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The best time for an update, while hopped up on candy , coffee, and playing trick or treat on the neighbours, enjoying family, friends or just a relaxing day. I hope wherever you are, you are enjoying the holiday season(s).

Reddthat has been super stable and nothing major to report except for pictrs crashing recently (as my lack of updates may have proven).

This sat in my drafts for way too long! But now's the time to finally update you all as there are actually items to update you on!

Moderation

The other admins haven't been online as much lately and I'm doing most of the moderation. So I may end up asking people if they would like to become administrators of reddthat. Mainly I need some people in US time zones and EU time zones. (Which should nearly be all of you 😅!). The majority of the work results in actioning reports and ensuring we don't let bots/people not even trying to read the application process into Reddthat.

If you would like a position, please PM me with:

• Your timezone/Active Hours
• What makes you a good candidate for an Admin. (Prev experience?)

Storage storage Storage. New Server!?

As I went to purchase the new server in June/July right after posting our last update the company IMMEDIATELY jacked up their prices. It must have been a typo because it's now for $135/m. Which would give us 2x500GB and 32GB of Ram. The processor is a Xeon E-2136 , which only comes with 12 threads! With a single thread rating of 2700, which is about double of what OVH is giving us.
So hopefully our database will be even faster once we make the change.

On OVH, we managed to finally get the storage increase and it's worked without any problems. Which was perfect timing really. We now sit at around 75% usage of our 200GB drive. So I'm hoping to get 2-3 more months out of it and pray to the tech gods there are some black friday dedicated server deals or even Christmas ones which will allow us to get a better deal.

And that was what happened. We managed to get a deal on a dedicated server in OVH which was around the $90/m . So only a little bit more than what we are paying now. Which is great. From a brief benchmark we get at least 1.5x faster CPU which equates to shorter scheduled tasks, faster queries, and more resources available to showing everyone their own subscriptions and memes. That's not inclusive of the 500GB ssds, which will allow for our database to grow to 2-3x our current total. Which means this should last us around 4-6 years (at the current growth of Lemmy as a whole).

I've been getting it working over the past 2 weeks Oz. We're taking this time to also upgrade to Debian Trixie, which is currently not supported by the Lemmy ansible repo. So I will be upstreaming that change once I fixed it. This includes keeping it up to date so that when we do the swap over in a week's time it will be as short as 5 minutes and as long as 15 minutes for the swap over to happen. I'm pretty sure it will be closer to 15mins as even at 1Gb/s our 100GB database will take around 800s to completely migrate at the theoretical maximum. (And a brief 15 minutes, is better than mucking around with postgres' HA).

This server change is probably going to happen on the 27th/28th. I'll add another post outlining the timeline on the day.

Cheers,
Tiff

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• August Costs: ~A$116
• September Costs: ~A$117
• October Costs: ~A$121 (Increased storage costs and falling AUD/USD)
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• Dec Costs: ~A$125

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Via Wayback machine as their site got hugged to death by Hacker News. But some lovely pictures people made on their internet connected thermal printer

While not technically YouTube drama it certainly has become drama.

Minio goes Source Only right before a nice CVE comes out for it leaving people who also paid for licences high and dry (if the comments can be believed)

Note by PHRACK STAFF:

A responsible disclosure was attempted to warn South Korea that China/North Korea has hacked them. The full article, dump and release schedule was shared with South Korea before it was published:

16th of June 2025, Informed Defense Counterintelligence Command.
26th of June 2025, Anonymous response from clearbear001 (dcc.mil.kr?).
16th of July 2025, Anonymous response from operation-dl (who is this?).
17th of July 2025, Informed KISA.
17th of July 2025, Informed Ministry of Unification.
17th of July 2025, Informed LG Uplus Corp.
18th of July 2025, Informed KrCERT.
1st of August 2025, Communication then ended abruptly.
14th of August 2025, The author received an ominous message via Signal, advising him that Proton is not secure (using a burner-phone). (Noticeable: The contact knew about “notfox”, a handle only shared with the South Korean government. Why the contact???).
15th of August 2025, Proton disables the whistleblower’s email account.
16th of August 2025, Proton disables the author’s email account.
18th of August 2025, The complaint fails. The appeal fails. Proton’s response: “your account will cause further damage to our service, therefore we will keep the account suspended”.
22nd of August 2025, Phrack vigorously tries to contact Proton-legal, Andy, and others at Proton. No response.
6th of September 2025, Phrack gives Proton 48h notice: Please respond, or we will try to reach you via social media.
9th of September 2025, Phrack reaches out to Proton on social media.
10th of September 2025, Proton re-enables both email accounts.

The email account was only used to communicate with South Korea. No ToS was violated. No crime was committed.

We trust that Proton will fix the appeal process and become more transparent. Don’t give up on Proton just yet.

So far Proton has not answered our emails or taken our calls. We wish to communicate and work this out together. This is not our first rodeo.

We thank the community for their support and courage.

Very interesting story.

Considering the time lines with the current ongoing S.Korean fires.

As we were originally trolled by OVH in the original server resources upgrade: https://reddthat.com/post/47931907

We now have confirmation that it will now be actioned.

Starting tomorrow, 28th September 00:00 to 01:00 UTC we will be upgrading.

This will be handled by OVH and is estimated (by them) to take between 30 to 60 minutes as it requires them to copy our storage to a (new?) system.

See you all then!

Countdown Link : https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/weekend?iso=20250928T00&p0=1440&msg=Maintenance&font=cursive&csz=1

Ps. Any update incase there are issues will be on our status page: https://status.reddthat.com/