When I use a website as a source, at the time that I access it for information, I will also save a snapshot of it in the Wayback Machine. Ofc theres no guarantee that the Internet Archive will be able to survive, but the likelihood of that is probably far greater than some random website. So, if the link dies, one can still see it in the Wayback Machine. This also has the added benefit of locking in time what the source looked like when it was accessed (assuming one timestamps when they access the source when they cite it).

gestures passionately “Download Lemmy!”

I’m feeling warm and fuzzy for some reason.

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Thank you for pointing out, by example, a flaw in my original title 😆

Speed tests, in order to be accurate, need to download a reasonable amount from each server.

How much data does Reflector download for each test?

This is why:

it takes quite a while to sort through 200 mirrors.

It could simply be that Reflector isn’t overly efficient handling back-to-back tests. Perhaps there is a substantial idle period between tests that is eating up a large chunk of the total test time. Anecdotally, I have seen activity that suggests this in my network activity monitor — there are very short spikes and a comparatively long idle period in between.

You dont need one.

If one doesn’t want to make arbitrary decisions then yes evidence would be required.

You will never notice the difference between the fastest one yesterday and the fastest one today

Lost time is still lost time. I’d prefer to saturate my connection. Anything less is an inefficiency. Small losses in time add up.

If everyone did it every day that would be a significant load

Given that I update daily, I feel that the quick connection to the server to test it’s bandwidth at boot is rather insignificant.

The mirrors speeds don’t change that often to need to worry about always being on the absolute fastest.

Have there been any credible studies that have looked at the reliability of the mirrors? The reliability would give one an idea on how often they should refresh their mirrors.

Especially if you are updating the the background anyway

You’re updating in the background on Arch Linux?

Is it normal to run reflector regularly/on boot?

It’s normal enough that it comes with the Systemd Service that runs on boot. The ArchWiki also makes mention of it.

Not sure how often you reboot

Usually every day.

maybe once a week would be sufficient?

Whether it’s sufficient is mostly dependent on how volatile the mirrors are, which I’m not entirely aware of.

Facebook marketplace is the only reason I still have a Facebook account.

Fair point. I believe I was under the impression that this was an app rather than a served webpage. I suppose one can easily verify this by looking at how the “For You” algorithm works within the browser ­— all the code for functionality would be sent to the browser; though, it could potentially be obfuscated, which might be a pain.

Imo, tbf, Matrix is really more of a replacement for Discord than a direct competitor to something like Signal.

I could not be happier with Fedora.

It wasn’t trying to asses one’s happiness/satisfaction with their OS of choice, it was instead looking at the general life happiness of people, broken down by their OS of choice.

A T460 is good as well.

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping

That’s a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.

Interesting idea!

Now that’s a sequel! It reminds me of how Risk of Rain 2 is to Risk of Rain.

Fake.

All of the services that I host are for private use:

• Nextcloud
• FreshRSS
• Immich
• Jellyfin
• RSSBridge

And they are all behind Caddy, which reverse proxies and handles HTTPS. I’m not sure if it really counts as self-hosting, but I also use my server as a host for my backups with Borg. I also use it as a sort of central syncing point for Syncthing.

I did have a Pi-Hole at one point, but I kept running into issues with it — I may look into it again in the future.

At some point I’d like to try implementing some ideas that I’ve had for Homeassistant (a camera server with Frigate and some other automation things). Once federation has been implemented, I would like to host a Forgejo instance. I may also host a Simplex relay server, depending on how the app progresses. I’ve been considering hosting a Matrix instance, but I’m not sure yet.

At what location and using what stencil as a reference?

Out of curiosity, what made you choose Simplex over Matrix?