Are we federating again?

Let’s find out!

ETA: A downright silly number of people are looking at this. Hi! This is a test post because a combination of unexpectedly going viral combined with unfortunately timed system anti-spam maintenance resulted in breaking federation for my blog. We’re trying to fix it. Sorry for the test posts, but there will be more! Please bear with us and thank you.

ETA2: I think we’re in the clear now. Let’s find out! How long will this edit take to Federate around? xD

ETA3: Okay! That was way more normal! Now let’s try to do a little perf tuning while we’re here. Can we distribute edits as a giant chungus? LET’S GOOOOOOO

ETA4: We can, with PHP timeout cranked up to 60 seconds. Let’s change that so it’s halvsies to be safe. That sounds safe, right? I think so. Most of the performance (two queue runs instead of six), minimal additional risk.

I think we’re back, team. Assuming this works. Thanks for your patience!

It may sound odd but

Today Anna and I upgraded all the servers in the servercore with MST3K in the background and had some pizza made by Paul and some pie made by a grocery store.

And it was a really nice day.

I am so pleased that (with the help of the Mastodon discord on that server) we got all the server OSes upgraded and back up and running and cleaned up some stuff while we were at it.

Just being able to… get some stuff done without it being a goddamn nightmare or a huge fight or anything. Just mostly sitting around and chatting some while upgrading stuff and getting things that broke working again without too much of a fuss.

could use days like this more often, not gonna lie

how was your day?

While upgrading or installing any package, if you are getting an unmet dependencies error, you can resolve it with the given steps.

https://trendoceans.com/how-to-fix-unmet-dependencies/

i would not buy ecovax devices

Hm, ecovax feels no need to patch this bluetooth exploit that lets you p0wn their robot vacuums and lawnmowers and do things like turn on their built-in cameras and microphones, and have them connect to random servers directly themselves.

It’s on the basis that since it’s bluetooth, you need to be in the area of the device, but, uh, that’s also true for hax0ring your local wifi? So I don’t see how that’s actually better.

Anyway – neat! Maybe don’t buy their stuff.

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Don’t install any version of Windows 11 that can run copilot/recall

Don’t install any version of Windows 11 that can run Copilot/Recall if there is or ever will be absolutely anything on the machine you want to keep private in any way. Anything.

Particularly passwords, but in no way just that.

Not even if your hardware theoretically doesn’t support it and theoretically can’t run it. That doesn’t matter. Do not install it.

To be as clear as I can be, I’m not just saying “turn off this feature no matter what,” though if it’s already running, you need to do that right now and also purge your entire history and also see if you can scrub your system drive of all abandoned data files related to Copilot/Recall. I’m saying, literally, do not install any version of Windows that contains recall.

Yes, I am being obscure about why. Deliberately. I get this way when a problem is both too serious and too easy to replicate. This is the kind of shit I have in the past – when I was what one might call not a white hat – gone through trusted third parties to report and get fixed, mostly because of the “too easy” part.

It’s been a while, but I just did this again, some several days ago. I do not know whether anything is coming of it, but at least I have tried. And today, I have received information which – if correct, and that’s always an if – says that the situation is even worse than I thought.

One of the solutions I handed my third-party relay does, at least, address one of the new issues I am absolutely not describing here. However, none of the solutions I brought address the other issues I am also not describing here.

Do not install.

[link] #sys #sys

When I created this #mastodon account, I thought of building a new bubble, from scratch; perhaps too focused on the technical aspects of my daily work (#dev, #sys, etc... a mistake).

It hasn't quite captured my interest, and I miss "other topics". Lately, I've also been logging into #twitter, but as of today, I can't stand the ads.

Perhaps it's worth one last attempt to change the bubble but I suppose I've lost the 'engagement' with both platforms.