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We can see it ourselves. We use rabbitmq for incoming (and maybe outgoing, it’s been a while since I looked at how it is) federation. So, you can see the queues there. For incoming (from rabbitmq) and outgoing there are also queues (symfony messenger) and these handle failures and can be configured and can be queried.

After the upgrade I just took the default configuration again (because it seems queue names changed). But I used to have various rules setup in rabbitmq for retries and it took a fair few tries before the messages ended up in the proper “failed” queue (which needs manual action to retry). Some items you eventually need to clear (instances that just shutdown, or instances that lost their domain for example). They will never complete.

But it’s not exposed in any way to my knowledge. Well unless people have their rabbitmq web interface open and without login of course.

I think it must be hit/miss. Because I think those edits I made would have gone from my instance to world and then from world to .ee, and it was happening within seconds.

So, presumably random stuff is being dropped or delayed?

That makes sense. So it’s showing me world’s federation with me and not the other way (since I’m not sure such info is available on mbin)

Wait, how do they get that data remotely? I was looking at my instance vs world and I saw there’s like the +1 hour from a week or so ago when I upgraded to latest mbin lol.

I guess they’re looking at common activities and when they appear on each?

Looking at incoming request. .world is working OK for me. They seem to be batching stuff like I’ll get nothing for 30 seconds, then over 3 seconds like 50+ requests.

Of course I don’t know if their queue is backed up and I’m getting delayed stuff. I’d need to stop processing and look into the incoming queue to see what they’re sending.

Bit of an edit. Looking at incoming again I can see under newest items, an entry from world that was 11 minutes old. Oh I have an idea. I’ll see if this edit gets there in a timely manner.

Spoiler alert, it was instant.

Oh ignore me. It’s specifically between those two instances I guess.

Well for a gamer no real comment. But there is one metric Intel still trashes AMD in for the APU. Hardware video acceleration/encoding. The quality is objectively better on Intel Quicksync.

When getting a home box that also needed to do transcoding, Intel CPU was a requirement. My desktop development/gaming system? Ryzen + NVidia.

I’m on NVidia with blob driver, KDE Plasma on wayland on Arch. Yeah, standby to resume is like 50/50 the screen will come back. I just turned off stand-by and kept screen sleep only.

But I’m on desktop so less of a problem for me than it would be for a laptop user.

That said there could be better ways to show info like this on the fediverse. Except, it’s complicated.

You could be banned on an instance, but also separately banned on an individual community on an instance, or your instance could be defederated from one running a community. Any of which could lock you out in theory.

It’s not as clear cut as closed systems. This is mostly a good thing but for clarity, not so much :p

I did a routine upgrade on my mbin server, where I had an old version with changes I made myself.

Well turns out I upgraded something (probably redis) that broke symfony that broke everything.

So I had a fun afternoon upgrading to the latest mbin version. I mean I needed to anyway but my hand was forced.

Yep sometimes an innocent looking update will change your weekend plans.

Anyways, any reason not to use ssh?

And twitter / x most likely have a similar rule. And musk could have achieved similar by just banning the account.

There’s no reason to give it to Jones. He doesn’t own any of the applicable ip any more. Maybe there’s an argument if he tried that.

Now see, I don’t like it but the simplest thing would be for musk to ban the account right now.

He’s not circumventing anything then. Ownership of the account was transferred, that twitter, a private entity chose to ban it is their business.

It’s not worth arguing about. The website and ip is the juicy thing, being able to make satirical info wars programming and products is where it is at. Maybe, maybe there would be a case if musk allowed Jones to make a new account with the same name or otherwise handed it to him.

No. If valve cancel your steam account, you lose your games and they owe you a big fat zero.

Same goes for all accounts with assets attached.

Sad to say, but in this case it is musk’s platform and his rules.

If he wants to go home and take his ball too. Tough luck.

Doesn’t seem right, but it is legal and already happened on multiple platforms multiple times.

Not a bug! That’s a feature.

I don’t think “creatives” are more active than anyone else. For the number of users, the threadiverse has a higher ratio of activity I think and it’s generally more positive here than places like reddit. Maybe it’s a similar thing. The demographic that are likely to move, are just making similar content and that makes it look more active.

Going to second other comments. Even without archinstall. It feels like it will be harder than it is. Umm, just save yourself a bit of time and configure the network and install a console editor (nano/vim whatever) while in the chroot (if going full manual). It was a minor pain to work around that for me.

There are pages discussing how to do everything (helps to have a laptop with browser, or a phone to look them up). At the end, you generally know exactly what you installed (OK no-one watches all the dependencies), and I’ve found any borks that happen easy to fix because I know what I installed.

This does tally up with what I’ve been hearing. Where I’m at there’s been a few hires straight into senior. I’ve not heard of an official junior freeze. At the same time it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a new one.

The problem, as I commented prior, is that if we no longer bring in junior devs to gain this kind of experience, we lose the flow of junior -> senior. But in most places, the people making the decisions won’t consider anything beyond the end of the current fin year.

I don’t think developers are doing it. It’s managers making this kind of decision I’d say.

I’ve been told about companies in the same field as mine with a hiring freeze on juniors. So it’s kinda second hand.

I think it goes further than that. There’s two things happening with regard to AI and software development.

1: Stack overflow has become less common as a resource to solve problems. This, as you say has a problem of input into LLMs for future problems to solve.
2: Junior developers are being hired less because of AI. I assume the idea is that seniors will use AI in the same way they would usually use juniors. Except, they’ve done what business always does. Not think one bit about the future. Today’s senior developers are yesterdays junior developers.

The combination of AI performance drop due to point 1, and the lack of new developers because of point 2 makes for potentially, a bad future for the profession.

We used to have it terrible in the UK in the 90s and 2000s. Basic ADSL was trialled in 1999 and available in maybe late 2000 I think. But it stagnated for a while.

When it came to fibre, interesting things are happening. As well as the “national” (although privatised) telco installing it, there are many independent companies fitting it. Where I live I have the option of the official telco (1000/110) and a private company (1000/1000). Of course I chose the latter :P

Some people have 3 or more options.

Yeah in the future there might well be a handful of overall winners that vacuum up the losers and carve up the territory. But right now, it’s a good time for the normal people… At least for internet.

EDIT: Just to add, some are ISPs and will only sell their own product. Some are wholesale, so even if they’re the only company in your area, you can often buy from multiple ISPs through them.