Michel Chossudovsky: The use of social media to control a targeted nation's information space, and use it as a means of carrying out sociopolitical subversion and even regime change reached its pinnacle in 2011 during the US-engineered "Arab Spring." Portrayed at first as spontaneous demonstrations organized organically over Facebook and other social media platforms, it is now revealed that the US government had trained activists years ahead of the protests, with Google and Facebook participating directly in making preparations. Opposition fronts funded and supported by the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiaries Freedom House, International Republican Institute (IRI), and National Democratic Institute (NDI) were invited to several summits where executives and technical support teams from Google and Facebook provided them with the game plans they would execute in 2011 in coordination with US and European media who also attended the summits. The end result was the virtual weaponization of social media, serving as cover for what was a long-planned, regional series of coups including heavily armed militants who eventually overthrew the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, with Syria now locked in 6 years of war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8377
Gary Null: There is an assumption and a reasonable expectation that the information that you will find on Wikipedia is accurate, soundly-researched and referenced from high-quality reliable sources, written by credentialed writers, scholars and editors, who have expertise on the subject, is unbiased, and that it is objective and balanced. Unfortunately, our two-year investigation into Wikipedia's treatment of health issues reveals exactly the opposite. ... In addition, there are many individuals with outstanding credentials who are faced with slander, character assassination and denigration about their careers and life's work, in biographies put up on Wikipedia, in which they had no input and over which they have no control. They are faced with the reality that they will not be able to change a single syllable on their Wikipedia page. And, there is no possibility of redress. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8378
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So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.
I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.
To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.
As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.
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Image Upload Trouble
If y'all have had issues uploading images... sorry about that.
I missed a setting when re-configuring the server after transfer to it's current environment and it's fixed now.
Longer Explanation: there are two servers involved, a reverse proxy and then the actual Friendica server. The Friendica server accepted uploads up to 100MB... the proxy didn't have that setting... so it would just go for a bit, then timeout. Added that setting to the proxy and all solved.
Server Migration Complete
Thank you for your patience!
The server has been migrated to a new dedicated remote server (hosted with OVH) and to the newest version of Friendica (2024.03, previously it was 2023.12).
Things should stabilize mostly for the time being, but I will be on the lookout for bugs.
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