Ananace @ ace @lemmy.ananace.dev

Just another Swedish programming sysadmin person.

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For sparkling, it's commonly referred to as "homeopathic lager" among colleagues - i.e. without any active ingredients.

Interesting, that's definitely not what I'm seeing from regular use. Are you running any added applications? LDAP? SSO? External mounts?

Are you looking at data rates or IO operations? Because this is almost exclusively stat queries, i.e. inode queries.

Oh yeah, CPU usage is basically zero, and memory usage of the PHP code itself is also basically nil compared to other software I run. It's just the sudden storms of IO requests that causes issues, and since those come over a network pipe it causes issues for other pieces of software as well.

Currently working to move away from Nextcloud myself, it's PHP nature causes IO storms when it tries to check if it needs to reload any code for incoming requests.

All OpenWRT-based routers have the option of built-in DNS-based adblock, can thoroughly recommend the Turris routers for such things.

It's worth noting that the ESS suite Chart is absolutely not built to be community-viable, it's built for the kind of single-purpose deployments that Element offer hosting for, and it also breaks almost all Kubernetes best practices. Which is actually not wrong per-se. Element need to be able to maintain it after all, and since they don't have the Kubernetes know-how to build generic components, it makes sense to instead bundle a fully integrated solution which they are comfortable with developing and debugging.

They're definitely slowly but steadily rewriting Synapse in Rust as well, that's been an open and ongoing project for a while now. You can see that just by looking in the Rust folder in the Synapse sources.
I strongly doubt that they have the "rest" of the application rewritten internally and keeping it hostage for paid hosting though, it'd cost them too much to keep separate codebases for such a thing.

The "Synapse Pro" offering is most likely just the regular Python+Rust Synapse, but with a few additional HA components and some workers written in Rust for efficiency, just like how there's community workers written in both C# and Go for performance reasons.

If you don't have a hard requirement for the Helm Chart to be written by Element themselves, I've been maintaining some Charts for Matrix components for almost six years - which have also ended up being used as the base for the German BundesMessenger project. Unfortunately free time hasn't allowed me to do nearly as much as I want with it, especially since it continues to work for the use-cases for my job.

We do have a room on Matrix for dealing with Kubernetes setups though.

I also ended up chatting with one of the core devs of Synapse about ways to improve regular Python Synapse for use with Kubernetes back in the ending of January, so hopefully it'll improve in that direction when time allows. They have the exact same problems with providing hosted setups after all, so they too want to make the open-source version easier to run.

One has super cow powers, the other one doesn't.

They actually did a study on it after rolling back to Windows, and it turned out to not have failed due to technical difficulties at all.
If I recall correctly they stated that something like 80-90% of all issues reported during the period were due to badly designed processes - processes which were the same as in Windows, and the number of technical issues actually dropped.

Certainly, the fact that Microsoft promised to build a fancy new HQ in the city if they switched back to Windows can't have had anything to do with the choice to roll back...

Thank you so much, especially for the private instance improvement.

It's sad when it's revealing that ~80% of all traffic to my home instance is garbage.

Default block for incoming traffic is always a good starting point.
I'm personally using crowdsec to good results, but still need to add some more to it as I keep seeing failed attacks that should be blocked much quicker.

Honestly, the two reasons I've been sticking with Plex is the federated/shared libraries and watch together.

If they're starting to axe those then I see no reason to continue using it.

Done both, but I've found I rather enjoy the mix of stick and trackpad, emulated as KB+M

Calling it a "Lemmy/Mastodon bridge" sounds off, it's like saying "Gmail/Outlook bridge" when discussing the sending of emails between the two.

I'd use the word "interoperability" instead, or maybe "interaction" for something slightly less technical.

I might be slightly biased, but I can also recommend OpenMW for Deck.

Eurofighter Typhoon

Eurofighter Typhoon

Apparently posting it caused enough load to take down my pict-rs server, sorry about that.

Well, there's the ALFIS project