SkaveRat

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.

ah, makes sense. didn’t know that mbin hides the instance. Maybe as an additional link after the current one?

In any case: thanks for the work so far! Great service

for the links to a discussion, yes. But for a link to the community which has been decided, it’s probably more user friendly to just do the exclamation mark style instead of a normal link

Any chance of using the !-format for the links in the list? makes it easier to just visit and subscribe

man, I’m going to steal that analogy. it’s perfect

the hard part is being able to export them from some apps (looking at you, authy…)

Every robot is a sexbot if you’re brave enough

Hard to calculate exactly.

Latency is lower through the atmosphere than in glass (I thought that air was worse, but turns out it’s not. Makes sense. Glass is solid after all)

So it could be even closer than that. But there’s also the problem of the SL base station having to do the last bit of the route through fiber to the destination again. Do it also depends on where the base station is located in regards to the destination

Light in glass is actually surprisingly slow

After some distance, starlink would have better latency, as while the signal needs to go through a bunch of km of slow atmosphere, it would make up for that by having a big part of the signal go through vacuum between satellites

But latency isn’t everything

Fiber (when properly installed) is very stable. Satellite and mobile is always at least a little bit flaky

y’all know that web 2.0 includes things like lemmy, right?

I’ve already seen people bringing back webrings

It’s trained on code that’s already an insult to silicon

I mean… So am I

that will catch too many false positives

Fediverse being fediverse.

For large accounts it’s a genuine toxic cesspit.

Scroll back to a year ago and you can regularly see posts from him where he calls people out.

small sample from just scrolling through:

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995372890737651

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995177480955078

But that’s just the stuff he openly shows

kind of.

He mostly left because of bullying. Just posting video updates and rare posts.

HL Alyx

At least for the 2 years I’m using it