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mick, 5 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, 7 months ago to random

4.2.0 test upgrade has been a comedy of errors. This is why we do test upgrades!

#MastoAdmin #CoSocialTechOps

mick, 6 months ago to random

“Another hospital in Gaza has become caught up in the fighting, with twelve people killed” says the BBC podcast host, demonstrating the use of passive voice to normalize genocidal violence.

#gaza

mick, 2 months ago to random

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

mick, 24 days 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, 4 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, 7 months ago to ai

PSA: Talk to your olds about the dangers of #AI scams.

A couple weeks back we got a call that sounded like a call from our bank looking for my son.

I am suspicious of these things by nature but the call was very consistent with other contact I’ve had with the bank when I've had a card compromised in the past.

They had his name and number, and everything about it sounded just like the bank's automated system. "Please contact us at 1-800-number as soon as possible.”

So he called.

mick, 8 months ago to random

Woo! ✊

It’s a near-certainty that this would have gone through if it weren’t for the investigative journalism of @thenarwhal and the Toronto Star.

This scandal will come to define Ford’s time as leader.

#GreenbeltGrab #ONPoli #DougFordResign

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-stag-and-doe-integrity-commissioner-1.6974058

mick, 9 months ago to random

The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

mick, 1 year ago to random

May I ask you a question?

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

Just lost #WhamaGeddon2023.

It was a good run this year.

Next year, (to save me from tears,) I will avoid all retail locations for the last two weeks of the year.. 😅

mick, 10 months ago to random

4.1.5 upgrade complete… we good?

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, 4 months ago to random

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

mick, 4 months ago to random

It was DNS.

#MastoAdmin #CoSocialTechOps

mick, 3 months ago to random

Overdue for a guillotine emoji.

mick, 4 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, 3 months ago to random

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

mick, 3 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, 1 month ago to random

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

mick, 5 months ago to random

😁

mick, 21 days ago to random

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

#WakeUpSheeple #FarSide

mick, 13 days ago to random

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

mick, 6 months ago to climate

TIL: The IPCC integrated assessment models are based on an economic model that seems fatally flawed.

Response to the #ClimateEmergency is based on the assumption that we can overshoot the 1.5 - 2 C warming limit and ride out 2.7 to 3.5 C of warming while the global economy "optimizes.”

The model assumes (among other incredibly daft things) that about 90% of GDP will be unaffected by climate change - because it happens indoors. 🤯

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/