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jerry, 8 months ago to random

OoooOOooo Hetzner may have my new servers ready by the weekend 🎉

jerry, 8 months ago to random

Ok. I am tired of Infosec.exchange being sluggish. I just submitted a crazy order with Hetzner to upgrade the instance. Hopefully the last time for a while. I ordered a dell AMD Genoa 48 core server with 256 GB of ram to act as a database and redis server, a dell 64 core sapphire rapids server with 256gb of ram to act as the single front end/puma/streaming server, and an amd 7950 with 128gb of ram to run minio (insourcing from Backblaze).

I ordered all with 10g network interfaces to be connected to the same switch.

I continue to see issues with Backblaze performance causing issues with posting.

This will consolidate the environment down from about 13 servers to 4 (I will keep using less expensive servers on 1G networks for Sidekiq if it can’t run on the sapphire rapids server.

I will be putting that behind Fastly for global distribution and ddos mitigation. I don’t know whether I’ll keep serving media via bunny.net or try to do that with Fastly also. Bunny works pretty well and is cost effective for media delivery.

Anyhow, changes are coming. Thanks for patience.

jerry, 9 months ago to random

I got to see a lot of dolphin on the sunset cruise tonight. Many more pics to go through. But I’m still on the boat and Bluetooth is hella slow for transferring 45MP pics between phone and camera

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jerry, 9 months ago to random

I am sorry for scaring some of you with my earlier post about Lacie. I have great news: I was able to feed her enough treats to help her survive until she got dinner. Now, she’s so so happy, though she is showing signs of being hungry again.

The apex predator of suburban America is letting out a battle cry in the background, head held high, mid howl.
I don’t even know how to explain this one. It’s a white dog on green grass, mid roll on top of a rock. Because that apparently feels good. All 4 paws are in the air and it looks like she just fell off a ladder.

jerry, 9 months ago to random

Finally, some pics of the orchids I bought earlier this week. I am going to play with focus stacking this weekend. They still turned out not bad at f11, but guessing getting back down to f2.8 or f3 will make a big improvement.

#bloomscrolling

jerry, 9 months ago to random

Pesky work meeting got in the way, but infosec.exchange is patched now.

jerry, 9 months ago to random

Well, I was just contemplating downsizing a bit on infosec.exchange when I saw this scroll by: https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-charge-all-x-twitter-users-fee-1235726693/

Maybe I'll wait a while...

jerry, 9 months ago to random

It’s perhaps a bit disappointing that Google decided not to reach out to me/the mod team as they posted this: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/active-north-korean-campaign-targeting-security-researchers/

The account is suspended now.

jerry, 10 months ago to random

In case anyone wants to help me bang on this fastly enabled front end, it’s https:://crank2.Infosec.exchange. It’s the same login and account as regular Infosec.exchange.

jerry, 10 months ago to random

I studied hard for this test but I still failed 😕