Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @privacyguides and @triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https://mstdn.party, https://mstdn.plus, and https://neat.computer • Formerly @techlore
[ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]
| Homepage | https://www.jonaharagon.com |
| Privacy Guides | https://privacyguides.org/team |
RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599
Wow, 15 day notice 😳
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116744595402640770
These results are why getting dating advice from Gen X-ers (I assume the primary Mastodon userbase) is like getting housing advice from boomers.
RE: https://mstdn.party/@staff/116744379032248574
We have a separate pgBouncer instance for Puma, so that any massive spikes in ingress Sidekiq traffic we occasionally receive do not interfere with accessing the website. (This is a separate issue we had with media processing in ingress/pull holding database connections open through pgBouncer until they complete for some reason)
Puma's pgBouncer instance is allowed to use 20 actual database connections (we normally hover around 14), with an additional 40 set for reserve_pool_size just in case all 20 get used.
This morning all 60 connections were being used, and when I increased reserve_pool_size to 140, all 160 connections were used within a minute 🙃
Hello #MstdnParty -
If you noticed any downtime this morning, this was because we received a massive amount of traffic from a very large number of IPs, all behind the AS132203 network "Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi Avenue"
Bots on this network appeared to be scraping every possible hashtag under the /tags/ path, which consumed all the available database connections between pgBouncer and Postgres.
Earlier this morning we mitigated these requests, and the server returned to normal.
The U.S. Military Quietly Turned GPS Into a Global ‘Numbers Station,’ Evidence Suggests
A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.Update to FIG (where I list people search site your paid removal service doesn't cover). I added Clustal and Men Stopping Violence (new additions to BADBOOL). And I removed brokers DeleteMe only covers for biz plans (special thx to @jonah for flagging!)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/115L6LpQg_UX638IyUfdwGhRS7dIU3lKwz6fjAcDtE-0/
I'm testing out something new: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/verified-apps-app-for-android-pre-release/38348
Last week Privacy Guides posted about building a database of signing certificates for Android apps, so that people can validate their APK files against an independent source.
Now, I've released an (alpha) version of a new app which:
Checks the apps on your phone against our database, and let's you know which apps match, and
Makes it super easy for you to submit any apps you have installed which aren't in our database yet!
If you want to help submit your apps to our crowdsourced dataset, please give it a try and let me know what you think!
Looking through old childhood things, I found a drawing I’d made in a notebook.
I also found an old laminator. Decided to test it.
Turns out I’d used an erasable pen that removes ink through heat/friction 🤣
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