Sal
@Sal@mander.xyz
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 day ago:
Haha So True!
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 5 days ago:
Careful. Big Taxonomy doesn’t mess around.
- Comment on I feel like laying an egg. 3 weeks ago:
Hahahahaha
- Comment on Whenever I follow an external link, I'm not logged in. 4 weeks ago:
I have tested this and it happens with other instances as well, so it it is not mander-specific.
I am not sure why this happens… In my browser I even get fully logged out when I do this, unless I return to a previously open tab where I am logged in. So, maybe it is related to the behavior of the authentication cookie. Not sure.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
🙌 ❤️
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Hmm… Some lichen make use of orobatid mite labour in order to disperse the cells of their photobionts. Are those still ok?
- Comment on posts blackholed on the onion instance 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for pointing this out… I am very sorry that this happened. I have not tested the .onion front-end much.
Sorry for missing this post, I was traveling during holidays last month.
The server that is serving the .onion front-end is running only that service, and so I doubt it is ever under heavy load. I am not sure if this was a problem with the onion network itself, with the front-end, or the instance. When I looked into options I could not find examples of Lemmy instances using .onion front-ends and I picked the one I did because it does not require JavaScript.
I will make an effort to use the .onion site myself more often and I will look for other options.
- Comment on I constantly get errors loading images. 3 months ago:
I have changed rate limits / timeouts that I can control, but I still see that this happens when I clear my browser cookies and load the front page. I agree that it is quite bothersome. I will need to dive deeper and get in touch with the object store provider again.
- Comment on I constantly get errors loading images. 3 months ago:
Thank you. There was a different error that should have been fixed yesterday (a “too many requests” reply from the object storage provider). But this error is different, and I am not sure yet why it happens. I will change some settings that could have an effect. Please let me know if it happens again!
- Comment on Lots of 429s and broken images from mander.xyz 3 months ago:
Should be fixed now!
- Comment on Tell me Y 3 months ago:
Good news! Just got a reply from them and they have increased the connection limit. They did not specify what the new number is, but hopefully it is high enough to not be an issue for the foreseeable future.
So, if you do run into other similar reports after this comment I would appreciate it if you tag me again.
- Comment on Tell me Y 3 months ago:
Thanks!
Cost is not the bottleneck in this case… The problem is that I am rather ignorant about the options and their benefits/limitations. Moving the images the first time was painfully slow because of those same rate limits, and I expect the next migration to be the same, so I want to make a better choice next time and would rather find a solution with the current provider 😅
- Comment on Tell me Y 3 months ago:
Thanks for the heads up. I am still trying to resolve this without a migration… I will try again to get a response from them as they have not replied in a week.
- Comment on Lots of 429s and broken images from mander.xyz 3 months ago:
If I am not given the ability to improve the rate limits soon I will need to find a different object storage provider. The migration will bring down the instance’s images for several days so I am trying to avoid that…
If anyone knows of a good and reliable object storage provider with better limits, I would appreciate the recommendations.
- Comment on Cats are liars. 3 months ago:
This is the current status:
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The instance is serving the images via object storage. Specifically, I am making use of Contabo to save and serve the images.
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I now know that the default limits are 250 requests / second and 80 Mbit/s: help.contabo.com/…/103000275478-what-limits-are-t…
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It appears to me like when the requests are exceeded, the “Too many requests” error is triggered and it takes a few seconds before the requests are accepted again. This can happen if few users access the front page at once as this will fetch all of the thumbnails and icons on the page.
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I have been in touch with Contabo’s customer support via e-mail. But they mis-understood my original e-mails and thought I was speaking about increasing the maximum number of images that can be stored (3 million by default). I have clarified that I want to increase the rate limit and have been waiting for their response for a few days now.
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The other solution would be to move the images to a different object storage provider. The migration is also limited to the 250 requests/s and 80 Mbit/s, so it will require turning off the images for 4 - 7 days while all the images are moved… Since I am not familiar with the policies of other object storage providers I would also need to do research to avoid falling into the same trap.
So, I am hoping that Contabo’s support will get back to me soon and allow me to increase the rate limits, as this would be the most straight forward approach.
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- Comment on Shitposting as public pedagogy 3 months ago:
And you are doing a great job at that! 😄
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing. I agree that it is a good one to pin!!
- Comment on Old AF 3 months ago:
I have been reaching out to the object storage provider to see if I can increase the rate limits… Unfortunately I might need to change to a different provider to overcome this. Since the migration takes several days, especially so because of those same rate limits, I would rather avoid this…
- Comment on Hogs 3 months ago:
That’s an error I had not seen before, but I also just encountered with this specific post. I will investigate, thanks.
- Comment on Cats are liars. 3 months ago:
This error is a rate limit from the object storage provider. I did not know of this limit when I chose them, and I still have not found a way to change the limit. I will send them an e-mail. If the limit can’t be increased, one option is to pick another object storage provider, but the migration takes days.
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- Comment on Mod Post: Sorry for spam! 4 months ago:
Thank you for being alert! I have banned them instance-wide now.
- Comment on Putting Mander on Canvas! 4 months ago:
Ahh, wish I could join you! But I am travelling these days. Enjoy Canvassing!
- Comment on kbin.social federation issue 4 months ago:
Checking back in. Still not working :(
- Comment on Money, please! 4 months ago:
Publishing in a more prestigious journal usually means that your work will be read by a greater number of people. The journal that a paper is published on carries weight on the CV, and it is a relevant parameter for committees reviewing a grant applicant or when evaluating an academic job applicant.
Someone who is able to fund their own research can get away with publishing to a forum, or to some of the Arxivs without submitting to a journal. But an academic that relies on grants and benefits from collaborations is much more likely to succeed in academia if they publish in academic journals. It is not necessarily that academics want to rely on publishers, but it is often a case of either you accept and adapt to the system or you don’t thrive in it.
It would be great to find an alternative that cuts the middle man altogether. It is not a simple matter to get researchers to contribute their high-quality work to a zero-prestige experimental system, nor is it be easy to establish a robust community-driven peer-review system that provides a filtering capacity similar to that of prestigious journals. I do hope some alternative system manages to get traction in the coming years.
- Comment on This instance is flyiiing (super fast)! 4 months ago:
Thank you for the feedback!
- Comment on Version update and server upgrade! 4 months ago:
Great to hear! Thanks!
- Comment on Elsevier 4 months ago:
That’s really cool, I will use it
- Comment on Elsevier 5 months ago:
Some time last year I learned of an example of such a project (peerreview on GitHub):
The goal of this project was to create an open access “Peer Review” platform:
Peer Review is an open access, reputation based scientific publishing system that has the potential to replace the journal system with a single, community run website. It is free to publish, free to access, and the plan is to support it with donations and (eventually, hopefully) institutional support.
It allows academic authors to submit a draft of a paper for review by peers in their field, and then to publish it for public consumption once they are ready. It allows their peers to exercise post-publish quality control of papers by voting them up or down and posting public responses.
I just looked it up now to see how it is going… And I am a bit saddened to find out that the developer decided to stop. The author has a blog in which he wrote about the project and about why he is not so optimistic about the prospects of crowd sourced peer review anymore: theroadgoeson.com/crowdsourcing-peer-review-proba…
It is only one opinion, but at least it is the opinion of someone who has thought about this some time and made a real effort towards the goal, so maybe you find some value from his perspective.
Personally, I am still optimistic about this being possible. But that’s easy for me to say as I have not invested the effort!
- Comment on Version update and server upgrade! 5 months ago:
Great, thanks for letting me know!! I did a bit of research and I think that the next time I need to upgrade the instance I will move it to a dedicated server instead of a virtual private server. But hopefully it runs smoothly for some time! :)
- Comment on Version update and server upgrade! 5 months ago:
Ah, thanks. I think that was when I reboot the instance to change a setting that controls how post thumbnails are generated, as the new setting was failing to generate thumbnails for many posts.