Droppie [infosec] 🐨
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/116297780846757951
as well...
The chances of ...
...anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...
But still, they come!
Ferret#WotW All these spambots seem to be coming from mastodon.world so imma just defed from them. Fix your shit.
#wotw server is being weird. It'll chug, basically freeze, at arbitrary times, and then a minute later seemingly be just fine and back to speedy. Ran diagnostics but haven't found any issues. Still investigating. Hopefully it's not too distracting.
I think it's safe to say now without jinxing it:
#WotW For those of you who returned or are planning on it since The Incident, the good news is that the new local host the server is on is significantly faster. So if you were on WotW prior to The Incident but didn't use it much because of how sluggish it was, that should be much less of a problem moving forward.
#WotW For those of you who returned or are planning on it since The Incident, the good news is that the new local host the server is on is significantly faster. So if you were on WotW prior to The Incident but didn't use it much because of how sluggish it was, that should be much less of a problem moving forward.
adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)#WritersCoffeeClub 1/2. Talk about something you’ve retold.
Thought about this a lot and came up with nothing really.
There is one story I finished but then lost (for reasons) which I could retell, but I probably won't. Though its loss annoys me.
I considered re-doing The War of the Worlds as a 3D-rendered comic where the MC is a lesbian accompanied by her "companion", but the more I thought about it the more it became the story of a completely different person with different events, so not strictly a re-telling.
(When you analyse WotW honestly, some of the story-telling is a bit poo.)
#WarOfTheWorlds #3dRender #noAI #madeWithDaz #3dArt #CGI #art #wotw
#wotw Nextcloud server is back up. I took it down when projects using it were complete, but this should hopefully be more long-term: So long as things continue to run nice and smooth on this more powerful system, and my storage space holds up (which it should), then those with accounts at cloud.workersofthe.world are once more able to use them.
Hey #wotw, we're back.
Here's what happened:
Thursday: I got a robot call from the electrical company telling me they'd be by to swap out my meter, that this would cause a power outage, and...nothing else. Not when it would happen, not anything.
Friday, 10am: I left for the weekend for a Halloween party.
Friday, 11am: I check my phone and my server is down. Wonderful.
Sunday: I get home to the smell of ozone. My webserver is fucked. The VA image is borked, or the Management Engine, or something else that no system today actually uses but this one refuses to live without, and cannot actually be fixed. I spend the evening trying anyway.
Monday: Gave up, brought in the old server to be recycled, salvaging the HDD, of course. Turns out the recycling place had a server with three times the RAM and twice the processing power of my old one...for $37. Even the guy at the counter was suspicious of it, but now it's in my home and, as you can see, it's working.
Here's what happened:
Thursday: I got a robot call from the electrical company telling me they'd be by to swap out my meter, that this would cause a power outage, and...nothing else. Not when it would happen, not anything.
Friday, 10am: I left for the weekend for a Halloween party.
Friday, 11am: I check my phone and my server is down. Wonderful.
Sunday: I get home to the smell of ozone. My webserver is fucked. The VA image is borked, or the Management Engine, or something else that no system today actually uses but this one refuses to live without, and cannot actually be fixed. I spend the evening trying anyway.
Monday: Gave up, brought in the old server to be recycled, salvaging the HDD, of course. Turns out the recycling place had a server with three times the RAM and twice the processing power of my old one...for $37. Even the guy at the counter was suspicious of it, but now it's in my home and, as you can see, it's working.
Steve Thompson PhDOrson Welles' 'War of the Worlds': Lessons on media literacy https://www.dw.com/en/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-lessons-on-media-literacy/a-74205373?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
#WotW I've got Schildichat up as a webapp if anyone prefers to use that. #^https://chat.workersofthe.world
OK, #WotW, big news.
I'm no longer using Synapse as my #Matrix server. It was really acting up, to the point of borderline unusability, all of a sudden. It had been chugging for a bit, and my server was actually shutting itself down, and even when it wasn't, things were just starting to time out. So I bumped up changing servers and software in my priority list.
Migrating to other software is really a pain; it basically is just starting a new server from scratch, which means everything is gone. Luckily, I'm the only really active person who uses the server.
What this means for you is that my Matrix server is now running on #Continuwuity — which, in addition to having an amazing and responsive dev community absolutely full of trans communists, is comparatively very small and very fast. So, I'm no longer at all attached to the Matrix Foundation, and, importantly for people who want to use Hubzilla, my Hubzilla software now has an entire machine to itself, with 6GB of buffer RAM. You'll notice a great speed increase.
I'm no longer using Synapse as my #Matrix server. It was really acting up, to the point of borderline unusability, all of a sudden. It had been chugging for a bit, and my server was actually shutting itself down, and even when it wasn't, things were just starting to time out. So I bumped up changing servers and software in my priority list.
Migrating to other software is really a pain; it basically is just starting a new server from scratch, which means everything is gone. Luckily, I'm the only really active person who uses the server.
What this means for you is that my Matrix server is now running on #Continuwuity — which, in addition to having an amazing and responsive dev community absolutely full of trans communists, is comparatively very small and very fast. So, I'm no longer at all attached to the Matrix Foundation, and, importantly for people who want to use Hubzilla, my Hubzilla software now has an entire machine to itself, with 6GB of buffer RAM. You'll notice a great speed increase.