Brutkey

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

This looks like a very good combination!

What do you think @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk and @jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net ?

#Food

A pandoro with gin cream
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

When you start patching or upgrading an old server with issues... and it suddenly feels like a TV commercial from my childhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cfo06DvA5M

#IT #SysAdmin

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

This morning, as the zfs-send/receive had finished its job during the night, I performed the last sync and moved FediMeteo from the previous 4 euros/month VPS - netcup - to a 4 euros/month VPS - OVH, Milano, Italy.

Thanks to #BastilleBSD and the jail setup, it was easy peasy.

So, the weather forecasts are now broadcast from Italy and the performance has skyrocketed - while still being served by a 4 euro/month VPS.

I suspect the netcup VM had been capped by the provider - but I'll investigate.

So...Ciao, FediMeteo!

https://fedimeteo.com

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #VPS #FediMeteo

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Evening stroll in Ferrara, Italia

#Italy #Photography #Photo #Italia #Ferrara #EmiliaRomagna #CityPhotography

A narrow cobblestone street in Ferrara framed by ancient brick arches and warm lamplight, with three people walking into the distance beneath the vaulted passageways that glow softly in the evening quiet.
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

A message comes in: a website is not responding. Or rather, it responds but it crawls.
It is a WordPress with a few plugins, all in good shape.

I log in and the load is near zero, traffic is tiny. I start digging and nothing makes sense. I run the command "w" and the machine is frozen.

Nothing in the logs.
Then the light bulb goes on:
"ping bsd.cafe"

No resolution.

The provider’s upstream DNS servers (set in a hurry, I normally install a local unbound) are not responding and everything grinds to a halt. I switch the DNS servers and everything magically starts working again.

Of course it was DNS! 🙂🙂

#IT #SysAdmin #DNS #SaturdayMorningEmergencies

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@mms/115666360112264664

Because it's powered by Pizza and Tiramisu 😆😆

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Yes, #Cloudflare is having problems, again.
Linkedin is down, too.

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Happy yellow Silent Sunday!

#SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Autumn #Leaves #Fall

A walkway covered in a dense carpet of bright yellow leaves, with a large tree overhead whose branches are filled with the same vivid yellow foliage.
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Blood test… done ✅✅
Still alive.
I’ll take that as good news 😆😆
(I hate blood tests, that’s why I’m joking about it)