Narrowly escaped catastrophe as I attempted to upgrade the production Mastodon instance to v3.3.0; didn't realize the new dependencies would pull in at almost 2GB, which forced my hand at migrating to a higher-capacity allocated partition in the VM when the installation failed half-way through for lack of space. All good now, though!
I was delighted to find that the 5-disk RAID 0 and 2-disk RAID 1 hardware raids I had setup years ago in an old server with a RocketRAID 2720SGL card easily survived a complete OS wipe and transition from macOS to Ubuntu. After installing the open source Linux driver, the volumes mounted fine with all data still fully intact (albeit on HFS+ volumes). Pretty impressed!
Last ones for tonight, also spun up bots to mirror @gizmodo and @appleinsider Twitter feeds for those who like to follow tech news.
Also spun up @AJENews.
Spun up the @hkfp newsbot. Slowly moving all my public-interest Twitter follows over as bots.
At first, I was just spinning up bots for feeds that I couldn't find in the Fediverse, but I'm observing that many of the existing bots seem to rely on Twitter > RSS feeds, which leads to lengthy delays in their posting, and their dumping a bunch of Toots in a batch. Also, some of their hosting seems unreliable where we don't see any posts for 8-10hrs at a time... so I need to spin up some of my own.
Spun up a few more public interest newsbots that I couldn't already find mirrors for in the Fediverse: @citynews_bot and @nhkworld_news_bot.
Got the cronjobs working properly, so @cbc_news should now actually update every 30m.
Also, setup @globeandmail to mirror the @globeandmail@twitter.com account.
I have historically followed a number of news outlets on Twitter, which has been my favourite means of consuming the daily news for many years now. However, the more I explore the Fediverse, the more I hope to leave Twitter behind entirely, but the lack of these news outlets' content is a problem for me.
As such, I'll set up some bots myself to mirror the content.
First up: @cbc_news. It'll mirror CBC News' Twitter account, updated every 30m.
I see that Blizzard has taken a hard stance on multiboxing World of Warcraft by banning the use of key-broadcasting software. As a (now former) 5-account multiboxer, I guess I’ll be saving a fortune every month now. On the upside, I won’t feel guilty spending time playing my backlog of non-subscription games.
Surprised by someone knocking on my door today asking for cannabis.
Apparently an enterprising person running a nearby cannabis dispensary out of their house thought slapping a Google Maps business listing pin down right on top of my house to give would-be customers a general idea of their location without revealing their own would be a good idea.
To their credit, Google removed both the pin and business listing within 30 minutes of reporting!