November 2024

CATASTROPHIC SSD FAILURE 😭

From @a on Matrix:

exozyme is finally back again after a 487-hour long outage! 🎉😸 However… I’m verry sorry to say that there was some data loss, namely /home which only had a backup from one year ago. My big mistake was buying a 4TB drive that was way too big since our data expands to fill the available space and it’s just too unwieldy to back up that entire drive. Welp, that 4TB drive is now completely dead and I’m gonna try recovering files from it but don’t count on that. Anyways, that was my first-ever SSD failure and it was awful so I hope I’ve learned something from it and the exozyme server is now using two 1TB drives in RAID1 (more details at https://git.exozy.me/exozyme/exozyme/wiki/Storage). The other (much less important) lost directories were /opt /var/log /nix. I’m also gonna be working on reducing the disk I/O on the server, for instance by limiting the size of Matrix rooms that you can join (I’ll take exceptions for this by request).

No IP? No Problem!

@ersei wrote a useful blog post about using Wireguard to tunnel a server to a VPS with a public IPv4 address.

@a: I have a free VPS sitting around doing nothing, so I might follow this guide to put it to good use!

@daudix’s blog name

@daudix’s blog now has a new name!

@untrusem’s new website!

@untrusem finally has a website at untrusem.codeberg.page! Congrats! They also have an RSS feed and two blog posts, including this one about conquering their fear of regex.

@a: If you want more regex fun, check out Regex Crossword.

An Obscure Chinese OS Saved My Computer From Saddam Hussein’s LinkedIn

A whimsical and mostly true post by @a about Firefox, Saddam Hussein’s LinkedIn, and a random Chinese Linux distribution. Kind of an ominous prelude to the SSD failure later this month.

@daudix:

It can’t sort, or can it?

@a made a short post talking about the “ICan’tBelieveItCanSort” algorithm with a visualization of how it works.