Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
Doing ok. Decided last night to cook more so I can lose weight. Been eating too much take out.
Did afew fixes on my server
Probably will buy a pair of shoes this weekend.
All pretty boring stuff really. Life is slower these days, I don’t drink anymore but also don’t have crippling lows like I used to. I have a family of my own now who I adore. Life is good
How are you guys?
I’m doing well! I’ve also been doing a few fixes on my server 😅. If we exclude Lemmy, I’ve also upgraded from Jellyseerr to Seerr, and added a Calibre Web service for syncing to Kobo, which I think is really cool. You can set you Kobo to point at your self-hosted server instead of the Kobo store, and your books show up on your Kobo wirelessly like purchases. And then it proxies anything else through to the actual store if you want, so don’t lose anything.
Nice to hear life is good for you!
In case you missed it, Lemmy.nz is going down tonight to move to a new VPS: https://lemmy.nz/post/34413158
It may not be straight away at 7:30, but once it goes down it will be fully down until everything is on the new VPS (or until I roll back if things don’t go well).
For Lemmy.nz users, this means the lemmy.nz website won’t work. You can lurk on a different server or just have a night off.
For people on other instances, this means any content posted to Lemmy.nz communities won’t be federated until Lemmy.nz is back online. For example, if your account is on lemmy.world and you post to !newzealand@lemmy.nz, other users on Lemmy.world will see the post but users on other instances (say, sh.itjust.works) won’t see it until Lemmy.nz is back up and federating.
As you might have noticed we were back up and running after a little over an hour last night.
I have noticed some slowdown this morning, and checking logs it seems 75% of traffic is coming from Asia and Africa. In a service like this, most traffic is federation, and we should see Lemmy.world at the top of that list. Unfortunately they are only about 7% of traffic, so it’s likely most traffic is from AI scrapers.
I hope to look into getting Anubis set up this weekend, to see how much of a difference that can make.
Spent last night going through all the political parties and their policies. Damn do they suck! Labour was the only one who had concrete policy and even then only on doctors visits and loans for new doctor practices.
Every other party from the Greens to Act or all nothing burgers and hot air sentenses usually taking the form of “this is a problem, we will fix it” no “how” or “what with”
I know its early in the election cycle but its still very lax
There’s that website, I think it’s https://policy.nz/, that the parties all give their detailed policy stances to. That site is still on the 2025 local elections. The parties aren’t going to provide the policies until they have publicly announced them, so I guess we will need to wait a few months before they get everything updated.
Sorry all, I’ve been playing with anubis tonight so you might have seen some weird things. I haven’t got it working so will try again tomorrow.
If you’re noticing slowdown, well yep, we’re getting hammered, presumably by AI scrapers (7 day history):
Yeah so that peak of the graph is over 2 million unique requests that day, and the earlier part of the week has about 100k a day. So a 20x increase.
