This page contains announcements related to ~vern.

All announcements here are cross-posted to the Fediverse, Matrix, XMPP and IRC. There is an RSS feed for these announcements, too.

• Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:39:05 +0000 - New susadmin!

  ~xmoo is now an administrator at ~vern as of two days ago

• Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:38:32 +0000 - --help
• Tue, 30 May 2023 00:22:14 +0000 - Tent, a bandcamp frontend

  I just set up Tent on ~vern. See tn.vern.cc

• Mon, 29 May 2023 18:06:34 +0000 - Introducing: DICT Server, Xonotic, ~vern Radio

  We now have a public DICT Server on port 2628, a Xonotic game server, and an internet radio on radio.vern.cc!

• Tue, 23 May 2023 20:02:24 +0000 - We have a new wiki!

  Our wiki now is based on a static git repo instead of dokuwiki. Thanks ~vitorg and ~xmoo!

• Sun, 21 May 2023 19:43:47 +0000 - Mumble!

  We have reinstated our mumble server. Join it at mumble.vern.cc:64738

• Sun, 21 May 2023 19:43:05 +0000 - New Binternet instance

  Binternet is a front-end for Pintrest. See it at bn.vern.cc

• Fri, 19 May 2023 23:54:35 +0000 - Teeworlds/DDNet servers

  We now run a Teeworlds and a DDNet server on teeworlds.vern.cc!

• Fri, 19 May 2023 02:38:08 +0000 - We now have a SuperTuxKart server!

  Join it on stk.vern.cc:2759

• Tue, 16 May 2023 19:29:14 +0000 - ~VERN IS BACK BABY

  I knew it was odyssey the whole time god dammit. Blog post

• Sun, 02 Apr 2023 02:52:08 +0000 - APRIL FOOLS!!!!!
• Sun, 02 Apr 2023 02:40:54 +0000 - ~vern has been approached by the FBI

  The FBI has asked us to give them all information we have on a user, and we had to comply.

• Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:22:56 +0000 - Huge data loss.

  ~vern has recently suffered a huge postgres database loss, and data for some services has been completely lost. Please contact an admin to regain access to your accounts.

• Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:24:26 +0000 - Retiring LibreTranslate

  I have recently found out that LibreTranslate requires nonfree software, so I am removing it from ~vern.

• Fri, 03 Feb 2023 03:53:09 +0000 - We have re-enabled Invidious video proxying
• Fri, 03 Feb 2023 03:36:16 +0000 - ~vern will be undergoing maintenance.
• Sat, 28 Jan 2023 23:14:25 +0000 - Some pubnix accounts have been deleted.

  Please contact an admin if your pubnix account's SSH is no longer working.

• Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:17:07 +0000 - New sysadmin!

  I, ~pjals, have been recruited to the ~vern team as a sysadmin!

• Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:25:50 +0000 - We have migrated to Forgejo
• Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:26:57 +0000 - New service: Laboratory

  Laboratory is a privacy-respecting front-end to GitLab and GitLabCE instances, created by Ferass El Hafidi.

• Sat, 21 Jan 2023 03:49:59 +0000 - New service: Destructables

  Destructables is a privacy-respecting front-end to Instructables developed by me (~cobra)

• Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:25:32 +0000 - Service discontinuation: Full-Text RSS

  Since Full-Text RSS is very broken and I can't get it to work, I have decided to discontinue it. Use Miniflux for the same features.

• Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:24:59 +0000 - New serivce: Suds

  Suds is a front-end for Snopes.com that I (~cobra) developed myself :).

• Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:16:19 +0000 - The warrant canary will be late this month.

  ~neo is having issues with his computer, and will write the canary for this month when he has a working computer again.

• Mon, 02 Jan 2023 02:43:02 +0000 - New RSS feed

  We now have an RSS feed for these announcements!

• Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:18:27 +0000 - Happy New Year!
• Mon, 26 Dec 2022 01:49:43 +0000 - Hellfire has been decommissioned

  Our Hellfire server has be decommissioned due to ~[ELIDED] no longer being able to pay for it. We have recomissioned Typhoon in order to host ns2.vern.cc.

• Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:52:36 +0000 - All ~vern debian servers have been updated to Debian 11.6
• Wed, 14 Dec 2022 04:38:25 +0000 - ~vern is back up!

  ~vern is back after experiencing a downtime due to systemd dying

• Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:03:45 +0000 - We now have an announcements system!

  This can be used to post announcements to matrix, xmpp, irc, fedi and the website itself!