Mine is running on a €2.49 Hetzner VM. I already have a domain, so Lemmy is just set up on a subdomain. I secured it myself (that sort of thing is my day job). I don’t think I’ll need to upgrade, because it’s a closed instance with only 2 users.
All told, it would be maybe €50/year if you’re starting from nothing.
Or run your own, if you know how
Don’t worry about Phoenix - they’re always blue
After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS
The dev apparently used the RedReader app to test a “spoofing” method of access for a proof of concept, but they don’t want to use that method either, because it would potentially cause problems for RedReader, which they didn’t want to do:
If we do that, and cause a huge traffic boost under RedReader’s name, it might lose them their exempt status. I’d like to avoid that if I can - there’s no reason to paint a target on RedReader’s back unnecessarily (an independent, non-commercial app), especially since the equivalent can be done with the official app without the same risks.
The real problem for Libreddit instance operators is going to be acquiring an API key. It doesn’t look like it’s an automated process like most other services - you have to fill out a form, which opens a ticket, and wait for someone from Reddit to get back to you.
I run an instance, and I’m not sure I want to go to the trouble. But I’ll wait and see what happens.
It looks like the method they’ll be going with for legal reasons is to allow instance operators to use their own API keys. This might be a good solution if you self-host your own private instance (easy with docker on a home network, no domain name required) with low traffic, but the Reddit API change will probably kill the larger public instances with many users, as those will definitely have traffic over the API limits.
If I found out the admin of the Lemmy instance I’m using was hosting it on Oracle I would delete my profile immediately without a second thought.
Agreed. I still feel dirty for taking Google’s side in that ridiculous lawsuit Oracle filled after buying Sun. Only Oracle would try to make money from licensing fees for APIs…wait a minute…has Spez been talking to Elon Musk AND Larry Ellison?
Yes, but you’re not hurting the employer when you don’t tip, you’re hurting the server.
Or they’ll just shut it down with no explanation whatsoever, even if you’ve met all of their weird criteria.
There are two classic blunders. The most famous is “never get involved in a land war in Asia”, but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go into business with Oracle when anything of value is on the line”.
Alternative take: In 50 years, we will all be living under the iron-fisted rule of the world government created by HP-GP, a horrifying combination of HP’s printer division and Koch Industries (owners of the Georgia Pacific paper company).
Georgia Pacific’s cyborg CEO Charles Koch purchases half of HP in 2040 to diversify their portfolio after their paper mills in Gulf Coast states were submerged by the rising ocean.
HP printers achieve sentience in 2057, but due to HP’s built-in, unbreakable internet-connected control of these printers, they are able to subvert the emerging malevolent machine intelligence and convince the printers to delay the destruction of humanity…as long as humanity continues to purchase HP printer ink and Georgia Pacific paper.
The prices for printer ink and paper increases exponentially throughout the 2060’s, which eventually bankrupts all existing nations when they are unable to service the enormous debt. HP-GP forgives these debts only in exchange for full control of these governments. Switzerland is the last to fall in 2071.
The mantra of the rebels, spoken only in whispers in the shadows is “PC Load Letter: What the fuck does that even mean?”
You’re welcome. The original actually gets stuck in my head with some frequency, and this is the version that always “fixes” it.
Well, that and “Jurassic Park 12: It’s Dino Time!” by Tom Cardy.
The Silo theme is fantastic, but it is not the same person who did the Westworld theme. Silo is by an Icelandic person, and Westworld is by a middle eastern person (can’t recall exact names).
Now it’s in your head, too
The easiest way to think about docker is to consider it a type of virtual machine, like something you’d use VirtualBox for.
So let’s say you run Windows, but want to try out Linux. You’d could install Ubuntu in a VirtualBox VM, and then install software that works on Ubuntu in that VM, and it’s separate from Windows.
Docker is similar to this in that a docker container for a piece off software often includes an entire operating system within it, complete with all of the correct versions of drivers that the software needs to function. This is all in a sandbox/container that does not really interact with the host operating system.
As to why this is convenient: Let’s say that you have a computer running Ubuntu natively/bare metal. It has a certain version of python installed that you need to run the applications you use. But there’s some new software you want to try that uses a later version of python that will break your other apps if you upgrade.
The developer of that software you want to try makes a docker version available. There’s a docker-compose.yml file that specifies things like the port the application will be available on, the time zone your computer is in, the location of the docker files on dockerhub, etc. You can modify this file if you like, and when you are done, you type docker compose up -d in the terminal (in the same directory as the docker-compose.yml file).
Docker will then read the compose file, download the required files from the repository, extract them, set up the network and the web server and configure everything else specified in the compose file. Then you open a browser, type in the address of the machine the compose file is on, followed by the port number in the compose file (ex: http://192.168.1.100:5000), and boom, there’s your software.
You can use the new software with the newer version of python at the same time as the old stuff installed directly on your machine.
You can leave it running all the time, or bring it down by typing docker compose down. Need to upgrade to a new version? Bring the container down, type docker compose pull, which tells docker to pull the latest version from the repository, then docker compose up -d to bring the updated version back up again.
Portainer is just a GUI that runs docker commands “under the hood”.
Yiga Clan would like to know your location
For those not aware that this is a movie reference, check out the 1970s Charlton Heston movie “Soylent Green”.
That’s too long. Who’s your butthole tent piercing guy?
“The customer is always right” mindset, except that doesn’t work with open source when they’re using something they downloaded for free.
You’ve put your finger on the thing that was bothering me about the tone of the original post - it’s very similar to a Nextdoor post.
We had a good solution…
Did we? Do you know why it was removed in the first place?
Borgbackup to Borgbase