Note: will act on this asap, did not forget
tchncs was updated!
Sorry for the delay and the brief interruption, tchncs has just been updated to v0.19.11. :)
The interruption happened due to database migrations taking a little moment.
- On certain parts of the tchncs infra, an emergency-co-admin already got access, I should prioritize this more so that it also counts for the host lemmy runs on. Other than that, unless something happens to me, there will not be any surprise shutdown of service. In the highly unlikely event of a planned shutdown, there will be at the very very least half a year time for users to move to other instances.
- The donation situation for tchncs is ... fine, at least for securing cost coverage excluding my time. If cost cutting is required (which luckily has not happened yet), I of course try to prioritize on actively used services and try saving on services that are wasteful in terms of user/needed resource ratio. Something like peertube perhaps where terrabytes of video only get a handful of views.
- Only instances that seem dedicated to lawbreaking/extensive rulebreaking content or unmoderated instances overrun by bots will be blocked. And ideally only if there is too much or risk of too much exposure to our instance, causing too much moderation effort required. There will not be an instance block against instances where I dislike people or similar (there are quite sensible admins in the network tho that would act like that or similar, sadly). If we have an instance on the list, that does not seem to belong there, I am open for reconsideration.
And note: I keep trying to do whats best for the community. I am always open for ideas and opinions. :) If i don't respond to something, it is very likely that I once again failed to manage my inbox and tasks. 😅
- If you convince me that people would actually use these frontends, then yes, i'll add them. ;)
- Yes, as not all software supports SSO via oauth/saml, it is not an option everywhere. (yes, i know, a few are doing so in the meantime and i should reevaluate) – thats because its not just frontends to the network in this case, sadly
Relevance of step counting?
Hi there, for a few months now i own a treadmill for my desk. It does alot for my overall wellbeing, but reliably counting steps there is quite a challenge.
One thing that seems to come close is my old iPhone, but as climate in this room is getting hotter as spring approaches, this is not a fun solution. (phone will annoy in lighter pants)
Things that heavily over and undercount include:
- Garmin HRM Pro (count way too low)
- Fenix 3HR in pants (both directions depending on chosen pants and pockets)
- Fenix 3HR on ankle (way too low)
- Stryd Pod (oh well that exposes no steps at all, darn it)
I read from time to time how at least Apple finds step counting and goals to be a bad and lowprio metric. I see that at least the Athlytic app does not use steps but rather the heart for calculation of target exertion and reached exertion (eventho i wonder sonetimes if exertion is too high on the treadmill).
This leaves me with the question if i should just ignore that a stepcount exists at a
Lemmy v0.19.10 Release – discuss.tchncs.de updated
so far like a few months bubble bursted on tsla stock, and thats not the first time.
Worth keeping an eye on: Zen, based on Firefox, getting quite close to Arc
i disagree as there are plenty of tools to post to multiple platforms at once. but yea if they were so kind to actually interact then yes
mmh i look at the github org tho, but there are indeed some external contributions it looks like at least
at least the recent (non-release) docker image should have plaid support for that. It appears to require a few environment variables. Have not yet "plaid" with that but might do so soon.
Oh and for stocks, it is bound to their Synth thing, 1K request are free per month (not all of my etfs are listed atm tho). The synth api key also goes into the env. (which confuses me right now as it also is an input field in the app, dunno but works)
One thats under active development but getting more and more insteresting would be https://maybefinance.com/ – a Rails app. It supports investments and stuff which seems rare. For import they appear to double down on Plaid, which appears to also do a Europe thing which was recently added, however CSV is also supported
du kannst crossposten aber afaik leider nicht einfach so verschieben
Sicher dass das thematisch in diese Community passt?
Heard good things about it, but if nothing changed, it still is pretty much a one-person project afaik. Thats what makes me cautious.
Lemmy v0.19.9 Release – discuss.tchncs.de updated
tchncs has just been updated to this security and bugfix release. :)
i keep telling myself what a timesaver ansible is, while at the same time my simple scripts got abstracted and puzzled into more files, much harder to quickly read and understand them and after hours of frustration, ansible actually works. there may be multiple minutes of delay between my tasks wasting time like hell but it works (as in not randomly fails to connect). except when it doesn’t. there still is a playbook where the host cannot be reached and i keep on failing to understand why as everything appears to be the same and looks correct. there will be more hours wasted.
sorry for the brief interruption
it appears 'something' had flooded the memory, causing oom killer to hunt down postgresql in the pixelfed and fediverse (lemmy+sharkey) container on the host. unfortunately i have jumped to restarting services too quickly so i am not 100% certain who is to blame yet... having an eye on it now.
Sicher kann man da was patchen, es wäre aber besser und sauberer das direkt bei den Lemmy entwicklerInnen einzureichen. Eventuell beispielsweise hier: [email protected]
It was indeed down for a little while because one of the two nvmes went missing on the host. I've copied the containers to a different host before consulting the hoster just in case and stopped them in the process. Luckily it showed up again later so we didn't have to rely on the already worn out other drive upon reboot that may fail in the nearish future. Check out https://status.tchncs.de/ as in such cases, i leave a note there ... and also usually on Mastodon and Matrix at least :)
ive got a somewhat defective ankle joint for 2-3 years now… however i managed it to reach 10k again with some painbreaks not a smart move tho considering how the days after a run feel, and also trying to figure things out with doctors but i am seriously missing running. perhaps it could also help not to run in barefoot shoes in this condition, i am not sure.. that by itself does not really feel wrong.
regarding the op image here, i have long hair and when it rains, i do not use a jacket - instead i enjoy getting wet and open up my hair on purpose :P
Lemmy v0.19.6 Release – this instance has been updated!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22274306
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Changes
This release took a long time to complete due to a major performance problem which brought lemmy.ml to a crawl every time we tried to deploy the new version. It took a lot of testing (in production) to narrow it down to a single commit, and finally fix the problem.
The release itself contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements:
Lemmy
Enhancements
- Parallel federation sending by @phiresky in #4623
- Reduce CPU usage
Hm at some point Anytype apps will be configurable for custom servers tho (i assumed they were already but i might have been wrong).
Obsidian also has some interesting sync plugins that dont require syncthing
hmm so far i have not seen logs that may be related to your problem... does it occour on a different browser or a private window as well?
About today's downtime
Hi there! As of today's early morning (cest), the tchncs server H5 started to become unstable and restarted itself every 10-30mins.
I couldn't find apparent causes and the system logs would just cut off, while not showing helpful indicators of the problem. After some tests, including some initial memory testing, I've created a ticket with the hoster and they offered a replacement while keeping the NVMe's.
We are now on the new server (supposedly, it's very much equal, making it hard to confirm^^) – let's see if this helped. Fingers crossed.
ob das leute dann auch langfristig nutzen würden? 🤔
Server maintenance August 30
Update 21:00 CEST: all services that had their home on this host have been moved and launched.
Update 20:30 CEST: the linux container was launched on the new host. It is possible that some of you still cache the old IP address. Please be patient.
tl;dr Surprise maintenance! It looks like it is once again time for some fresh hardware. Within the next hours (perhaps also tomorrow, depending on time among other things), you might experience a downtime of up to one to two hours due to Lemmy being moved to a new machine.
This is needed for more future proofing as well as making sure the current hardware is not about to die and forcing us to apply a backup.
This post will be updated as soon as there are any updates.
Old specs (about € 37.72 /month):
- i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
- 2x512 GB KXG50ZNV512G TOSHIBA Gen 3 in Software Raid
⬆️ tchncs updated: Lemmy v0.19.5 Release - A Few Bugfixes
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17053861
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Changes
This is a smaller bugfix release, with the following changes:
Lemmy
- Don't change encoding style in clean_url_params.
- Fix for federation last_successful_id.
- Fixing featured_local trigger.
- Fix postres TLS connection.
Lemmy-UI
- [Fix for fetch page title](https://github.com/
Potential decline of tchncs donations
Well hello there, I hope you are having a good time and that apart from the shaky recent update, discuss.tchncs.de serves you well! 🚀
tl;dr
tchncs is doing wonderfully in terms of donations, but I have reason to worry about an ongoing decline. Please don't feel pressured but if some of you would help looking out that it doesn't fall below a certain threshold, that'd be amazing. :)
Many of you are already using tchncs services elsewhere, but for those of you who are new, I'd like to briefly mention that this service is powered by donations of its users. By donating a small monthly fee, you ensure that I will be able to keep paying for the infrastructure and its upgrades, as well as investing my time, trying to keep the thing rolling.
Donating is 100% voluntary and not each and every one of you need to do it – also for now, there is no critical need for new donors.
If that's the case, why am I even pointing this out?
For a couple of months, our dear Elon (and later
tchncs was updated to Lemmy v0.19.4
This time no crosspost of the original statement in [email protected] because somehow the content is lost as I select the community 😅
I hope that this is just a small bug and that otherwise everything is healthy. Image proxying is not in place yet. I will have a closer look at the now possible setup changes soon™.
Enjoy! 🍺
Database maintenance / Lemmy update – june 10 @ 18h CEST
Normally I do not shut down services in order to perform updates, but the new Lemmy release requires a newer version of the PostgreSQL database server, which in turn requires a migration of the very cluster. If nothing special is hindering it (this happened with the Synapse Matrix server recently), this will be done quite quickly by just linking to the newer Postgres version (this is a feature of Postgres itself), otherwise it might take an hour or two.
This will also affect the Firefish microblogging instance under https://procial.tchncs.de/
discuss.tchncs.de – Media Maintenance – 9PM CEST
Adjustments and updates are planned to the pict-rs instance (this is the software Lemmy uses in the background for handling media). I will need to stop it for a few minutes. Lemmy itself is expected to run without any interruption – without the media tho. 😉
Don't worry, if everything goes to plan, it will be done very swiftly. 🚀
tchncs updated: Lemmy Release v0.19.3 - A Few Bugfixes
geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/10890345
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10890295
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
- Fixed lemmy-ui error page bug by @Sleepless in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2302
- Fix bug with Mastodon undo follow activities by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4364
- Count chars, not bytes for max title length (fixes #4366) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4367
- Mark instance as alive after successful activity send (fixes #4039) by @Nutomic in https://github.c
Updated tchncs: Lemmy v0.19.2 Release - More federation fixes
geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/10364369
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10364367
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
- Outgoing federation bug fixes.
- Lemmy can now receive reports sent from Mastodon and Kbin.
- Added the ability for admins to view votes, to prevent downvote trolling. Demo. #4088
- Various bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Upgrade instructions
Follow the upgrade instructions for [ansible](https://g
Update installed: Lemmy Release v0.19.1 - Outgoing Federation fix
Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/9559891
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9559890
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
0.19.0 has a critical bug where sending outgoing activities can stop working. The bug is fixed in this version. It also fixes the "hide read posts" user setting, fixes a problem with invalid comment paths, and another fix for private message reports.
Upgrade instructions
Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or [docker](https://join-lemmy.org/doc
tchncs has been updated to: Lemmy v0.19.0 Release - Instance blocking, Scaled sort, and Federation Queue
Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/9347983
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
This release is very large with almost 400 commits since 0.18.5. As such we can only give a general overview of the major changes in this post, and without going into detail. For more information, read the full changelog and linked issues at the bottom of this post.
Improved Post Ranking
There is a new scaled sort which takes into account the number of active users in a commun
Welcome, to the new Mobilizon instance of tchncs
Nov 6, 2023, 10:15:00 AM - GMT+1 - On popular demand... testing period will last until the end of January 2024 – within this timeframe, I need to figure out whether this software is solid for production and whether people (you) actually…
Mobilizon is federated software in the same network as Lemmy (but with some intentional restrictions*), to help you organize your online or offline events!
The instance is now slowly opening its doors. For now, logins are restricted to our accountsystem at auth.tchncs.de but this might relax once a few things have been figured out.
At the end of january 2024, i might evaluate whether people are actually using that instance and if it makes sense to keep it online.
you may only follow groups, not individual accounts
Lemmy v0.18.5 Release - tchncs has been updated!
Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/5712032
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5712030
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
This release fixes a problem with federation of moderation actions performed by admin accounts. Specifically there is an check when receiving remote federation actions, which is incorrectly rejecting them in some cases. The problem is fixed by this release.
There are no other changes, and no updated lemmy-ui version.
Support development
@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to in
Lemmy v0.18.4 Release – tchncs has been updated
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.
Support development
@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https