Minor Caching Issue
I was notified of a little glitch causing some pages to show the admin view and excess two-factor prompts. This appears to have been a server caching issue. This would not have exposed any data or granted any special access, it was just a static cache of content being shown instead of sending it to the server code to save time.
The caching was only supposed to impact image files, but it looks like it somehow grabbed some page files too.
As server performance is now much better than it was when I implemented caching, and the performance difference is now negligble, I have opted to turn off caching for the time being.
If you experienced this problem, it should go away with just a refresh of the page.
Random thought of a brighter aspect of the #ai future:
We're not too far off from AI video editing, and imagine writing out a list of all your triggers, loading it into an AI, and then having it edited movies and tv shows to remove all triggering content.
My autistic accent: vaguely northern US accent (emulated mostly from TV growing up), reflexive mimicking of vocal quirks around people I particularly respect (ie. like a faint lisp, or pieces of a thick accent), naturally monotone with occasional emulated attempts at emotional inflection (not super often, I don't have the effort to emulate inflection at the same time as emulating expression and I prioritize expression), difficulty with volume control (sensory and excitement based), moderate rate of speech.
Oh, and some canned phrases/responses I've picked up over the years, though at this point I have to pay attention to notice them.
Share your accent!
#autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticAccent
(Out of spoons, if someone gives me an image description for the set I'll edit to add it)
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Outage - Database Stuck
... I can't get 1 day without issues apparently...
When I was asleep, it looks like the database got stuck in some sort of optimize process with everything stuck waiting on that.
Restarting the database server forced that process to clear and cleaned things up.
I suspect what happened was I got overzealous after things started working great and I set the background worker count too high (these workers automatically run in the background doing things like updating contacts, downloading posts, etc).
I tuned that setting down, and increased the number of connections the database allows.
Performance Issues - Tentatively Resolved?
I feel really dumb for not noticing the cause sooner, I most attribute it to the rareness of the problem and the inconsistency at which it occurred.
I use a virtual server environment for my servers, and one of my measures to improve reliability and performance was to have two instances of the webserver behind a load balancer. In laymen's terms, whenever you're connecting you're assigned to whichever has the least connections and they're otherwise identical (same files, connect to the same database, etc).
Well... turns out when I duplicated the server initially, the software decided to not change the MAC address. Laymen's: The ip address of the server is different, but the network uses the mac address to map ip addresses to boxes, if two boxes have the same mac address then traffic is going to sporadically and randomly switch between them... but also with a bad IP address which means half of the traffic is always getting rejected.
So your connection to the load balancer was fine, but it was struggling to connect to the webservers and the webservers were struggling to connect to the database.
Once I changed that the server immediately became quite zippy!
My sincere apologies for the impact.
A quick test...
It's working partially.
I can post TO Tumblr, and Tumblr can see my comments, but Friendica isn't can't see the comments made to the post on Tumblr lol.
@skye 🏳️⚧️ he/him @hadeantaiga Friendica connects to Tumblr as a puppet account, so none of it is on the fediverse but just in the same feed.
I suppose they probably didn't connect the comments because that would get weird with a whole lot of comments being only visible to you (a whole of context management to figure out if you're replying via tumblr or AP, and whether or not the person you're talking to can see the relevant tumblr or AP comment)
It does offer a quick button to get to the original post immediately though, which is helpful (for Friendica users, the top right little arrow beside the network icon).
I think the feature mostly works to let you post and not worry about leaving a chunk of your audience out. Though I imagine it could use some work and if you have ideas they're always listening on the github: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues
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Introduction post!
Hello! My name is Eli, I'm a transmasc butch from Tumblr. I'm slowly poking my way around the Fediverse and I'm looking for an interface that lets me do long-form blogging. Friendica is allegedly good for that, so here I am!
Grad student, certified "Moon Nerd".
Nonbinary butch transmasc. Masculine like a misty mountain forest, queer as in fuck you. Converting to Judaism slowly but surely.
Interests:
Games: #Pathfinder #DnD #DragonAge #DiscoElysium #TheSims #CivilizationIV
TV: #Trigun #StarTrek #OurFlagMeansDeath #YouTubeVideoEssays
Books: #SherlockHolmes #TheExpanse #LordOfTheRings #TheHungerGames #SciFi #Fantasy
@hadeantaiga Welcome to the server/fediverse! And welcome as a fellow trans jewish convert!
I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have with Friendica and to help you figure out if it's the right place for you... but if you go somewhere else please link because you definitely have me interested in your introduction!
Also what's your Tumblr, Friendica supports following Tumblr feeds, and this spurred me on to finally setting up the Tumblr addon which allows crossposting to Tumblr (it does require access to your Tumblr to do so, but uses Oauth so doesn't have your password or control over your account, just the ability to post).
@hadeantaiga friendica's upside is connecting to everything that allows it to connect, downside is that it's a little less user friendly.
Followed your tumblr!
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But in this case we were debating on exact definitions of appeal to authority, and it devolved a little because I gave the example "Are you a doctor? Because Dr. Phil says..." and they called it Ad Hominem...
We settled on it depends on the context of said statement, but it's ultimately appeal to authority in both cases, just in some contexts it's also ad hominem