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Is AI killing open source?
> In sum, we don’t need more code; we need more care. Care for the humans who shepherd the communities and create code that will endure beyond a simple prompt.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4129056/is-ai-killing-open-source.html
#opensource #maintanance #review #cost

Back from the engine room. Everything is up to date on our Mastodon instance:

Mastodon :mastodon: : 4.5.0-rc.3
Ruby: 3.4.7
PostgreSQL :postgres: : 18.0
Redis: 8.0.2
Elasticsearch: 7.17.29

Also all operating system updates deployed and re-organized the PostgreSQL database with a pg_repack.

Few technical stats:
Database size: 22,1 GB
Media size (S3 Storage): 142 GB
Elasticsearch size: ~ 10 GB

All looking pretty healthy, stable, realiable. Running like a well oiled machine 🙂

#mastodon #maintanance #mastoadmin #postgresql
@tux

Now running Mastodon v4.5-beta1 on our instance burningboard.net. This release allows for example to quote toots.

Also updated Ruby to version 3.4.7 🙂

All looking perfectly stable from the engine room !

#mastodon #mastoadmin #maintanance #update #ruby @tux

Update of Mastodon to v4.4.6 for our Instance burningboard.net was done successfully. We're on the latest version again.

Mastodon 4.4.6 :mastodon:
PostgreSQL 18 :postgres:
Debian GNU/Linux 13 :debian:

#mastodon #mastoadmin #updates #maintanance #up2date #burningboard

Mastodon update to v4.4.4 on burningboard.net has been installed :mastodon:

#mastodon #mastoadmin #maintanance #up2date #burningboard

Homelab Maintanance 2025-06-29:

- Upgraded Red Hat Satellite to version 6.17.1

- Upgraded Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 (RPM) to 2.4-12

- Upgraded Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 (Containerized) to 2.5-15

- Patched Proxmox hypervisors to latest version

- Patched all Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts to latest version and applied all errata

- Decomissioned CentOS-Stream9 host on Hetzner Cloud and removed CentOS Packages from local mirror

- Upgraded check_mk monitoring suite and rolled out new check_mk agent via Ansible

- Renewed expired TLS certificates from internal step-ca

- Fixed issue in LDAP directory of Red Hat Identity Management realm

- Overall environment health-check

All green, all up to date, all fine 🙂

#homelab #selfhosting #linux #redhat #proxmox #maintanance #devops

And another successful round of home- and colo-lab maintainance:

- Updated Proxmox VE servers to v.8.3.4
- Updated Proxmox backup server to v.3.3.3
- Updated all Debian/GNU Linux servers (including the
burningboard.net Mastodon instance) with the latest patches and rebooted them
- Updated Red Hat Satellite to version 6.16.3 on RHEL9
- Updated all Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS-Stream systems with Satellite+Ansible and rebooted them
- Updated my Raspberry PI 4 with Home-Assustant to the latest version 2025.3.1

According to Grafana+Loki dashboards and checkmk, everything is running smoothly and is operational :)

Thanks to the power of automation with Ansible, all of this just took roughly 25 minutes to do.

#linux #sysadmin #homelab #selfhosting #maintanance #security #ansible

Update:

Successful upgrade of dBase! PostgreSQL running smoothly mastodon.social now runs on the spanking new database servers!

Small processing delays occur due to backlog of requests accumulated during downtime.

Patience is a virtue...

https://status.mastodon.social/

#maintanance #mastodonSocial #dBase #PostgresQL #issues #Linux #SocialMedia

Update:

Successful upgrade of dBase! PostgreSQL running smoothly mastodon.social now runs on the spanking new database servers!

Small processing delays occur due to backlog of requests accumulated during downtime.

Patience is a virtue...

https://status.mastodon.social/

#maintanance #mastodonSocial #dBase #PostgresQL #issues #Linux #SocialMedia

mastodon.social has incurred problems & is experiencing major outage.

PostgreSQL new major version running on new server hardware went awry.

There is a config issue with the upgrade.

Please just be patient and dont ask when the instance will be up again. Let the computer & server technicians work in calm so they can fix or roll back; either will result in the instance coming up again

#maintanance #mastodonSocial #dBase #PostgresQL #issues #Linux #SocialMedia

https://status.mastodon.social/

mastodon.social has incurred problems & is experiencing major outage.

PostgreSQL new major version running on new server hardware went awry.

There is a config issue with the upgrade.

Please just be patient and dont ask when the instance will be up again. Let the computer & server technicians work in calm so they can fix or roll back; either will result in the instance coming up again

#maintanance #mastodonSocial #dBase #PostgresQL #issues #Linux #SocialMedia

https://status.mastodon.social/

Another successful Sunday home-lab and server maintanance session:

- Patched and rebooted all my RHEL Machines using Satellite and Ansible

- Added Fedora 41 repositories to local Satellite

- Upgraded Fedora 40 Server to Fedora 41

- Patched Debian Based VPS servers using Ansible

- Deleted a bunch of VM's, that became obsolete

#homelab #linux #maintanance #sysadmin #patchday #redhat #fedora #ansible #satellite

After patching all my homelab servers and services yesterday, I did take care of the Router/Gateway/Firewall of my network today and upgraded everything from FreeBSD 13.2 to 14.1 (including all the Jails and Beehyve VM's). Very smooth upgrade, everything still working perfectly.

root@gate:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD gate.intra.hofstede.it 14.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p2 stable/24.7-n267758-4ad7ad40bc77 SMP amd64

#freebsd #homelab #selfhosting #maintanance #unix #network

Productive Sunday evening:

- Updated my Proxmox Hypervisor Hosts and Backup-Server to new Debian GNU/Linux 12.6 and rebooted them.

- Updated burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to Debian GNU/Linux 12.6 plus a quick reboot.

- Started writing an Ansible playbook to unify all my ssh public-keys on the numerous servers, I have (Multiple keys from different times, inconsistent distribution of them on the systems etc.) My homelab systems are all using #freeIPA but my colo-servers developed into quite the chaos and that needs cleanup.

- Reworked my Neovim configuration to use Neogit instead of vim-fugitive

#linux #sysadmin #maintanance #mastoadmin #debian #proxmox #burningboard

Fully automated the patching of my linux servers with #Ansible using a workflow. The Job runs scheduled every day:

- Publishing a new Content-View version on Satellite and promoting it
- Patching all inventory hosts to the latest state
- Rebooting systems, if necessary

Ansible Playbook to patch systems:

- name: Patch all systems and reboot if required
hosts: "{{ host }}"
gather_facts: true
become: true

tasks:
- name: Ensure all updates are applied
ansible.builtin.package:
update_cache: true
name: "*"
state: latest
update_only: true

- name: Check to see if update is required
ansible.builtin.command: dnf needs-restarting -r
register: result
changed_when: false
failed_when: result.rc not in [0, 1]
ignore_errors: true

- name: Reboot server if needed
ansible.builtin.reboot:
when: result.rc | int == 1

#linux #maintanance #patch #ansible #rhel #sysadmin #homelab

Update of our #Mastodon instance burningboard.net to the new version 4.2.9 successfully completed. Additionally updated the operating system completely, updated the Prometheus exporters and did a pg_repack of the PostgreSQL database.

Yesterday evening we did a restore test of the backups in a virtual machine (offline) to make sure that our backups work and are sufficient to restore the instance completely.

#mastoadmin #linux #maintanance #backup

Update unserer #Mastodon Instanz burningboard.net auf die neue Version 4.2.9 erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Zusätzlich noch das Betriebssystem vollständig aktualisiert, die Prometheus Exporter aktualisiert und einen pg_repack der PostgreSQL Datenbank gemacht.

Gestern Abend in einer Virtuellen Maschine (offline) einen Restore-Test der Backups durchgeführt, um sicherzustellen, dass unsere Backups auch funktionieren und ausreichen um die Instanz vollständig wiederherzustellen.

#mastoadmin #linux #maintanance #backup

#Linux #Maintanance #Sunday

- Patched all #Debian based systems and rebooted machines
- Updated personal #Nextcloud instance to v29.0.0
- Updated #Roundcubemail to v1.6.6
- Updated #Piwigo to v14.4.0
- Updated #Forgejo to v.7.0.2
- Updated many containers to new versions
- Disabled some old services that are not in use anymore

To-Do (Not this weekend):
- Migrate my DNS servers from #Bind to #PowerDNS
- Implement CrowdSec for added security
- Automate more tasks with #Ansible
- Get my new blog/docsite with #Jekyll up and running

Migrated the final and last container-host from #docker to #podman

Still having some docker-compose files left, that need conversion to the modern #quadlet definition. But that’s also making good progress.

Docker->Podman Migration: 4/4 hosts
Docker-Compose->Quadlet Migration: 17/24 applications
Migration of legacy systems to EL9: 6/7

Also all systems patched and rebooted where needed.

My #homelab finally gets where I want to have it in 2024 🥳

#linux #container #maintanance

The infrastructure of burningboard.net has been updated today.

Debian GNU Linux 12 (Bookworm)
Proxmox VE 8.0
Linux Kernel 6.2.16

There might be some lagging in the next minutes and the timelines have to catch up first. Don't be surprised if you see older messages coming in the next time.

@tux
#mastoadmin #mastodon #linux #maintanance #proxmox

Die Infrastruktur von burningboard.net wurde heute grundlegend Aktualisiert.

Debian GNU Linux 12 (Bookworm)
Proxmox VE 8.0
Linux Kernel 6.2.16

Es kann in den nächsten Minuten noch etwas laggen und die Timelines müssen erst wieder aufholen. Nicht wundern, wenn ihr die nächste Zeit noch ältere Nachrichten rein kommen seht.

@tux
#mastoadmin #mastodon #linux #maintanance #proxmox