Haha. Yeah, it’s a lot.

If you have any thoughts on how to consolidate any of it, let me know.

Apologizes, I could have been clearer. I figured you would consider Codeberg git.

The information I wanted to convey was I don’t have any type of git with code in it, but I could use my already setup Codeburg account going forward.

I like the idea of keeping it private for a while, thanks :)

I already know where the bugs are I just need to implement their fixes. I don’t think anyone wants or should bother to spend their time fixing those bugs (especially when parts of the code are very inelegant at the moment).

Future bugs, I’m all for getting help. Haha.

Appreciate the review.

Yeah, that is one of the bugs I need to squash. It was fighting me and after trying to make it work, I just skipped it to come back to later.

Glad my post helped you find other bugs/issues. Hopefully, they are easy fixes for the devs.

No git. I did make a codeburg account to create an issue in a Foss program, so I could probably utilize that once the code isn’t horrific looking.

Is there a specific reason you want the git? I don’t mind sharing my code, just not sure anyone would be interested in it.

Thanks :)

Haha. Yeah, that’s in the plans.

My other weekly post on software has an automated “takeaways” summary at the top.

Once I figure out what the takeaways could be, I’ll program them in. I’m going to focus on bug squashing, to make sure the takeaways are accurate or as accurate as they can be, first though.

May have a manual “takeaways” in next week’s post, though.

Agreed. It’ll be interesting in a month to see if there is a significant dip in MAU or if it just looks like noise.

I was actually working on something to measure this today. I may have something for you tomorrow. Otherwise, it’ll probably be next week.

Update: I’ve gotten all the servers (Mbin, Piefed, Lemmy) and the stats for each (users, comments, posts). I’ll need to work to make that data into something useful.

Trivia: it takes about 6 minutes to request data from all ~300 servers.

Update 2: I found, I think, some interesting analyses (ex. retention efficiency, current vs. historical activity, etc.). Not sure how I’m going to fit 300 servers with 25-30 columns each in a post, though. Problem for next week.

Update 3: improved building the server list (now >500 servers) and found a couple more analyses that might be interesting. Working on the post script, finish tomorrow or Monday. Also, I’ve been grabbing the data daily so date/days could be another area of analysis.

Update 4: I have a plan for how to post the analysis, now just implementing it. May see the post tonight.

“Stronger” is stronger than before, not stronger than Russia. Which would be correct multiple times a year over the past 4+ years.

Though at this point it does look like Ukraine is probably the “stronger” of the two. That doesn’t mean they are going to use that strength to grind back territory at significant loses. They care about their personnel much more than Russia.

No, Russia isn’t going to “run out” of personnel or materials. They are going to see decreased production that cannot match demand, which has already happened with multiple items. For example tanks, they have run out of T72Bs and have to pull the T72As out of long term storage. There are only ~1000 72As but it’ll last them maybe a year.

The articles about them producing hundreds of “new” tanks are presenting retrofitted hulls (like the T72A) as “new”. In actuality, they only produce a couple dozen modern tanks a year and they mostly hold those in reserve.

For manpower, they can crypto-mobilize “small” numbers of personnel a month, but they can’t mobilize the masses without creating unrest which would likely overthrow Putin (which is why they’ve only had the 1 mobilization early in the war). The crypto-mobilization has been able to exceed loses for most of the war. The last 5? months though, the loses exceed the number of new recruits.

Fossil Fuel sales fund a large amount of the Russian federal government budget. Even with the huge spike in oil prices due to the Iran war, Ukraine’s “kinetic” sanctions has seen Russia only be able to take advantage of a small amount of the windfall. They have reduced their exports to keep their population happy, which reduces their overall operating budget. Their budget has already peaked and is set to decrease each year for the next few years (in the middle of a war), because Russia’s economy can’t handle it.

Those “forever wars” you mention are not continuous kinetic wars, so I’m not sure they apply in this situation.

I agree when the end of the war comes is a political question, but each day brings Russia closer to the point where they are fed up with the war and want it to end by Ukrainian acceptable standards. Putin is unlikely to every give up, but if he ceases to exist, I expect Russian negotiations won’t be far behind.

From my understanding, Russia is running out of gas and their economy suffering significantly.

Ukraine is getting stronger and better defended. If they run out of money, they may be in some trouble, but that doesn’t seem to be looking likely anytime soon (large influx of EU money coming soon).

Ukraine can trade small amounts of land to allow Russia to grind its self down (Pyrrhic victory after Pyrrhic victory). Eventually Russia won’t be able to sustain their momentum and can be pushed back then (already seeing some evidence of this beginning).

Edit: spelling

They’d also have a very contentious discussion community.

!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Edit: fixed link.

Edit 2: for clarity, I’m saying the topic is contentious (going to get very opinionated points of view), not saying anything about the mods/admins/users.

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My understanding is that anything that is using activity pub to communicate is the fediverse.

Software, instance, or channel that isn’t actively communicating via activity pub, is not the fediverse.

Software, instance, or channel that is actively using activity pub to communicate (even if they are using other methods too), is the fediverse.

I’ve never read the activity pub documentation, so maybe there is more to it than that, but the above is my current understanding.

So looking at “/nodeinfo/2.1” on a couple random servers, they have “localposts”, “localcomments”, and users: “activemonthly”, “activehalfyear”, and “total”.

Without admin access, someone could get what your asking for, but it would be an overall rather than a current snapshot. If someone wanted to do it, they could daily track the changes in comments, posts, and MAU. From there we could calculate a variety of ‘activity’ levels for each instance.

I’m semi curious what we’d see, but I don’t think curious enough to code a script and run it daily. Maybe if I made a ‘server’ from an old laptop, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on it happening.

Had another thought. If you could remote into their server could they not remote into your server?

I’m thinking this could be a good gateway trial option for clients. You set up services on your server and give them limited time access to the server to use the FOSS software. If they want, after the trial they can transfer their data. You then wipe the server to ensure their data is erased.

Also, an option I’m not sure you’d be excited about. You host everything for them and offer the service of using your server for their business needs (rather than just a trial). May be less headache in the long run (less overall hardware means less overall issues, presumably).

For the running of software on your server, I believe there are companies that do that already for the fediverse instances. May be worth looking at and seeing what they offer and for what price.

I think this could be a thing, but I feel getting the word out would be the hard part.

Maybe going to small business/incubator business networking events could provide potential clients. Getting in touch with incubators in general would probably be good, as they can pass word to their clients. Colleges and universities may be another avenue of getting the word out to potential new small businesses.

Also to consider, if it’s for businesses, there would need to be data redundancy. Otherwise, I feel, it would be a nonstarter. Data recovery/access to redundancy would likely need to be automated or very easy to do, otherwise you’re probably looking at irate calls in the middle of the night.

I wasn’t think of changing/adding the code base, but yeah, that wouldn’t seem to be too difficult to someone who knew the language.

That would be nice to have. I think each instance admin would have to figure that out and provide it for their server and then someone come along and aggregate the results.

Without getting admins involved, I suppose each server’s average posts or comments per MAU could be a calculatable metric.

It has seemed a bit less active, to me, the last week or two. The MAU are monthly, so if, for example, there was something that caused people to take a break last week, we wouldn’t see it for another 3 weeks.

Language Transfer is free and teaches you why the language is the way it is rather than just memorization.

My recollection is you can get to a 3000 word conversational level much faster than via straight memorization (ex. Duolingo).