QuentinCallaghan

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It was about the database having corrupted data, and the best option turned out to restore from an earlier backup. Luckily the database is backed up automatically twice a day.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to c/meta@sopuli.xyz
 

Well, that was awkward.

It was a normal Tuesday otherwise. However, somewhere around 21:00 (Finnish time, UTC +2) Sopuli went offline due to a sudden database problem. It wasn't a problem I could fix immediately, so I decided to wait until the next day. @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz helped me once again, and with his help we looked at the problem, and the database was restored from a backup made at 18:00 on Tuesday. Great thanks to him!

Because of the time gap, new data from 18:00 UTC+2 to 21:00 UTC+2 wasn't recoverable. I doubt there was an Internet equivalent to James Joyce's Ulysses among the data, but this has to be mentioned. This may affect federating posts and comments to other instances.

There was no way to just ignore an instance this active being offline for this long and move on. For normal users it creates uncertainty and for admins solving it may sometimes be nerve-wracking. I hope you all have been patient. After all, Sopuli hadn't been offline this long for over two years. The last time was in June 2024 when Sopuli was migrated from Hetzner's VPS to dedicated server hardware. It also took over a day, and it was surely nerve-wracking for me. All the effort was worth it, and because of improved website performance, long downtime has been an exception ever since.

This was unexpected downtime, but hopefully anything like this won't happen again for a really long time.

As always, you can get information about possible downtime by following me on Mastodon or by joining Sopuli's Matrix space.

Hope you all have a good day! (Or night, when I am writing this)


Noh, tämäpä oli noloa.

Se oli muuten normaali tiistai. Kuitenkin joskus klo 21 aikaan Sopuli meni pois linjoilta yhtäkkisen tietokantaongelman takia. Se ei ollut ongelma jonka olisin voinut korjata heti, minkä takia päätin odottaa seuraavaan päivään.@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz auttoi minua taas kerran, ja hänen avullaan katsoimme ongelmaan, ja tietokanta palautettiin tiistaina klo 18 otetusta varmuuskopiosta. Paljon kiitoksia hänelle!

Varmuuskopion ja tietokannan kippaamisen välillä on toki aikaväli 18–21. Tämän takia sillä välillä syntynyttä uutta dataa ei voitu palauttaa. Epäilen tosin että sen datan joukossa oli mitään Internetin vastinetta James Joycen Odysseukselle, mutta tämä on kuitenkin mainittava. Tämä voi vaikuttaa viestien ja vastausten federoitumiseen muille instansseille.

Näin aktiivisen instanssin kaatumista ei voi mitenkään sivuuttaa ja jatkaa menoa normaalisti. Tavallisille käyttäjille se luo epävarmuutta, ja ylläpitäjille sen ratkaiseminen voi raastaa hermoja. Toivottavasti olette olleet kärsivällisiä. Sopuli ei ole kuitenkaan ollut poissa linjoilta näin pitkään yli kahteen vuoteen. Viimeisin kerta oli kesäkuussa 2024 kun Sopuli siirrettiin Hetznerin virtuaalipalvelimelta dedikoidulle palvelimelle. Siinä kesti yli päivän, ja se tosiaankin raastoi hermojani. Kaikki siihen käytetty vaiva oli kuitenkin sen arvoista, ja parantuneen suorituskyvyn takia pitkä poissaolo linjoilta on ollut siitä lähtien poikkeus.

Tämä oli odottamaton sattumus, mutta toivon että mitään tällaista ei tapahdu uudelleen todella pitkään aikaan.

Kuten aina, saatte tietoa mahdollisesta kaatumisesta seuraamalla minua Mastodonissa tai liittymällä Sopulin Matrix-tilaan.

Toivottavasti teillä kaikilla on hyvä päivä! (Tai yö, kun kirjoitan tätä)

 
[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Regarding the decision, it's quite a stretch to claim @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz being a Nazi. The idea was criticism towards Israel, and apparently it got misinterpreted as antisemitism.

Looks like I have to explain what's the reasoning behind the rule 3. I didn't want to make a long list of exact kind of behaviors and organizations that are not allowed on Sopuli and clutter the sidebar. Instead I listed several known bad movements so that the users could get a good picture of what kinds of people are not wanted here. Nazis, incels and QAnon, they all share a really warped and hostile view of the world that is black-and-white, and violence has been associated with all of them. And "similar whackos" can be found by looking at what the ADL and CDDH for example list as hate groups.

I don't think I use the word "Nazi" in a too broad sense like on Lemmygrad or Hexbear. In those places a Nazi can be anyone supporting Ukraine or a social democrat for example.

 

Damn, this is sad news. Considering how great voice he still has, I thought his health was in a similar condition. Then again, he is 75. I never got to see The Voice of Rock live.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for everything!

 
 
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to c/videos@sopuli.xyz
[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 88 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

I could understand hardcoded blacklists if Tesseract was meant as a frontend for a Lemmy instance tailored for a specific purpose, and not intended for general use. But this, to DDOS a website because the developer is a whiny baby who can't take criticism? This is a new low. This is disgusting, and damaging for the Lemmyverse as whole.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm referring to the Web0 manifesto coined by Aral Balkan.

web0 is the decentralised web. In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Web0 is the way to go, not Web3.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be interested in long-form articles about One Nation, as the party's agenda has similarities with The (Rudimentary) Finns Party here.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 38 points 3 weeks ago

A frontend should be a frontend. The decisions of what to blacklist should be up to the frontend's user. Stupid decision.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 32 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I once went on a date with a Russian girl. Later I found her Pinterest profile that featured, among other things, pictures of Russian soldiers trampling on Pride flags, Elon Musk and Andrew Tate. Later I stumbled onto her Tinder profile where the description read "PS. I'm a fan of Andrew Tate".

So I didn't only dodge a bullet, but a whole clip.

These news make me want to ask her "well, what do you think of Andrew Tate now?"

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

Tästä eduskunnan istunnosta saa kyllä aikamoisen superkoosteen leikattua. Syksyllä Jukka Lindströmiltä ei tule loppumaan materiaali kesken.

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