The ravens are looking a bit sluggish. Tell Malcolm they need new batteries.

Monday, April 05

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Older Posts Temporarily Hidden

Power is out at the new hosting company where Ace lives - and may be out for a day or two.  After power went out, they switched to generator backup.

Then one of the backup generators caught fire.

It was promptly put out, but power has been cut to the entire building and won't be restored until there's been a safety inspection.

I had a whole bunch of his content already in this server and activated his site over here, but that slowed the server to a crawl, and I had to hide older posts while I sorted that out.

All the content is safe and will be progressively re-enabled.  Should all be back tomorrow.

Update: We also have four servers at the same datacenter at my day job.  It's the big data crunching cluster I mentioned before, including the massive 128-core Epyc server.

That server - with complete backups of all the critical data - is now back online.  So is the one that caused me so much trouble that my boss authorised a 128-core replacement without a second thought.

I was half expecting none of the servers to survive except the broken one.  At least I'm spared that nightmare.

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Monday, March 08

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Maintainenances

Was trying to purge the sessions table (which was getting rather large) and the database got unhappy and the site (or rather, sites, since there's somehow over 100,000 of them) slowed to a crawl.

Instead I copied the entries I wanted to keep into a new table and swapped tables.

Happier now.

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Sunday, January 10

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Parler Embed Test






Ah, got it. It works just fine, but glitches slightly if you embed the same post twice in the page. That's not really a problem; I'll let them know and they can fix that when they have slightly fewer things to deal with.

Update: Implemented for testing here.

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Saturday, January 09

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Video Spam Test Post

If this works properly, this post won't break your browser.

Update: But your browser might break it.

Compatibility Test Results

Desktop
  • Chrome ✔
  • Firefox ✔
  • Edge ✔
  • Vivaldi ✔
  • Brave âœ”
  • Pale Moon ❌
  • Opera - not tested because I uninstalled it a year ago
  • Safari âœ”
  • Waterfox 3G ✔
  • Waterfox Classic âŒ

Waterfox Classic's DOM support is out of date - deliberately, so as not to break plugins - and Pale Moon's JavaScript support is way out of date.

I'll need to detect them via the user agent string and revert to direct (slow) embedding.


 
Huh. It works.

Once more, with feeling playlists.


That was... Surprisingly painless.

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Sunday, January 12

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Feeding The Dog

Oops.  Comments should be fixed now.

The bug only affected this site, which was exactly the point of splitting it off to its own environment.

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Tuesday, October 29

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Site Hic-Hic-Hic-Hiccups

Not my fault this time!

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Wednesday, September 18

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We're Back, Probably

Customer service bot with an itchy trigger finger took us down over an abuse ticket that I had already resolved.

I got us up and running using a proxy server and an SSH tunnel, but then managed to reach a human and got things restored.

Well, that was fun.  If you can't see this post, let me know.

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Wednesday, May 08

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Performance Update

I banned about 700 blogs trying to sell counterfeit sports jerseys and FIFA tchotchkes, and everything is running a lot better all of a sudden.

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Monday, April 29

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Question For mee.nu Users

Anyone else having trouble with the edit functions, like trying to edit a post and it takes you to the post rather than the editor?

I think it was limited to just this site where I'm testing the always-HTTPS changes.  I turned off my custom header template and it fixed the problem.

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Monday, April 15

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Site Blorkage

Had some bots scanning the whole of mee.nu for WordPress vulnerabilities.  No mee.nu blogs are running on WordPress, so this was an entirely futile pursuit, but the attempt was putting a lot of load on the server.

So I blocked the bastards at the firewall.

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