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I just returned from Atlanta, Georgia where @j3s and I did maintenance on Baikal, cyberia's server and the workhorse behind https://capsul.org

Baikal has been running for years with an inefficient QEMU VirtIO configuration which caused its SSD disks to wear out much faster than they should, and our decision to use NVME drives for some of the disks in the ZFS pool almost prevented us from being able to expand disk capacity to meet demand: We kept mailing PCI-e to NVME adapters to the datacenter and they kept saying "It doesn't fit".

Life happened and it got kinda bad, with a legitimate risk of everything going kablooie, so we had to work hard to get everything fixed in short order and ensure that our little project has a future. I suppose it's not-so-little anymore, depending on your perspective.

Attached are a couple fun pictures from the trip. You can also see a video I took of us replacing one of the SSDs that was wearing out here: https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/zfs_disk_replacement/

I was sweating bullets while j3s carefully pulled the disk out of the server while it was running 😅

Use programming-positive language!

🚫 DON'T say "arbitrary code execution vulnerability"

✔️ DO say "surprise extension API"

I just heard a little honk and was like, What notification was THAT, I do not recognize it, and turns out there was a literal goose outside

The very first release of Matrix Stream Chat is here!

#matrix powered community interactions on *your* livestreaming, through any OBS supported service!

code & instructions at https://git.pixie.town/f0x/matrix-streamchat

and hosted instance at https://streamchat.pixie.town

#VerseThursday

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions

back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you

over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you

with the animals dying around us
taking our feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is

hell yeah!

First running prototype of Matrix Stream Chat, https://matrix.org powered community interactions on *your* livestreaming!

https://git.pixie.town/f0x/matrix-streamchat

the topic of what trans (or adjacent) people picked for names came up in a channel i'm on, and i'm kinda curious where the hell they all got their names from (due to a high density of certain names), so i'm doing a Purely Unscientific™ poll on a site full of people who could answer this. answer if you want, please boost if you want, i ain't gonna do shit with this info

(also: testing if polls on this dingus even work)

Signups are OPEN for The Longest Night, Tidal Cycles' 2021 online solstice marathon! Open to all, especially if this is your first stream/performance. Grab a 20 minute slot here:
https://night.tidalcycles.org
More info:
https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/signups-are-open-2021-the-longest-night/3657

Fun fact: Phi (~1.618) is really close to the ratio between miles and kilometers (~1.609), which means you can use adjacent fibonacci numbers to quickly mentally convert back and forth between them.

for instance: 21 kilometers is roughly 13 miles (it's actually 13.05)

Greenhouse Cloud alpha test program by the numbers!

3700 views on our self-hosted demo video

30 user accounts registered

19 successful installations:

9 linux -- command line only
3 linux with desktop application
4 macOS desktop application
3 windows desktop application

5 bugs identified and fixed

6 fully self-hosted web applications already live and in production via greenhouse!

1 month since the public alpha test was launched

Hype Machine's Merch Table scans your Spotify Wrapped playlist to show you what is available for purchase on Bandcamp, and since tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday it's a good time to support the artists you've been listening to this year:

https://hypem.com/merch-table