With Hetzner's price rises taking effect, I'm moving piefed.social to somewhere else. Most likely it'll be during a quiet time when few people will notice, around 00:00 to 3:00 UTC on Saturday.

EDIT: server migration is complete! Bringing it online in it's new home was a bit rocky so possibly half the posts made while piefed.social was down were lost.

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[–] 22 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the heads up.

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  • [–] [S] 42 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Into two old servers in my garage.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That's great, but you should probably inform your members that the instance now falls under New Zeeland jurisdiction, no?

    I also wonder how it will effect federation latency or so (not sure what to call it). Some Lemmy instances hosted in Australia had major issues with that in the past.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Good point about the jurisdiction. I'm not too worried about making a bit announcement about it though as this change simplifies things - before https://piefed.social/rules talked about needing to be legal in both Germany and New Zealand but now it's just New Zealand. So now there's less restrictions not more or different.

    Lemmy fixed the latency thing a few versions ago :)

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    So now there’s less restrictions not more or different.

    Well, it is true that you are not legally required to inform members if New Zeeland jurisdiction was already in the ToS, but "less" in this case also means less legal protection for your members as the GDPR no longer applies directly.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (12 children)

    Thanks for the heads up. There were some scattered services that went down last night because of a DDOS attack, and it’s nice to know that when this goes down, it’s just for maintenance!

    Oh shit, we’re already into the window! Lol

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    hmm it's pretty nice outside, maybe later...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (9 children)

    it sure is

    enjoy your evening :)

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    77 degrees, that's good for brewing green tea, far too hot for living human beings.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    That's relatively cool for Florida, they use Fahrenheit in the US.

    77F = 25C

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Why, haven't they been told about Celsius yet?

    Next you tell me they don't know what kilometers are, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    We have been told, and the scientific community uses it. But there are still a lot here that think it is communist bullshit.

    I worked on scientific campuses for 25 years, I used C for everything at that time, but since leaving I have slowly slid back to F.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    doh. what must be done. must be done.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Holy shit those are some steep price increases.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    Is there a way to pitch in to help you cover the running costs? I believe in paying for the stuff I use.

    EDIT: Of course, there's a prominent Donate button up top that never moves, and I missed it. I wish I didn't have to give a cut to Patreon, Ko-Fi or Liberapay though... I'll check which one has the lowest fees before donating.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well, something simple turned out to warrant a bit more research than I anticipated:

    • Patreon requires an account. That can fuck right off.
    • Liberapay is for recurring support only. I only do one-time payments that I renew myself manually every year: I don't want any recurring payments going on my credit card. Ever.
    • Ko-Fi takes a 5% cut. Meh...

    I guess I'll do Ko-Fi...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Wow, Hetzner, that's a big bump.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I bought a Storage Box from them this month. I need to backup somewhere and I've seen them recommended many times. I need a reputable provider in the EU. If somebody has better propositions, let me know.

    If I may ask, I saw a Donate link on PieFed, I actually plan to use it if I stay (my account is just a couple weeks old), I guess there's not enough donations to cover the costs?

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