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mick, 28 days ago to random

For the first time the #CoSocialCa Mastodon server has started to struggle just a little bit to keep up with the flow of the Fediverse.

We’ve usually been “push” heavy but we’ve started to see some spikes in “pull” queue latency. The worst of these spikes was today, where we fell behind by at least a couple minutes for most of the afternoon.

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#MastoAdmin #CoSocialTechOps

A pair of graphs showing sidekiq queue latency and enqueued jobs. The queue latency peaked at around 6 minutes at roughly 6pm this afternoon, but was between 1-2 minutes most of the afternoon. The maximum number of messages in queue at any one time was 12000. The majority of the traffic is pull queue.

mick, 1 month ago to random

How soon is too soon to speak ill of the dead? #RexMurphy

mick, 1 month ago to random

This comic has popped into my mind every month or so for the past 30 years.

#WakeUpSheeple #FarSide

mick, 1 month ago to random

There’s this trope in zombie movies where the outbreak is just starting to take hold and the viewer catches glimpses of news reports about the emerging threat on TVs that are unnoticed in the background.

The characters don’t know that the world is ending just yet, but the viewer has a premonition of the disaster that’s just ahead.

Anyhow, feeling a bit of this about H5N1 at the moment.

mick, 1 month ago to gaming

Sopwith is 40 years old! I can’t even guess at how many hours I spent playing this when I was a kid.

https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/40years.html

#Sopwith #Gaming #RetroComputing

mick, 2 months ago to random

Intense windstorm overnight. Pleased to discover my yard furniture still in my yard.

mick, 2 months ago to random

The train station in Port Hope, Ontario, was built in 1856 and was refurbished in 1881. It was restored in 1985 and here’s what it looks like today.

No staff on site. If not for the announcement board I might have mistaken it for abandoned.

Old train station.
Old train station.

mick, 3 months ago to random

Just finished listening to “The Bezzle” from @pluralistic - and it’s great!

Cory has now managed to write two thoroughly entertaining, gripping thrillers featuring a forensic accountant as the main protagonist.

Seriously! No spoilers, but this book features exciting spreadsheets!

Looking forward to more Martin Hench.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

mick, 3 months ago to random

Didn’t we already try Fascism and Measles and decide we were better off without them?

mick, 3 months ago to random

#CoSocial Trust & Safety doing the good work of keeping us free of spam. Thanks team!

mick, 4 months ago to climate

13 C on Feb 9.

Not a fan of “traditional” February weather, so I’ll take it, but this is a more than a bit creepy.

#ClimateChange

mick, 4 months ago to random

Overdue for a guillotine emoji.

mick, 4 months ago to Canada

The Government of #Canada is accepting input on a “Regulatory Framework for an Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap” until February 5th at midnight.

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment have set up a one-click letter to make it easy to let your representative know that the cap must be strong and fair, quickly implemented, and free from loopholes favoured by the oil and gas industry.

https://act.cape.ca/newmode_emissions_cap_framework_feedback

#ClimateJustice #ClimateEmergency #CanPoli

mick, 4 months ago to animals

I guess it’s a bit chilly in here this morning.

#dogsofmastodon

mick, 4 months ago to random

Haley hanging in there on the slim hope that the DOJ or some lump of fat in a vein takes out the orange one before the election. 🤞

mick, 5 months ago to random

I guess the idea is that dropping American-built explosives on the Houthis from American-built drones and planes will somehow be more effective if done by Americans instead of Saudis?

mick, 5 months ago to random

I have, apparently, reached the age where I can injure my back while sleeping.

mick, 5 months ago to fediverse

Well, that's a wrap!

I just put up a post looking at some of what the Technology and Operations crew got up to in 2023:

https://members.cosocial.ca/t/blog-technology-and-operations-2023-in-review/214

Thanks to all the volunteers who have helped to make our first year a success!

#CoSocialCa #CoSocialTechOps #MastoAdmin #Fediverse

mick, 5 months ago to random

Has anyone ever met anyone really into all of Don Mclean’s music? It’s just American Pie, right?

mick, 5 months ago to random

Learned again why we don’t change our passwords right before taking time off…

mick, 5 months ago to mastodon

Just out here blastedon #Mastodon.

mick, 5 months ago to running

Going #Running. In shorts. On Christmas morning. In shorts.

I guess this is should seem less odd with every passing year, but it still feels very weird for it to be so warm on Dec 25.

mick, 5 months ago to random

It was DNS.

#MastoAdmin #CoSocialTechOps

mick, 5 months ago to random

I try to consume news from a variety of sources, which will occasionally include some stuff from #PostMedia papers. They have some journalists and freelancers who do good work from time to time.

But the columnists given space in the National Post are an absolute clownshow. Just desperately, pathetically aping the grievance vibe of the Murdoch papers.

The headlines just try so hard. 😂

Today's specimen:

mick, 5 months ago to random

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