And the voices. “Billy…”
“You fucked the whole thing up.”
“Billy, your time is up.”
“Your time… is up.”
Federation in general seems like it’s been flaky as hell ever since a month or two ago… my guess (especially if you see it on some Lemmy servers and not others) is that it’s delayed and will show up eventually.
It’s possible that there’s some unexpected behavior that leads it to federate some places and not others, but my expectation is that once your comment is on lemmy.ml’s server, it’s federation delay between the Lemmy servers and nothing to do with you specifically.
Okay, I just signed up and from the tiny bit I see I really like Vultr.
Also, for new customers they have discount codes. I went with $250 credit for new customers, and then after I signed up, learned that it only applies to money you spend during your first 30 days.
LOOKS LIKE MACHINE LEARNING’S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Edit: Also, this is the kind of thing that tends to inspire confidence:
$ wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
--2024-01-31 17:23:44-- https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Resolving wordpress.org (wordpress.org)... 198.143.164.252
Connecting to wordpress.org (wordpress.org)|198.143.164.252|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 25960271 (25M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘latest.zip’
latest.zip 100%[===================>] 24.76M --.-KB/s in 0.1s
2024-01-31 17:23:45 (194 MB/s) - ‘latest.zip’ saved [25960271/25960271]
Yeah. For years I was happy with DigitalOcean and had no issues, but this is the interaction I’m currently in the middle of:
I mean, it’s far from an emergency but it doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence. 🙂
Got it, thanks for the recommendation, I poked at both of them a little and it seems like what I’m looking for.
Also, out of curiosity I looked at Vultr’s GPU options and said “oh sweet they offer options with tons of GPU RAM if I want” and then looked over and saw it was $3,500-$14,000 a month.
Yeah, makes sense. Overall I think the idea is a great one. Reading existing code is a thing that’s vital for learning how to write good code, and for some reason it’s not a real big part of “how to make software” education.
No, I was talking about the shared infrastructure. SMTP, DNS, ICANN, things like that require a level of cooperation and shared investment in the whole thing working well, not really because anyone’s going to “win” the business game by running it to their particular advantage. That’s a very alien way of thinking on the modern internet. The equivalent today would be something like massive publicly available caching web proxies that anyone could use as a big reverse-CDN to speed up their web access that were just kind of provided to everyone, government-funded, just sitting out there as a public resource. You know, like communism.
I’ve heard network engineers say they had a lot of trouble talking to their bosses about “peering” (setting up routes between two ISPs that happen to have operations close to each other, so they can hand traffic off to each other if it’d be more efficient to use the other guy’s routes and both networks get more efficient to operate). They said they had a lot of trouble explaining the concept to the business people. They pay us for service? Fine. We pay them for service? Fine. We provide service to each other and both of us benefit without any money being involved? Plt… bzzt… I give up, I don’t get it. Who gets paid? Why do we do this?
They’ve lost sight of the idea that it’s a good thing to set up the world in a nice well working way (for everyone, including yourself), and just focused on how they can make their check bigger even if there’s no point, or even if everything gets worse as a result.
Honestly the idea sounds fantastic, I’m just not sure I’d pick Lemmy as the codebase to do it with. There are some software projects that are worth some serious study – Chromium, Wordpress, Linux kernel, git, Redis, Python, lichess. Just because Lemmy is in Rust doesn’t automatically mean it’s great code.
I’m not saying it’s not good code or trying to talk down on the level of accomplishment or anything, just you got a whole symphony of pretty outstanding options to choose from.
Honestly the whole fabric of the internet, how email/SMTP and DNS and things work, is just a relic of an earlier time. I honestly think the money-men have their hands deep enough into the workings at this point that you wouldn’t be able to create something like those things today and have them go anywhere. I’m surprised that it all still works as well as it does.
We broke .local, pls give another chance, we promise we’ll be responsible with .internal tho
Personally I like upvotes/downvotes. Both are pretty useful information to have and those are the two numbers that my brain translates most cleanly into seeing what’s going on.
Also I want to put in my perennial pitch for the software to display a popup or something the first time you vote, saying hey warning your votes are not private on any federated software! Don’t vote with an expectation of privacy.