Has anyone taken a course in FAIR? Wondering how useful it is…
Mbin performs quite well. I just applied the most recent update which removed mercure and it’s very fast now.
I was probably the most prominent person who runs both and had database issues with k/mbin. I am happy to say that those are well behind me, largely because of the skill and patience of the Mbin team helping me resolve them.
It’s a rough job market for several reasons. My best recommendation is to do something that will distinguish yourself from others (blog, podcast, etc etc) and also try to establish a relationship with someone at prospective employers to get them to “pull” you in. I know, I know, easier said than done, but that’s where we are at.
Infosec.pub will be down for maintenance on Monday, July 1 2024, from approximately 10am until 1pm Eastern Time. I will be upgrading to the latest version of Lemmy, which requires an upgrade to postgres.
I am still here. Just don’t post much. I unblocked feddit.nl. It was quite problematic in the past but willing to try again.
You can see the details on user counts here: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/infosec.pub.
There are about 450 active accounts.
It’s hard to pin down the memory and CPU usage, as it’s running on a very large pair of AMD servers that host many sites. I posted the details of those servers are in the thread below. Prior to moving to this server, I was running the instance on a single 16 core AMD system with 64GB of ram.
Disk wise, it uses about 500GB. Overall, it is pretty efficient, particularly compared to kbin/mbin, however I think those are tough to compare against, since they have streaming updates and a heavier user interface.
My server bill is about $3000 per month, but that includes Infosec.exchange, which is a very large instance with about 17000 active users.
ok - infosec.pub is now running on my main infrastructure - a 48 core/96 thread AMD epyc zen4 genoa with 256GB of DDR5 ECC ram and 2x4TB nvme SSDs, backed by a dedicated database server with the exact same specs, on a 10gbps network.
Hello everyone. I will be taking infosec.pub offline for a while today to move the instance to a new, larger server.
What site is the “loud extremists”?
I block instances that are the source of issues - shitjustworks caused a river of complaints - I don’t think I’ve seen any from the others.
I am going to be disabling image uploads and image serving, moving to moderated signups, and instituting some extensive block lists on infosec.pub due to the pervasive problems with CSAM attacks on lemmy instances.
No, it’s not happened to any of our instances yet, but I don’t need that headache. And if anyone does, I promise you that I will make it my life’s mission to see that those responsible are convicted and rotting in prison where they belong. ❤️
Edit: h/t to @infosec_jcp for pointing out the problem to me.
I block them as they come up as problematic. There isn’t a handy list of instances to block like in mastodon. I will block those others.
I appreciate the offer and will likely make a call for more help soon.
2FA in lemmy doesn’t work reliably yet. Please don’t enable it or you will almost certainly get locked out.
Note: it makes me sad to post this.
Hi all. I am going to implement a block for sh.itjust.works. I am going to need years of therapy from all the nasty crap coming from that instance.
Hi all. I’ve disabled new community creation and federation until there is a fix for the latest vulnerability
As some have pointed out, there was a serious xss vulnerability in lemmy disclosed yesterday. The Lemmy team released a fix a bit ago and I've since patched infosec.pub.
Lemmy and kbin have been... exciting to set up and debug.
There is a new version of lemmy in RC right now that should fix most of the issues we've been seeing, or at least give error messages that indicate what is going on.