mrmanager

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[–] mrmanager 4 points 3 months ago

I mean yeah, all these big tech companies are trying to make their products feel faster, because that's the only space they can compete. When it comes to privacy, they all lose.

[–] mrmanager 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I noticed that too, being a Firefox Linux user. I guess the developer either doesn't care or doesn't know. You can try to open an issue on his github page and see what he says.

It worked fine to mention me the way you did. :)

[–] mrmanager 11 points 3 months ago

Well, Google has been caught trying to make their sites slower / malfunctioning on Firefox. Usually they get away with it by saying it's a mistake.

[–] mrmanager 46 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.

[–] mrmanager 10 points 3 months ago

Yes. Many people are not trans.

[–] mrmanager 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Apple likes to control the entire ecosystem, and wanted to make their own processors to make them more efficient and produce less heat. They succeeded too, the M2 and M3 chips are incredible.

So I think they would have ditched anyone, but Intel probably also made it easier by being so bad. :)

[–] mrmanager 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The point is to see the value of the stock go up, so when you sell, you make a profit. Some people buy and sell daily, some do it yearly or only when they need the money.

Money needs to be working for you somewhere to make up for inflation, at the very least.

[–] mrmanager 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

How can they know if an email is disposable or aliased? I use those all the time with fastmail. Works fine with github.

But fastmail is not exactly private since it's hosted in Australia, part of the five eyes pact. Maybe that's why they are ok with it.

[–] mrmanager 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm sure conservatives have the same views on the other side, something negative, based in fear. If you think about it, all of politics is fear of change in a direction we don't want, but others do.

In a family when this happens, family members talk about it and try to understand eachother. At least in a good family. In a dysfunctional one, family members go to war with eachother. And that's what I see in politics. There is no feeling of being humans on a ball together at all.

[–] mrmanager -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

But why would you even think that people on the left are different from people on the right? This is why I'm not into politics myself. Because it all builds on some fake idea that one side is right about everything, even good people, while the other is wrong about everything, and probably are bad people as well.

In reality, both sides are very similar and have much more incommon with eachother than they have with the politicians they are trying to support.

[–] mrmanager 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't know about Linux being a pain in the ass. My kid was using first Linux on a laptop and then mac, and he wanted to go back to Linux where things make sense. He felt the mac was really confusing in where the files were. He also loved the integrated Software app where he can point and click install everything.

Now he is learning the terminal... :)

I think there is plenty of people who think macs are a pain in the ass too. Depends on what you are used to.

[–] mrmanager 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Excellent choice of pic! :)

Let me counter with someone who enjoys the sun. :)

 

Hi guys!

This weekend we will move lemmy.today over to using object storage for images. We will be serving images from Amazon S3 in the Oregon region (western USA).

The way lemmy software is designed right now, it caches every image federated from other instances. So even if we are small instance, we still have to store a lot of federated images locally on our disk. This leads to disk space running out quickly and we previously had to delete images because of this.

When we delete images, it removes not only those cached images but also user profile icons and banners, as well as community icons and banners. This is why we have some missing images under Communities right now, and also why users have lost their profile pics.

Its been very embarrassing to have to do this, and now we will move to object storage to prevent this from happening in the future. Its much cheaper compared to ordinary disk space and gives better performance for users, so its a win-win. We just need to do a one-time migration over to it.

**Estimated downtime hours: **

Oregon time: Sunday 3 am - 6 am

CET: Sunday 12 pm to 15 pm.

If you have any questions, you know what to do. :)


EDIT: Looks like it went well and images are now served from S3 instead of filling up our disks. :) The url to the images still looks like they are served by the instance, but thats by design appearently. In the background, they are fetched from S3.

Please fill free to re-upload any banners, user avatars or community pictures you had in place before that may have been broken by the disk cleaning before.

  • When you do, you have to create a new picture with a new name for Lemmy to actually replace the image. Otherwise it wont work - ive tried myself. :)

 

Hi everyone,

As part of cleaning old cached images when the disk went full, it seems also images like your profile picture and banners (if you had those), got deleted.

If you dont mind, would you upload those again? And when you do, you cant upload the same picture. I made attempts myself to upload the same picture, but it needs to be a new picture (not even a rename of the pic works).

Next time I will make a DB query to figure out what pics are local and which are not, and delete only remote ones (cached images from other instances). There is a column in the DB for that, so just need to export a list of remote images and then delete only those.

Despite these growing pains, I think lemmy is still pretty awesome, and there will be tools to make these sort of issues go away in the future. I hear they are working on something for next version already so we will see.

Anyway, enjoy the weekend and once again, sorry for the mess around this issue.

 

Hi all,

The disk on the instance ran out of space today, due to the way Lemmy software caches images from all other instances. That cache had filled up about 60 GB's of disk, despite us being a small instance with very little local activity.

I had to delete the last 10 days of cached images again, and I plan to delete quite a lot of older cached images as well. The mobile apps seems to not be affected by this (they have a local image cache I believe), but on the web site, this leads to missing thumbnail images.

They are working on a fix for this in the Lemmy software so the disks dont fill up so enormously with cached thumbnails, and as soon as its out, we will install it here.

Hope you guys didnt get too annoyed or sad by the instance being unavailable for a while.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrmanager to c/announcements
 

Some bots posted lots of illegal pictures in the https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost community, and because of federation, those pictures have spread to all instances, including this one.

The lemmy software doesnt have good moderation tools for abuse like this, and the quickest way to get rid of them was to delete all cached images for the last couple of days.

You may see some thumbnail images missing in the web interface, but I personally dont see any missing images in my mobile app. I guess it has its own thumbnail cache.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrmanager to c/announcements
 

These ones have been added:

People like them on lemmy.world so didnt want them to missing here. :)

 

We need a health checker for this health checker, ok?

Can someone rewrite this in Rust? :P

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrmanager to c/announcements
 

I noticed that the web interface sometimes didnt show all pictures when doing a full reload of the front page. This has been fixed now. It was related to some custom security settings I added last week, and I didnt notice the problem since i use mobile apps myself. But for everyone who uses the web interface a lot, this must have been annoying and has been fixed.

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Lemmy themes! (self.announcements)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrmanager to c/announcements
 

I added some themes for people who use the web interface. Some are pretty nice I think:

Modern Light:

Hanubeki Cold

Hanubeki Mint Alt Lt

And others.

How to use

  • After you switch to a theme and save your settings, its really important to reload your browser cache, otherwise the theme will look wonky.

  • Do this by holding shift and clicking the Reload current page button in your browser. (or press Shift-Control-R if you are on firefox)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrmanager to c/announcements
 

New version of Lemmy just got released by the devs. :)

I plan to wait a few days before I upgrade the instance, just to make sure there isn't any weirdness being discovered. It's a small bug fix release so nothing major.

Link to the announcement: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118

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Instance Performance (self.general)
submitted 1 year ago by mrmanager to c/general
 

How is the instance performance for everyone? Just wanted to ask so there is no weird things going on.

If you notice images are loading slowish, it's because of how Lemmy software works. Images are stored on the instance where they were created, so if they were created on Lemmy.world and they are slow, you may see them loading slower here as well.

But the text content should be really fast since it's local on the instance.

There are people joining every day but we are still small, and if there is a need for more performance, I will upgrade the instance. Right now it looks like things are humming along fine.

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