@kemona_halftau seventeen colon zero zero

@gayfamicom I get it up until the last two

@kemona_halftau that's the sound cloudflares make

@maddy @ielenia If it’s the same one as the T480s, it apparently works with open-fprintd/python-validity. I haven’t tried it though, since it’s not packaged in Alpine and I probably wouldn’t trust fingerprint unlock anyway.

@nay @alyx Scaleway doesn't appear to have ARM yet and is quite a lot more expensive (except stardust): the cheapest option with 4GB RAM is €14.45/month (compared to Hetzner's €4.55/month CAX11, which is what I have) and that doesn't even seem to include storage (it's also only 300 Mbps, Hetzner doesn't advertise their network speed but it's faster than that).

Netcup looks better, but they should add smaller/cheaper ARM options. The cheapest is more expensive than Hetzner (€7.01/month in Austria) but also quite a bit larger than CAX11 and is currently out of stock. I'd consider it if I wanted to host more stuff there and it wasn't out of stock.

@seabass The times I've been on CrossCountry trains (mostly Cambridge <-> Stansted Airport, often late at night/early in the morning, and possibly also Cambridge <-> Ely a few times (I don't remember)) weren't busy at all so I didn't notice any of that, whereas the class 700 trains I've been on (Cambridge <-> various stations in London during the day) were much busier and a longer journey.

My problem with the class 700s is the lack of tables or armrests in standard class.

Next time I go to Stansted Airport I'll want to go by Greater Anglia rather than CrossCountry though, because it seems they replaced all their trains since 2019 and I've never been on a FLIRT or class 720.

@kemona_halftau foxes can meow too

@alyx do you have any recommendations for other providers in europe with similar pricing and without such onerous policies? (preferably one that offers aarch64 VPSes)

I currently use hetzner for several things, although I don't think that policy is likely to be used against any of them (IRC client/bouncer, secondary authoritative DNS server, nethack server, Tor relay that isn't currently running)

Unfortunately the nethack server means I'm kind-of locked in to aarch64 unless I want to use qemu-user emulation because save files are just structs dumped to a file and not portable at all

@alyx why not?

@woeisme yes, I do

@kemona_halftau meow

@nay technically bouncers aren’t required to stay connected 24/7, if you only use one device with a reliable internet connection that you never shut down you can just never close your client

@dee @Kthnx I use it!

@erincandescent @jonty

step 2 involves your IRC server disconnecting anyone who tries to login with emacs, irssi or basically any IRC client with a featureset stuck in 1993

Please do not do this. Also irssi’s featureset is not stuck in 1993, it even supports message-tags!

@thecrawford sometimes sellers forget to increase prices to account for RAM price increases so you can also sometimes get RAM cheaply this way

@thecrawford you can get old second-hand dell optiplexes (and other desktops), some of which even support coreboot/libreboot for that price (I got an optiplex 5050 SFF for £30 and ported to coreboot to it, which would be more than powerful enough for that)

@alyx any particular reason you're using the proprietary passmark memtest86 over the free memtest86+ fork?

@kemona_halftau Fetch from multiple instances and compare should catch most of them, but detecting them all is impossible. Someone could make a post that randomly returns something else 0.1% of the time, for example.