They posted on the admin chat that their hosting provider had a hardware failure and is working on providing a replacement server.

Well usually the opposite happens. People make many releases and outsource the testing to unsuspecting users.

This is IMHO fine if you clearly mark these releases as release candidates or such, so that people can make their own risk judgement. But usually that isn’t the case and one minor version looks like any other unless you have a closer look at the actual changes in the code.

I think the better option is to have many releases that are clearly marked as beta-test releases or release candidates for those that don’t mind testing stuff.

“Bigger” is a bit missleading here. Really bigger updates obviously require a major version bump to signify to users that there is potential stability or breakage issues expected.

But “bigger” in the other sense i.e. meaning slower, means that there was more time for people to run pre-release versions if they are adventurous and thus there is better testing.

Of course this assumes that there are actual beta testers and that it is easy to do so by creating such beta releases.

Yeah, running it like that here. Works fine for the most part, except that the hybrid inverter that I bought advertised “UPS” mode, but it doesn’t actually switch fast enough to avoid also adding a proper UPS (but running an UPS chained is another issue…).

It sounds a bit strange as it does actually run off the battery all the time (unless below the minimum charge limit, when it seamlessly switches to grid power automatically), but due to legal requirements it needs to switch to another supply mode when the grid power fails and this switch is not entirely seamless on my inverter.

Active enough 🤷‍♂️

Rebuilding my main router to work with 10gbe fiber that recently became available here. Although it is a tad expensive, so I am not actually sure yet if I will upgrade my contract.

It could be done with GNU Taler. There are even some NLnet funded grants for open-source projects to integrate it.

The fediverse app would need to implement a relatively basic frontend and someone would need to host a so called merchant backend that multiple people could share to collect funds.

The main show stopper is the final bank integration, but it looks like there will be some options in the EU starting mid of 2025. Basically you will be able to make a SEPA bank transfer to charge your GNU Taler wallet (you can use an open-source mobile app or a browser plugin for that) and then you can use these funds to make micro-payments and donations.

I’m mildly interested to test it once their from scratch reimplementation of the XMPP backend works. Maybe I can then finally stop screaming at people that still use Pidgin as an xmpp client despite it being at least 15 years out of date.

You can use the Nextcloud app with the much simpler KaraDAV backend. Works fine for photo backups.

If I get it correctly then that deleted post is only visible to you in case you want to undelete it.

https://gush.social/

But it’s early days. And of course Bookwyrm.

It has always been a “Which game has the bigger fan base” contest 🤷‍♂️

I don’t think I ever agreed with the nominations or the the final winners, because they never make any sense other than through the hype and fan-base lens.

As usual it depends (and TDPs are highly misleading). First of all the 6700k is a 14nm chip, Vs. 32nm for the E5-2620. And the 6700k is a Skylake generation chip, compared to Sandy Bridge for the Xeon, which brings significantly better power-states. But on the other hand the 6700k is much higher clocked and has turbo-boost, with the latter being notoriously power hungry (can be disabled in the bios though).

In my educated guess the 6700k will use significantly less power if it mostly idles or does only burst tasks, which is actually what most self-hosters have as as task-loads. But if you serve websites to thousands of users which results in a consistently high CPU load, the Xeon is probably overall the better chip, including power-consumption under load.

Edit: I realized now that it is a E5-2620v2, which is Ivy Bridge and 22nm. So the difference is probably less, but overall the same considerations apply.

Sharkey is great. There is even a nice way to integrate it with a Prosody XMPP server.

Really depends on the specific workload.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the 6700k is significantly more power efficient, especially when it isn’t consistently under high load.

Also if you do any sort of media processing the 6700k has a gpu and quicksync built in that can speed these things up significantly.

They are misrepresenting the facts and arguing in bad faith. Very typical concern trolling.

Sorry but these age old troll tactics of baiting me into a response to these completely unfounded accusations will not work 😜

We already explained in detail why we supported their moderation decision and you bringing it up again without providing the necessary context in which this happened is just bad faith shit slinging hoping some of it sticks.

This is not the first time this is discussed and bringing it up out of context is just bad-faith arguing.