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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The profits gained from sales of .io domains has come under increasing scrutiny given that the UK’s control over the archipelago itself is under threat.
    Chagossian refugee groups (former inhabitants forcibly removed in the 1960s and 1970s) petitioning the UK government for the right of return have recently extended their grievances to the return of the .io domain as well (Chagos Refugees Group United Kingdom et al. vs. Internet Computer Bureau Limited Citation 2021).
    Additionally, Mauritius is also attempting to gain control over .io by petitioning IANA for redelegation (Bowcott Citation 2022).
    However, while these groups fight for control over the .io domain, a recent UN ruling challenging British sovereignty over the island threatens the existence of the ccTLD itself.

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23738871.2023.2238723

    While I agree with you in that ICANN will probably save .io through some policy change it isn’t as easy as just saying “screw all our policies, this ccTLD is now a gTLD.” considering the fighting going on regarding it.









  • I can only be another “everyone” and say go for a Synology. If you wanna run services on your NAS then the DSM is a godsend. The 423+ sounds like a good fit, might wanna grab a RAM upgrade for it though.

    edit: As you mentioned Jellyfin - if you wanna stream video you definitely want the 423+ and not the 923+ as the AMD Ryzen R1600 lacks GPU to transcode video streams.



  • I used to think a lot about up-gradability before but often find that when a cpu is too slow then it is also so old that I have to change the motherboard and ram too for compatibility reasons.
    Same thing with the motherboard, if it fails I’ve never had it be new enough that I can bring my cpu and ram with me to my next motherboard (unless buying an older motherboard second hand).
    And many of my disks will be old enough that I want to replace them too, at least if they have anything important on them.

    Only things I’ve brought with me when upgrading desktops have been my case (including fans), psu, gpu and (some) disks.
    Having a quiet and dust proof case that is easy to build in and a good psu that https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/ endorses has become higher priority to me since then, as I know they might last me more than one build.



  • “We’ve finished taking all we need from the Mono project and implemented it into our proprietary .NET implementation for Linux, Android and iOS. Instead of getting flack for killing off Mono (which is open source and would’ve been forked anyways) we graciously give this old husk to the Wine project. We recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET. kthnxbye!”

    Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.


  • I’m only running a single eGPU + USB Controller passthrough and while it took some tinkering to get it started it has been smooth sailing afterwards. The B650 series of motherboards has mostly had good IOMMU groupings so there’s a good chance your motherboard will allow you to play around with some KVM/QEMU/VFIO if you wanna try gpu passthrough to a virtual machine.

    Regarding Case: Generic I would look into getting one with dust protection (bottom and front) and preferably sound proofing. Having the dust get stuck outside the computer makes cleaning so much simpler and having a quiet computer is lovely.
    Personally I’m a fan of the Fractal Design Define 7 but I imagine you can get a case with the dust protection and sound proofing much cheaper than that if you take the time to look around and read some reviews, especially if you don’t need E-ATX or multiple 3.5’’ disk slots.


  • Alternatively, you can create new users from the command line.
    This can be done as follows:

    If synapse was installed via pip, activate the virtualenv as follows (if Synapse was installed via a prebuilt package, register_new_matrix_user should already be on the search path):

    cd ~/synapse
    source env/bin/activate
    synctl start # if not already running
    Run the following command:
    register_new_matrix_user -c homeserver.yaml
    This will prompt you to add details for the new user, and will then connect to the running Synapse to create the new user. For example:

    New user localpart: erikj
    Password:
    Confirm password:
    Make admin [no]:
    Success!

    This process uses a setting registration_shared_secret, which is shared between Synapse itself and the register_new_matrix_user script.
    It doesn’t matter what it is (a random value is generated by --generate-config), but it should be kept secret, as anyone with knowledge of it can register users, including admin accounts, on your server even if enable_registration is false.

    https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html





  • Info that could help others help you:
    House or flat?
    Renting or owning?
    How large an area do you need to heat?
    How many rooms?

    Temperature and savings:
    Where I live they say that a house with people living in it should be at least 16°C (~60°F) to handle the moisture we generate.
    Humans should have at least 18°C (64°F), preferably 20°C (68°F).
    That means that you could close doors and let unoccupied rooms have lower temperature than the rooms you use.
    If you’re stuck with space heaters then you’ll save quite a lot that way.