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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Hence my reaction to these issues. https://lemmyonline.com/post/459013

But.... under new management now, in Germany. https://lemmyonline.com/post/587565

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

HEY LOCAL PD OFFICE,

SOMEONE TRIED TO UPLOAD SOME POTENTIALLY CHILD PORN TO MY LEMMY INSTANCE.

No... I don't have an IP for who uploaded it.

Sorry, I don't know where it came from. It just got federated across the fediverse to me.

No... I don't have the content either, it doesn't get saved.

Sorry.... I guess I really don't have any details at all for you.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (8 children)

not upload CSAM to for trolling communities. Even novel GenerativeAI CSAM. Users cannot upload CSAM images and never submit a post or comment (making them invisible to admins). The images will be automatically rejected during upload

There wouldn't be anything to delete, as it would have never been saved with this.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (13 children)

So, I am starting to really believe his goal is to just drive a stake into the heart of twitter.

Either that, or he is trying to prove a point regarding something.

I don't think there is any possible way, he is so dumb as to make all of these horrible decisions regarding twitter.... This has got to be destroying twitter by design, on purpose.

I mean, seriously.... he has done literally everything that you SHOULDN'T do. Fire the majority of the company. Destroy over a decade worth of very good branding. Alienate all investors. Alienate the user base. Piss off the remaining users more. Drive away advertisers....

FFS, the dude has a company that sends rockets into space, and previously, the world's premier electric car company... What in the hell is his odd obsession with choking the life out of twitter, that has been costing him money left and right due to absolutely horrible publicity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lets say, you work somewhere, that does, say.... https decryption and/or logs stuff... or the firewall just blocks stuff in general.

And, you want to say, access that stuff.

Well, you can route your web traffic through a ssh connection, instead of it going out the traditional path. This allows you to bypass content filtering, etc.

Its, essentially like having a VPN tunnel, routing your traffic. Amazing feature.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This shit should be all standardised around [micro|milli|Ø|kilo|tera]

Agree with you there.

joules

But- would instead, suggest using watts instead of joules. In general, its quite well suited to electrical devices.

Have a 1,000w / 1kw device? Its going to draw 1,000wh of energy, or 1kw.

Although, the units are extremely similar. wh/kwh are defined as energy per hour, while a joule, is energy (in watts) per second.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The same exact reason ISPs sell bandwidth in Mb/s, instead of the proper unit.

Quite simply, 500Mbit/s sounds a lot more impressive than 0.5Gbps or 62.5MB/s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I used to have a list, somewhere. But. will, instead summarize it a bit.

External-facing websites (for both myself, and hosted for other clients).

A few discord bots I created, and host.

10-20 containers for home-automation.

10-15 containers for "Media" management.

A handful of containers for document/photo archival / storage / etc.

Containers for managing storage, backups. etc.

Containers for network management (unifi), SMTP, etc.

Containers for monitoring.

Keep in mind, most common "applications" will run at least two containers (one for the app, one for the database), and, occasionally a redis container.

I run services redundantly when possible. Ie- traefik runs as a daemonset, across all of my nodes. As does longhorn storage.

That being said, I'd guess I am only running around 40-60 total applications, but, those 40-60 turns into a couple hundred containers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

There is a current PR, which I think has been merged. That being said, next release will likely contain that functionality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

They do.

But, if they used subscribed, they wouldn't be able to fuss about all of the stuff they don't want to see.

Instead, they just want to look at everything. and then block instances (not communities) showing things they don't want to see.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My hobby of home automation, and running a home lab REALLY stopped up.

Pre-pandemic, I had a single server, pretty small, quiet, low energy usage. Post-pandemic, I have a full rack, redundant power, and tons of resources, and hundreds of containers and services.

Home automation: Pre-pandemic, I didn't have too much. Few security cameras, and a small handful of devices, mostly controlled by alexa. Post-pandemic, I can tell you every time you forget to wash your hands after taking a shit. I know exactly how much energy and instantaneous power nearly every device in my house uses. I have automated just about anything you can imagine. Pools, opening windows, controlling a fireplace, scaring cats away from the kitchen table.... you name it, and I have likely automated it and/or built hardware to automate it.

My other big hobby, was working on automotive projects: Pre-pandemic, I build a 1,000hp street-legal "race-car". Would drive it to work occasionally. Spent a lot of time in my garage with tig welders, plasma cutters, metal lathes... etc. Post-pandemic, I honestly have not touched anything in my garage in years. I don't really drive anywhere due to being full time WFH. So, I have not had much interest in messing with it. Also, its been really hot the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
 

Koenigsegg has not yet failed to surprise me with some of the technology.

The free-valve engine, and now, a 2,300hp hybrid sports car.

 

In, addition to updating lemmy just now-

The storage issues have been resolved, the hosting issues have been resolved....

And things should return back to stable and reliable now.

Lemmy 0.18.3 Notes

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The issue, and next steps (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Turns out... its ceph storage.

Despite having 7x OSDs on bare metal NVMe... despite having DEDICATED 10G network connectivity.... Its having significant performance issues.

Any spikes in IO (Large file transfers, backups. Even copying files to a different server) would cause huge IO delays, causing things to break or drop offline.

There are no errors shown. The configuration is pretty standard. I have no idea why it is having so many issues.

I have cleared off a new NVMe, and will move this server to it tomorrow, and hopefully end all of the issues from this week... Assuming I have any users left here. (I wouldn't blame you for leaving, it has been a really bad week for LemmyOnline)

IF, my assumptions are incorrect, then f-it, I will just run lemmy on a bare metal server I have on standby.

Update

Server migrated to local storage. Was, nearly unnoticeable, unless you did something in the 3 minute window it took to clone/restore/etc.

 

Just finished migrating to a different server... hopefully this helps some.

 

As a continuation from the FIRST POST

As you have likely noticed, there are still issues.

To summarize the first post.... catastrophic software/hardware failure, which meant needing to restore from backups.

I decided to take the opportunity to rebuild newer, and better. As such, I decided to give proxmox a try, with a ceph storage backend.

After, getting a simple k8s environment back up and running on the cluster, and restoring the backups- lemmy online, was mostly back in business using the existing manifests.

Well, the problem is.... when heavy backend IO occurs (during backups, big operations, installing large software....), the longhorn.io storage used in the k8s environment, kind of... "dies".

And- as I have seen today, this is not an infrequent issue. I have had to bounce the VM multiple times today to restore operations.

I am currently working on building out a new VM specifically for LemmyOnline, to seperate it from the temporary k8s environment. Once, this is up and running, things should return to stable, and normal.

 

Yup. always gotta be that one single threaded program. In this case, appears to be frigate.

 

I don't know about y'all.... But, I am really looking forward to CS:II

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

My apologies for the past day or so of downtime.

I had a work conference all of last week. On the last morning around 4am, before I headed back to my timezone, "something" inside of my kubernetes cluster took a dump.

While- I can remotely reboot nodes, and even access them... the scope of what went wrong was far above what I can accomplish remotely via my phone.

After returning home yesterday evening, I started plugging away a bit, and quickly realized.... something was seriously wrong with the cluster. As such, from previous experience, I found it was quicker to just tear it down, rebuild it, and restore from backups. So- I started that process.

However, since, I had not seen my wife in a week, I felt spending some time with her was slightly more important at the time. But- I was able to finish getting everything restored today.

Due, to the issues before, I will be rebuilding some areas of my infrastructure to be slightly more redundant.

Whereas before- I had bare-metal machines running ubuntu, going forward, I will be leveraging proxmox for compute clustering and HA, along with ceph for storage HA.

That being said, sometime soon, I will have ansible playbooks setup to get everything pushed out and running.

Again- My apologies for the downtime. It was completely unexpected, and came out of the blue. I honestly still have no idea what happened.

The best suspicion I have, is disk failure.... and after rebooting the machine, it came back to life?

Regardless, Will work to improve this moving forward. Also- I don't plan on being out of town soon... so, that will help too.

There may be some slight downtime later on as I am working on and moving things around. If- that is the case, it will be short. But- for now- the goal is just restoring my other services and getting back up and running.

Update 2023-07-23 CST

There are still a few kinks being worked out. I have noticed occasionally things are disconnecting still.

Working on ironing out the issues still. Please bear with me.

(This issue appears to be due to a single realtek nic in the cluster... realtek = bad)

Update 9:30pm CST

Well, it has been a "fun" evening. I have been finding issues left and right.

  1. A piece of bad fiber cable.
  2. The aforementioned server with a realtek NIC which was bringing down the entire cluster.
  3. STP/RSTP issues, likely caused by the above two issues.

Still, working and improving...

Update 2023-07-24

Update 9am CST

Working out a few minor kinks still. Finish line is in sight.

Update 5pm CST

Happened to find a SFP+ module which was in the process of dying. Swapped it out with a new one, and... magically, many of the spotty network issues went away.

Have new fiber ordered, will install later this week.

Update 9pm CST

  1. Broken/Intermittent SFP+ Module replaced.
  2. Server with crappy realtek nic removed. Re-added server with 10G SFP+ connectivity.
  3. Clustered servers moved to dedicated switch.
  4. New fiber stuff ordered to replace longer-distance (50ft) 10G copper runs.

I am aware of current performance issues. These will start going away as I expand out the cluster. Still focusing on rebuilding everything to a working state.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyonline.com/post/53654

I dug through the prime deals and picked out the relevant devices, for which I have personal experience using, and would recommend to others.

Every device linked, will work with home assistant, more or less natively. The majority of them, are flashable to esphome or tasmota. And ALL of them will work 100% locally.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyonline.com/post/53654

I dug through the prime deals and picked out the relevant devices, for which I have personal experience using, and would recommend to others.

Every device linked, will work with home assistant, more or less natively. The majority of them, are flashable to esphome or tasmota. And ALL of them will work 100% locally.

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433mhz Automation (static.xtremeownage.com)
 

https://old.lemmyonline.com/

Just, an alternative front-end... if you pretty.... a different front-end.

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