Shadow

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Subspace, also known as Continuum later in its life.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago

Oh man I thought that was the needle, not a toothpick. Suddenly this makes sense.

The toothpick is to provide spacing for the button, then you pull it out as you wrap the thread around underneath it.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Many people on lemmy just read everything and block subs they don't want, rather than sub to what they do want. Subscriber count might not mean that much.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I moved off nova to this. It took a bit to get used to it, but now I like it more.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

People use the stock launcher? Try https://www.smartlauncher.net/

Edit: I just checked and doesn't look like I can set different grid sizes between folded / open in this either.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Most transparent administration ever! Whether they want to be or not.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago

That's one report. Every plane is hit on average once or twice a year, occasionally something minor will happen.

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-planes

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Flying into a thunderstorm isn't forbidden, it's just not a good idea and generally avoided. Planes are designed to take a lightning strike without issue, I've been on a plane that was struck.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Since the focus has been on the copper lines between the airport and the atc building, I assume their network links are just dropping and they don't know why. This could be damage from age or water ingress.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Wireless is not the answer. Multiple redundant fiber paths are. This isn't rocket science.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you have your shit together, you're fine. Afaik everyone who has had problems, has had a paperwork issue or did something stupid to trigger them. That's when their disproportionate response starts.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

Morning all!

I'm going to be taking the site down for about 5 minutes, so that I can get a consistent copy of our databases (postgres + pict-rs sled).

Will do it at about 10am PST.

 

Hey everyone, and happy new year!

Sorry about that super long downtime there. Yesterday (Sunday) morning at 10:03AM PST our server suffered a physical hardware failure, apparently a power supply failure. Unfortunately despite opening a ticket with our hosting vendor (OVH) a few minutes later and them claiming to have 24/7 support, nobody looked at our ticket until this morning when their phone support lines opened and I called them.

They've now replaced a defective power supply and we're back online, after ~26 hours of being offline. Some pretty disappointing response times, to put it nicely.

We're planning to move away from OVH at the end of this month, onto proper enterprise grade hardware that we own and control. This will give us a HUGE boost in server resources and allow us to scale for the foreseeable future, while also giving us the control to resolve problems like this much quicker. Expect another follow up post about this in the next couple weeks once I've put together the migration plan.

Timeline:

  • Jan 5th 10:03am PST - We get alerts to the server being non-responsive.
  • Jan 5th 10:05am PST - I pull up the console via IPMI and it's completely non-responsive. Attempting to power off / on the server or do anything, does not work.
  • Jan 5th 10:15am PST - Initial support ticket created with OVH. I followed up a couple times over the next few hours, and got no response.
  • Jan 6th 6:32am PST - Called OVH, gave them the case number and asked them to investigate
  • Jan 6th 7:34am PST - I get notified they'll start their "intervention" in 15 minutes.
  • Jan 6th 11:04am PST - Call them again, the tech is still working on it and they'll get back to me with an update
  • Jan 6th 11:34am PST - "I was informed by our data centre technician that there is an issue with the power supply unit for the rack on which your server resides. Your server will come back online once they have replaced the power supply."
  • Jan 6th 12:17pm PST - We're back up finally!

Edit on Jan 7th @ 8:40am PST: We just had another outage of about an hour. Investigating with OVH.

 

One of the drives in our server has failed. =( Even though it should be a 10 minute job OVH needs a 2 hour window to replace it.

I've requested they schedule it for Tuesday from 8am - 10AM PST. Hopefully it'll be reasonably quick, but expect cloudflare tunnel errors while they perform the work.

 

Hey All!

I'm going to upgrade us to 0.19.7 tomorrow (Sunday Nov 24th) around 10am PST. I don't expect significant downtime, but expect a few minutes at least.

Update: All done!

 
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