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Greens’ election hubris – how the minor party lost its way and now its leader in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and that has put a smile on my face.

Welcome to Country booed by neo-Nazis at Melbourne Dawn Service in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Saying this is not racist. It’s not “neo-Nazi” views. You claim it is as an excuse to be intolerant towards those people. No matter how you try to sugar coat it, you are being intolerant.

Except these are views held by self identitifed neo-nazis. Just because non-nazis also hold that view, doesn't change they fact they are neo-nazi views.

There will be no tolerance of nazis or their offensive beliefs here. To that end I've revoked your mod role. Further antagonism will result in a ban. I'm not interested in discussing this. If you continue to trolling while trying to give the impression of good faith discussion, you'll be banned.

WSJ Drops Shock Exposé on Elon Musk’s Alleged Attempts to Impregnate X Influencers — ‘To Reach Legion Level Before the Next Apocalypse’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His term has covered 4 months so far... Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr.

Mintox in c/perth@aussie.zone
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

No idea where it's from, but I used it as a kid too. Also munted, though that has fallen out of use for the similar sound to another word.

There is now !fediverse@piefed.social, as an alternative to the LW version in c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

You're wrong, I'll leave it at that. Won't be replying any further.

There is now !fediverse@piefed.social, as an alternative to the LW version in c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With the resources available its not feasible for AZ to develop/deploy custom solutions that can be resolved by remote instances with trivial configuration changes.

I'm not going to address specific parts of your post, suffice to say I disagree on almost everything you said.

As I said previously, if you have a workable solution please do devlop it and submit a PR to the lemmy devs. I'd be happy to try your suggestion should they roll it in.

There is now !fediverse@piefed.social, as an alternative to the LW version in c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You're contradicting yourself there. By definition adding an external service is a customization to lemmy. I'm not interested in running un-vetted software from a third party.

This has been discussed previously with a request from a reputable source to batching content from LW. That setup required an additional server for AZ, close to LW. And for LW to send their outgoing federation traffic for AZ to it, which then batched and send to the real AZ server. This offer was declined, though appreciated.

I've been transparent and open about the situation. You seem to think this is the fault of AZ, and we're willfully not taking an action that we should be taking. This is not the case.

As it stands the issue is inherent with single threaded lemmy federation, which is why the devs added the option for multiple concurrent threads. Until LW enable this feature, we'll see delayed content from them when their activity volume is greater than what can be federated with a single thread. To imply this is the fault of the receiving instances is disingenuous at best, and deliberately misleading at worst.

There is now !fediverse@piefed.social, as an alternative to the LW version in c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Note I said lemmy AND the activitypub protocol, ie lemmy does not currently have this capability. If it were added to mainline lemmy I'd be open to configuring it, but its not so I can't.

The root cause of the issue is well understood, the solution is available in lemmy already: multiple concurrent outgoing federation connections to remote instances. AZ has had this configured since it was available. LW have not yet enabled this, though they're now running a version that has it available.

Appreciate the offer, but I'm not interested in customising the AZ server configuration more than it already is. If you write it up and submit a PR that the main lemmy devs incorporate, I'd be happy to look at it.

There is now !fediverse@piefed.social, as an alternative to the LW version in c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

That isn't how lemmy and the activitypub protocol work. Source instance pushes metadata about new content, remote instance then needs to pull it. If we've not received the push yet, we can't pull the additional info.

Weekly Chat - 5th to the 12th March in c/perth@aussie.zone
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It sure doesn't feel like autumn so far

Polling on treatment of asylum seekers. in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not sure how I should feel that the bubble I live in seems far more accepting and empathy towards asylum seekers.

I don't think the people I live/work/socialise with are particularly extreme... but according to this we're collectively not representative of wider Australian views.

I choose to believe their sampling was flawed and somehow only sampled the worst of us.

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Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 (join-lemmy.org)
 

I'm about to restart services for this upgrade. Shouldn't be down longer than a few minutes.

Telstra swallows prepaid mobile provider Boost for $100m in c/austech@aussie.zone
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bugger

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Upgrade complete to 0.19.6 (aussie.zone)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone
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I'll be working on upgrading aussie.zone to lemmy 0.19.6 today. All going well disruption will be brief, but there may be some performance issues related to back end DB changes required as part of the upgrade.

I'll unpin this once complete.

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Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone (old.aussie.zone)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone
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I've spun this up for fun, to see how it compares to the base lemmy UI. Give it a whirl, and post any feedback in this thread. Enjoy!

It could go down at any time, as it looks as though the dev is no longer maintining it...

edit: using this https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

UPDATE Tuesday 12/11: I've killed this off for now. Unclear of why, but was seeing a huge number of requests from this frontend to the lemmy server back end. Today it alone sent ~40% more requests than all clients and federation messages combined.

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Nerd Update 25/10/24 (aussie.zone)
 

Its been 6 months or so... figure its time for another of these. Keep in mind there have been some major config changes in the last week, which has resulted in the oddities below.

Graphs below cover 2 months, except Cloudflare which only goes to 30 days on free accounts.

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Comments: The server is still happily chugging along. Looking even happier now that I've properly migrated pict-rs to its integrated object storage config, rather than the bodged up setup.

RAM/CPU are all fine. Storage use is growing slowly as various databases grow. Still a long way from needing to purge old posts, if ever.

Cloudflare is saving less traffic these days, since Lemmy added support to proxy all images. Not a concern, well under the bandwidth cap for the server.

As usual feel free to ask any questions.

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Pictures are broken (aussie.zone)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone
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I'm in the process of migrating images to a properly configured object storage setup. This involves an offline migration of files. Once complete, I'll start up pict-rs again. Until then, most images will be broken.

All going well this will finish by morning Perth time, and once up and running again may help with the ongoing issues we've had with images.

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Emails from Aussie Zone (aussie.zone)
 

After some users have had issues recently, I've finally gotten around to putting in place a better solution for outbound email from this instance. It now sends out via Amazon SES, rather than directly from our OVH VPS.

The result is emails should actually get to more people now, rather than being blocked by over-enthusiastic spam filters... looking at you Outlook and Gmail.

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REBOOTING (aussie.zone)
 

About to reboot the server, hold onto your hats.

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Lemmy 0.19.4 (aussie.zone)
 

Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.

One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...

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Maintenance (aussie.zone)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone
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This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.

Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.

Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.

UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.

UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.

UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner 🙂

UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.

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Nerd Update 20/4/24 (aussie.zone)
 

Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Comments:
Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine.
Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.

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Current issues (lemmy 0.19) (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone
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The upgrade to lemmy 0.19 has introduced some issues that are being investigated.. but we currently have no fixes for:

  • thumbnails break after a time. Caused by memory exhaustion killing object storage processes.
  • messages to/from lemmy instance not yet running 0.19 are not federating. I believe it requires bugfixes by the devs.

~~I've re-enabled 2 hourly lemmy restarts. Hopefully this will help with both issues, though it will result in a disruption to the site around every couple of hours.

When the hourly restarts are disabled I'll unpin this post. As any other issues are identified I'll post them here too. ~~

Update: I've disabled the 2 hourly restart after upgrading to 0.19.2... lets see how this goes...

Update2: no issues seen since the upgrade, looks to have resolved both the memory leak and the federation issues. Hooray :)

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Lemmy 0.19 Upgrade (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone
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~~I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.~~

Upgrade complete.

This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.

Expect:

  • further restarts
  • bugs
  • slowdowns
  • logouts
  • 2FA being disabled
  • possibly issues with images, upgrading pictrs to 0.4 at the same time
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