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New comment by jwildeboer in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

jwildeboer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:52:48 +0000

TL;DR Monthly prices for VPSes up around 30% on average, for dedicated servers 14% on average, based on the stated old and new prices in EUR.

Location/type, Average increase: Germany Dedi 14,1 % Finland Dedi 14,8 % USA VPS 30,9 % Singapore VPS 30,8 % Germany/Finland VPS 32,0 % Grand Average 23,8 %

New comment by jwildeboer in "Forgejo v13.0 Is Available"

jwildeboer — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

If you go to their release page, you will see two versions listed. The current stable release (13.0) and the explicitlly marked LTS version (11), both with clearly visible end of support dates. Not sure how much simpler it can get :)

New comment by jwildeboer in "Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects"

jwildeboer — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:47:53 +0000

No AI, EU based, so respects the GDPR for all users, regardless of where they live, you can send PRs to make it better, is 100% Free Software, has its own Actions system that is also 100% Free Software, the logo is nice, you can become a member of the Berlin based association and have a direct vote on policy/feature changes.

New comment by jwildeboer in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

jwildeboer — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:03:52 +0000

I guess not, but I didn't take the time to go through teh key generation for my homelab.jhw domain just yet.

New comment by jwildeboer in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

jwildeboer — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:02:20 +0000

No. Both MacOS and iOS happily resolve and connect to the machines in my homelab.jhw domain. I did add the root cert of my CA (Certificate Authority) to the trust store on MacOS and iOS, so I can also enjoy TLS connections. Scroll to the "Add the certificate" part of https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/Create-SMIME-Cert-stepca/ for the HOWTO that worked for me.

New comment by jwildeboer in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

jwildeboer — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:18:38 +0000

Author here. I used the homelab.jhw mainly as part of my tests and experiments with my own certificate authority and to avoid going into split horizon DNS setup.

New comment by jwildeboer in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

jwildeboer — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:38:47 +0000

Sure. Constructing the case to shoot yourself in the foot is not a big problem. But in reality things mostly just work. I’m happily running a bunch of services behind a (nginx) reverse proxy as rootless containers. Forgejo, the forgejo runner to build stuff, uptime-kuma and more on a bunch of RHEL10 machines with SELinux enabled.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI"

jwildeboer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:00:30 +0000

My name is Jan and I am not an AI thingy. Just FTR. :)

New comment by jwildeboer in "Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide"

jwildeboer — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:23:01 +0000

(I’m a red hatter) anyone can get the Red Hat Developer subscription for free and get full access to the knowledge base.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

jwildeboer — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:42:32 +0000

FYI: Just last Friday there was a call/meeting to coordinate and build out the federation efforts in Forgejo. More work is coming and more help is appreciated! There will be a presentation at FOSDEM on this topic and there is a matrix room dedicated to Forgejo Federation.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

jwildeboer — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 09:50:55 +0000

After my struggles with trying to keep Gitlab CE (Community Edition) up and running (it needs a lot of CPU and memory) I switched to Forgejo and have not been disappointed. It runs as a rootless container and uses almost nothing, memory and CPU wise. Updating it has been a simple podman pull that JustWorks(tm).

It now also runs actions that keep my static websites updated by running Jekyll etc.

I really like it to have my own forge that can import repos, issues etc from other forges like GitHub, Gitlab etc. and I am looking forward to the upcoming ActivityPub based integration to the wider fediverse.

Having a decentralised, but connected approach to code hosting is what I always wanted to have and now it’s (almost) there.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning"

jwildeboer — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:09:31 +0000

(Not to be confused with LoRa, (short for long range) which is a spread spectrum modulation technique derived from chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technology, powering technologies like LoRaWAN and Meshtastic)

New comment by jwildeboer in "We're forking Flutter"

jwildeboer — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:26:07 +0000

How many people are the “we” this blog post talks about? 5 people? 500?

New comment by jwildeboer in "Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13"

jwildeboer — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:26:52 +0000

The legendary Gazelle Toer Populair. Produced since like forever, the classic Dutch bicycle. Guess who is also happy with his Gazelle since many years? Yep, this Dutchie living in Munich, Germany.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs"

jwildeboer — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:50:39 +0000

"As an experiment, I decided to migrate two hosts (each with about 10 VMs) of a client — where I had full control—without telling them, over a weekend." And that's where I draw the line. Abusing the trust of your customers is an absolute no-no in my book.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules"

jwildeboer — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:48:08 +0000

It’s a final ruling. Not a current (over-)ruling as you paint it. This is a decision from the European Court of Justice. No appeal possible. The 13B€ are already in an escrow account and will now be released.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Why we picked AGPL"

jwildeboer — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:05:35 +0000

Correct title would be „Why we picked dual licensing with AGPL and a commercial license“, IMHO.

You can only contribute when you accept the CLA at [1] which gives them the right to license your contributions under said commercial license.

[1] https://cla-assistant.io/paradedb/paradedb

Apple iCloud Private Relay is down for some since yesterday

jwildeboer — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:10:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41076460

Points: 3

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New comment by jwildeboer in "Twonkie: A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie open hardware"

jwildeboer — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:53:26 +0000

Yep. That's exactly what I am looking for. Use USB-PD to charge small electric vehicles in a standardised way ;) See https://jan.wildeboer.net/2024/06/Charging-SEVs-A-Modest-Pro... where I describe the concept and https://github.com/manuelbl/usb-pd-arduino/wiki where there is Open Source code (and schematics) to do PD sniffing and sink negotiation.

New comment by jwildeboer in "Twonkie: A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie open hardware"

jwildeboer — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:57:05 +0000

I am waiting for an updated version that does PD 3.1, so it can go to 48V/5A.