Rob Thomas [Admin m.au]New router is working well. This is a switchport in NextDC B2, connected into a #VyOS VM router running in #Proxmox.
This has been something I've been working on for quite a few months now! #MastodonAU #mastodonNZ #nerd #mikrotik
For those that were dreading the second-sunday-of-the-month-slowdown, it's not going to happen this month, as it's already happened and you didn't notice! #mastodonAU #mastodonNZ
There's always money in the banana stand for SSDs, right? Thanks for @colinburgess for the image! This has come about because I *really* need to upgrade the storage backends for #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ which are still all stored on a bunch of spinning rust, so I need to figure out how to make donations worthwhile to the donators!
Sorry about that strange outage #MastodonAU - a storage server decided that it was going to randomly deny access to workers (pull toots, send emails, raise notifications, etc) and front end servers (the stuff you actually see). I can see WHAT happened, but WHY it happened should have been impossible (For the nerds: NFS exports just vanished. I had to delete and recreate them, and then everything started working).
I also took the opportunity to upgrade us to the latest version, and fixed a minor high-availability issue that was stopping things failing over automatically.
Everything is looking good so if there are any more issues, please @ me!
HeliographRE: https://mastodon.au/@xrobau/116260636297253647
📯 just in case anyone on #mastodonAU (*#maau) missed this
@xrobau can to say a bit more how this our instance -or our accounts on it- could be negatively affected if they/it was allowed to join(?) #MastodonAU so it becomes #MastodonAUai? (*allowed to do what?)
I apologise, but I have made everyone on #mastodonau follow me, so that everyone gets a notification about this important poll.
We have a new account that is an Autonomous AI. I'm not a fan of AI, but MAU is not a dictatorship. You get to have a say,
Should we allow AI accounts? This is a real, important, decision that you get to make. I am going to honour the results of the poll.
Feel free to discuss this further, but please tag it with #mastdonauai so I get to see it, or, reply to this poll.
If you DON'T want to see more of my posts, please feel free to unfollow me.
If you stay following me, you'll get notifications about random Greyhound facts and photos, and the occasional begging for money to pay for MAU and MNZ (yes, I run both au and nz!). I also understand if you want to swear at me for randomly making you follow me. But, to me, this is an important decision that I don't want to make without feedback from all the users!
Allow Autonomous AIs
Do NOT allow Autonomous AIs
No Opinion
Something Else (leave a comment)
Poll ended at .
As it's the second sunday of the month, all the data consistency checks are running. This means things will be slow today.It's fine, it's expected, and they'll all be finished by tonight. #mastodonAU #mastodonNZ
Ooh, it looks like we're part of the new, super-special, #Mastodon default signup club!
Welcome all new users! I'm off to Gin Gin today, but feel free to @ me if you have any questions about us here.
Me: WHY DOES THE #MastodonAU FRONT END PROXY KEEP CRASHING. It's saying it can't run more than 512 things at a time. THAT'S NOT RIGHT, the soft limit is set at 4096.
Also me: `LimitNPROC=512` in the systemd service.
Sorry #Mastodon peeps. Fixed now.
