It's been a while since I've last done one of those. Life happened, but things are settling down slowly. I'll combine all five months since September into a single post, but will keep them separated visually.

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February 2024

Contributions

• LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

• Servers: £38.94

Month balance

• -£38.94

Previous balance

• -£216.05

Balance to date

• -£254.99

January 2024

Contributions

• LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

• Servers: £38.66

Month balance

• -£38.66

Previous balance

• -£177.39

Balance to date

• -£216.05

December 2023

Contributions

• LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

• Servers: £38.59
• Backblaze B2: £0.64

Month balance

• -£39.23

Previous balance

• -£138.16

Balance to date

• -£177.39

November 2023

Contributions

• LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

• Servers: £38.74

Month balance

• -£38.74

Previous balance

• -£99.42

Balance to date

• -£138.16

October 2023

Contributions

• LiberaPay: £0

Expenses

• Servers: £37.32

Month balance

• -£37.32

Previous balance

• -£62.1

Balance to date

• -£99.42

Finance History

EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.

To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!

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Maybe those board and ceo shenanigans did leave a bad taste internally, afterall.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11608344

Credit: https://mas.to/@markarayner

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The upgrade has gone through smoothly and everything seems to be running smoothly.

The performance looks to be better on the backend, time will tell if the memory leak issue is actually solved. So far, though - so good!

Lemmy Cafe will be having its database upgraded.

Reasons

• Pict-rs is expecting PostgreSQL 16. It's running fine now, but it might not be at some future point.
• PostgreSQL 15 has a bug that requires jit to be turned off - otherwise DB keeps consuming all the memory available on the system and then some. In the end it gets culled by the kernel. This has performance as well as reliability issues. While turning jit off has remedied the constant failure, it has also made the database a bit slower. I prefer squeezing out as much performance as possible :)

Plan

• Point nginx to the maintenance page
• Shut down PostgreSQL 15
• Run the upgrade tool
• Start up PostgreSQL 16
• Point nginx to lemmy

Expected downtime

About an hour, if things go well. More if not so.

Will try to keep the maintenance page updated.

Here's the timezone converter

Amazing milestone!

Also testing federation