off-site backup would have been nice of course, but due to the costs involved in running an Lemmy instance of that size on a rented server, it would have not been a great option either.

I have plans to add a KVM to the main firewall via a secondary connection, but even that might have not helped in this case. I'll know more when I have physical access again.

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Appreciate the answer and the detail. Good luck getting it all resolved.

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[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I'll be back when they get back up.

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