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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Ugh, #Linode 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.
@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.
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"
@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.