Posts by finite@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AP3YXWRiXYFNVge5sO by finite@mastodon.social
2022-10-29T10:16:10Z
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@stux I was thinking about making an alt on your instance that I can fall back to when things like this happen. :blobcat:
(DIR) Post #AP6Pc1qhPVeNwwHha4 by finite@mastodon.social
2022-10-30T18:58:07Z
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@stux Out of curiousity, how did you get the SSL going on that?
(DIR) Post #APCK5KqtMXkq2mXjZQ by finite@mastodon.social
2022-11-02T15:37:13Z
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@stux Hetzner not provisioning more server seems to be a common theme around here as of late. Thanks for all your hard work to keep things running!
(DIR) Post #AQ0zPY9tnd3Z26dQtU by finite@mastodon.social
2022-11-27T02:25:22Z
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@lamp @nathan This is a cultural thing. I grew up hearing "gay" used almost exclusively as an insult. Queer is pretty much universally recognized as a slur, but it has been heavily reclaimed and is part of the lexicon. Of course you shouldn't call people that if they don't like it.
(DIR) Post #AQ23D5bajDNjyZrUBM by finite@mastodon.social
2022-11-27T14:42:41Z
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@stux The ones that aren't inside pans are shibas!
(DIR) Post #AQbuK6bZVOGtCsgFpQ by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T21:43:05Z
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Setting up a reliable "status page" (i.e. a service that can monitor other services to alert and record outages) is way more difficult than it should be.
(DIR) Post #AQbuK75Lig5ghEc2F6 by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T21:46:15Z
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Obviously you don't want to host it from the same infrastructure that hosts the stuff you're actually monitoring. Preferably, it should be at a completely different ISP. That being said, it's an incredibly basic task, so it's hard to justify spending a ton of money on it.You'd think you can just get any old cheap VPS and set up an open source monitoring service, but there are shockingly few options and low-end VPSes may struggle to run them reliably.
(DIR) Post #AQbuKBCER1yNRjraWe by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T21:48:57Z
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There are plenty of commercial services that will do this for you, some will even do it free of charge, but I really dislike the idea of relying on centralized commercial services for something like this.
(DIR) Post #AQbvM2IUamLiNcEzQm by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T22:04:00Z
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@lamp So, even if I had the time and energy to write the software (I don't, really, I'd rather modify existing software if it comes to that), that does not address the reliability issues. Even if the network uptime on a cheap VPS is good, you won't always be able to get a consistent number of CPU cycles. In other words, noisy neighbors can negatively impact your results.
(DIR) Post #AQbwVvDHsvSPG95GbY by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T22:16:47Z
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@lamp Actually establishing SSL/TLS connections and sending requests to 100+ services every minute takes a little bit more than just shooting over an ICMP packet. I'm not trying to make sure the server is up, I'm trying to make sure that the website is actually reachable and working properly.
(DIR) Post #AQbxrlNHFK0b4Njdq4 by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T22:32:18Z
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@lamp The difference is that your fedi server stalling for a couple seconds won't stop any connections from reaching it as soon as it comes back. If your VM stalls for a few seconds while it's gathering metrics, it will massively increase the recorded latency, or it will time out and cause false downtime to be recorded.
(DIR) Post #AQbyXKShhEYdlT5rZg by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T22:39:49Z
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@lamp You may be underestimating what I mean by "cheap". I don't think this would be a problem on something that costs like $5/mo.I am not willing to spend that much for this.
(DIR) Post #AQbzhHYzQbEZcnLNDM by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T22:51:18Z
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@lamp Most systems under $2/mo are OpenVZ, which are notoriously easy to oversell and prone to these types of issues. Finding a KVM server under that price point that natively supports both IPv6 and IPv4 has proved quite challenging.
(DIR) Post #AQc0lqXFRf23CVGkyG by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-14T23:04:50Z
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@lamp KVM has better process isolation. With OpenVZ, how fast it is really depends on how much the provider has done to mitigate the noisy neighbor issues and what the other people on the same node as you are using their VMs for. I hosted my personal stuff from an OpenVZ for a few years and there's a reason I've moved over to dedicated hardware with KVM containers.The OpenVZ I'm using seems pretty solid so far, just that the processing speed of certain operations varies throughout the day.
(DIR) Post #AQyHH3aepWIXPYt2A4 by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-25T09:05:54Z
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@frin @lamp This is just how LTE is. It's not really symmetrical, the download speeds can go up to 100+ Mbps depending on your equipment and the available infrastructure, but I've never seen the upload speed exceed ~35 Mbps
(DIR) Post #AQyYoHFmkWFwZ3YBCi by finite@mastodon.social
2022-12-25T20:10:04Z
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@lamp They make it more difficult if you use a Windows machine to do the download :)
(DIR) Post #ARLb6Y3RgxQimz7c7U by finite@mastodon.social
2023-01-05T22:54:08Z
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@lamp I usually just click somewhere in the middle of the video frame to pause it. It kinda annoys me when HTML5 player interfaces neglect to implement that feature.
(DIR) Post #AVda8Vyg5omQQkURl2 by finite@mastodon.social
2023-05-14T06:36:32Z
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@lamp It's probably in a different timezone. Perhaps local time at the location of the scan or whatever the default timezone for the site's server is.
(DIR) Post #AVdgEcbAzMOwQYnCKW by finite@mastodon.social
2023-05-14T07:44:51Z
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@lamp Do you think shipping carriers care about any of that stuff? The tracking system primarily exists to help them find packages that get lost in warehouses. Them giving you access to that information online is just a courtesy to help you sleep at night and give you some rough idea of what day it'll arrive.
(DIR) Post #AVdiJmebENLwy9z0SG by finite@mastodon.social
2023-05-14T08:08:13Z
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@lamp Okay, but have you considered that programming a computer to deal with time properly is hard and these corporations are completely incompetent? UPS uses software designed for Windows 3.1 to scan packages for the tracking system.