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.

• Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:14:50 +0000 - Attention ~vern users

  There is a new pubnix account recovery system, using PGP. We strongly suggest you put a PGP key in ~/.pgp.asc to use it in the future.

• Sun, 19 Nov 2023 05:05:29 +0000 - ~vern is back!

  Finally, after like two months, I got enough money to fix the server! I'm really excited to be able to work on ~vern again, so thank you all for sticking around.

• Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:24:25 +0000 - Systems upgraded to Debian 12 "Bookworm"

  You may have noticed that ~vern has been down for a little bit. This is because I was upgrading the servers to Debian 12, something that was long overdue in my opinion.

• Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:41:11 +0000 - New announcements mailing list

  I just finished implementing the announcements mailing list, which you might be seeing this from. Information about it can be found in https://vern.cc/announcements

• Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:41:03 +0000 - Service retirement

  We have retired three services. These are Vikunja, Yarn, and Agreper. This was because these services were unused and difficult to maintain, as well as abuse of some of them.

• Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:56:36 +0000 - fuck it we ball
• Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:43:43 +0000 - xmoo is no longer a ~vern system administrator

  xmoo is no longer a ~vern administrator, this is because a fellow sysadmin was sent a death threat and I am not comfortable with that, whatsoever.

• Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:19:25 +0000 - A sysadmin has left the ~vern team.

  I, ~pjals, have left the ~vern team because I felt uncomfortable since ~cobra supposedly jokingly sent a death threat directed to me.

• Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:07:49 +0000 - New front-end: SafeTwitch

  We now host SafeTwitch, a front-end for Twitch, on https://ttv.vern.cc

• Sat, 10 Jun 2023 11:03:36 +0000 - LibreTranslate is back

  LibreTranslate is now running without CUDA

• 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!