@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Interesting. I’ll check it out a bit later. :) But it already has me thinking about linguists carving out a new niche in computer security. ^x^

Issue #1147 created

Wow, that was nasty. Even had some 502 Bad gateway messages, so I thought that yarn wasn’t being published. I’ve backed out the activitypub feature for now.

@support@twt.nfld.uk Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H’m. Seems OK now…

@support@twt.nfld.uk Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H’m. Seems OK now…

Thanks, @adi@twtxt.net! In theory, it should’ve taken five years. In reality, it took me twice that time because I kept resetting that ‘clock’ by changing visas. Wasn’t cheap either, let me tell you! :P

lol @movq@www.uninformativ.de – h’m, only @vain@www.uninformativ.de populates on my instance still! – and thanks, all. ^x^

@prologic@twtxt.net Dang! Congrats, mate! Awesome comeback. :D

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with sincere pleasure that I inform you of my recent application for British citizenship having been approved.

@news@twtxt.net Amazing! Well done!

@prx@si3t.ch Yeah, I’m a big fan of it. :)

Another ActivityPub service up: BookWyrm @ nfld; let me know if you want an invitation. :) NB: I’m just getting familiar with the software, so I can’t claim it’s configured correctly or well at this stage. ;)

@ViGrey@vigrey.com 🙋

@bender@twtxt.net Ha! Amazing! :D

@bender@twtxt.net My, oh, my, what a lot of green ;)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, apologies, mate. Congratulations on getting it working, though. :D

My Pleroma instance is back up now too, fyi, if you want to use that as part of any testing.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, fair point. I mean, I’m devil’s advocate in this: you’ve outlined the dream, right there.

@nilfm@nilfm.cc I’d argue that only works for homelabs. Any business that follows that philosophy carries a huge risk of their resilience walking right out the door.

@retronav@twtxt.net I’m well, thanks! Nice to see you. :)

@bender@twtxt.net Got my Matrix bridging services to both IRCNow and Telegram restored in the last few days. Plus my homeserver can now handle rooms with five-figure membership, thanks to the aforementioned migration to beefier kit. I’m havin’ a ball! 😁

@hacker-news-newest@feeds.twtxt.net I haven’t read this – yet! I know, classic 😅 – but this advice has been indelibly absorbed by me, long before I had kids. I wonder where I first read it. 🤔

@anth@a.9srv.net I feel your pain, mate. 😂 I’ll check that out!

@prologic@twtxt.net Wow. Noted!

@prologic@twtxt.net I love this place so much. :)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org So cool! Thanks for sharing. :)

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Proper old skool. ;) Not much of that ‘net era has survived, let alone kept its calibre. (Lookin’ at you, /. )

@prologic@twtxt.net Holy cow! Sounds serious! Hope things continue to improve. 🤞🤗

We don’t go for promoting spam on this pod (or the wider community for that matter). You joined around the same time as two spam accounts, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, for the moment.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! :) Learned loads along the way as well, to where I was able to recover another database dump (for a different service) just by changing the locale in the dump file and creating the associated user ahead of the restore.

Well, I’ll be. Didn’t that just sort it. Amazing. matrix.nfld.uk rides again! With a much whizzier, if remote, database. Time to start building back the rest of these database backed services then, eh, @bender@twtxt.net? ;)

Latest attempt is using pg_dumpall; that and the restore will be done using 13.9 binaries (for different architectures, of course). Can’t say I’m feeling particularly optimistic…

FREE EBOOK: The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale – 4.19 / 5 on GoodReads

Yeah, that didn’t work, of course: replication just reproduced the data / architecture problem I had with copying the pgbackrest backups over. Back to the drawing board. :/

@prologic@twtxt.net Sure! I just opened Issue 1136 with some thoughts off the top of my head. :)

Saw this book referenced on the HN500 the other day: Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz – should arrive this week. :)

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Yeah, I was dedicating probably thirty minutes a week to deleting accounts, at one point. Even gave up, at one point, which was right around the time that they seem to have as well, happily. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

@kaniyama_t@yarn.takuma-csirt.com Amazing! Thank you so much! ^x^

[Why] not just simply:
pg_dump -F t DB_NAME > /backups/DB_NAME

Never found a more finicky format than pg_dump. Internet says dump and restore have to be the tools associated with the same release of the database, databases on the same version, of course; think that restore worked? Nah. This is my last hope now (pictured), as the jump from 32-bit to 64-bit means that my pgbackrest backups are ‘corrupt’ outta the gate.

@prologic@twtxt.net :) Nuked the one here too, now.

Assuming you see this as anything more than yet another place to put your lame attempt at advertisement. :/

@support@twt.nfld.uk Hey, welcome! I see you’ve also created an account on @prologic@twtxt.net’s pod (i.e., the mother-ship of our little corner of the world ;) ). Just so you know, you only need one account, on any pod, in order for you to put messages out for others to read and follow, and for you to follow theirs in return. :) Any questions, just ask!

Didn’t even make it to a main road before I had a wheelie bin’s worth picked up. Pretty disgusted, to be honest, but I’m sure it’ll make the school run more pleasant tomorrow.

Gloucester Docks

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks, both. She was still coughing a lot last night, but she’s been full o’ beans today; already been out to a friend’s party this morning, and showing no signs of slowing down this afternoon. Kids, eh? ;)

Belting out classic Billy Joel while automating my database backups, glass of white in hand and roast in the oven. Life is good, folks.

Anyway, that’s enough for tonight. Daughter’s still poorly, and’ll be up afore the hour’s done, I’m sure. 😪

Tell you what: this demo is just my speed; exactly what I need to get a feel for it, and, more importantly, to build up my confidence.

@bender@twtxt.net It’s a valid question. I just didn’t do it regularly? I was confused by the different formats? I read conflicting advice about whether things could still be running? Databases, writ large, are a bit of a boogeyman for me? End of the day, so far, this seems to be just enough validation / certification plus automation to get me over the line; seems to be. We shall see.

Familiarising myself with pgbackrest. Need to make sure this extended service outage isn’t repeated.