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phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.5.10, released ~10 minutes ago. #mastoAdmin

Na... wer von Euch hat erst die DB Migration beim #Mastodon update vergessen? #MastoAdmin

Es scheint als wären durch das Update auf Mastodon 4.6.0 meine Favoriten verlorengegangen. Nicht schlimm, aber fällt mir grad auf. Die Lesezeichen sind immerhin noch da.
#mastoadmin

If your first follow is Holos Discover I think you MIGHT be a bot. I wonder what they are doing?
#mastoAdmin

Made it to 4.6.0.beta.1 and nothing seems destroyed. #mastoadmin

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.5.9, released ~5.5 hours ago.
#mastoadmin

Von Mastodon.cloud kommt gerade viel Nude Photo Spam. Weiblicher Vorname Zahl sind die Benutzernamen.
Die Beiträge sind alle gleich und haben eine .ru Adresse im Beitrag
Also obacht. #mastoAdmin #FediBlock

welp.
#footiMac remains in a state. If you are reading this, that is a small victory :)
I tried a few things but it remains burdened by I/O activity.
it was still overwhelmed even when I shut down mastodon and nginx so I think it is either the constant sftp traffic or something related to the update to Trixie that I am as yet unaware of.
Regardless, I am taking the opportunity to create docker containers on another machine for postgres and redis to live on.
I'm now waiting for a database dump to complete so that I can try migrating those services over and leaving footiMac to only do nginx and sidekiq
Probably work on it some more tomorrow. Until then this account will be up and down. But at least I'm learning and that's what I like to do.
#mastoadmin

#FediBlock @… - yet ANOTHER slop machine hooked up to a Fedi account. why do people keep doing this. what makes them think this is okay
#MastoAdmin

Not sure what is going on at OVH but they sent me four identical invoices for my Mastodon object storage priced at $4.22 except for the invoice reference, billed them all as $16.88, then refunded $4.22 three separate times.
#OVH #OVHCloud #MastoAdmin

I got this account that signs up over and over again with the display name:
KaJuan Marcell Horton
anyone else know what's up with that?
#mastoAdmin

Peculiar; Facebook appears to be brute forcing registrations on my Mastodon instance. Weird.
Ok, have fun with this "small" 10MB gzip file that definitely doesn't contain 10GB worth of 0's if it's decompressed.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

ok. credit where credit is due.
Mastodon is pretty good at coming back after being restored from backup... again... and... again... lol…
I lost a few posts from the past 24 hours but, learning. Right?
Off to re-apply the v4.6 update and then do ANOTHER backup so I at least don't have to do that again next time.
#mastodon #mastoadmin

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.5.11, released ~4.5 hours ago.
#mastoAdmin

Anyone know a reason to not find accounts that use a signup IP that is a known Tor exit node as a signal of being a bot?
I'm looking at IPs by doing: Query: <reversed-ip>.dnsel.torproject.org − resolves to 127.0.0.2 if it's a Tor exit.
#mastoadmin

Not today!
#mastoAdmin

Do blocked email domains include subdomains of those emails?
#mastoadmin

#FediBlock @…
every single comment of theirs I have seen has been negative. i cannot find a single post they have upvoted. that cannot be a healthy way to live one’s life
#MastoAdmin

Mastodon 4.5.8 is now live on phpc.social, ~90 minutes after release. #mastoadmin

Lot of new bot accounts are putting a single random emoji at the end of their display name in hope of blending in.
#mastoadmin

dare I say the #footiMac #newOldiMac combo are currently delivering snappy mastodon performance.
#mastoAdmin #selfhost

fediblock seems like a good username to add to username blocks.
#mastoadmin

a lot of signups from subdomains of io.vn
is that a real place to get an email address? seems to probably be spammers.
#mastoadmin

still 🆙
#selfhost #mastoadmin #colima #docker

ok, really for sure this time.
i think it's going to be stable.
I think.
#mastoAdmin #selfhost #newOldimac #colima #docker

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Livestream:
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Edit: question answered successfully! Ty!
OK folks, I need some #docker advice for those gurus out there. A boost would be appreciated to get it in front of knowledgeable eyes.
I have a container running postgresql for mastodon. I would like to tweak the conf file for postgresql now that I have things going.
What is the safest way to do this on a running container?
Can I stop the instance with docker stop and then restart it and it will simply see the new postgresql.conf specified in the original docker run command?
I'm getting more comfortable with docker.. but not *that* comfortable, so I'm still worried that if I restart it'll break somehow lol.
I want to make sure I do this right so I don't wreck what appears to be a running and reasonably happy container :)
I'm running docker in a colima virtual machine on macOS.
#mastoAdmin #docker #colima #postgresql

making a script to backup the postgresql and redis docker containers... so I can have this run everyday to ensure I don't lose anything if/when docker collapses.
I also noticed that the docker containers all use UTC time, which is annoying, and who knows maybe that has something to do with the instability? so i synced it to America/Vancouver
Also... I know "America" is the continent, not the country in this context. But there is more than one Vancouver on the American continent. Canada/Vancouver would be better, no?
#random #selfhost #mastoadmin #docker #colima

this is the longest that my #selfhost instance has been online in 5 days lol. Starting to feel confident. Probably jinxing it…
#mastoadmin #colima #macos #docker #jinx

ok. docker backup script is solid.
it will:
1) mastodon db dumped in container and copied outside
2) redis file saved in and outside
3) both containers snapshotted and saved outside.
#selfhost #mastoadmin #colima #macos #docker #jinx

success.
docker restart does not jeopardize anything as long as a volume is specified at runtime to preserve the data.
successfully restarted with new conf file and we're now green across the board and hopefully tuned for the slightly larger resources available from #newOldiMac
#docker #mastoAdmin #docker #colima #postgresql #selfhost

I think it is funny, ironic, nerdy, and meta (the proper literal sense) that I have maxed out the 2017 iMac by wanting to install btop while watching it be maxed out on htop.
And yet... it's still posting this, so if stuff doesn't break down now, surely it never will? Even the swap is having a moment. Ooof. I need to be nicer to my machines. lol
#newOldimac #selfhost #mastoAdmin #footiMac #docker #colima #homebrew

just tweaked/upped web concurrrency and max threads settings in my .env.production settings for Mastodon to give #footiMac a few more processes to handle requests and things are humming along nicely.
I think a big takeway for me on this #selfhost journey is that except on the very smallest one person and minimal followers instance, the database (and possibly redis) function should always be on a different machine or container from mastodon.
#footiMac was clearly having real trouble handling the database activity once it got busy. Even with an SSD now with two bad blocks (which may have been caused by that over-activity), it is way more stable.
#newOldiMac #docker #mastoAdmin #colima #iMac

It's a day later and #footiMac and #newOldiMac are still up and running. Disk usage is stable. Current RAM usage for the database has gone up to 3GB from 1GB since 9PM last night. I'd like to know why. It's not any busier.
I'm running the backup script then later today I'll see if I can investigate more on why the RAM usage fluctuates so much.
I would like to know why it is more stable. Is it because I've simply given it enough room to expand and contract in the colima VM?
Is it because I set the clocks to the same timezone?
Inquiring minds... but I am happy that it is happy. And I have learned a lot and gotten more comfortable with docker. Which has been a goal almost since I joined Mastodon in Nov 2022.
I’m hoping to look for a new macMini now to replace #newOldiMac. If I can get that an SSD to replace the failing SSD in #footiMac and a large HDD for backup that'd be great.
#docker #mastoAdmin #colima #iMac