Notices by Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)
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Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 11:28:58 JST 
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None of the cats liked the noise one tiny bit. They're all being excessively weird at the moment.
As for the hyperthyroid kitty: the long drive happens tomorrow (Sunday) for his physical exam and the go/no-go decision for the radioactive treatment. -
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Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 11:28:57 JST
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Boots (the kitty mentioned above) passed the intake physical and lab review today. He is boarding at the Day Spa for a few days to save another 3 hours of driving in the cat carrier. He should be getting his radioactive nuclear fallout (Iodine-131) dose on Tuesday.
Possible coincidence: the facility where this is happening is literally right next door to the old ISC building (home of Bind, etc etc, the internet archive for a time, and a FreeBSD mirror for many years). I many have parked in the vet facility's carpark at least once while doing a site visit to ISC over the years. -
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Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 13:19:19 JST
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I updated my decade-old hands-off remote HP DL160 westmere-era system to a modest ryzen 5600 one earlier this year. It was cheap, had a massive power consumption reduction, and was astonishingly faster. Yes, a desktop grade cpu in a budget server board (with decent IPMI/remote management, Asrock Rack x570d4u). But it was totally worth it.
It has never had a screen, keyboard, or media plugged in. It was remote installed literally by booting off a virtual DVD image from the freebsd.org https server over the internet. Mostly to prove to myself that the remote control was complete. Not that I particularly recommend it but I wanted to know for sure what the worst case was if I had to have somebody swap a board for me. It was actually easy.
I was tempted to get a used server via ebay, but this way I know its new hardware and should be good for 5-10 years before hardware age becomes an issue.
Also... compiling 4+ versions of llvm as well as gcc, rust and node all together is quite a stress test. Yay our ports system. -
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Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 05:39:44 JST
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Wall-of-text alert, pondering Fediverse software options.
Background: I moved from a community fediverse server (bsd.network) to my own a while back. This was because of a truly unfortunate defederation decision that split the group of FreeBSD people that I cared to interact with roughly in half. To this day, I vehemently disagree with the decision and feel that it was unjustified.
Anyway, In theory the switch was easy enough. But that lead to choices of software to run. And there's the rub. They all have major pros/cons. And some are truly Major cons to all of them.
In summary: whatever you pick, you picked the wrong one.
And on top of that, now you have to maintain it. The one I'm using appears to be on the path to abandonware (the primary developer has a new stack), and I'm looking to move, again.
The teaser is that it might be possible to keep my post and comment history if I tweak a bunch of database migration scripts and stay within the pleroma universe. Maybe. It's far from a given. Anyway, of those my least-terrible choices seem to be pleroma itself (which also seems to be on the downward trend for development) or perhaps Akkoma (which appears to be picking up rather than declining).
Going to one of the mastodon stacks is a "safe" choice, but I dislike mastodon for many reasons. And obviously a start-from-scratch.
There's many others too, but many of them tend to be focused on a particular niche that don't make them a good fit for me.
Ultimately, what I want is a simple text-centric twitter-like UI/UX with decent local search and reply-thread back-fill capabilities. What I'm using now has that.
So, my quandary. For a replacement, do I:
* suck it up and build a personal Mastodon in spite of my disklike of it? (at least that way I could know its not going away any time soon.)
* go back from a pleroma fork to pleroma-base?
* chase pleroma fork-of-the-month, presumably Akkoma?
* Another fedi stack entirely that still meets my needs, perhaps one that's not on my radar? (Suggestions?)
* Move to a server run by somebody else and ignore having been burned by bsd.network?
* Give up and perhaps go to bluesky or threads?
* Twitter (mentioned for comedy value only.)
I am really loathe to move to a server run by somebody else.
Akkoma has some really nice features that I like (but don't need), eg: automatic continuous language translation (eg: I'd see all the French/Spanish/Portugese/etc posts already translated for me). But the present forced-migration is still stinging and I really don't want to discover that I need to re-migrate again in a few years.
Thoughts? I feel like this is all compromises and tradeoffs. Is there an obvious solution I'm missing? -
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Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:02:07 JST
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I've come across those mostly in fibre-to-the-home environments. People replace their troublesome ISP-supplied gateway boxes with an SFP+ device with integrated GPON/XGS-PON/whatever directly in the one device. That goes into the gateway/router/whatever. That's a whole different can of worms though. A very special can of worms.
It's not something I have the pleasure of considering in a docsis 3.1 area. Two blocks away: yes, but here: no. -
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Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 01:49:45 JST
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I had to deal with this myself fairly recently. I had intended to use 6a everywhere until I encountered the power/heat that it took to run each link at 10Gb. Damn, that stuff gets hot! I came to the realization that 2.5Gb was probably going to be the practical limit. Handling the heat for running 10Gb copper makes the case for optics even more compelling.
Our Cat-6a plan went out the window in favor of OM3.
Protip: I "knew" that optics were hard, expensive, and were a nightmare to work with. I was very, very wrong. OM3/multimode is relatively cheap and far more tolerant than I expected. SFP+ DAC cables also have compelling use cases.
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