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I also run some bots:
@FlagWaverBot
The bot waves the parent of comment, the reddit bot had a !wavethis command to wave the same comment, but I haven't added that yet
!wave
Thanks, the one I'm currently using is not updated to 0.18.3 yet
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If my fingers prune I'm going to die or something
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What is the meaning of life?
hello
Flag waver bot!
!wave
same, I feel lucky to have such an uncommon surname because I easily got the domain lol. there was a short version with the last two letters as the TLD but that was already taken sadly
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It seems to work, but it keeps throwing pictrs related errors, so it's not really built for it
It barely works on my old version of lemmy, probably fixed now then. It would be nice if there was a was to turn that off and only use pictrs only for locally uploaded images. Since I'm the only person here caching isn't too important.
I wonder if I could shut pictrs down and only use an external image hosting for images?
Lemmy sometimes caches remote content in pict-rs. It's a bit broken so you usually don't see it, but it does do it occasional
Related, What about a personal instance only I use? I can choose what communities I want but I can't control what is posted on those communities. Someone could post something illegal to a beehaw community (and have) and the mods remove it, but does the deletion of images and posts federate? In know matrix keeps copies of every deleted file in a room on all homeservers, what about lemmy?
!wave123
Yea, that one doesn't work so well
I have done some testing and I found a few reasons I'm having issues with webtorrent:
- The only reason they where working at all is because they were downloading from the HTTP URL in the torrent file, P2P was not working at all.
- To download the webtorrent from the blender instance I need to have the video watched in my browser to peer with the webtorrent client, the instance peers don't work on non-peertube webtorrent clients.
- The reason instant.io was broken is my adblocker was blocking the tracker.
The tracker in my peertube instance is broken.
EDIT:
I was a bit wrong here, there are two different formats in peertube: webtorrent and HLS. I was getting confused why the video on my instance (HLS) and the one on the blender one (webtorrent) was behaving differently with webtorrent clients. They are completely different formats so that makes sense now.
Webtorrent seems to have some issues with peer discovery. I've tried the instant.io site they have linked on webtorrent.io and I can't get it to download or share anything, the desktop client managed to download a torrent from my peertube instance over normal BitTorrent but I can't share it over webtorrent. I downloaded a video from my peertube instance using btorrent.xyz over webtorrent but I can't seed new files because the peers don't find each other. when I use a webtorrent with a tracker (like peertube) it works fine but how were sites like instant.io supposed to discover peers without trackers? I don't think DHT exists for webtorrent yet.
You can manually seed videos on instances using redundancy but I was thinking automatic redundancy for watched videos might be a good idea, I guess you can do automatic redundancy for entire instances but that would take up a lot of storage space.
One of the nice thing with BitTorrent is the high reliability so I assumed that was what peertube was trying to do, I guess the idea is not to provide data redundancy but to split load instead?
why? if 5 instances are seeding the video, clients should be able to download from all 5 instances and spread the bandwidth usage right?
Help understanding the peertube P2P system
Can someone help me with how peertube P2P works? I can understand how ActivityPub is used for all the "social" parts but I'm a bit confused about the actual video player.
Redundancy:
I have my own instance and I made a redundancy of a video from the blender instance. if I watch the video on my instance I see 2 peers, my instance and the blender one. I can seen both in Firefox dev tools.
If I watch the same video on the blender instance I see 7 peers, the blender instance, mine, and others. why are these extra peers not showing on my instance? do I need to do something? If I watch the video on one of these other instances mine does show up in the their peers list.
I also made a video from framatube redundant but my instance doesn't appear as a peer on framatube.
Client P2P:
If I watch a video does my browser share It over P2P? if so what is the point of this? it seems to lose the video as soon as I leave the page so this functionality seems a bit useless to me.
EDIT: Ans
cross-posted from: https://peertube.douwes.co.uk/videos/watch/9e43aea8-bebf-447f-b4bd-682bc253cd7f
Testing peertube instance
Receiving weather satellite pictures with an RTL-SDR dongle
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this is going to be the "comment section" for my personal blog because I like to keep the blog plain HTML+CSS
Server recommendation
Oops! I just nuked my lemmy instance and the other post wasn't in by backups, sorry about that! please don't reply to the other post because I can't see it
Reposted:
Hello, I’m looking for a good first server for a homelab.
I do already have an old Dell poweredge 1950 I got for £30 but it’s:
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Loud
Draws 350W
Costs too much to run
Only has 2 HDD slots
DRAC card needs Internet explorer
I’m not too bothered by the noise because I can just move it, but the electricity cost is quite ridiculous for something less powerful than my PC in every way. I live in the UK so electricity prices are a huge factor for this.
My Ideal specs are:
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~16 cores (total)
>= 128GB RAM
~100W idle power draw
>= 4 3.5" HDD bays
Preferably HBA mode on RAID card
£100-200
2U
Is this completely unreasonable? I have found servers that match this all except the 3.5" bays and 2U. Initially I found a Dell server with 128GB of RAM and two 12 core CPUs for about £200 but I
Server recommendation
Hello,
I'm looking for a good first server for a homelab.
I do already have an old Dell poweredge 1950 I got for £30 but it's:
- Loud
- Draws 350W
- Costs too much to run
- Only has 2 HDD slots
- DRAC card needs Internet explorer
I'm not too bothered by the noise because I can just move it, but the electricity cost is quite ridiculous for something less powerful than my PC in every way.
I live in the UK so electricity prices are a huge factor for this.
My Ideal specs are:
- ~16 cores (total)
- >= 128GB RAM
- ~100W idle power draw
- >= 4 3.5" HDD bays
- Preferably HBA mode on RAID card
- £100-200
- 2U
Is this completely unreasonable? I have found servers that match this all except the 3.5" bays and 2U.
Initially I found a Dell server with 128GB of RAM and two 12 core CPUs for about £200 but I realised it only has 2.5" bays.
There is a nice R720 on ebay I am watching but it will probably skyrocket near the end of the bid. Also, it probably draws a lo
An incomplete archive of r/homelab
Here is my attempt to archive r/homelab before it went dark. Google says there about 92,400 results for site:reddit.com/r/homelab, I have 2098, that's only about 2% of it. Maybe there is something of use to you in that 2%.
Please don't webscrape, if you want all the data you can get the raw BDFR archive at https://archive.douwes.co.uk/reddit/homelab.tar or the live web version at https://archive.douwes.co.uk/reddit/homelab-web.tar
Cool flag you have there. It'd be a shame if you couldn't wave it
Chess but it adheres to the US flag code
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/120708
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