@mick@cosocial.ca
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mick

@mick@cosocial.ca

Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.

Collector of various nerdly interests.

Into #running, #books, #chess, #videogames.

At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined life.

I believe that we have the right to safe digital spaces where we can build communities free from corrosive capitalist influence.

Working to build a sustainable, non-corporate web as a volunteer with #CoSocialCa

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mick, to random
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For the first time the 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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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,
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This is great! It’s exciting to see our community growing.

I’m going to make a simple change to see if we can better keep up.

The system that we’re running on has plenty of headroom for more sidekiq threads.

2/?

mick,
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For anyone interested in understanding the guts of Mastodon, I have found this article from Digital Ocean very helpful: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-scale-your-mastodon-server#perfecting-sidekiq-queues

Eventually we’ll grow so big that we’ll need oodles of sidekiq queues and we’ll want to be able to customize how many types of them we want, and will run them as jobs across multiple servers and so-on.

But for now I’m just going to make the number of threads slightly bigger and see what happens.

3/?

mick,
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@thisismissem Yes I caught that. Not going near streaming. It’s about the best description of sidekiq I’ve found anywhere though.

If there are other good resources that are more up-to-date please share.

jan, to mastodon
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Yeah, I'd call this a problem somewhere. open files of the mastodon user, which just runs mastodon.

mick,
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@jan @paul @derek @michael @haploc there’s a bug in the ES handler, it never closes sockets.

mick,
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@jan @paul @derek @michael @haploc there’s a patch for this, I’ll dig it up when I’m back at keyboard.

mick,
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@jan @paul @derek @michael @haploc https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/27138

I think most admins restart Sidekiq regularly and/or don’t connect to Elasticsearch over https so they don’t encounter this one.

We’ve been running with this patch since October.

mick, to random
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How soon is too soon to speak ill of the dead?

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

evan, (edited ) to random
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What is your relationship with your instance owner?

mick,
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@evan “its complicated”

mick, to random
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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,
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@n3wjack that was last week’s alarming development, ya.

Previously it was “unprecedented global outbreak in chickens,” followed by “outbreak wipes out elephant seal population.”

This week seems to be evidence of spread to… dolphins? Bad vibes!

mick, to gaming
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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

pluralistic, to random
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Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

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mick,
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@pluralistic another banger

evan, (edited ) to random
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Have you seen a laser show at a planetarium?

mick,
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@evan McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaughlin_Planetarium

The show was set to a selection of Guns N’ Roses and Metallica tracks and was cleverly titled “Metal Roses.”

It was the mid-90s and it was glorious.

timbray, to random
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I asked meta.ai to generate an image of “a free oboe concert in Shibuya”

[yeah, I know, but it’s been a long day. I also asked for an image of Neil Young fighting a dragon, but it refused.]

mick,
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@timbray this dude is jammin’

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

mick, to random
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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, to mastodon
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By way of , I’m Mick, and I am old enough to remember when the Internet was made up of small communities built and supported by their members - before the phrases “attention economy” and “surveillance advertising” were a thing.

I have been missing the fun, chaos and collaborative spirit of that early ‘Net, and I think is a way to reclaim the space that was taken from us.

Volunteer member of hoping to be at least a little bit useful around here.

Gargron, to random
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Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.

mick,
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@Gargron incredibly grateful for your work Eugen!

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

RainofTerra, to random
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Ugh, feels so expensive now for hosting our mastodon server, thinking a lot about just hosting it at home and having Linode host the object storage and front the reverse proxy. We have plenty of hardware and bandwidth (10Gb fiber) here. 🤔

I could also just downsize the linode probably but that would involve shrinking some file systems to fit within the reduced storage or migrating to a new Linode and ugh.

mick,
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@RainofTerra a little while back we started exploring dedicated VPS at OVH and its incredible how much more expensive cloud stuff is for small deployments.

A Digital Ocean droplet with similar RAM, storage and CPU costs $250/month as an OVH VPS we picked up on sale for $15/mo.

SteveThompson, to Israel
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Not seeing any of these concerned 'protesters' posting their horror about the slaughter of innocent Israeli women and children. But the West is supposed to be all gooey and distressed when Hamas propaganda is blindly pushed our way.

"Yazan Abu Jama, 5: Bedouin family’s only son slain by rocket"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/yazan-abu-jama-5-bedouin-familys-only-son-slain-by-rocket/

"Killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ar’ara on October 7"

mick,
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@SteveThompson curious what “propaganda” you’re referring to.

I am distressed by the senseless murder of civilians.

That the IDF is currently engaged in the mass slaughter of civilians is deeply distressing.

The death of Israelis at the hands of Hamas and other bands of murderous thugs is also distressing.

It’s not “gooey” to be horrified that one of the best equipped militaries in the world is carrying out crimes against humanity on an unthinkable scale.

mick, to random
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Trust & Safety doing the good work of keeping us free of spam. Thanks team!

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