Wad up all the pain into a ball, then throw it arbitrarily into the void, to imperil some other schmuck. This is very similar to a nasal ritual at my temple. https://youtu.be/ZwCc3Vhjsu0

Let’s not forget that before one wage was enough for a family of four a car and a house.

Today a single wage gets you a room in a shared apartment.

Scraping the moss with the hori-hori knives is lowkey relaxing though, ngl.

We’ve also built up a bit of a rapport with Gary the Satyr (we’re on a first name basis now), and the little dude will jam out some Checkfield on his flute upon request. Honestly kind’ve a chill time, and it’s a good excuse to get some nighttime hiking in :)

NASA’s Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory has ended its science mission now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 275 kilometers above Earth’s surface: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-mission-ends/ - the greater atmospheric drag at this height prevents the satellite’s telescopes from steadily gazing at their astronomical targets.

That’s why I have this account. I only have to break it out once or twice a year, honestly. For the most part out server is pretty stable, but then every now and then, a rare Azorian moss creeps in though the window hosting the server, and begins to colonize. This results in much delicate work, as @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net and @poVoq@slrpnk.net carefully scrape the moss off the motherboards, using hori-hori knives imported directly from Japan. They then coax the moss onto several 9x13 Pyrex dishes loaded with a home made agar and begin the trek up Mount Pico, to relocate the moss to its natural habitat. This is only done under light or a full moon and with much chanting. If done right, a Satyr emerges from the bushes (erect phallus and all), playing melodic flute music, and thanks them for restoring the nomadic moss back to the wild. After a few moments of awkward silence for both the admins walk back down the slope, wondering what actually just fucking happen, and how this became part of the routine maintenance of the server.

I’m pretty sure the downtime is just for enforced grass-touching.

Bummed that you can’t seem to catch a break with the server suffering from separation anxiety and throwing a fit every time you leave for work.

Artistic rendering. (had to use catbox since lemmy.cafe doesn’t seem to allow image uploads?)

Base image courtesy of @undthr@horp.sciops.net .

fuck you
i'm going back to Turkey

poVoq here. I am starting to think I am cursed, because everything works fine (or is at least fixanle with a remote server restart) until the second I go on a longer business trip and can’t easily access the hardware.

Remote access is mostly lost, but I was able to triangulate the issue and of course it is something I had on my list of potential issues, but as a low priority item 🫠 At least it isn’t the same problem again as in 2025.

What exactly triggered the issue is unclear though. I was still able to access the reverse-proxy server yesterday (shortly before it went down) and tried to do some updates for that php security problem in a VM that runs on the same machine. I thought I had those covered, but there is a slight chance that it is related and someone chained another exploit to escape the VM.

Anyways, it looks like the realistic / not overly optimistic scenario is that the server will stay down until christmas. I did have someone who could restart the servers on site until this summer, but they had to relocate to mainland Portugal for job reasons (tourism sector) and so they will also only return for christmas.

So yeah, not great at all, and I will have to think more seriously about how compatible this kind of self-hosting is with my current job, which limits my access to the servers for a few weeks at least once a year. It was easier during the pandemic times when I started all this, as deployments were shorter and more seldom back then.

@arichtman I also have some fish ones, but I haven't tried them yet.

To anyone on Ravenation.club who are set up to receive email notifications, have any of you been receiving them whenever you get a notification on Mastodon lately?

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