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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

I provided the link that has data, and pointed out that the two orgs are completely different and unrelated. Instead you maintain that they're somehow the same, while providing no evidence yourself.

Your cognative dissonance is really something else. I'm out of this thread.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (14 children)

It's linked to from the guardian:

https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-persistent-poverty-crisis-2024-rates-remain-alarmingly-high/

I've already proven you wrong in my very first message, these are two completely different orgs. Different websites, different agendas, different leaders.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (16 children)

Similar names doesn't mean sweet fuck all.

Your own link there says they're left leaning, whereas the other is obviously right.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (18 children)
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, configuring memory to be used for zram would mark it as unavailable for kernel fs caching.

Does iostat show your disks being pegged when it's slow? Odd that performance would be so bad on those specs, makes me think you have disk Io issues maybe.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

FWIW I did this with jellyfin and ended up just using a vm instead of lxc. This way I could just pass the entire device through, not have to mess with drivers in my proxmox host, and not have to reboot all my vms/lxc just to apply updates.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8

This guy made his own floppy and managed to write / read from it. It's an interesting watch.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

I got too eager with upgrading both servers and didn't give haproxy enough time.

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

We're now running 0.19.13

Lots of little bug fixes: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-09-10_-_Lemmy_Release_0.19.13

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Thumbnails do, not the actual image generally.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I would counter that it takes significantly more power to provide someone with internet compared to a broadcast antenna.

Google tells me a low power tv antenna broadcasts at around 2.3kw. I've deployed datacenters full of racks where each rack pulls more than that. Once you take into account all the networking gear between the server and the consumer, , the internet easily requires more resources. Routers, switches and servers can be pretty power hungry.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not VPN endpoints we block, it's some ASN's that we've seen excessive amounts of abusive traffic from. Primarily that's isps in China, but I also added Zenlayer a while ago (which is the hosting provider your vpn endpoint was on).

I've removed them from the ban list, you should be good now. They might get readded if we see a flood of abuse from them though.

I just happened to see your comment, anyone can feel free to dm me if they have issues.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think signal data is included in system backups unless your device is rooted. You'd have to go into signal and back it up explicitly.

I just turned this feature on. I don't backup my device all, I just expect everything to be in my cloud.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Hello everyone!

It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress:

Finances

Here’s a look at our bank balance since we began accepting donations:

We’re currently sitting at around $2,900, with a monthly burn of about $200, which gives us roughly a year of runway. We have some additional annual costs (like domain renewals and non-profit registration), but overall we run very lean.

Fedecan still owes:

  • TruckBC: $1,980
  • Shadow (me): $525

These were out-of-pocket hosting and non-profit registration costs from 2023/2024. It’d be great to get those covered, but we want to keep at least a year of operating expenses in reserve.

If you're a regular user and value what we're doing, please consider donating! We have multiple ways to donate, you can find the comparison and donation links on our website: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

Sh.itjust.works

Nothing major to report here - we’ve all been a bit busy lately, but collaboration is continuing slowly behind the scenes.

Fediverse Growth

We're seeing a healthy volume of posts and communities on lemmy.ca, surging with each Reddit drama:

Infrastructure

Our server is a Dell R7515 with an EPYC 7763, 1 TB ram and 4x 7.68tb nvme data disks, which is hosted in a datacenter in Vancouver, BC.

I spun up victoriametrics + victorialogs a few weeks ago and have been ingesting all of our data, giving us the ability to put together some nice grafana dashboards.

Everything is running great on the infrastructure side of things. Our server is barely working up a sweat and we shouldn't have to worry about scaling for a long time.

Lemmy.ca still comprises almost all of our traffic:

Lemmy.ca

Our over provisioned stack is performing well, handling the occasional lemmy / lemmy-ui dropout:

Similarly the DB is mostly running out of ram:

Our object storage is slowly climbing as expected, but we've got several years of capacity to figure out a long term solution:

I’m also doing some limited analytics on our web logs. As expected, lemmy.world makes up the majority of our federation traffic:

One interesting thing to see from the user-agent data is the breakdown of traffic by the different mobile clients:

The “dart” UA is just a common web library, Thunder reports as this and I suspect other clients do too. If you’re a client developer, please set your user-agent!

Out of the alternative web clients we support, tesseract is the most popular although the overall traffic volume is still low:

We only store 7 days of logs but I’m hoping to get these pulled out into metrics soon, since it would be interesting to track which clients / interfaces people use over time.

Pixelfed.ca

Not much to say on this one, due to using local storage it currently runs on a single VM without redundancy.

Piefed.ca

Piefed runs on a pair of VMs with its own database and object storage backends.

Service Health Response data

Cloudflare

If you want to compare against previous data posts, here’s our same cloudflare graphs for lemmy.ca

As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks for being a part of the Fediverse!

 

Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.

I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.

This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.

The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:

 

I don't know how I missed this when it came out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_Cats

Stoner Cats is a cartoon that stars Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Chris Rock as cats that use medical marijuana.[1] The show also stars Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, and Vitalik Buterin with guests Dax Shepard, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Michael Bublé. The producers were fined by the US Securities and Exchange Commission because they sold unregistered NFTs as a means towards a pass to view the show

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world
 

I'm routinely running into an issue where if I haven't used the app in a while (a few hours), it hangs trying to connect. I then force restart and it's fine.

I was running onto this on the play store version but I'm on 0.7.0-1 now and still seeing it regularly.

Known issue? Or any suggestions on how to debug?

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