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mjf_pro

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Fully-depreciated, in urgent need of an upgrade, but still very much in service!

IT Cloud Solutions Architect. Other interests: sci-tech, astronomy, weather, music. He/him. DMs are not guaranteed to be private; I don’t block them, but please use a non-Mastodon channel for private communications.

“Kindness needs an infrastructure.” - D. Stern

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jerry, to random
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There’s a lot of consternation in the fediverse lately about instances blocking each other, admins fighting, blocklists, and the like. If you’re on an instance that blocks other communities you want to participate in, politely ask your moderators/administrators to reconsider. If they disagree, I recommend moving to a different instance rather than a prolonged argument. Some administrators prefer erring on the side of over blocking and protecting their user base than being permissive and expose their userbase to riff raff or, in some instances, just to avoid the appearance of being too permissive to other instances.

Life is short. Find an instance that works for you.

(Edit: and the converse is true - if your instance is overly permissive and you are regularly being harassed or otherwise bothered and your moderators aren’t responding as you expect, find another instance that is better aligned to your needs. Life is still too short. Find an instance that works for you)

mjf_pro,
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@deadbeefmonster @jerry Your own instance’s “About” link should list the instances that your admins are blocking and how to reach them to report a moderation concern. If it doesn’t — and some do not — take it as a big red flag that suggests you set up your home base elsewhere.

jerry, to random
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Infosec.exchange is dying so fast that I am thinking about how fast I can get one of them new 128 core sapphire rapids servers in place for the database. It's clearly all the people quitting and not engaging that is causing a massive surge in activity

mjf_pro,
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@jerry In all seriousness I’m just sad Nóva is no longer with us to see this next wave roll in. 😥🤧

jerry, to random
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Wrapping up second to last day at the beach 😕

The weather and water are amazing this weekend.

mjf_pro,
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@jerry Looks like it’s good for your mental health, which is the whole point! Enjoy the time.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Judge upholds Copyright Office: No copyright protection for AI. “Human authorship is a bedrock requirement.” No soup for you, machine.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/

mjf_pro,
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@jeffjarvis @tchambers Implications for the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strike is HUGE.

jerry, to random
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Finished my last dose of paxlovid this morning. Looking forward to my taste buds returning to normal. I am finally feeling human again, but I get tired really fast and my mind is still very cloudy. Thanks for the concern and well wishes.

mjf_pro,
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@jerry Good to hear you’re on the mend!

jerry, to random
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Things on infosec.exchange were getting a little bit sluggish, and I've had complaints about media processing taking a long time so I added another app server for the US region. In the past, that has caused media uploads for some people to just fail outright because the reverse proxy hops the upload from one app server to another - and the other has no idea what to do with the last half of a file. I am hopeful I've got that problem ironed out in the nginx config, but would be interested in knowing if anyone runs into that...

mjf_pro,
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@jerry @wbarker @hazelweakly Hmmm can you put a load balancer in between Nginx and your scaled-wide puma servers to abstract the puma namespace so Nginx sees one single DNS name and the load balancer takes care of the “route to the least loaded back-end puma host”? I don’t know enough about how the Nginx->puma addressing is done within the Mastodon stack to know whether inserting a load balancer here is possible, but that’s sure where I’d be looking.

jerry, to random
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People seem to be celebrating the defeat of issue 1 in Ohio but I am watching the results get increasingly close and I’m guessing normal demographics may not be predictive in the outcome here.

mjf_pro,
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@jerry DecisionDesk usually gets it right, but yeah when the major outlets follow suit you can stick a fork in it with confidence.

jerry, to random
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We live in amazing times. In the span of 5 minutes, I signed up for my employer’s telemedicine service (teledoc) and saw a doctor from my bed and had a prescription called in to a local pharmacy for paxlovid.

It must be a money printing machine for doctors.

mjf_pro,
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@jerry Feel better soon guy. 💪

Gargron, to random
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Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂

mjf_pro,
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@Gargron And 1.8M of us are having fun conversing with people we want to converse with, rather than having ads and hate spam shoved in our faces…so we thank you and the other admins who have collectively brought this so far in such a short time!

Quality >>>>> Quantity every time ☺️

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