The Lemmy Club

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Server upgrades complete! (self.announcements)

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It looks like everything is functional as far as I can tell! And it only took 2.5hrs instead of 3 :P

Let me know if you run into any oddities. Other servers will be playing catch-up to send us all the federated posts we missed in the past few hours.

Now to go test and see if my janky backup scripts still work.....

See text from previous post below for details about the upgrade.

It's been a while, how have you been?

The Lemmy Club has been chugging along just fine, but with one issue - our database is beginning to push the limits of our storage drive. We're pushing 60gb on the DB. That's not photos, just text, vote records, etc. We have a larger drive with plenty of space but I only use it for backups because it's a slow drive and putting the database there would cause the site to crawl.

The last time this happened I just upgraded to the next tier of server up, which gave us a bit more storage and a decent bump in RAM/CPU. I could do the same again but the current server provider only offers an upgrade to a tier with 25gb more storage. We'd also get a bump in CPU/RAM but we're already overpowered in that regard. I like our current server provider however the numbers just don't make sense for us.

Instead, I've secured a server with a different provider. We'll get way more fast storage, more (albeit less powerful) CPU cores, and more RAM. For $7 less per month.

So what's changing?

Server location moving from NYC to Washington, DC.
Going from 6 x86 cores to 14 ARM cores
Going from 24GB to 32GB of RAM (way more than we need tbh lol)
Going from 100GB SSD storage to 1TB
New company is European (server physically in US)
Going from $27/mo ($22 main server + $5 for 1tb extra storage) to $20/mo

I've got the server up I'll just need a few hours to shut down the current one, back everything up completely, transfer, and restore it all. After that you shouldn't notice any change.

You can follow the upgrade process at https://status.thelemmy.club/maintenance

As always, thanks for being a member of The Lemmy Club.

If you’d like to help contribute to our ongoing costs, or would like to show some appreciation, you can at OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/thelemmyclub

This instance is mostly self funded with no return whatsoever. The costs aren’t too high (~$440/yr) but community donations are always very appreciated. At the moment, we’re about 27% community funded. Either way, The Lemmy Club isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Also that number has went up quite a bit since I last looked. The photo storage (served by a seperate network storage solution) has started to balloon recently. I may have to look into a cheaper provider.

Protestation (discuss.tchncs.de)

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How do we know which judges to arrest and which to pardon? (lemmy.ml)

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Venezuela accuses El Salvador president of 'human trafficking (www.rfi.fr)

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Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela's attorney general accused Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of "human trafficking" and suggested he face international justice for accepting cash to jail deportees from the United States.

Over 230 Venezuelans were flown in March to Bukele's notorious CECOT prison, along with around a dozen Salvadorans, under a $6 million deal struck by President Donald Trump's government.

Venezuela reacted furiously to the deportations -- which have also prompted a fierce legal debate in the United States -- and has demanded the men's "unconditional release."

In an interview with AFP in Caracas late Thursday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab took aim at Bukele, suggesting he was little better than a people smuggler.

"He is committing the crime of human trafficking," the prosecutor said. "It is a dirty business."

"International justice will be done against Bukele on this issue," said Saab, who along with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been subject to US sanctions for years over allegedly suppressing their country's democratic opposition.

The Trump administration has painted the deported men as dangerous blood-crazed gang members, a claim for which they have provided scant evidence.

Some have been charged in US courts with violent offenses, but many have not.

Family members for several of the men staunchly deny any link to gangs and say their loved ones were scooped up for little more than being Venezuelan, migrants and having tattoos.

Slickly produced footage of their arrival in El Salvador -- including chained and tattooed men having their heads shaved and being frog-marched by masked guards -- was widely promoted by both the Salvadoran and US governments.

US judges have ruled that at least one Salvadoran and one Venezuelan were wrongly deported and should be returned to the United States, orders that Trump and his ally Bukele have so far ignored.

"The Venezuelans who were deprived of their liberty in El Salvador resided in the United States without having previously committed any crime in that country" said Saab "much less in El Salvador."

The White House insists that aside from having gang links, the men were in the United States illegally and are therefore criminals.

Elon's Lies (lemmy.world)

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Soups On! (lemmy.world)

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source

Mayhem rule (sh.itjust.works)

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Orangutan climbing on a wire at the zoo (lemmy.world)

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My first time growing Ganoderma lucidum (i.imgur.com)

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I normally grow things like pioppino, lions mane and oysters, this is my first time growing a polypore. It took a long time, many months haha. I think this was inoculated back in november and I just got around to fruiting a few weeks ago. Lots of spore samples to put under the microscope, let me tell you.