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okay what's in the actual physical machine right now is an Intel Core i5-9400 YES IT IS AN ANTIQUE
it was fine until mastodon started pulling in all replies. which is absolutely a feature i support but dang it is it making my federated wordpress blog hard CPU-bound
(it does at least have a decent cooler so is not _also_ overheating. temps are good.)
$200 on eBay gets me like 2 more cores and 10 more threads without having to change out anything else
maybe i should do that?
lot cheaper than new mb and new RAM
(it's not at all short on ram, this thing has acres of DDR4)
still an oof tho'
#WebServer #wordpress #SelfHosting #piledriver #ZergRush #murknet
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okay what's in the actual physical machine right now is an Intel Core i5-9400 YES IT IS AN ANTIQUE
it was fine until mastodon started pulling in all replies. which is absolutely a feature i support but dang it is it making my federated wordpress blog hard CPU-bound
(it does at least have a decent cooler so is not _also_ overheating. temps are good.)
$200 on eBay gets me like 2 more cores and 10 more threads without having to change out anything else
maybe i should do that?
lot cheaper than new mb and new RAM
(it's not at all short on ram, this thing has acres of DDR4)
still an oof tho'
#WebServer #wordpress #SelfHosting #piledriver #ZergRush #murknet
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okay what's in the actual physical machine right now is an Intel Core i5-9400 YES IT IS AN ANTIQUE
it was fine until mastodon started pulling in all replies. which is absolutely a feature i support but dang it is it making my federated wordpress blog hard CPU-bound
(it does at least have a decent cooler so is not _also_ overheating. temps are good.)
$200 on eBay gets me like 2 more cores and 10 more threads without having to change out anything else
maybe i should do that?
lot cheaper than new mb and new RAM
(it's not at all short on ram, this thing has acres of DDR4)
still an oof tho'
#WebServer #wordpress #SelfHosting #piledriver #ZergRush #murknet
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okay what's in the actual physical machine right now is an Intel Core i5-9400 YES IT IS AN ANTIQUE
it was fine until mastodon started pulling in all replies. which is absolutely a feature i support but dang it is it making my federated wordpress blog hard CPU-bound
(it does at least have a decent cooler so is not _also_ overheating. temps are good.)
$200 on eBay gets me like 2 more cores and 10 more threads without having to change out anything else
maybe i should do that?
lot cheaper than new mb and new RAM
(it's not at all short on ram, this thing has acres of DDR4)
still an oof tho'
#WebServer #wordpress #SelfHosting #piledriver #ZergRush #murknet
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okay what's in the actual physical machine right now is an Intel Core i5-9400 YES IT IS AN ANTIQUE
it was fine until mastodon started pulling in all replies. which is absolutely a feature i support but dang it is it making my federated wordpress blog hard CPU-bound
(it does at least have a decent cooler so is not _also_ overheating. temps are good.)
$200 on eBay gets me like 2 more cores and 10 more threads without having to change out anything else
maybe i should do that?
lot cheaper than new mb and new RAM
(it's not at all short on ram, this thing has acres of DDR4)
still an oof tho'
#WebServer #wordpress #SelfHosting #piledriver #ZergRush #murknet
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team shitstain bans new… home network routers?
I haven’t seen as much coverage as this as I’d’ve expected, but the MAGA FCC dropped a ban on new imported consumer-grade network routers late Monday by adding them as a class of device to the “supply chain risk” list. Maybe Ubiquiti? But they’re mostly business focused, and I can’t find where they’re made anyway.
You know your wifi box? That’s a router. If you have wired networking, you probably know that you have a router already.
I’m pretty sure banning new models of imported consumer-grade routers means banning all new models, since I don’t think anybody produces consumer-grade kit domestically.
Existing already-approved models can still be imported, as well as sold, according to the fact sheet. So it’s not that all routers are going to vanish off shelves tonight. But new models will need special approval.
It’s that feeling when you hope this is just a shakedown for more payoffs, right? When that’s the good option? That’s where we fucking are.
I guess somebody looked around and said “GPUs are impossibly expensive, memory’s impossibly expensive, storage is through the roof – but networking’s still cheap. LET’S FIX THAT”
jesus hopping christ can we have one day not completely trainwrecked by these goddamn clowns
Here, have the FCC statements. Honestly I don’t know what else to add. In any other situation, I’d just say this is some sort of trade bargaining chip, and in this situation I’m just hoping it’s a shakedown. But given that the shitstain’s role model, Vladimir Putin, has been pushing hard against internet functionality in general in Russia, I’m honestly wondering if this is groundwork for some sort of slow-build network communications shutdown.
And if you missed Putin’s actions in Russia – the west is mostly reporting it as actions against individual apps like Telegram, but it’s much more broad than that, and has included anti-Internet propaganda, complete with Sovietesque children’s musical numbers on television, singing about how “we don’t need the Internet.”
Fascist regimes always want control of communications, and, well, MAGA are fascist, so… is this part of that push? I have no way of knowing. But while I’m not saying definitely buy some spare equipment, you could definitely consider buying some spare equipment.
It might come in handy.
#fascism #murknet #takeThatIneternets #tech -
Based on ratios and stuff, adding, say, an additional 2x250 watt panels would get _something like_ an additional 532(!) Wh if they're the same percent efficient as the one panel I had up there already, which is unknown at the moment.
That'd get us to 1150 Wh (ooo, 1.15 KILO-watt hours) and like... instead of three hours in a four hour collection period, we'd get five and a half runtime hours in a four-hour collection period. We'd actually _charge_ battery for a while, not just slow the drain.
but that's all speculation until i have more panels
and NOW I need to stop
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oh may as well add some numbers:
total actual collected (approx) using two panels: 618 Wh
upper balcony: 320 Wh
single north panel: 298 Wh
best possible add w/a second panel on north: +101 Wh
net of setting up for both panels north and no balcony: -219 Wh
This means we got a bit over three hours of server cluster+refrigerator electricity in a four hour time period, which one can look at either as a net loss of an hour's worth of battery time, or as three hours of server+refrigerator runtime out of four.
so if you have 48 hours of battery (three sixteen hour days), this buys you basically nine additional hours, which gets you the majority of a fourth day. With four 12 hour days, you get 12 hours - an entire 5th day.
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Next up:
A: Design a quick roll-out of the north side panel set akin to the upper balcony roll-out...
A(2): ...which may and may not last but seems like a decent starting point. Expect to refine it.
B: Test north side again once leaves are down. (on hold 'til November)
D: Look for cheap but still decent quality kit for next steps. I've got mail out to someone on Craigslist but I don't expect a reply. This is not fast.
So yeah. Item A is actionable, the rest... kinda at a stopping point for now. But it's a good stopping point, we should have the ability to stay up a couple of _days_ into a storm. That's not too bad.
(3/3 fin)
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3: The cable re-org I was talking about in a previous update makes the power-down changeover routine dramatically, and I do mean dramatically, more efficient. We took down three of four servers without notice and were back before anyone even noticed we were gone. CHONK CHONK CHONK _boot_ and we're back.
4: Pending more kit, I think I have a basic plan for any surprise outages this winter. Like all plans, some of it will probably not survive contact with the enemy, but it's basic enough that I think it's okay. And we're a reasonable version of set up for it now.
(2/3)
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WHAT'D WE LEARN TODAY, SOLARBIRD?
1: We're getting a lot of tree interference on the best midday collection area we've got, and way earlier than I expected. That sucks.
It may clear up at least some when leaves fall. One block won't - it's cedars and doug fir. But a second block will, it's cherry and, uh, whatever that other tree is. It'll drop leaves.
2: In winter, mornings are going to be the main solar opportunity, particularly the upper balcony collection point. I have some ideas for expanding this, but it'll take more kit.
(1/3)
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Follow-up: The mail server power supply issue did not repeat when tried again. After restart, power draw levels were basically the same as before, so I don't think we're burning excess power continually.
So that's fun. Intermittent issues are the best issues.
I'll call it an improper power supply shutdown and pay attention if it happens again
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MAIL SERVER needs checking. It appeared to continue drawing around 50W after shutdown and that absolutely should not be happening. Power supply issues? Errant BIOS settings keeping USB ports powered, thus keeping power supply active? Really need to figure that out. Question: is whatever this is also affecting total power draw while running? Unlikely given its low power draw when running, but worth examining.
Cable management is good UNTIL you get to the power floor and then WOW it's not. I know why and don't know if we can fix it, but we should try.
I think that's all. It was an educational night.
(2/2)
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WHAT'D WE LEARN LAST NIGHT, SOLARBIRD?
The measured UPS parasitic drain is real, accurate, and recovered by moving everything off individual UPSes and to the solar generator in a blackout/emergency situation. This means moving servers off their UPSes and directly to the PECRON in outage situation is _definitely_ worth the time.
It is, however, _physically_ awkward, and slower than it needs to be. This is addressable, but needs addressing.
Moving directly to the PECRON at all times is not preferred, since it can't talk to the individual servers to report battery levels for clean shutdowns, and double-stacking isn't useful since that's +50W to parasitic load and that sucks.
NAS UPS needs checking.
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this would be our primary server rack plus a few other things running entirely on solar ^_^
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so HEY LOCALS IN PARTICULAR
with custom CSS I should be able to change the rightmost column in Mastodon's web page view look more like A in the image below.
(B is the default)
This would make your lists always visible tho' on shorter displays would invoke scrolling sooner. Make your browser window smaller to see what that's like.
Got any preferences? Poll in next post because you can't do a poll and an image at the same time.
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It may sound odd but
Today Anna and I upgraded all the servers in the servercore with MST3K in the background and had some pizza made by Paul and some pie made by a grocery store.
And it was a really nice day.
I am so pleased that (with the help of the Mastodon discord on that server) we got all the server OSes upgraded and back up and running and cleaned up some stuff while we were at it.
Just being able to… get some stuff done without it being a goddamn nightmare or a huge fight or anything. Just mostly sitting around and chatting some while upgrading stuff and getting things that broke working again without too much of a fuss.
could use days like this more often, not gonna lie
how was your day?
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It may sound odd but
Today Anna and I upgraded all the servers in the servercore with MST3K in the background and had some pizza made by Paul and some pie made by a grocery store.
And it was a really nice day.
I am so pleased that (with the help of the Mastodon discord on that server) we got all the server OSes upgraded and back up and running and cleaned up some stuff while we were at it.
Just being able to… get some stuff done without it being a goddamn nightmare or a huge fight or anything. Just mostly sitting around and chatting some while upgrading stuff and getting things that broke working again without too much of a fuss.
could use days like this more often, not gonna lie
how was your day?
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It may sound odd but
Today Anna and I upgraded all the servers in the servercore with MST3K in the background and had some pizza made by Paul and some pie made by a grocery store.
And it was a really nice day.
I am so pleased that (with the help of the Mastodon discord on that server) we got all the server OSes upgraded and back up and running and cleaned up some stuff while we were at it.
Just being able to… get some stuff done without it being a goddamn nightmare or a huge fight or anything. Just mostly sitting around and chatting some while upgrading stuff and getting things that broke working again without too much of a fuss.
could use days like this more often, not gonna lie
how was your day?
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It may sound odd but
Today Anna and I upgraded all the servers in the servercore with MST3K in the background and had some pizza made by Paul and some pie made by a grocery store.
And it was a really nice day.
I am so pleased that (with the help of the Mastodon discord on that server) we got all the server OSes upgraded and back up and running and cleaned up some stuff while we were at it.
Just being able to… get some stuff done without it being a goddamn nightmare or a huge fight or anything. Just mostly sitting around and chatting some while upgrading stuff and getting things that broke working again without too much of a fuss.
could use days like this more often, not gonna lie
how was your day?
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It may sound odd but
Today Anna and I upgraded all the servers in the servercore with MST3K in the background and had some pizza made by Paul and some pie made by a grocery store.
And it was a really nice day.
I am so pleased that (with the help of the Mastodon discord on that server) we got all the server OSes upgraded and back up and running and cleaned up some stuff while we were at it.
Just being able to… get some stuff done without it being a goddamn nightmare or a huge fight or anything. Just mostly sitting around and chatting some while upgrading stuff and getting things that broke working again without too much of a fuss.
could use days like this more often, not gonna lie
how was your day?
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we are back up but I’ve been picking up the pieces
HEY TEAM WE’RE BACK
actually got power back yesterday but while a bomb cyclone is not a real bomb it can make a real mess just the same
I’ve got a lot of catch-up to do but we’re getting there. Kinda had to move some network and UPS bits around after coming back up and some parts honestly I’m not sure why. But everything’s behaving today so I think we’re good.
How’s your Friday been?
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naturally as soon as we swapped out the weird UPS it started acting normal
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
into the land of workstations you go, goofy
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HEY LOCALS
Swap completed, please go about your ordinary daily tooting.
(Been done for several minutes actually, just got grabbed right after. We were down for maybe 90 seconds lol)
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HEY LOCALS
One of our UPSes doesn't seem to have come back up right, and we're going to swap it out.
THIS MEANS MASTODON GOING OFFLINE AGAIN SORRY
but it should only be for a couple of minutes.
Down in a few, back in a few more.
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o noes there go the electrons
Massive windstorm this evening in Cascadia has taken out our power; we lasted, honestly, longer than I thought we would. But we are definitely now out. This should federate out to most of our followers, though, since we have like an hour of battery backup that we’re chewing through right now..
We’ll come back when power does. If you’re local, well, good luck out there.
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if you use polyfill dot io, stop RIGHT NOW and read this
So, uh… if you use polyfill dot io to help power your websites, are you aware of the bad shit going down?
You should be, because it’s very bad. Malware injection bad. Details here.
(Renaud – the author of this post set – is one of the dev team at the Mastodon nonprofit. He’s not the only one talking about this, I just trust him.)
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goddammit printers
BEST THING: when your networked ancient but non-DRM laserprinter has been crashing on certain PDFs for months so you think there must be something new in PDFs and maybe it’s replacement time BUT
you discover your printer has room for RAM expansion so you check and it’s at minimum configuration so maybe it’s just running out of RAM […]