1 February 2024 could see a large increase in IPv6 usage. From that date, Amazon (AWS) will charge for using IPv4 and it's going to be quite expensive. Until now it has been essentially free.

Each server you run typically needs one IPv4 address. The price for this one address will be comparable to the price of running the server itself, essentially doubling the cost of running a Friendica, Pleroma, etc server.

I think IPv6 will still be free.

The solutions like NAT and Elastic Load Balancer are expensive. The NAT service (for outgoing connections) only becomes cost effective over ten servers. ELB (as an Application Load Balancer for incoming connections) only over five servers; but in that case you still need a NAT as well, and you would need to allow Amazon to manage your SSL certificates.

Other solutions: set up a single reverse proxy (nginx) for all apps including an outgoing proxy, setting up an Instance Connect Endpoint for your private (ssh) needs, or just finally switch to IPv6.
#AWS #SelfHosting #IPv4 #IPv6

4 - 3 - 1 - Blast off
-- Holly

#RedDwarf

Visited Glow in Eindhoven yesterday evening. This is the annual public event with art installations based around the theme of light (as Eindhoven is essentially built on light bulbs). I liked that the route was more compact this year, so it became more of an experience than separate installations with quite some walking between them as in other years. I disliked that the route was badly indicated (or maybe signs had been changed) so I got lost many times and in the end was only at around three quarters after 2.5 hours walking when at 23:00 the installations started to switch off. Rushed passed the final ones...

When looking up searching for signs on lampposts, I didn't see a low wall and fell over it down the more than a meter depth on the other side, full cartoon style. Didn't break anything, miraculously, just some bruises and a bit shaken. I even had my camera in my hand which also wasn't damaged. I should apply for a stunt person job in films...
#Glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2023

They stand around soaping themselves
-- Kryten

#RedDwarf

Occasionally Friendica has old posts in the timeline, e.g. when it refreshes pinned posts from a profile. But ever since yesterday there've been a lot more like:

5 years ago (Received 6 minutes ago)
...
15 years ago (Received 35 minutes ago)
...

From many different accounts. Seems like all of a sudden several people have gotten nostalgic and are resharing their old posts. Don't know what it is, maybe something in the weather, maybe escapism from today's world...

I had been looking into alternative mailbox services where you can use your own domain. Gandi went from free with your domain to costing about €60 yearly and is now about the most expensive I can find. Proton Mail is around €50, Tuta around €40. The latter is for three domains, the others cost that amount per domain. Several others seem to be between those numbers, and then there is disroot's not very confidence inducing "12 coffees".

Anyone know a mailbox service (imap or app, own domain) that beats Tuta's pricing of €3/month?

(Some prices rounded up to nearest round number so I can remember them)

It's really great that BBC 2 are repeating Red Dwarf. They're doing series 2, or Red Dwarf II in official parlance, and yesterday we had the episode Queeg.

I still have my boxset of series I to VIII to watch. Instead of starting at the beginning, I'll start with where Red Dwarf started for me: the sixth series. That's the one with them flying the "Starbug".
#RedDwarf #NowWatching

Gandi wants €60,- to keep your email address, for a domain you have already paid for.

(Technically you also keep your email address if you don't pay, but you can't use it to send mail, which I think is rather essential)

Jenna Ortega won the Breakthrough Award at the Women of the Year Awards by Harper's Bazaar! She received the award from Tim Burton. Here she is in that night's portrait studio in a photo by Rachel Louise Brown, published here by the magazine. See the announcement on their Instagram.

New promo photo of Jenna Ortega for the upcoming film Finestkind, posted by their Instagram account.

Yeah, Jenna is a real standout even when she's sitting...
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind

I don't use ad blockers, but I seem to have made myself so uninteresting to advertisers, that I often see large blank spaces on sites where the adverts normally go. This is in part by declining cookies ("I have cookies at home") and in part by just being uninteresting.

This is e.g. how the recent article I shared looks to me:

It may seem I always initially forget to enter tags on my PeerTube posts, but I don't. It's just that you need to 'hit the enter key' to fill in the tags and there's no 'enter key' to hit on my phone. Tapping the button on my touchscreen keyboard doesn't work...

So it'll have to wait till next time I'm at a computer.

A post by Alyssa Milano on Instagram alerted me to this clip of an upcoming podcast (this Tuesday on YouTube and their podcast channel) by Pod Save America, where President Obama is the guest. Here he speaks some truths about the complexities of the Gaza situation in relation to people trying to debate it on social media. He puts it much better than I ever can.

I'm embedding the video on PeerTube, since most people here don't like to go to Instagram. But the original Instagram link is in the description if you want it.
#BarackObama #Gaza #PodSaveAmerica

Gidi's PeerTube: President Obama on the violence in Gaza and Israel (Mirror Mirror)

President Obama speaking about the complexities of reacting to the violence in Gaza and Israel, while we're trying to have these conversations on social media. As always he puts it much better than I ever can.

Great interview in Harper's Bazaar UK with Jenna Ortega, not about her films due to the strike, but about her career and her life, about the past and future, about her 21st birthday which was the first in a long time she was not working, about never being home, about representation, and about what she wants in the future. I like reading about her thoughts, she's a deep thinker.

Great photoshoot by Agata Pospieszynska as well. She's one of five cover stars for the 'Awards edition'.
harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/f…

Rewatching Dark Places because I recorded it off tv recently and it has Chloë Grace Moretz in it somewhere. Though you have to wait until 30 minutes into the film for her to show up, but then it instantly feels less dreary.

I can't quite remember the story from the first time I saw it, except maybe that it was indeed 'dark'. Chloë did much dark stuff in her youth (in films I mean).
#ChloëGraceMoretz #DarkPlaces

Also, why does a post get federated with the wrong accounts of people tagged as well, even though I removed these before posting and these tags don't show up in the post on the origin server?

And why does Mastodon show images of a cw'd post even though the cw is collapsed, while Pleroma does it right?

And why don't post scopes work properly between platforms...

So many little incompatibilities can pop up in this fediverse thing.

@dansup fyi, and I don't consider it a problem for me, but the Pixelfed Android app installed from f-droid (1.0.0.37) triggers a warning by the Lookout scanner. It says the signing key is accessible to multiple developers. I guess this is just a result of releasing via f-droid. However, I'm not getting this message on any other apps I got from f-droid.

For the warning, see screenshot.

In related news: in the past you needed to type well into her last name before type ahead search results on the various sites considered you might be meaning "Jenna Ortega", but I can report that now for IMDb "Jen" is enough and for Netflix a simple "Je".

The autocomplete on my phone needs nothing more than "J", or in fact just a #, but that's years of training...
#JennaOrtega

Now watching Karen Gillan twice in Dual. I haven't seen this before but from what I gather the premise of this film is that in some sci-fi future, before someone dies, they can have their whole being copied into a new body. Karen's character is in that situation and does that, but then she doesn't die but her copy also doesn't want to go away. Karen plays both the original and the copy.

Karen Gillan is of course known as one of the great companions from Doctor Who: Amy. (There have been many... Clara, Rose, Martha, Yaz, Ace...)
#KarenGillan #Dual

From that post I recently shared, with the interview with Queen Rania, I also like to highlight the quote:

There can never be a resolution except around the negotiating table. And there's only one path to this: a free, sovereign, and independent Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the state of Israel.

These are words I can get behind. Better worded than some loaded slogans.