Interim Computer Festival - September 30th - October 1st
The Interim Computer Festival is September 30th - October 1st in Seattle WA at the INTRASPACE event space at the Rainier Brewery. Registration is open.
uriel was right
Attached: 1 video uriel was right #plan9 #9front #9p #nein #learning #asmr #server The SDF Plan9 Boot Camp Fall 2023 is less than 2 months away and free registration is open now at https://9p.sdf.org
nein plan
It was created from scratch by SDF user laemeur who is a graphic artist/illustrator. We made stickers based off this design that are available in the https://sdf.org/?store
Welcome to .. UI: 0.18.2-rc.1 BE: 0.18.1-10-g9c2490d4f
Welcome to ... UI: 0.18.1-rc.11 BE: 0.18.1-rc.10-1-g2a088cf02
Wow! UI: 0.18.1-rc.10 BE: 0.18.1-rc.9-1-gf0e487f18 is so much better. What a fun holiday weekend for everyone. Thank you for still being here!
Welcome to ...
UI: 0.18.1-rc.9 BE: 0.18.1-rc.9-1-gf0e487f18
Yes, the fediverse wants to be decentralized, so it is encouraged to use what works best for you. lemmy.sdfeu.org is located in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Here is where we're at now.
- increased cores and memory, hopefully we never touch swap again
- dedicated server for pict-rs with its own RAID
- dedicated server for lemmy, postgresql with its own RAID
- lemmy-ui and nginx run on both to handle ui requests
Thank you for everyone who stuck around and helped out, it is appreciated. We're working on additional suggested tweaks from the Lemmy community and hope to let lemmy.world try to DoS us again soon. Hopefully we'll do much better this time.
live updates in progress. Moved to SSDs, added more cores and 128GB and 64GB ram.
Two things that would be great:
- Have a tanoy/horn announce icon at the top like with Mastodon where status information can be posted.
- Change the heart icon to link to a method that supports the local instance
Attempts were made to create a thread for the almost daily upgrades we're going through with BE and UI changes, but even with pinning it doesn't have the visibility.
We're on site in about 1 hour to install a new RAID and once that is completed we'll finish the transfer of pict-rs data.
You are absolutely welcome to do that.
You're absolutely welcome to do that as it is your decision and you have many choices. We hope to build a community of folks that would like to help the fediverse grow and support smaller instances. Similar growing pains were seen during the twitter exodous last September.
It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We're in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.
Migrating to newer hardware with more memory and cpus pict-rs are being replicated, so you may see some images missing. Please be patient. If you have login/logout issues be sure to completely dump your browser cache to resolve that.
Currently UI: 0.18.1-rc.7 BE: 0.18.1-rc.4 pict-rs is now running on a separate machine.
We are working on improving load balancing today and distributing the instance across multiple servers. As a result, you may see some timeouts, thank you for your patience.
Welcome to Lemmy v0.18.1-rc.4 This may have resolved the memory leak that we were experiencing which caused the occasional site timeouts.
Thanks to the work of DJ Sures and others they're actually able to do something now.
Welcome to Lemmy vX.XX.X-rc.X - The Lemmy Upgrade Thread
Looks to work well with Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox. However, you may need to logout, clear browser cache, close and restart your browser for success.
As Lemmy grows and develops we may encounter bugs. In particular, new bugs may surface after upgrading. We'll do our best to maintain a stable system based on the ongoing work. Our smaller sites in Europe, China and Japan may receive updates prior to our USA site as a way to test stability of new releases before implementing them here.
Please be patient and understanding as we grow and help you have a better Link Aggregator and Discussion Community experience that is open, federated and free of advertising.
Commodore show this weekend in Seattle (June 24th and 25th)
The Pacific Commodore Expo NW is being held this weekend June 24th and 25th! Please feel free to stop by and play with your favorite Commodore and Amiga computers.
Location: 3100 Airport Way S, Seattle WA 98134 (old rainier brewery at Intraspace in front of Lula Coffee) Hours: 11am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday Admission: FREE - (Donations can be made to SDF.ORG)
The Meta NDA as a trojan horse to the Fediverse
Could the Meta NDA be used as a trojan horse? Anything Meta discloses to a developer/admin could be legally used against them if they acted upon the information. Not just leak of information shared, but modifications to Mastodon or Pixelfed that go against Meta's pursuit of success in the Fediverse.
If you are offered a meeting with Meta and are required to sign an NDA, be sure to read it fully so that you understand what your obligations are and what freedoms and friends you give up.
Welcome to Lemmy 0.17.4
Earlier this morning SDF Chatter was upgraded for Lemmy 0.17.4.
RIght now we're trying out a few methods of distributing the service across multiple hosts much in the same way that we have grown the SDF Mastodon instance.
Thankfully, the Lemmy code is performing very well in its current configuration and the SDF community is growing at a moderate pace.
If the Fediverse does take on a full migration of the Reddit community whole, it would seem now is the time for that. A lot was learned from the Twitter migration last fall and while many instances were not prepared and scrambled to accommodate for folks, those communities have built the infrastructure since then and it is ready for you all.
How exciting is that?
Fediverse 2023!
PDP-10s that still exist on the INTERNET
At one point in time the most common system on the INTERNET was the PDP-10, a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation int the 1960s. As the ARPAnet grew so did the number of interconnected PDP-10s. When the ARPAnet moved towards privatization in the 1980s companies such as Systems Concepts and Cisco Systems were working on developing the next generation of PDP-10. By 1984, DEC had turned their focus fully to the popular 32-bit VAX architecture with operating systems such as VMS and the thriving UNIX system. This left many PDP-10 hackers trying to figure out what to do with their octal counting and extra bits that they couldn't cram into VMS or UNIX comfortably.
Timesharing bureaus as such CompuServe, TymShare and Applied Data relied on the PDP-10 for their large service networks. CompuServe had System Concepts building SC20, SC30 and eventually SC40 units as replacements for DEC PDP-10s. In fact, CompuServe was growing so quickly, that they effectively licensed the design of the SC40 and began building them in house.
In 1994 there were still many PDP-10s running on the INTERNET, but their days were numbered. SDF users started project "TWENEX" as a way to continue a TOPS-20 system alternative to UNIX for the community. (more details can be read at https://twenex.org).
Today, SDF continues to run PDP-10s and offers access on a Systems Concepts SC-40 and an XKL Toad-2
Synth Battle Royale
Synth Battle Royale is an openmic synth battle for modular and DIYers and is streaming live now on aNONradio.
Getting ahead of potential Lemmy rush
From what we learned last September with the spike in Mastodon usage, we're getting a head of things. We're setting up multiple Lemmy servers to help balance load on front end requests just as we do with Mastodon. So far, Lemmy's performance has been excellent with minimal resource usage, but distributing the load for pict-rs and front end requests should help us if we do indeed (and hopefully so) get a rush of new folks that want to leave reddit and grow the Fediverse.
/r/retrocomputing mods?
Hello /r/retrocomputing moderators. Would you like to be a moderator here? @cognitivegears@lemmy.sdf.org
Pacific Commodore Expo NW
The Pacific Commodore Expo NW is June 24th and 25th at Rainier Brewery 3100 Airport Way S. Seattle WA, 98134 from 11am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday.
https://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pacommex:start
SDF Minecraft Server (papermc 1.19.4-550)
The SDF Minecraft Server is now running PaperMC 1.19.4-550
