Call to action What would you do with 10U of collocation space for free? if you were me, what’s the best/most interesting/most impactful outcome for this rack space? Part 1: The Pitch In February 2025, I moved into a half rack with 20U of capacity in a closed/private and secured […]
Hey Mastodon admins,I’ve noticed lots of errors in the logs and sidekiq dead queue similar to a failure for pushrelay-mast1.your.org. These come from failed mobile/web notification services which are registered for your users… and they fail repeatively! Note: if you know who runs/ran the failing push services, maybe give them […]
Let’s answer the question… Is co-location right for you? Over 12 months ago, I made the switch from cloud VMs to dedicated co-location hosting a Proxmox cluster, and it turned out to be one of the best decisions for my specific needs. This move has allowed me to maintain predictable […]
There was a 24 hour window of submission for the Social Media Minimal Age bill.. and I decided to write something straight to the point. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/SocialMediaMinimumAge
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 S3 provider Wasabi. […]
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 minimum of $3600AUD […]
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
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>
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 replies are just […]
<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 the teams dedication […]