There’s also istheservicedown.com, but it also appears to rely on CloudFlare.

There’s isitdownrightnow.com, which appears not to use CloudFlare.

You can monitor instance downtime at:

https://lestat.org/

I mean, it’s easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.

$ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.

IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on olio.cafe (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.

That being said, I didn’t intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they’re used by a lot of major sites, and I don’t expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I’ve had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.

Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.

So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.

Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.

A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.

It’s back up now.

!actuallyinfuriating

Ah, yeah, thanks, though the community name is incorrect (needs an underscore) and is missing the instance name.

Just keep in mind that the long run trend for storage prices is pretty strongly downwards; that’s a log-scale graph.

Are we okay with the “mildly infuriating” community becoming a “news that really upset me” community?

Note that Reddit’s /r/MildlyInfuriating spawned /r/ActuallyInfuriating for stuff that is more severe.

Searching on lemmyverse.net shows that we do have an /r/ActuallyInfuriating analog at [email protected].

Maybe the community mods might consider putting it in the sidebar? @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected]?

The cases of old ones are on eBay, as I mention in another comment.

And it looks like someone has made ATX mounting kits.

https://thelaserhive.com/product/mac-pro-atx-kit-with-psu-mount/

Good point!

I admit I’m using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it’s form of use.

And I bought it back in 2006

Looks like non-functional 2006 Mac Pros are on eBay for $60. Cheaper than an office chair!

but Project Prometheus has already hired 100 employees, poaching several from firms like OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according to the Times.

I think that one problem with all this spending is that there are only so many people with relevant experience in the area. If wages are high enough, the market will send more over time, but that isn’t instantaneous.

Home-instance-agnostic link:

[email protected]

the Lunar Lake option is a high perf single core CPU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lake

According to this, all Lunar Lake CPUs have 4 performance and 4 economy cores; none have a single core.

I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.

I carry a ~300 Wh power bank with my laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D62PMB3R

They also have a less-elaborate, smaller, lighter, less-expensive ~200 Wh model that’s probably more actually-practical:

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Portable-Generator-Traveling-Emergencies/dp/B0D62P85ZR

Note that you can’t take anything over 100 Wh on a flight in the US. I also have a 100 Wh power bank that I keep around for flights.

What that means to someone is up to them. Some users on here do not like the US at all, for example, and they might be delighted to be using a Serbian company instead of a US company. That’s not my position, but I’ve no doubt that it’s a perspective for some. I have mentioned Kagi in the past favorably, and simply want people to understand, as best as I can, what using Kagi entails.

EDIT: For users who might be in the US, though, and not familiar with the political structure in Europe today, while Serbia is in Europe, it is not — presently — in the EU, and isn’t subject to the kind of data privacy laws or legal/judicial regimen that one might expect of companies in the EU.

One early company that a lot of people were using for hosting Lemmy instances was Hetzner, a German hosting company (which IIRC also has datacenter space somewhere in the US).

I did a search for “Hetzner” and “lemmy.world” and got this:

https://lemmy.world/post/55124/65982

I run lemmy.world on a VPS at Hetzner. They are cheap and good. Storage: I now (after 11 days) have 2GB of images and 2GB of database.

Now, that was two years ago, and early on, and it may or may not be located there now; IIRC, from vague reading of announcements, the lemmy.world people have upgraded their server, and they might be on bare metal instead of a VPS or something now.

Assuming that the server is still with Hetzner, according to the company webpage, they have colo locations in Finland and Germany and cloud locations in Finland, Germany, the US, and Singapore.

That’s fair – it necessarily extends trust, and at the least you’d want them to be liable for false advertising.

I did go digging directly as a result of your comment, and I did find that it looks like Kagi operates at least in part, if not in whole, from Serbia. They have a San Francisco mailing address…but it’s just basically a mailbox.

For me, at least, that’s a concern; I’ve posted here on the matter to make others aware. I don’t know if it’d be enough to stop me from using them, but it certainly does make me reconsider how much weight I’d be willing to place on statements the company makes about its privacy policy, and what their practical legal liability is if they’re making inaccurate statements about their privacy practices.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Portal_Creation

One portal at the outflow port of the hydroelectric dam, one portal back up at the top.