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Nerd Update 25/10/24 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Front page side bar at the bottom has a link to my Ko-fi donation page, but I know you know that πŸ™‚

If you mean "where do the funds go?" Funds are used to cover various costs associated with running aussie.zone, such as:
virtual private server
server backups
object storage for images
domain registration

Nerd Update 25/10/24 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Honestly... no. I'm not an accountant, so truing up transactions from my Paypal account is a pain.

Recurring donations have dropped, totally understandable in the current economic climate. Some very generous early one off donations mean I'm not paying out of pocket. But that buffer is shrinking month by month.

Previously recurring monthly donations covered ~50% of the monthly costs, this is down to ~30%. Not an issue, some early one off donations mean the kitty is still enough to cover the server costs until Feb/March.

I'm ok to cover the gap between recurring donations and monthly costs. If a time comes when that isn't the case, I'll be sure to let everyone know. For now, don't stress πŸ™‚

Friday Night in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I do, but the bloody shiraz is my favourite, and I'm out. Good news... I got two good drinks out of it.

Friday Night in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think this bottle is faulty... its contents seem to have evaporated and the bottle is nearly empty ☹️

Pictures are broken in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

From what I've seen, pict-rs is working much better now using its native object storage support. Unfortunately it looks like we have lost some images, including community icons etc. Mods for these communities should reupload an image to replace it.

Friday Night in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Daily Discussion Thread: πŸ“ΊπŸŽ₯πŸ’– Friday, October 25rd, 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're super curious Google transport later security (TLS), the modern incarnation. Used practically everywhere on the internet, whether users realize it or not πŸ˜€

Daily Discussion Thread: πŸ“ΊπŸŽ₯πŸ’– Friday, October 25rd, 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Secure Sockets Layer. Used to encrypt traffic on the internet. Neeeeerd

Daily Discussion Thread: πŸ“ΊπŸŽ₯πŸ’– Friday, October 25rd, 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, oops. But since this morning?

Daily Discussion Thread: πŸ“ΊπŸŽ₯πŸ’– Friday, October 25rd, 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

How's AZ working today for you guys?

Pictures are broken in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, pict-rs running again.. hold onto your butts.

Pictures are broken in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Migration ETA until completion is about an hour from now.

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WTF is security? (aussie.zone)
 
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Twisted Raspberry Twisties... wtf (aussie.zone)
 

This seems to be a case of "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should".

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Passkeys? (aussie.zone)
 

Has anyone seen anything recently on an ETA for passkey support in Bitwarden? A recent blog post mentioned "summer"... but I'm in the southern hemisphere so am not entirely sure when this refers to.

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A Roomba’s Positive Affirmations (www.mcsweeneys.net)
 

I laughed :)

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Daily random thread: inaugural TFIF edition (Friday June 16 2023) (aussie.zone)
 

Melbourne have had this going for a while, a daily event they brought over from their previous home.
We can't let the Victorians have all the fun! What is on your mind today Australia?

For me the weekend forecast is pretty wintery... might be a good one to stay under the covers and read a book.

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Changelog and nerd stuff (updated 25/10/24) (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink
 

Changelog

2024.11.15 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.7
2024.11.09 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.6
2024.10.25 - migrated pict-rs image store to its built in object storage
2024.10.24 - banned lemmit.online instance, only used to spam content from reddit into Lemmy. If you want that content, use reddit directly.
2024.10.23 - DB config changes, spun up worker instances of lemmy service, re-enabled "ProxyAllImages"
2024.10.12 - disabled the "ProxyAllImages" configuration to try and resolve the long running image issues
2024.06.26 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.5
2024.06.09 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.4, postgres to 16, pict-rs to 0.5.15
2024.01.23 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.3
2024.01.11 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.2
2023.12.21 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.1
2023.12.17 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.0
2023.10.12 - upgrade VPS to 160GB, other specs unchanged
2023.08.9 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.4
2023.07.29 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.3
2023.07.11 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.2
2023.07.10 - upgraded lemmy-ui to 0.18.2-rc.1 to mitigate XSS vulnerability
2023.07.10 - VPS upgraded to 8GB RAM (required to upgrade storage, needed anyway.. only $2pm)
2023.07.08 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui 0.18.1 πŸŽ‰
2023.07.06 - upgraded lemmy to 0.18.1-rc.10 and lemmy-ui 0.18.1-rc.11
2023.07.04 - upgraded lemmy-ui to 0.18.1-rc.10
2023.07.04 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1-rc.9
2023.07.03 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.18.1-rc.4 and lemmy-ui 0.18-rc.7
2023.06.28 - VPS upgraded from 2 to 4 vCPU, other specs the same.
2023.06.24 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.18.0
2023.06.23 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.18.0-rc.6
2023.06.13 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.17.4. Increased federation workers and reduced logging storage at the same time.
2023.06.10 - VPS storage upgraded from 40GB to 80GB, other specs the same.
2023.06.09 - VPS upgraded to 4GB RAM, 2 vCPU, other specs the same.
2023.06.08 - aussie.zone created, running Lemmy 0.17.3. OVH VPS was 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40GB NVME

Nerd Stuff

The aussie.zone server is currently an OVH VPS in Sydney:
8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160GB NVME storage

Images are stored in an object store bucket on Wasabi, also in Sydney.

I post updates ~~every week or so~~ randomly with current server resource graphs:
Nerd update 25/10/24
Nerd update 20/4/24
Nerd update 2/9/23
Nerd update 13/8/23
Nerd update 5/8/23
Nerd update 29/7/23
Nerd update 22/7/23
Nerd update 15/7/23
Nerd update 7/7/23
Nerd update 30/6/23

If you have any questions, please post.

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Melbourne community icon (aussie.zone)
 

Someone find a suitable community icon please. Something that is recognisably Melbourne-y.

Post it here and I'll set it for the community for all to see.

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Adelaide community icon (aussie.zone)
 

Someone find a suitable community icon please. Something that is recognisably Adelaide -y.

Post it here and I'll set it for the community for all to see.

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Moderators (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Hi everyone,

As I'm sure you've seen, the lemmy fediverse has exploded in the last week or so. I'm looking for volunteers to moderate the communities that exist here on aussie.zone.

If you're interested, please make a post in the relevant community saying you'd like to volunteer, with a statement to the effect that you'll apply the rules (shown in the sidebar) fairly and impartially.

Note that due to the way Lemmy currently works, to make anyone a mod they need to post within the community for me to grant the mod status. I can't do it from a reply here.

This community (!meta) will remain with only admins as moderators, to be used for mod-admin communication as required.

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Reference material (aussie.zone)
 

Unicode Australia flag, can be put in your display name: πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

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I don't feel bad at all (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 
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Aussie.Zone site status (stats.uptimerobot.com)
 

This should alert me if the site is down unexpectedly.

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