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Hello everyone!

It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress:

Finances

Here’s a look at our bank balance since we began accepting donations:

We’re currently sitting at around $2,900, with a monthly burn of about $200, which gives us roughly a year of runway. We have some additional annual costs (like domain renewals and non-profit registration), but overall we run very lean.

Fedecan still owes:

  • TruckBC: $1,980
  • Shadow (me): $525

These were out-of-pocket hosting and non-profit registration costs from 2023/2024. It’d be great to get those covered, but we want to keep at least a year of operating expenses in reserve.

If you're a regular user and value what we're doing, please consider donating! We have multiple ways to donate, you can find the comparison and donation links on our website: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

Sh.itjust.works

Nothing major to report here - we’ve all been a bit busy lately, but collaboration is continuing slowly behind the scenes.

Fediverse Growth

We're seeing a healthy volume of posts and communities on lemmy.ca, surging with each Reddit drama:

Infrastructure

Our server is a Dell R7515 with an EPYC 7763, 1 TB ram and 4x 7.68tb nvme data disks, which is hosted in a datacenter in Vancouver, BC.

I spun up victoriametrics + victorialogs a few weeks ago and have been ingesting all of our data, giving us the ability to put together some nice grafana dashboards.

Everything is running great on the infrastructure side of things. Our server is barely working up a sweat and we shouldn't have to worry about scaling for a long time.

Lemmy.ca still comprises almost all of our traffic:

Lemmy.ca

Our over provisioned stack is performing well, handling the occasional lemmy / lemmy-ui dropout:

Similarly the DB is mostly running out of ram:

Our object storage is slowly climbing as expected, but we've got several years of capacity to figure out a long term solution:

I’m also doing some limited analytics on our web logs. As expected, lemmy.world makes up the majority of our federation traffic:

One interesting thing to see from the user-agent data is the breakdown of traffic by the different mobile clients:

The “dart” UA is just a common web library, Thunder reports as this and I suspect other clients do too. If you’re a client developer, please set your user-agent!

Out of the alternative web clients we support, tesseract is the most popular although the overall traffic volume is still low:

We only store 7 days of logs but I’m hoping to get these pulled out into metrics soon, since it would be interesting to track which clients / interfaces people use over time.

Pixelfed.ca

Not much to say on this one, due to using local storage it currently runs on a single VM without redundancy.

Piefed.ca

Piefed runs on a pair of VMs with its own database and object storage backends.

Service Health Response data

Cloudflare

If you want to compare against previous data posts, here’s our same cloudflare graphs for lemmy.ca

As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks for being a part of the Fediverse!

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The official designation earlier this month of Palestine Action as a proscribed group under the Terrorism Act 2000 means that membership in the group and support for its actions are punishable by up to 14 years in prison

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“Negative publicity may adversely affect our stock price, damage our reputation and expose us to unexpected or unwarranted regulatory scrutiny,” UnitedHealth noted in its most recent annual report. The company’s shares have declined 40 percent over the past year.

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Source (Patreon)

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Unavailable at source, here's their Bluesky.

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A small glass of tea made with fluid gels. An interesting effect of gels is that when you shear them into small pieces they want to hold back into a gel structure but at the same time they take on a delicate fluid like state. This recipe takes advantage of this effect by pushing this effect to its limit: when it is at rest the two gels are independent and held up against each other with no barrier in the glass. They are strong enough that lifting the glass will not ruin the effect. However, tilting the glass will and they will flow like a liquid.

Additionally this is a vegan recipe as the gel is based on gellan, a gelling agent derived from sphingomonas elodea, a bacteria derived from lily pond water.

One side dyed in the picture to show the effect but here is another picture of another preparation:

tea

This is 2 gels in the same glass held against each other. Think of the snack pack

The layers in that stay separated. This follows the same concept. But in the tea glass instead of using colors to differentiate the layers the layers are differentiated by temperature.

This results in a small glass of tea where you have both hot tea and iced tea. When you drink it both sensations hit your tongue and mouth at the same time. It’s quite confusing and very interesting

This recipe was created by chris young, who was working for Heston blumenthal at the fat duck.

It is labor intensive and takes some effort but if you want to surprise your guests this 100% will do it.

Hot and iced tea:
Tea infusion: 1.8kg low calcium water: the water should have between 100-400 ppm calcium. Too much and the gel will be lumpy. Too little and it will not set. I use Evian, which is about 80ppm, and add 36mg calcium chloride. You will use calcium chloride later so this isn’t a waste. You don’t need to measure super precisely because this just brings you up to the lower limit of 100ppm for the 1.8kg (however you may want to make much less)
40g tea
Cold infuse the tea in the water - this part is easy. Put the tea leaves in the water and wait. Infuse for at least one hour but not too long. Taste and make sure bitter notes aren’t infusing. 1 hour is often enough.
Strain the mixture. - strain it through a fine sieve lined with a coffee filter. You want it super clear.

Now comes the more difficult part

Hot tea
Part A:
860g tea infusion
80g ultrafine sugar (caster, superfine, bakers sugar) 0.6g gellan F 0.6g sodium citrate

Part b:
0.25g calcium chloride
1g malic acid
5g tea infusion

Prepare ice bath

Bring tea infusion to a simmer. Dry blend part A. Whisk in until dissolved. Mix part B. Once part A is simmering remove from heat, add part b, whisk in, place over ice bath, continue whisking as long as you can, ideally until cool. If you have an automated stirrer that’s the best.

Refrigerate 24 hours then pass through a very fine sieve (I use a 250um lab sieve) then bottle in a squirt bottle (like a condiment bottle).

Cold tea:
Part A:
860g tea infusion
80g ultrafine sugar (caster, superfine, bakers sugar) 0.6g gellan F 0.6g sodium citrate

Part b:
0.25g calcium chloride
3.5g malic acid
5g tea infusion

Prepare ice bath

Do the same exact preparation.

To serve:

Prepare the hot tea: you can either put it in a water bath if you have a sous vide at 162F, or you can microwave it until it’s hot enough, or you can put it in simmering water, etc. the first is the easiest but obviously you need the equipment. The microwave works in a pinch, just shake it up, taste test, go in small increments to make sure you’re not serving lava.

For the glass you need a divider. I use aluminum foil formed to the glass. This doesn’t give the cleanest line as shown in the dyed preparation. In the hot/cold one it doesn’t really matter. In chris youngs video where he does this with coffee he does reveal that he simply made a divider with more gellan to fit the glass. Simple. He doesn’t reveal the recipe though, nor the adaptations to make it work with coffee (there’s also a mulled wine version they served at least once at the fat duck). Youtubers always assume their audience is dumb or maybe he needs hestons permission to release the recipe, I dunno.

Once you have the hot heated up and the divider you’re ready to go. There’s a technique to this but it’s not terribly hard. Basically pour each side evenly then pull the divider out smoothly and as straight up as possible. Try to make the divider as thin as possible. From here serve as quickly as possible because the hot and cold sides will cool and heat each other. Even a few minutes will have you just serving a weird thick glass of tea.

But if you get it right you serve a glass of tea that look almost entirely normal. There is a slight difference in each side, one is slightly darker, but it is very subtle. I specifically use a glass with a handle because if you grab the glass it totally gives it away.

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