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Fediverse Disaster Recovery


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Faulty peripheral power supply killed my server a little over a day ago.
120 gigs of MySQL data just wouldn't come up - backup is far from recent. My fault. Most corrupted tables were of course in Friendica.
After much nail chewing everything now appears operational again with minimum(?) data loss.

In other words: can you all read me? ;-)

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Holy cow, 120 gigs in a database?

Also remember, you don't want a backup solution, you want a restoration solution :-)

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Hear hear! You don't own a backup if you've never restored it before. Words to live by both in corporate and self-hosting environments.


Friendica Disaster Recovery


Faulty peripheral power supply killed my server a little over a day ago.
120 gigs of MySQL data just wouldn't come up - backup is far from recent. My fault. Most corrupted tables were of course in Friendica.
After much nail chewing everything now appears operational again with minimum(?) data loss.

In other words: can you all read me? ;-)

@Peter Schlager Welcome back and sorry about your loss! The most important data your database holds is your account cryptographic keys. Should they be lost and randomly recreated, you wouldn't be able to use the same username on the same domain for remote communication as your messages would be rejected by remote nodes that knew about your account as trying to impersonate you.
Are those rotated often (or ever)?
On one hand, security… on the other, it would highly mitigate the need for a recent backup.
@Lapo Luchini Cryptographic keys are never rotated in Friendica.
Thank you for that insight! I suppose the recovery worked in that regard otherwise I would not have been able to post again seamlessly in the first place? In other words, my messages wouldn't visible on the remote nodes my own node is delivering too?
Friendica currently says "Delivery to remote servers completed 18/18" (paraphrased from german) for this post so can I trust everything is a-okay?
Yes, no matter how old your backup is, as long as your account was already existing, I wouldn't expect communication issues.


Reading Update: Lost Boy


Christina Henry
Lost Boy
Die Chroniken von Peter Pan: Alptraum im Nimmerland

58%

What a ride thus far! Christina Henry's dark, twisted take on the classic Peter Pan story has me gripped.

#reading, #books, #bookwyrm

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Finished reading this one by now.

Snappy short review:
This ist one great alternate take on the Peter Pan / Neverland story and it sure as heck is not written for children at all. If you fancy mature/twisted stories that are relatable yet different where it counts this, book really is for you.
It's a bit like book one ("The Last Wish") of the Witcher series if that helps you to make a more informed reading decision.

In any case this was a relatively short but sweet read and quite entertaining and gripping. The final twist (if you can even call it one) was of course quite obvious all along but does not detract from reading enjoyment at all.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars




If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: github.com/timhutton/twitter-a…

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.



Tach, Leute! Hat zufällig jemand von euch eine günstige und für Anfänger geeignete E-Gitarre mitsamt Verstärker, die er nicht mehr benötigt?

K1 möchte ihre Skills erweitern und sich neben der Konzertgitarre mal in die E-Richtung vorarbeiten... Und so, wie sie mittlerweile spielt, würde ich das gerne auch unterstützen.

(Gerne auch boosten...)


Folding@Home


Why exactly is Folding@Home doing their own thing releasing their own client and omitting integration with a renowned platform like BOINC?
I'm sitting here baffled by the immense influx of new grid computing participants (apparantly there's been a "call to arms" by graphics card manufacturer Nvidia) with huge gaming pc power that managed to saturate all available work units of Folding@Home within a couple of days.
Now I'm seeing quite a few end users bemoan the lack of work units. Am I wrong to think that if Folding@Home were run off of BOINC there would be at least a chance end users would participate in other Projects?

Don't get me wrong, I greatly applaud the gamer community for getting done what 8 supercomputers could not in this timeframe. We really need this.
However, I'm very skeptical of Folding@Home's modus operandi here.

#covid-19 #gridcomputing #research #supercomputers
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Is ja gut, nun sind wir wieder gemeinsam im Boot.
Mir geht's leidlich, nicht so ganz gut, will aber nicht drüber gross reden.
Und Du? Bist Du noch in Krems? s' war doch Krems, oder...
Ja, alles Liebe in diesen irren Zeiten.
@YA Alles liebe und gute auch für dich! Weiter durchhalten, wir scheinen auf einem guten Weg zu sein wie mir scheint.
Ich bin zwischenzeitlich nach St. Pölten gezogen und hab mich hier ganz gut eingelebt - Verbindung nach Wien der Arbeit wegen ist auch bombastisch besser als von Krems aus. Die Railjets sind schon sauschnell und komfortabel.
Ja dann... mein Sohn ist auch von Wien nach Wr. Neustadt gezogen und fährt im Falle auch mit der Bahn.
Somit nochmals gute Wünsche für Dich und Dein Leben!


Twitter Likes/Replies Federation


!Friendica Support Are there any improvements regarding Twitter integration planned? Federating likes and replies back into Friendica would be fantastic.
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Stitched together an online #map service for #Austria based on #OpenStreetMap components. It's pretty early but should be fully usable for (car) routing at https://map.cyano.at
Finding a place (or two when plotting a route) still goes outside to a Nominatim server at OSM but I'm hoping to host that one myself too so every bit of data stays on-site.

#Privacy #Opensource #decentralisation


I'm still baffled that my #Windows 10 Installation simply booted up housed in a #new chassis, CPU and mainboard. I bet it's waiting to bite me in the backside once I really want to play a #videogame in the next couple days.

Other than that: Fractal Design chassis and AMD ftw! :-D