The Interim Computer Festival is September 30th - October 1st in Seattle WA at the INTRASPACE event space at the Rainier Brewery. Registration is open.
Here is where we're at now.
Thank you for everyone who stuck around and helped out, it is appreciated. We're working on additional suggested tweaks from the Lemmy community and hope to let lemmy.world try to DoS us again soon. Hopefully we'll do much better this time.
live updates in progress. Moved to SSDs, added more cores and 128GB and 64GB ram.
Two things that would be great:
Attempts were made to create a thread for the almost daily upgrades we're going through with BE and UI changes, but even with pinning it doesn't have the visibility.
We're on site in about 1 hour to install a new RAID and once that is completed we'll finish the transfer of pict-rs data.
You're absolutely welcome to do that as it is your decision and you have many choices. We hope to build a community of folks that would like to help the fediverse grow and support smaller instances. Similar growing pains were seen during the twitter exodous last September.
It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We're in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.
We are working on improving load balancing today and distributing the instance across multiple servers. As a result, you may see some timeouts, thank you for your patience.
Thanks to the work of DJ Sures and others they're actually able to do something now.
Painting by Younga Barlow for Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2023
The Pacific Commodore Expo NW is being held this weekend June 24th and 25th! Please feel free to stop by and play with your favorite Commodore and Amiga computers.
Location: 3100 Airport Way S, Seattle WA 98134 (old rainier brewery at Intraspace in front of Lula Coffee) Hours: 11am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday Admission: FREE - (Donations can be made to SDF.ORG)
Could the Meta NDA be used as a trojan horse? Anything Meta discloses to a developer/admin could be legally used against them if they acted upon the information. Not just leak of information shared, but modifications to Mastodon or Pixelfed that go against Meta's pursuit of success in the Fediverse.
If you are offered a meeting with Meta and are required to sign an NDA, be sure to read it fully so that you understand what your obligations are and what freedoms and friends you give up.
We just made it past 1000 signups this morning. Nearly everyone joining had very thoughtful and meaningful explanations of why they want to try using this instance. It is an amazing time for the internet and we truly appreciate SDF being a part of this.
Earlier this morning SDF Chatter was upgraded for Lemmy 0.17.4.
RIght now we're trying out a few methods of distributing the service across multiple hosts much in the same way that we have grown the SDF Mastodon instance.
Thankfully, the Lemmy code is performing very well in its current configuration and the SDF community is growing at a moderate pace.
If the Fediverse does take on a full migration of the Reddit community whole, it would seem now is the time for that. A lot was learned from the Twitter migration last fall and while many instances were not prepared and scrambled to accommodate for folks, those communities have built the infrastructure since then and it is ready for you all.
How exciting is that?
Fediverse 2023!
On June 16th, 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller at 300 baud. Happy 36 years SDF!
Thank you for asking! As far as resources we're doing quite well hardware/network wise and our colocation provider in Seattle Washington has been incredibly helpful to us since September of 2022 when we needed to scale up Mastodon quickly.
On the Mastodon side folks there suggested a "Not a Blue Check Mark Club" as a fun and inexpensive way for the community to show support without having to make a big commitment. This has now been subscripted as "Not a Closed API Club"
It should also be clear that the best way to support SDF's efforts in the Fediverse is to use the resources and to talk to your friends about why Decentralized, Federated social networking is better for us all. And while it is not at all necessary, any financial support through donations or membership on the SDF Public Access UNIX side is greatly appreciated and goes to our mission of "a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas".
[https://sdf.org/support](Not a Blue Check Mark / Not a Closed API Club)
Your keyboard is (probably) gross!
A ritual cleaning and cap refresh can be a spiritual experience
At one point in time the most common system on the INTERNET was the PDP-10, a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation int the 1960s. As the ARPAnet grew so did the number of interconnected PDP-10s. When the ARPAnet moved towards privatization in the 1980s companies such as Systems Concepts and Cisco Systems were working on developing the next generation of PDP-10. By 1984, DEC had turned their focus fully to the popular 32-bit VAX architecture with operating systems such as VMS and the thriving UNIX system. This left many PDP-10 hackers trying to figure out what to do with their octal counting and extra bits that they couldn't cram into VMS or UNIX comfortably.
Timesharing bureaus as such CompuServe, TymShare and Applied Data relied on the PDP-10 for their large service networks. CompuServe had System Concepts building SC20, SC30 and eventually SC40 units as replacements for DEC PDP-10s. In fact, CompuServe was growing so quickly, that they effectively licensed the design of the SC40 and began building them in house.
In 1994 there were still many PDP-10s running on the INTERNET, but their days were numbered. SDF users started project "TWENEX" as a way to continue a TOPS-20 system alternative to UNIX for the community. (more details can be read at https://twenex.org).
Today, SDF continues to run PDP-10s and offers access on a Systems Concepts SC-40 and an XKL Toad-2
The mission statement is so simple:
-=- a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas -=-
SDF in 2004
It was created from scratch by SDF user laemeur who is a graphic artist/illustrator. We made stickers based off this design that are available in the https://sdf.org/?store