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it’s pushed by CEO that don’t see a no as a no. Be it with customers or with people at the bar

must look ultra sexy for car brained people

That looks like the creation from a lazy star wars artist

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.

Firefox with an inflation fetish

Last week tonight reported on that one a couple weeks ago. It’s fun

I mean… Also your ancestors

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

When will he start slamming, though?

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

Is there any technical reason that it has to send your notification data to Google and Apple or is it just to get more data on you?

the API that for example Google Firebases provides (most used, as it supports ios and android), is basically “send a notification with following content to this device”.

Which is very simple to implement. as it’s just fire and forget. But you send the actual data to Google in this case.

There are way to do it differently, for example how signal does it: They send a silent (e.g. invisible) notification to the device, which has no data in it.

That notifiation tells the app to check for new messages.

The app will then fetch messages in the encrypted way as it always does, and displays a notification if needed. No need to send actual data through the notification service (other than the metadata, that notifications should be pulled)

This is the name of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene#Mechanical_stimulation

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

Bold to assume that there a QA step

Ah, I thought you meant trash stuff showing in your sub feed.

Yes, it has gotten worse, but tbh, it’s not that bad for me. Recommendations still are basically stuff related to what I watch.

There tends to sometimes pop up weird stuff when I click on videos that people send me, but as soon as I remove that video from my history it’s back to normal

that’s literally impossible.

The subscriptions tab has been, and still is, only from channels you actively clicked “subscribe” to. If you see trash in there, it’s because you subscribed.

There is 0 algorithm in there.

This is the feed: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

What’s with the “aggressively American” AI narrator-voice?

I hate the AI voiceover feature. It’s genuinely baffling that YT released it. It sounds worse than microsoft sam and is one of the buggiest messes I have ever seen on the platform.

For the people who don’t know: you can deactivate it by selecting a different audio track. And it will mostly remember the selection.

I know creators who started to deactivate it for their channel, as it genuinely made people unsubscribe, because they thought it was done by the channel

Do you know the “new to you” feature?

It’s agenuinely neat thing by YT, so of course it’s completely hidden away.

In the browser you can find it at the top below the search bar, where you see all the genres:

You just need to scroll aaalllll the way to to right.

I don’t use it often, but the feature is basically a recommendation feed on steroids. Videos in the same style that you already seem to like, but from creators that you haven’t or rarely watched.

I found some real nice gems in there. As well as small creators that are geninely good and would later explode in popularity