Sunday, November 08

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Apparently Parler has just hit two million users with growth rates off the chart.  Things are a bit flaky over there right now, but they're working on it.

Meanwhile my GitLab server has died.  Don't use dynamically-sized virtual disks with VirtualBox, kids.

I'm able to get in and take a full file-level backup, so in theory I can get it back, and in practice everything in there is also in my dev folder.

Update: Holy crap, but GitLab is robust.  That system was hosed, and I expected to spend hours putting it back together and reloading the data.

Nope.  Copy /opt/gitlab and /var/opt/gitlab over to a new Ubuntu instance, add the necessary entries to /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and run gitlab-ctl reconfigure and it scans and fixes everything automatically.

It was so easy that I'm going to do it a second time and move it all over to Ubuntu 20.10 and ZFS.

Update Two: That worked, but I tried to go one step further and update it to the latest version and it didn't like that very much.  So it's back to an old version of GitLab on the latest version of Linux.

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1 This Parler stuff is just sad. Goes to tell that so-called "conservatives" are gullible sheep and no friends of free speech. The censorship at Parler is absurdly strict, but these pinheads still flock to it.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Monday, November 09 2020 11:25 AM (LZ7Bg)

2 Free speech doesn't have many defenders.  I just want to see, at least, that not all the censorship is aimed in the same direction.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, November 09 2020 11:41 AM (PiXy!)

3 I won't touch Parler since they insist that you indemnify them without limits if they get sued. It's in the TOU that nobody reads.

Posted by: Mauser at Tuesday, November 10 2020 11:33 AM (Ix1l6)

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