Post Views: 20 TLDR: CHECKING YOUR WEB/PUMA LOGS AND SIDEKIQ DEAD QUEUE FOR S3 ReadTimeout ERRORS FOR FUN AND PROFIT!!! I recently started investigating the high bandwidth being used by my Mastodon instance, and noticed a lot of errors (similar to below) showing failures related to uploading files to my […]
Post Views: 616 Edit: So to put my money where my mouth is – Right now storage is costing me around $150AUD a month – so if somebody can build a media server we can share/deploy and offer it for all of the Fediverse instances… I will give them a […]
Post Views: 37 Solution The solution looks to be disabling two features (TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) or GSO (Generic Segmentation Offload)) using ethtool. You can add this to your /etc/network/interfaces as a post-up command to maintain this over reboots. References
Post Views: 2 Why does Microsoft do this? When did this start? Solution: Removing the Recovery Partition Bonus: Restoring the Recovery Partition I generally don’t bother with this because i’m running VMs and take snapshots/backups.. but if you must <TBD>
Post Views: 20 I’ve recently experienced a number of errors in my proxmox server related to the NVME drives. After looking into this. I’ve found a series of articles and posts about this issue: and sadly none of these posts seem to have a solid answer…. and even worse, most […]
Post Views: 336 <OverlyDramaticIntro> Hello Mastodon enthusiasts, after seven months of relentless innovation and extensive development, the eagerly awaited Mastodon 4.2.0 update has been released. Mastodon continues to set itself apart from the mainstream platforms with a focus on privacy and user safety. This update stands as a testament to […]
Post Views: 49 I grabbed 4 1TB Kingston KC3000 NVME disks, and as I plan on using them in a proxmox server. I’ve investigated their LBA (Logical block addressing) format support to gain better performance by using the larger native block size. Bonus fact: Some NVME drives also have LBA […]
Post Views: 79 I’ve recently started building a 2U rack server, and went to install the 20pin TPM that I had spare. While the unit worked fine, I noticed the firmware was the original/oldest possible firmware version. Finding the latest firmware releases The Trusted Computing Group has a list of […]
Post Views: 1 This should federate to Mastodon.
Post Views: 5 At the time of writing, there are two Mastodon instances called mstdn.party and mstdn.plus, run by the same person… There are currently over 15 thousand active accounts shared between the two, and the instance appears to have been abandoned. I have tried to contact the administrator, as […]