Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
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- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
local-only test 👁️
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live right now https://stream.sequentialread.com/
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Sorry about my super long winded, poorly written posts before, the sort of silly analogy I can make goes like this:
In the nation of Mastodon Server #42069, there is a postal service. All outgoing mail goes to the postal outbox. Postal workers drive to the outbox, pick up One (1) message, then read the URL address on it and drive to that server to deliver it. Then they drive back to the outbox & repeat. There are only 12 postal workers. Problem is that when folks follower counts start rising they start getting followers from thousands of different servers, and every time they do anything, it puts thousands of messages in that outbox. Poor 12 workers can't deliver them all 1 at a time even if they were superhuman HTTP client machines.
My opinion: remove the limit on # of postal workers completely, or, if you absolutely can't do that, then try to make more than 1 message per mail truck.
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@nolan AIUI, it's basically an architectural issue with Sidekiq. Jobs run synchronously, and one worker thread runs one job, so an in-flight network request blocks an entire worker thread. So you have to put a lot more work into tuning Sidekiq to fully utilize the CPU/network resources.
I strongly suspect anything with green threads (Go, Elixir, etc.) would manage it better, because you can just kick off a green thread for every job and when one suspends while waiting for a network request, the OS thread can just switch to running a different job—so there's always forward progress.
I don't know if those languages have facilities for tuning the runtime based on network bandwidth, but they would at least get you a lot closer to CPU saturation.
I strongly suspect anything with green threads (Go, Elixir, etc.) would manage it better, because you can just kick off a green thread for every job and when one suspends while waiting for a network request, the OS thread can just switch to running a different job—so there's always forward progress.
I don't know if those languages have facilities for tuning the runtime based on network bandwidth, but they would at least get you a lot closer to CPU saturation.
https://www.w3.org/TR/webtransport/#certificate-hashes
Finally, after 10,000 years I'm able to open a real socket to anywhere I want, from JS in a web browser! Time to Conquer Earth!
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guide for running GoToSocial behind cloudflare
don’t :)
This is maybe the best email cyberia ever received
https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/BRAZIL_POLICE_AGENT.txt
age 20: shower beer
age 30: bath ramen
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If your program does this, it's bad and you should feel bad:
Unknown option -h. Use --help for usage information.
@layerzeroevents err, perhaps bad timing to toot this right now as the server is undergoing and upgrade and down at the moment 😅
experimental: follow @layerzeroevents ( https://calendar.layerze.ro ) for updates on events at Layer Zero, the hackerspace, community tech lab & self-proclaimed kewl-est spot in the midwest
but who will help me carry the wheat to run the server??
I just finished writing a HUGE new blog post, this one elaborates on what I wanna work on next instead of greenhouse
https://sequentialread.com/federation-vs-clustering-self-hosting/
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I need every infosec person to understand that surveillance capitalism is structural, not individual, and we are not going to ethically-consume our way out of it please and thank
It's been many months since I've really seriously worked on any of my projects, in the mean time I had some fairly major life upheavals (getting covid, quitting drinking, starting therapy)
But lately I've finally been slowly getting back into it & reorganizing my thoughts. I think I do want to keep working on creating my own homebrew server oriented software project, but I think I'm going to start over at this point. Greenhouse was a bit of a failure and I think I need to completely redesign.
https://sequentialread.com/greenhouse-retrospective-and-future/
When It Does Not Listen for Thee, Ask for Whom the Server Listens
https://sequentialread.com/understanding-listening-addresses/
Minneapolis folks, I am planning on hosting a free workshop on how to to make a website from scratch. (HTML and CSS)
The workshop is meant to be for folks who have never done it before, but experts are welcome too!
Check out more details and mark times you would be available @ https://framadate.org/ABPiTpWWEzqNWmo6
Also, plz boost if you are in the area. Thanks 🧡
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Today, the Bonfire team is excited to announce our beta release 🔥🎉
We’re aware that Bonfire still needs a lot of work - like ensuring it federates as expected and improving configurability, accessibility and user experience - but that’s the point: we decided to launch at this stage with the intention of building the 1.0 release as a community.
🗞️ Blog post: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/meet_us_at_the_playground/
🌈 Signup on the playground instance:
https://playground.bonfire.cafe
2nd batch of energy drinks came out way better :)
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
