I dont know, the Swedish police's slowness to charge Paludan and Momika with hate speech doesn't really justify some random vigilante (or Turkish spy) going and giving him the death penalty. Kinda outside the paradox of tolerance here.
This is a total shutdown of the federal government for everything besides personnel. All science research in the US has stopped. States are losing their funding. Completely unconstitutional.
Yes, the renters in my coop are required to pay rent to the coop, some of that rent goes to the ISP we have a contract with for internet and phone, as well as to the cable company we have a contract with for TV. It is not possible for renters to choose a different ISP or cable provider.
The renters don't have voting rights in the coop, but they are represented by the renters' union for determining rent and negotiating renovations (essentially rent control).
I will say that apartment coops in sweden have extremely cheap internet due to collective pricing for internet. I pay $10 a month for 1000/1000. Currently talking with our ISP about replacing the switches and wiring in the basement to fiber so that we can get 10gbit.
I can see why requiring an opt-out option would be good though, especially when you don't have democratic representation in your choice of collective ISP.
Just going to point out gang shootings and targeted bombings is not terrorism, and declaring curfews and removing habeus corpus in the capital is insane.
För terroristbrott döms den som begår eller försöker begå ett uppsåtligt brott om
gärningen allvarligt kan skada ett land eller en mellanstatlig organisation, och
gärningen begås i avsikt att
a) injaga allvarlig fruktan hos en befolkning eller en del av en befolkning,
b) otillbörligen tvinga ett offentligt organ eller en mellanstatlig organisation att vidta eller att avstå från att vidta en åtgärd, eller
c) allvarligt destabilisera eller förstöra grundläggande politiska, konstitutionella, ekonomiska eller sociala strukturer i ett land eller i en mellanstatlig organisation.
Of the services OP is asking about, I've only run Lemmy, but I will say that running fediverse services are quite advanced, which is exactly what k8s is made for - Running advanced web applications.
I'm firmly on the "k8s at any scale" team. If you can figure out how to run the k3s install command and are willing to look at some yaml documentation, you will have a much easier time setting up database and networking, running backups, porting your infrastructure to other providers, and maintaining everything, than with legacy control panels or docker compose. The main reason why Docker Compose is so much more accessible for self-hosters is because of the quantity of noob-focused documentation for Docker Compose, But learning either system requires learning the same concepts of containers, IP adresses, storage, etc. Docker Compose also has some disk and networking shortcuts for single-server workloads, but they also have their downsides (what is a macvlan?).
The main reason why I think Kubernetes is critical for this specific workload is the number of production-critical databases that OP will need to run. OP will be running something like 4-8 postgres databases, with high uptime and 100% durability requirements. Trying to do that manually with Docker compose just isn't feasible unless you're willing to code. Kubernetes makes all of that automated with CNPG. See how easy it is to create a database and have automated backups to S3 with Kubernetes
The biggest challenge for kubernetes is probably that the smaller applications don't come with example configs for Kubernetes. I only see mastodon having one officially. Still, I've provided my config for Lemmy, and there are docker containers available for Friendica and mbin (though docker isn't officially supported for these two). I'm happy to help give yaml examples for the installation of the applications.
I would recommend installing k3s and cnpg on the VPS. These will make it easier to run the various containers and databases you will need to run lemmy, etc. This is the standard way that big companies run servers in 2025, and it's 100% portable to any server/hosting company just through copying and pasting the yaml files (like docker compose).
Make sure you save backups of your VPS, and use object storage to backup your databases.
I have example kubernetes configuration for lemmy on my Git. It doesn't use any volumes/local-storage, all user data is saved into either the database or object storage, to make it cheap and easy to backup.
I'm a professional DevOps engineer, so I work with hosting every day. Let me know if you have any questions or want advice.
The new steamos release for x86 is a nice start though. I was trying to run stock KDE before and and nothing worked with HDR and I couldn't get any sound out of my TV's TOSLINK output. Being able to run steamOS is probably a big improvement for out-of-the-box setups.
Nvidia cards were the only GPUs used to train DeepSeek v3 and R1. So, that narrative still superficially holds. Other stocks like TSMC, ASML, and AMD are also down in pre-market.
It should also be pretty obvious that this is following the usual Chinese MO of using massive state subsidies to destroy the international competition with impossibly low dumping prices. We are seeing this in all sorts of sectors.
In this case, DeepSeek is announcing the training time for their LLMl, which wall street is extrapolating costs from. No state aid involved.
technocracy != Elon Musk as president
technocracy is when you have political scientists and engineers as politicians, not billionaires and lawyers.