2026-04-28T20:19:37+02:00 https://nostr.ae Codeberg https://nostr.ae/npub1fh736ae0xzk98s59wggazdpqg0g78mg2rwk7qf87ew96cqhc4lrst3ee83 https://social.anoxinon.de/system/accounts/avatars/109/202/640/476/784/483/original/31b22459c9f5e3d2.png https://social.anoxinon.de/system/accounts/avatars/109/202/640/476/784/483/original/31b22459c9f5e3d2.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsftyewrwnf7g4j5pz0rxv3zdt9z43dvh7ysdzq8ra8xzatfsqjhpgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwsaxgux Every couple of months, a couple of us come together to write down what we&#39;ve been working on behind the scenes. The last time we did that was June. There are many exciting things (for us, at least!) that have happened since; you can read all about them in the update that we are sharing with you today:<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html">https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html</a> 2025-11-22T01:25:11+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdj9t8qa0jg83pfrp2q4vkguxxx38fmts9thqvvuz2zx6s9skj73szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwzvaw76 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8zstpwer0glz7gj333fjhd4qnzu8h053n5wq9wvvf8arhj86st7qfntgj6'>nevent1q…tgj6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unfortunately, we are still struggling with the changes. We had unexpected issues with our database cluster, because synchronizing the indices across nodes failed. However, we are approaching the finish line. 2025-11-18T21:11:34+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8zstpwer0glz7gj333fjhd4qnzu8h053n5wq9wvvf8arhj86st7qzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwtw2hjg Hey everyone! Codeberg will go down for about 10 minutes starting 19.00 UTC (20.00 CET) to create database indices which are expected to improve performance. This requires a short interruption of service.<br/><br/>We apologize for the inconvenience and short notice. 2025-11-18T18:53:03+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszgjj904sjwylr5m3m54ng3havygut9ryzukeq9jfcfsjdstwaz4qzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw4p995x There will be several short interruptions in service during the next 24 hours. Each should not last more than a few minutes.<br/><br/>We are performing scheduled hardware maintenance, replacing 1 of 3 physical servers. You can find the current status at <a href="https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg">https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg</a> 2025-11-12T20:23:05+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxc6pxd58vf9qlvt9nahkxjcyxkjq257dwfgau8v0xcgz4dmgazeszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwr3q0dp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszvwnx46tj4c4uc4j7yxccp0jhvtwglwnd3g0nzedgjg4e2fsu2nswzh00q'>nevent1q…h00q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>vielleicht! bitte contact@codeberg.org anschreiben, wenn das einfach für euch ist :) ~n 2025-10-13T00:11:12+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgxpl4z380hgz08vydmphq7jmu3pef502syqx2tu0ndclcnknprvgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw3uax76 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspwl0adqr5w2fvx25ns3ln75m7uqnlq37w0hctpud49lqltyhph3cagck5t'>nevent1q…ck5t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Small hiccup, should be fixed now. Sorry! ~n 2025-09-08T07:46:11+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqzflvcdwlyp95asncqj76vamamrrnfthvuzrhf8wxe4mf0rx38cqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwtqwvyg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswgr7ynu7v3vfuf4jmaze24hnaq44n2r38uj58upf546smz3kgezg64fr0e'>nevent1q…fr0e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We heard about some people using .github/README.md.<br/><br/>We note that the repository is open-source and there are many potential contributions that we need help with. This is absolutely one of them, and it&#39;s high-impact. ~n 2025-09-06T16:57:27+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0j73t7xt8kwfnn3etay045yt8s4lyv0efj078jrgtkvv0da6k8lszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw7paasa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs99cwgscdwdtc20prdh9hagenar34a6gsd63xpda5paud46ce276sl9rpch'>nevent1q…rpch</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can&#39;t work on the cool things without setting the groundwork first. That&#39;s also the reason why the first step was federated stars – one has to adjust a fork of a project of a fork of another project with more than a decade of history.<br/><br/>That&#39;d be a problem, no matter the protocol chosen. ~n 2025-09-06T12:11:02+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9lnvvgkr3ahcfssclujlpsyjjltlytduxnnjd9p4xt0akm27f2lczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwuwrvnk If not now, then when?<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/">https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/</a> 2025-09-06T09:06:52+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2cl2y7k3wdcuuxftm0y6s6y9uyvuqvg5x55xqcss73qec2ldlz2szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwm20nup In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5h2j3x4ejq5tgu3wr2zj28dyn6yeu3tzxju23pwu23xzpwpd8vs9apkf4'>nevent1q…pkf4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No. We fixed our config. Now we&#39;re blocking the offending IP ranges directly. ~f 2025-08-15T21:57:37+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswfed9yhukyf59ezte062dqcxyyfvymsukv9vqz6dhtg873ykjezgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwt25mtm We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.<br/><br/>The good news: We&#39;re keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we&#39;re happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again. 2025-08-15T18:43:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrwyq54ppw4ad6ge7us5u7tex6vm83fhlexnkrx33t0rultktfmyqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwvlttlm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsftaj3lmvm330jw5ek8pw0cyjdzl9qppp9xdusyag8yrnj3ztnxwq0m2uck'>nevent1q…2uck</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The 1637 votes are in. &#34;codeberger&#34; and &#34;codeburger&#34; got far too close. For the sake of entertainment (and with the risk of jeopardizing our democratic image)...<br/><br/>It&#39;s time to settle this for once and for all. You know what to do. 2025-08-13T00:21:53+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxmqvdlvjlvkphn5p4sjy6uexl98x429gfzcfvze7u32vr2mgrmaszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwfhctq9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrjetjcze0mw9nhnz4ae0um95z23x7p52gyj02kssr76xvzql7xcswk4tv2'>nevent1q…4tv2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you for raising this point together with many others (and for the feedback), it is really helpful. :) ~n 2025-08-12T20:23:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyghmaprggs85ldgdylpdyd8de3gv924fk2npecfpc5v0nx46w7nczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwtgk26t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf4dql08t4q4c66jsfw4jdsjmwz5zlcdaeh5m527mk0serl9s4yrchz2s6e'>nevent1q…2s6e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>BTW, we have just reworked our FAQ on the private repo matter. I hope this clarifies the situation slightly better than before: <a href="https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F">https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F</a><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1m7m3f90p4y6ff94jyh5swxx9de2m3anangf79md92n96a5m4dx5qqd2e7k" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1m7m…2e7k</span>)</a></span> 2025-08-12T20:14:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgcl4v840alhhacgpv2jrfeg8kd9yqq69a5snygczsydlntungjvczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw79q5j0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszwh037rmetjd33mxkjp4cq89mu5r7lwc2ept5ynmnlndhymzpvzq9s3u49'>nevent1q…3u49</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ll leave the link here again: <a href="https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F">https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F</a><br/><br/>Personal repositories are fine, but for other matters, we would suggest either an alternative Forgejo instance or self-hosting Forgejo and using &#34;push mirrors&#34; for your desired platforms. ~n<br/><br/><a href="https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#public-instances">https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#public-instances</a> 2025-08-12T09:17:12+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf3g743ef5awkxf0qekpv6mc3j238m2675l6jfz0xfr5760klr4hczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwa0v5jm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvw3fes0lfvsglkv25kmyq24c59wjjzfewsqjg4vv9g2vfaul4e7gkncdtp'>nevent1q…cdtp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>See: <a href="https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F">https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F</a> ~n 2025-08-12T09:03:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsftaj3lmvm330jw5ek8pw0cyjdzl9qppp9xdusyag8yrnj3ztnxwqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw3y30ge In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstayklw4tvj93hnzq83wccka3v3ndxelwxve09yvkl7fzyztaftfq6fhhk6'>nevent1q…hhk6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Choose a nickname (for science): 2025-08-12T00:09:12+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstwltxs4x7cmu9zm7x520vz38r0yhhemwlale0ftmmlfp866tq5yqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwl0xj4f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx28wj9e7uynuql66lal7759u3h35hshzrajr8qtz9elxqzm6h3sc86sm9d'>nevent1q…sm9d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hey, thanks for letting us know. This should be fixed now. ~n 2025-08-10T11:06:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdthejdhmk8k4v99gtcf8425vcnt5qxgp4jcnvp9w4ymhr2unf05qzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw236d9n Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀<br/><br/>Great news, ours is looking for new members: <a href="https://codeberg.org">https://codeberg.org</a> 2025-08-07T20:13:47+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs959xkzg43vk7mg78ewxzwc6wyzjr6ee0vt6ylhjwvuvtamggdvcczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwmg9unw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvxmqfgnnf63j0e0qn5kxants9gggycscyfe57wvwp7w55qusjyzc5g6rg3'>nevent1q…6rg3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hmm, no specific reason. Galera sounded like better suiting our needs (a three-node multi-primary cluster, because Forgejo has no builtin tooling to separate reads and writes so far). 2025-04-16T20:25:41+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp2kz9rl27vnpp8wzw2lsg2pnm3phnyqcw3q0lkzahf7k0rgvj0lqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw0r2qel In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgl39vuyvwrwpf4dsk722x4u248egklv2zsvanz0n7fag99pyql9qhdzyrv'>nevent1q…zyrv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What do you mean by &#34;standard replication&#34;? 2025-04-16T18:26:23+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs806czm48ftpgkg0ezknz04suad0m62hxghpe8lnrrczu25ah963qzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwxqu58l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg65t3lw2zsf90h323ysyenf9rddq5g2mrpm5eyus2jggy7e50kmg2e8fz9'>nevent1q…8fz9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We seem to have had luck manually recovering some internal files and initializing a sync. It will run for a while, but it looks promising. 2025-04-16T17:36:54+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg65t3lw2zsf90h323ysyenf9rddq5g2mrpm5eyus2jggy7e50kmgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwqktp8j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2w0mavmtvsx6wqfv0hxhmaen9c33qeck4puxeex5r8q4stseftycerwyn3'>nevent1q…wyn3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>While we have already restored the server from a hardware failure, we&#39;re having struggle reconnecting the node to our Galera (MariaDB database) cluster. The issue seems to be independent. 2025-04-16T17:23:44+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2w0mavmtvsx6wqfv0hxhmaen9c33qeck4puxeex5r8q4stseftyczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwrhnjk6 Today is an unlucky day for Codeberg, we&#39;re having a little bit of trouble with various systems.<br/><br/>We&#39;re working on restoring service availability ASAP. Thank you for your patience. 2025-04-16T15:32:38+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswfhz42yrc6h6e5lhxg3dxkk6krf24upvaraa860apnrwjmwg4s7szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwp92pez 🔔 Heads up: There will be scheduled hardware maintenance today starting around 19.00 CEST / 17.00 UTC.<br/><br/>We expect no significant impact on service availability (in fact we already simulated the maintenance without issues by rebooting the affected machines today), but please keep in mind that there could be a period of degraded performance or short outage during this time (e.g. try to avoid long-running migrations today and postpone if you can). 2025-04-03T15:50:15+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfak4tewvlzmngw0hte83e3wtfn28rkq7kfm7pxmf0kp9chfrypcczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw5e7atw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08e5cmjd57am0t0a4sq90kw7lnu6r64vd3c40xalpuyga2nuek3q9sgtlv'>nevent1q…gtlv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The main node (donor node) needs to be started in bootstrap mode, and restarted when config changes, so it required several restarts for testing.<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10dxldjevdq8rkspz8nnuzqxxyv2jrxz649dfnv5fhpfcm79jepmsddlqh8" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Scott Leggett :fedi: :golang:</span> (<span class="italic">npub10dx…lqh8</span>)</a></span> 2025-03-28T21:02:42+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszrflcgre6303jl3g3zyac7qcygzu3rsr6e8sa728h5fq2ufzl43szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwktzps6 A few days ago, we started converting our single-instance MariaDB database to a three-node Galera cluster. However, we had difficulties synchronizing the setup to the other nodes, and our experiments resulted in several short downtimes of our main service.<br/><br/>While our tests on various test clusters always worked, we never managed to reproduce it on the production one. It kinda drove us crazy.<br/><br/>Now we finally figured it out, and we can proceed with next steps towards load-balancing. 2025-03-28T14:47:35+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsquqa2aae6eevac9sz8pk6f4d6vzd9jltn98nwqhvxrgd7g2nq49gzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwfs5t3m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0n9a9l0xjcrpxfhnr282mnkr8vrswdh948yyrkjxlxktfngy4g6qnn4y70'>nevent1q…4y70</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>1. It is not free software and breaks the mission of Codeberg. We promise to only run free/libre software and not business code crippleware.<br/>2. It is unlikely that newer versions of Redis will be available in Debian GNU/Linux due to the changed software license, so we might need to migrate anyway sooner or later. 2025-03-19T13:24:39+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2ks3v5g0cfxat8dr3nsm2y0xp6ne46k69u89nxqnsj5vlg0yndxszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwz6pzsw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs239q83w9d4p0qh5pk9k2sdshh4xk5yrr0u5usjgy8dcdpzkcedzqt0j4r6'>nevent1q…j4r6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Codeberg is up again. We&#39;ll now start the replication of the database to multiple instances, which might have negative impact on the performance for the next hours. 2025-03-19T11:44:17+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs239q83w9d4p0qh5pk9k2sdshh4xk5yrr0u5usjgy8dcdpzkcedzqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw4pk995 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdcryvrvax4u3vzjngmtxs98la9sptawwkhvnfqtaqcu0k2wpnskg8m4gpu'>nevent1q…4gpu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>✅ Done: Migration from #Redis to #Redict for caches<br/>⏳ In Progress: Migration from MariaDB to Galera Cluster 2025-03-19T11:26:50+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdcryvrvax4u3vzjngmtxs98la9sptawwkhvnfqtaqcu0k2wpnskgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw8rx6la Codeberg is going down for scheduled database maintenance. Please enjoy your break.<br/>We expect to be back in a few minutes. 2025-03-19T11:20:17+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgcjcp96znqgr94mclqqc05lh4ztswuvg8u54cjg649c05pjx8paszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwmze8ly Hi everyone, for several hours we are currently fighting with potentially malicious crawling. We are seeing distributed access on Codeberg that could have been crawling, however it seems to only use the most expensive routes. And each time we block an access pattern, a new one pops up immediately.<br/><br/>We are doing our best to keep the performance up. 2025-03-07T16:29:27+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswp2wun7fqz0en70eyx4k6kd6wqmqe6hv9tua4uflsu9hnykagz7czypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwh0q9fx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszduyax3q5kcs5lh23us2h5gj74ujyktflxrt6dm5ngczugaftqzqe2xtep'>nevent1q…xtep</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Bad news: DDoS has followed to the new location.<br/>Good news: There, we have at least basic DDoS protection.<br/>Bad news: The server is still unreachable.<br/><br/>We have received first numbers. The DDoS is apparently about 11Gbit/s over UDP traffic currently. 2025-02-13T18:40:41+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszduyax3q5kcs5lh23us2h5gj74ujyktflxrt6dm5ngczugaftqzqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwt4tr95 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqn5vef9gyc9kdz26rtj4thty7ph57lceufchf78d9hqgghwnw3gs6qzvd6'>nevent1q…zvd6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We appreciate all the love and support we receive from you, thank you so much.<br/><br/>However, the sad story is, that this day was a massive disruption for most people who develop software on a serious level on Codeberg, from large Free/libre software projects to companies and freelancers, and we are sorry about this.<br/><br/>We acknowledge if this makes you want to move elsewhere, but we&#39;re of course happy about everyone who can stay ❤️. 2025-02-13T18:26:03+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqn5vef9gyc9kdz26rtj4thty7ph57lceufchf78d9hqgghwnw3gszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw8snpka In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrc34d4djcl55d6vzguuhrtm5pfcfcqgf0wrgpw0z3ufcyw3fvvvs6rswx9'>nevent1q…swx9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We have finally reached a somewhat stable level of operation. In the past hours, we managed to partially restore service, but mostly managed to do so only for a subset of our users (due to DNS propagation delays and IPv6 vs IPv4 connectivity differences).<br/><br/>Currentely, Codeberg is available for all the situations we monitor for, and we expect that most connectivity issues will be resolved soon after all DNS caches clear. 2025-02-13T18:21:12+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyfsgkq5pt08s5w72xxd0pd35hc3svyl3z7f5e6l8n5zj4xcm8y5szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw94wa78 We have published a new newsletter about our current activity: <a href="https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-2025.html">https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-2025.html</a><br/><br/>* Meet us at #FOSDEM in Brussel and get stickers for you and your friends!<br/>* Learn about our infrastructure improvements, networking and #Ceph storage.<br/>* Read about other news from the past months. 2025-01-30T14:25:01+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs00esqs0d3r3vca8lpx8qxztcvwus4l72aexx74e66up6wp45yddgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw084ukg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5mhyqrte4xq66a20esuryeggf79z96a8wcfz2wnqk33rrkpxnucnwn4y8'>nevent1q…n4y8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We have restored service, but we are currently having issues with IPv6 connectivity (so down to #GitHub service levels only).<br/><br/>We will fix this as soon as possible.<br/><br/>The good news: Since we recently improved our Ceph setup, recovery of the service was much quicker than before, because the server could immediately reconnect to the three server ring. 2025-01-23T14:23:50+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq5mhyqrte4xq66a20esuryeggf79z96a8wcfz2wnqk33rrkpxnuczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwfyz60f Hi everyone, we apologize for the current downtime. Our host refuses to detect one of the RAID boot drives and doesn&#39;t boot up properly. We are still investigating.<br/><br/>Since we recently extended our setup, we could in worst case restore on one of the other hosts. However, the database is not clustered yet, so we&#39;ll first try to bring up the primary instance. 2025-01-23T14:18:53+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfv2z5vy7e73yn04jcj44jh200rcdhz2hell54t73w93f6vw372fgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw0nv9y5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrhjght8k4296x2resq7vfs02jj8h2s7wwrjaekc0qc084g38z79q300yan'>nevent1q…0yan</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We are back online. I hope you all enjoyed the break. 2025-01-21T14:54:41+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrhjght8k4296x2resq7vfs02jj8h2s7wwrjaekc0qc084g38z79qzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwwujfzn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf2nteyazq5a8vmc69gv87pvkxdxf0zg5hkzszqu25tz5xqf54f8cecsxx9'>nevent1q…sxx9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>… To prevent any damage and inconsistencies because of failing queries, we have temporarily disabled access to Codeberg.org while the conversion is running.<br/><br/>We don&#39;t have a good estimate about how long this will take, but the largest tables are converted and we expect the operation to complete within some minutes.<br/><br/>We apologize for the oversight and the interruption to your workflows. Thank you for your patience and support. 2025-01-21T14:44:33+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf2nteyazq5a8vmc69gv87pvkxdxf0zg5hkzszqu25tz5xqf54f8czypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw9m7hmx Hey everyone, we apologize for the current unexpected downtime.<br/><br/>We have had a long-standing issue where certain data could not be stored properly. For example, Git allows users to have both a main and a MAIN branch (different casing), but Codeberg could not store it, because our database was case-insensitive.<br/><br/>We have been preparing and testing a fix (which is currently converting the database tables). However, we missed that certain operations would fail during the migration.<br/><br/>… 2025-01-21T14:43:07+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswm7u7rm7eds9th7hdl3trsr4fgrhfndk7p2n6em9mudwcaq9hw2szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwj2exfk 🔔 Heads-up: There is currently a #phishing campaign targeting #Codeberg users.<br/><br/>If you receive a notification that insults you and your project for poor code quality, combined with an offer to &#34;fix&#34; the problems when you send some money, please ignore and report to us: Mention &#34;@moderation&#34; in response to the issue or forward the email to abuse@codeberg.org.<br/><br/>We are trying to stay ahead of the noise before the notifications are sent. 2024-12-20T14:59:17+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqwtt0k9tm9zu0vm4swvatlcre4kts8lat4l60r7drm5ldjqdh99gzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwvgkcke In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xmsw283yk7qz2wczpg2lfqzmkpvyke2uksl29a9nzyh8530u2ggr0kgyw'>nevent1q…kgyw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We were not able to identify the actor who is causing the high load on our systems. We have made the hard decision to temporarily shut off access to a certain project to keep Codeberg available for everyone else.<br/><br/>As soon as we allow web access to a certain project, our system resources are used up within seconds. 2024-11-30T05:55:36+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8xmsw283yk7qz2wczpg2lfqzmkpvyke2uksl29a9nzyh8530u2ggzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwl6h3as Honestly, we are currently out of ideas on how to restore access to Codeberg.org.<br/><br/>We are fighting with extreme traffic and high load for several hours now, we have done the typical procedure to identify and block misbehaving AI crawlers.<br/><br/>However, we are currently having a hard time figuring out details about the ongoing high traffic situation. 2024-11-30T05:26:51+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvup22y8czk4t9ar9lztclnyl3ajvkglyxewzg7zwjefad22ckplqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw98sukk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspjvn2q89guuu23045mljj6jqknf2qhc77up259tp4g2y6enes8qq6kcpag'>nevent1q…cpag</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To answer the initial question: This is what makes us nerds happy (in case you didn&#39;t expect an answer like this). An interesting experiment for us, too.<br/><br/>What this means in the long run for Codeberg? We&#39;re finally - thanks to the expertise and help of some volunteers - ready to expand our hardware infrastructure, making Codeberg more resilient to certain kinds of issues and improving availability in the long run.<br/> <img src="https://social.anoxinon.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/318/761/212/433/840/original/9ffaab98c012326a.jpg"> <br/> 2024-10-16T21:34:57+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy4vaw8en0pp8p9t4t70jqxr0cj53swgeftea8u438r9cynqzwnkczypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw537u3j #ServiceToot: Codeberg&#39;s uptime is about 99.92% (two weeks average). Not perfect, but surely good enough for a donation-driven non-profit.<br/><br/>What do you think? ~f 2024-08-27T13:39:03+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsya3hlcgr3rhzwz0n9n6pm83xa9lljfskx92p86t0khsmd7mutm6czypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwm4xc77 Join us playing #HurryCurry together: Check it out from <a href="https://codeberg.org/hurrycurry/hurrycurry">https://codeberg.org/hurrycurry/hurrycurry</a> and have some fun with us (playing now, live).<br/><br/>(We tested the flatpak version, feel free to ping if you have trouble joining)<br/><br/>#Codeberg #LibreGaming #linuxgaming #Godot #Gaming #foss_gaming #CommunitySpotlight<br/> <img src="https://social.anoxinon.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/001/659/587/706/624/original/7e12d4b1c65c3d7f.jpg"> <br/> 2024-08-21T21:35:54+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs07gvx2n2t6nclsaurenl55lsgj2l09fcvr5fewcrvyd2cw9jqmcgzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw7f8c6w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zc2sdgjduwaqeee5rfs8ypqn8n268tvywlz6p5uuzr7ll0ajcsqkycg36'>nevent1q…cg36</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As we have received a bunch of questions on the matter: If you&#39;d like to explore machine learning and AI in the context of free and libre software (perhaps from a less commercialized perspective), you&#39;re absolutely welcome to use Codeberg.<br/><br/>We explicitly welcome researchers and solutions that are built more ethically. In general, we also love software that doesn&#39;t take lots of resources to run! As nuance can get lost fast, feel free to just ask us if you have any questions or concerns! 2024-08-04T00:20:33+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9zc2sdgjduwaqeee5rfs8ypqn8n268tvywlz6p5uuzr7ll0ajcsqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwq5lm60 If Codeberg is trying to &#34;compete&#34; against GitHub and GitLab, why does it refuse to take a look at AI assistants? Apart from infringing on authors&#39; rights and questionable output quality, we think that the current hype wave led by major companies will leave a climate disaster in its wake: <a href="https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/">https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/</a><br/><br/>Other _sustainable_ (and cheaper!) ways for increasing efficiency in software development exist: In-project communication, powerful automation pipelines and reducing boilerplate. 2024-08-02T18:48:37+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv4r8alvxtfva9fhq5euuhvw0amnr65qp86r8jfetnqkndthyeh3czypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw0stg5u EU citizens, your vote for the European Parliament election matters much more than you might think.<br/><br/>From #ChatControl and #EUGoingDark all the way down to #ClimateCrisis: Some important decisions are due.<br/><br/>We noticed populist right-wing forces co-opting &#34;open-source&#34; by &#34;supporting its adoption&#34;.<br/><br/>However, they stand for isolationism (hidden behind &#34;tech sovereignty&#34;), and against international collaboration, openness and transparency; which are what makes #FreeSoftware awesome.<br/><br/>Choose wisely! 2024-06-08T16:21:40+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxmfnfv6xmqans0vxtjwukyh5jyxy096644gdjqvnnfe6jenyv3aszypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwnm8jc2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0kcdkqh50q5a8u24f0rdhjq5k2umaasq5fu0j084fk68tk0jdkzqjh57v4'>nevent1q…57v4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And: If you must operate a server that auto-reports incoming messages as spam, consider **not** registering with such an email address on public servers.<br/><br/>Use a honeypot that no legit provider has any reason to email to, please!<br/><br/>Thank you. 2024-06-06T13:09:08+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0kcdkqh50q5a8u24f0rdhjq5k2umaasq5fu0j084fk68tk0jdkzqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwe3grkr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfqukustxu284k6030letedky57fps055a8qtdj8sak52q4q42k3sx8uu7q'>nevent1q…uu7q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Blocklists are not only community-maintained resources, but often charge for monitoring and removal services.<br/><br/>There is an imbalance between small and large operators, and the fact that many people suggested us to just use service from $$company$$ instead of self-hosting emails indicates the terrible situation.<br/><br/>We have written about our position in detail previously: <a href="https://blog.codeberg.org/how-blocklists-prevent-the-internet-to-be-decentralized-and-safe.html">https://blog.codeberg.org/how-blocklists-prevent-the-internet-to-be-decentralized-and-safe.html</a> 2024-06-06T13:08:01+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfqukustxu284k6030letedky57fps055a8qtdj8sak52q4q42k3szypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwxkvnql In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs24fwqrue8l8xv9n7j79de9fuphluehupwhzt7tpqnfzmlwfk3p0g3dy7pd'>nevent1q…y7pd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In the responses to this thread, many users started to blame the IT admin who automatically put our IP address to the blocklist.<br/><br/>Please note that we don&#39;t want to blame a single party. Reporting spam and reacting to abuse reports is a good thing.<br/><br/>However, we are concerned about the fact that automation based on accusations from single parties escalates to regular headache for network operators.<br/><br/>This is also far from the utopy of an Internet, where everyone can easily host their own services. 2024-06-06T13:05:53+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs24fwqrue8l8xv9n7j79de9fuphluehupwhzt7tpqnfzmlwfk3p0gzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwdmtr78 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0krhtlav4728rvwkql6yh3w8mxp6nv7n0am3sccwrzlnmrwxmhjq26mq6a'>nevent1q…mq6a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The issue is resolved with the help of our provider. Thanks for this and all your patience.<br/><br/>Most of the email was successfully delivered, only few remains in the queue. 2024-06-06T10:35:10+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0krhtlav4728rvwkql6yh3w8mxp6nv7n0am3sccwrzlnmrwxmhjqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw4krrxj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvjlm2kau4fwu4j2ek0zm3t5v2knh7jhtvtfahy7wkekh9d5fx9qrxjfpf'>nevent1q…jfpf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We&#39;re still waiting for a response from the abuse department about a potential unlock. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.<br/><br/>We have blogged about the problem when providers like <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub13y57aq0qgg27felea54zmecafv2qjheyfcm2jpfuktl498hg6xwsfpdlhd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>netcup</span> (<span class="italic">npub13y5…dlhd</span>)</a></span> (in our case) rely on blocklists as the single source of truth, without second thought or verification.<br/><br/>This caused much trouble and headache for us, but the person who put us on the list due to a config error will likely never know it happened, after all.<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.codeberg.org/how-blocklists-prevent-the-internet-to-be-decentralized-and-safe.html">https://blog.codeberg.org/how-blocklists-prevent-the-internet-to-be-decentralized-and-safe.html</a> 2024-06-05T19:08:32+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswvjlm2kau4fwu4j2ek0zm3t5v2knh7jhtvtfahy7wkekh9d5fx9qzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuwf5j0us In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstxm5k9h629apxuu9k94meynph06fg5stnys072t5r8dzjvugepkqa2dggr'>nevent1q…dggr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Okay, the whole story, according to our research:<br/>In Dec 2023, an &#34; IT professional&#34; joined Codeberg with a valid email address. In the meantime, they apparently changed something with their server, because the email address is no longer available.<br/>They are also a very active contributor to abuseipdb.com, reporting every server which sends mail to nonexistent email addresses on their personal server to.<br/>This report triggered the abuse department of our ISP to take down our server.<br/>Thank you! 2024-06-05T15:40:40+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstxm5k9h629apxuu9k94meynph06fg5stnys072t5r8dzjvugepkqzypxl68th9uc2c57zs4epr5f5ypparcldpgd6mcpylm9chtqzlzhuw8pq424 Hi guys, our email server was locked by the provider due to &#34;abuse&#34; it seems. We&#39;re working on it, please be patient.<br/><br/>Email delivery is currently unavailable. 2024-06-05T14:56:13+02:00