@prologic@twtxt.net This is weird, but today, out of nowhere, yarnd filled up the disk on the VPS where I run it. It’s never done anything like this before and I have no idea why it would start. But it threw almost 700 Gbytes of data into /tmp in files like this:
yarnd-avatar-1087570772 yarnd-avatar-1599127133 yarnd-avatar-2042956376 yarnd-avatar-2562946212 yarnd-avatar-3274766535 yarnd-avatar-3931929859 yarnd-avatar-553201529
yarnd-avatar-1089125452 yarnd-avatar-1606826819 yarnd-avatar-2089122560 yarnd-avatar-2611944556 yarnd-avatar-3310922372 yarnd-avatar-3938996661 yarnd-avatar-556240195
yarnd-avatar-1101228867 yarnd-avatar-1618755765 yarnd-avatar-2104107259 yarnd-avatar-2641384948 yarnd-avatar-3326285269 yarnd-avatar-3939402047 yarnd-avatar-559344463
yarnd-avatar-1112165824 yarnd-avatar-1650827505 yarnd-avatar-2142824779 yarnd-avatar-2680659340 yarnd-avatar-3340682113 yarnd-avatar-3998621883 yarnd-avatar-570292705
yarnd-avatar-1119886894 yarnd-avatar-1656673647 yarnd-avatar-2160786463 yarnd-avatar-271923479 yarnd-avatar-3374584613 yarnd-avatar-4005102536 yarnd-avatar-595490106
yarnd-avatar-1131417623 yarnd-avatar-1685698239 yarnd-avatar-2165405940 yarnd-avatar-2793562275 yarnd-avatar-3380606954 yarnd-avatar-4016872095 yarnd-avatar-679251850
yarnd-avatar-1160959085 yarnd-avatar-1746759128 yarnd-avatar-2171489899 yarnd-avatar-2842068287 yarnd-avatar-3416352997 yarnd-avatar-4110048378 yarnd-avatar-679950970
yarnd-avatar-1231649265 yarnd-avatar-1752278279 yarnd-avatar-2251317422 yarnd-avatar-2843868670 yarnd-avatar-3468636088 yarnd-avatar-4116552474 yarnd-avatar-737874628
164 files. Some are empty, some are 7 or even 10 Gbyte.
Any idea what would cause that? And why now, after running yarnd for so long with nothing like this happening?
This was interesting: I didn’t expect so much variation in reported times. If you happen to have #plan9 running on some other VPS, I’d love to hear your results. https://pdx.social/@a/112481970480703254
This blog has no Onion Service anymore
I had Tor support in GoBlog for over three years now, but I decided to disable it on my blog (and the GoBlog blog) for now. Several times, Tor randomly started using a lot of memory on my VPS and even crashed my block one or two times. It could have been the Go library used to integrate Tor, or something else in the Tor code itself, I don’t know. ⌘ Read more
I think @abucci@anthony.buc.ci and @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no are running snac? I didn’t have a closer look at snac (no intention of running it), but if that is a relatively small daemon (maybe comparable to Yarn?) that gives you access to the whole world of ActivityPub, then, well, yeah … That’s tough to beat.
Yes, I am running snac on the same VPS where I run my yarn pod. I heard of it from @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no, so blame him 😏 snac is written in C and is one simple executable, uses very little resources on the server, and stores everything in JSON files (no databases or other integrations; easy to save and migrate your data) . It’s definitely like yarn in that respect.
I haven’t been around yarn much lately. Part of that is that I’ve been very busy at work and home and only have a limited time to spend goofing off on a social network. Part of it is that I’m finding snac very useful: I’ve connected with friends I’d previously lost touch with, I’ve found useful work-related information, I’ve found colleagues to follow, and even found interesting conferences to attend. There’s a lot more going on over there.
I guess if I had to put it simply, I’d say I have limited time to play and there are more kids in the ActivityPub sandbox than this one. That’s not a ding on yarn–I like yarn and twtxt–I’m just time constrained.
Home Server Offline ☹️
Today, I woke up and noticed that my home server, located in my second flat, and also the router, all behind a 5G connection (that was showing as working fine on the provider’s website), were offline. No VPN connection anymore, and also Tailscale showed the nodes as being offline. I’m glad that I had automatic backups and was able to easily restore the three important services from that server on my VPS, without the need to travel to the second flat first. ⌘ Read more
New Aetina MXM GPU Series with NVIDIA Ada Technology
Aetina has unveiled its new MXM GPU series, leveraging the advanced NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture. This latest lineup, including the MX2000A-VP, MX3500A-SP, and MX5000A-WP, is tailored to meet the increasing needs for real-time ray tracing and AI-driven neural graphics across various sectors, including smart healthcare, autonomous machinery, smart manufacturing, and commercial gaming. Aetina’s MX5000A-WP, at […] ⌘ Read more
Migrating to a Fedora CoreOS VPS
It seems like I was successfully able to migrate from my Alpine Linux VPS to a new VPS having Fedora CoreOS installed. 🎉 ⌘ Read more
Spent a stupid amount of time rolling up a VPS in Singapor and Apache not serving SSL for no reason.
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote. ⌘ Read more
Our VPS provider had emergency network maintence and we were offline for a bit. Looks like we’re back!
Another change in my infrastructure setup: I replaced rathole with Chisel. There wasn’t any particular reason, I use it in the same way: It’s making a few services and websites hosted on my home server available on my VPS to publish using Caddy and a static IP. Chisel is just a bit more simple to configure using command line flags. And it’s written in Go. ⌘ Read more
Tailscale SSH
I finally got around to using Tailscale SSH. I’ve been using Tailscale for over a year to access my servers via SSH (my VPS is even available via Tailscale only), but I haven’t used the new Tailscale SSH feature yet. ⌘ Read more
Should Philippines’ Marcos be ‘on guard’ as Sara Duterte is sworn in early, meets China envoy?
The VP-elect’s move to take her oath 11 days early, in a ceremony attended by diplomats including China’s ambassador, shows she remains a ‘force’ beyond her office, analysts say. ⌘ Read more
Given that we don’t have a “home phone”, what’s the best way to create a “hunt group” for my partner’s and my cell phones? My first thought is Asterisk on a VPS, but my knowledge of such things is years out of date. Is there a better way?
My public VPS is now only accessible via SSH from my tailnet. One more possible attack vector less. ⌘ Read more
“爆到天际线” - TiDB 2021 Hackathon 决赛不负责任点评
作者介绍：唐刘，PingCAP VP of Engineering，TiDB Hackathon 2021 特邀评委。
TiDB 2021 Hackathon 终于落下帷幕，最开始我还担心，今年 Hackathon 还有啥东西能出来，结果却大大超出我的预期，很多项目真的能用惊艳来形容，大家都在自嘲，说『内卷得太厉害』。作为评委，全程参与了预赛内核组以及决赛的答辩，还是有很多感触的，之前已经写了一篇预赛的点评（点击文末 “阅读原文” 即可查看），这次也对决赛做一次不负责任的点评。
决赛这次有 20 个项目，我大概分几个维度做一个统一介绍。
性能/功能增强
这次在 TiDB 内核上，做的不少性能提升功能真的很惊艳，因为我预赛点评的主要是内核组的东西，所以在这里简单进行一下汇总。
增量 Analytic Table
这个功能通过 Region Cache 统计信息的方式来加速全表的 analyze，在表越大的情况下，收益会越加明显。一方面加速了 analyze 的速度，另外一方面也能缓解 analyze 造成的大量 IO 和 CPU 开销，降低了系统的压力。不过这个实现有一个前提假设，就 … ⌘ Read more
Secure Docker Compose stacks with CrowdSec - The open-source & collaborative IPS
Testing this at the moment, quite happy with the results for one of my VPS running Funkwhale that came from a mix of Wordpress / Ampache, wordpress was being heavily probed for vulnerabilities, login attemps etc .. ⌘ Read more
I am using Nitter, an alternative interface for Twitter, just in case I want to read a thread on Twitter. Previously I hosted the instance directly on my VPS. Now, however, I host the Nitter instance at home, but make it available on the Internet through Tailscale, a little program I wrote called “ProxyExposer”, and Caddy. 🤓 I also briefly tried publishing a WordPress instance from home to the web this way. But I don’t have a use case for WordPress at the moment. ⌘ Read more
My home and code server now has 2 TB of SSD storage and 16 GB of RAM. While I’ll be using the storage for backups, etc., I’m not quite sure what I can use the 16 GB of RAM for yet. What else can I run besides Home Assistant, AdGuard Home, Drone and Tailscale? I still have my VPS running my websites, Miniflux, Bitwarden, Firefox Sync Server, RSS-Bridge, Firefly III, Nitter and Gitea. 🤔 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I am trying to cut costs, so I deleted all my Digital Ocean droplets. For a month I will be using a free s390x VPS, so I needed to adapt some of my Docker images, scripts and configurations for that architecture. Also took another chance with Traefik Proxy, I ditched it long ago for nginx-proxy, but this time I made it work. #h5nn5tq
@prologic@twtxt.net I am trying to cut costs, so I deleted all my Digital Ocean droplets. For a month I will be using a free s390x VPS, so I needed to adapt some of my Docker images, scripts and configurations for that architecture. Also took another chance with Traefik Proxy, I ditched it long ago for nginx-proxy, but this time I made it work. #h5nn5tq
Moving to a VPS, some downtime ⌘
@sarmonsiill@twtxt.ti-l.de I have an xmpp bot running on my vps and the bot updates my twtxt.txt using txtnish. So I use twtxt via xmpp.
A few technical changes
A few things have happened on my current server setup. The biggest one was my move from FreeBSD to Ubuntu. I do not have complains about FreeBSD — how could I? — but I wanted to play with more recent stuff, and it was becoming very hard to do under BSD. I also wanted a refresh, since I had been running that VPS for a while and it was starting to feel “dirty.”
So, I spawned up an [Ubuntu 16.04 LTS](http://releases.ubuntu … ⌘ Read more