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TheDude

@ TheDude @sh.itjust.works

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Entrepreneur, developer, seasoned system and network engineer, aspiring hobbyist pilot, husband and father.

  • Keeping data out of the U.S.?

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  • Hey!

    Thanks for asking, I think transparency around infrastructure is important.

    This instance is hosted on equipment that we own, located in a local data center in Montreal, Canada. Backups are stored within the same facility; however, the backup hardware itself is not currently owned by us. Our S3 storage is hosted in a separate Montreal data center also on equipment that we do not own or control.

    Our long-term objective is to operate our own dedicated backup infrastructure and S3 storage environment. However, the significant increase in RAM costs has temporarily delayed that rollout. Someone recently donated a few new servers however they were stripped of ram beforehand.

    It’s also worth noting that we are currently using Cloudflare, but my plan to align with the broader Fedecan infrastructure strategy and transition to Deflect.ca in the future.

  • I'm hoping we upgrade to BE: 0.19.15, but it seems we backtracked to BE: 0.19.13. Is it not stable or something?

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  • We have not upgraded yet but will be pushing the update this week.

  • Can we put shitjustworks behind a captcha?

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  • Hey all,

    I am very well aware of the slowness and timeouts that people are experiencing. I'm working on getting a few upgrade put into place to bring things back to where they need to be. Thanks for the patience!

  • Current funding goals

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  • Hi @kertain@sh.itjust.works

    I plan on making a post to share all this information and more in the following weeks.

    Thank you for your thoughtfulness and consideration!

  • 2nd page, etc. loading slowly

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  • This issue appears to have been fixed. Can anyone confirm whether they are still having any problems?

  • Requests for all:* page 2 timeout.

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  • Hey all, I'm travelling at the moment but have been in discussions with the other admins about this issue. I return Friday oct 31st and will schedule to get us upgraded to 0.19.13 shortly after. I won't be giving the typical 5 day official notice to not create any extra delays. The upgrade to 0.19.13 is minor and shouldn't take us too long to run. Thank you for being patient.

  • Is SJW blocking any IP ranges?

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  • Hi there,

    We are not blocking any IP ranges. The server has had an increase in traffic over the last few months. I'm in the process of identifying new hardware to buy to make things speedy again.

    I have cycled the services to see if that helps.

    Let me know if things get better for you.

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    Scheduled Upgrade to 0.19.11 - May 2nd 2025 @ 8PM EDT

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    Our Intentions to join Fedecan

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    Our Intentions to join Fedecan

  • Is this something sh admins are aware of? "Many Lemmy instances are misconfigured, which can break progressive video streaming and even basic image loading in strange ways."

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  • I've went ahead and updated and applied the update to our configuration files. This issue should be sorted now.

    Thanks!

  • Is this something sh admins are aware of? "Many Lemmy instances are misconfigured, which can break progressive video streaming and even basic image loading in strange ways."

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  • Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

    I found that there were some changes to the nginx.conf file which can be seen here

    it does look like its fixed in the 19.10 version of lemmy. I'll do another deep dive later tonight to see if we can just update the nginx configuration without upgrading to 19.10 and if its the case will schedule another small maintenance window this week to get it pushed out.

    Thank you

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    Upcoming Upgrade to 0.19.9

  • What is the sh.itjust.works roadmap for software upgrades?

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  • Hey!

    Everything has been reviewed and we're good to move over the 19.9. I'll be posting an announcement in the coming days to give everyone a heads up. I'm aiming towards the end of this week.

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    The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points

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  • I want to say that I've been blown away by the amount of support that's I've received in the last 24 hours. You all have left me speechless. Thank you everyone who have donated and those who couldn't, know that being a good member of this community already more than I could ask for. Thank you!

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    The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points

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    The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points

  • SJW upgrade to v19.5

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  • Absolutely. This is exactly why It's important that we get a donation strategy put into place sooner rather than later.

  • SJW upgrade to v19.5

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  • This is odd. I did not upgrade pictrs (the service responsible for image hosting). There may have been an error for some specific tables rows during the database migrates. Another possibility could have been an error during the schema update that I believe the new version had to go through.

    Would you be able to DM me links to other posts that you come across with broken images? I will look to see if I can identify any common trends that could tell us more.

    Thank you

  • SJW upgrade to v19.5

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  • We sure are!

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    SJW upgrade to v19.5

  • Upgrade to 0.19.5?

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  • Hi @Blaze@sopuli.xyz

    It's coming. This instance is deployed using lemmy-ansible but with some slight modifications. I need to review a few things to make sure the transition is smooth. As you also pointed out, it's also summer time which isn't helping with my free time situation.

    I have a long term solution that will speed up upgrades but I only expect to get it in place by the fall. In the meanwhile, I'm planning on getting this instance upgraded to 19.5 in the coming weeks.

  • How are sh.itjust.works finances doing?

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  • Hey,

    I'm due to make a post about the instances finances soon. I'll get one posted in the next bit.

    I'm still covering costs out of pocket but my goal has been to have this instance fully funded by its members. I want this instance to stay true to its members, the fediverse and be put in a position where it can continue to thrive transparently without me. The admin team has been doing an outstanding job keeping this instance safe and moderated for everyone. I don't thank them enough but they are the true heroes of this instance.

    As some may know, I've been working with a local non profit for the past 6 months to have them leveraged in accepting accepting donations for this instance. They have been slow to get things done but its progressing. I may end up doing what I was trying to avoid and create my own non-profit instead if that's what it takes. That direction does have its own challenges and would add additional responsibilities to my plate.

    In the meanwhile, while some of the costs of the services have gone up slightly, I get joy knowing that I can continue providing this instance to all of you. I'm OK paying the costs to keeping the lights on until we can transition to donations.

  • Mlmym instance?

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  • Mlmym instance?

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  • Update on SJW upgrade to v19.3

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  • There was a little hiccup this morning unrelated to the migration tonight. The Lemmy services like to be restarted every once in a while. Once we move to the new hardware I'll be able to look into implementing a better logging system and hopefully be more proactive when situations like these happen.

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    Update on SJW upgrade to v19.3

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    SJW Rammy Statement

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    Instance Upgraded to v0.18.0

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    Announcement: Embracing a New Chapter: Towards a Community-Guided Direction and Accepting Donations

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    Beehaw defederating update - sh.itjust.works

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    June 13 2023 - Lemmy Instance updated to version 0.17.4 - sh.itjust.works

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    June 12 - Server Capacity Update

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    Looking for someone to take over this community

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    June 9 2023 - Announcement - sh.itjust.works

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    My first AI generated art!

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    In preparation for the Reddit June 12-14 Black-out

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    Whats the best way to share videos on lemmy?

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    Welcome All!