Trump said in a rally that Biden sleeps “until they shoot him in the ass” with a drug that peps him up.
So now we know why Trump appears more vigorous at times.
We're struggling to figure out a good way to migrate Mastodon media storage from one server to another... Mastodon stores files in millions of directories by hash (kinda like aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd) which means doing something simple like an initial rsync and then taking Mastodon down for a quick resync is impossible. We initially were going to go this route but after the initial file listing took more than 24h we cancelled it and gave up.
So now we're looking at just copying the raw filesystem over, but if we want to do it without taking mastodon down for the entire sync we need to come up with a way of copying it and resyncing the changed blocks afterwards.
One way could be to use overlayfs. Remount the old volume R/O, create a temporary upperdir and create an overlay between them. Then, copy the R/O image to it's new home, expand it or whatever, and apply the upperdir onto it. This way we only need to list the directories that actually had writes. Special care will need to be taken to ensure we delete any files that have overlayfs tombstones. IDK if anyone has ever done this before.
Another way could be to use devmapper snapshots to create a new COW-backed volume, rsync the R/O underlying block device over and then apply the COW to the new volume with snapshot-merge. We tried testing this out and caused devmapper to die horribly and spit out kernel bug log lines, so we had to reboot and e2fsck for 2 hours.
At this point it might be better to just take everything down for as long as it takes. I'm extremely annoyed at Mastodon's file structure making it impossible to move without major downtime. Their solution just seems to be "use S3 lol". It would probably take 24 hours (8TB at 1Gbps is roughly 17 hours). We could shrink it first since we don't use all the space, but resize2fs will take a while as well.
If anyone has any tips or ideas for doing it with minimal downtime I'd like to hear them. Or if you're an uwu.social user and don't care about extended downtime I'd also like to hear your thoughts too.
@kaia I think a lot of it also has to do with coping things will get better?
The price goes down a bit and they refuse to sell because "it'll go up again".
And if they sell now, they won't be there to cash out when it goes up.
So it keeps going down but they keep telling themselves that it'll go up eventually... Until they have basically lost it all.
There is this story about NYC planning to "wipe out $2B in medical debt":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-city-eric-adams-medical-debt/
They're doing this by purchasing this debt for $18M (less than 1% of nominal value). But this means they're not buying *good* debt for people who are making payments - or were ever likely to.
Much like John Oliver's stunt a while back, they're buying junk debt and essentially throwing away money. The only winner is a bottom-feeding collections agency who gets to offload some worthless leads.
The thing is, unpaid debt is a big deal for a while, but if the debtor can't be forced to pay for several years, it becomes nearly worthless. The statute of limitations for legal enforcement is around 3-6 years in most states. After that, the records get passed around from one ephemeral, bottom-feeding collections agency to another. The agencies occasionally send junk mail or try to make phone calls, hoping to find a sucker who'd make it worth their time. After a while, they give up.
So yes, you can buy that debt, but you're not making the world a whole lot better. You're spending more than the collection agencies were ever expecting to see.
Bonnano has influenced more than any other #anarchist (who I haven't met), especially his text Locked Up. So much of the analysis in there helped me make sense of my own experience of #prison and to position myself within it with more integrity.
In particular, the critique of participation was useful to me. Bonnano describes the prison system as opening up, creating more options for prisoners to participate in their own oppression as a way of accessing privileges or less prison-like forms of punishment. He emphasized that this is a way of isolating the hardened ones who will be left to rot in ever darker dungeons while also being an insidious form of social control over those who participate. It is a way prison extends itself out into supposedly free society...
At my first sentencing, we refused to take any form of conditional sentence and insisted on doing straight time because we didn't want to be our own jailers. It was harder in some ways, but it meant we came out with our heads up.
So thanks Alfredo. I'm sure I will keep returning to that text and to the rest of your work.
Bullshit positions like middle management are supposed to be for grunt employees who paid their dues to the company and graduate into the Big Club, the true beneficiary class, but they don’t even do that now. When a senior guy leaves the company you can ask “so who is getting a bump up?” and they will tell you nobody now. There’s no leveling up.
So the pay is shit. The work is hard. The expectations are detached from reality. Nobody levels up.
Again. What’s the fucking point? No wonder zoomers just want to go on Discord and hentai ERP: “Bro get the fuck out of my face.”
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