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Supporting the Current Thing: COVID Mania adherents embrace the Ukraine narrative - New poll finds that the more mRNA injections you take, the more likely you are to unquestionably endorse the government's Ukraine narrative. Those who were fully compliant to the booster regime are even willing to fight World War 3 over Ukraine, via a no fly zone, the poll shows. We are not so much split between party lines as we are between compliant and non compliant citizens.
Supporting the Current Thing is encouraged by our leaders as a virtuous endeavor, and just like COVID Mania, there are perks attached to it. As with COVID Mania.
dossier.substack.com/p/support…

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Web Server


Going to be replacing the existing server but that's a few months off yet depending upon finding all the necessary pieces (appropriate RAM is an issue), but done a lot of work on my existing web server to get speed up and I'm pretty happy with the results. This is the load time for my main web page which is a PHP based WordPress installation (self hosted not on WordPress's site):

Managed to get this speed out of a six core twelve thread machine with 80GB of RAM for the web server and everything now on flash drives, Apache 2.4.53 HTTP-2 enabled, SSL with a 2048 bit key, Ubuntu 20.04 with a custom 5.16.16 kernel.

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Tom Grzyb - WEF Shill


Tom Gryzb posted a post suggesting the Great Coral Reef is all bleached out due to global warming. This is false propaganda being pushed by Klaus Schwab and his WEF / NWO compatriots. To the degree bleaching occurs, it has been proven to be associated with over fishing, and not global warming, and in fact this year saw the most new coral growth on the Great Barrier Reef in recorded history.

So I posted a link to a site that goes into some details and counters this bullshit narrative but rather than provide supporting evidence for his view he deleted my comment. So he has been banned from this node.

For those interested, here is the link that I provided earlier:

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Maintenance Tonight 11pm – Sometime Saturday Morning


Posted on March 18, 2022

This is a reminder that we will be doing some fairly extensive maintenance on Iglulik, which is the server that hosts ftp/www, ubuntu, debian, and mint virtual machines, the MariaDB database, and /home directory partitions. As a consequence all services that require any of these facilities will be unavailable for a number of hours.

I am going to be:

1) Replacing another failed drive in the RAID array that houses /home. This drive failed literally two hours after replacing it’s mate. Both drives only have a handful of bad sectors (7 on the first, 2 on the second) but the firmware on these drives seems to be defective and not re-mapping the failed sectors even though there are two full tracks available for this purpose. Had this not been used in a RAID array I could make the OS do it by adding it to the bad block inode but this does not work in RAID.

2) Replacing the existing flash drive that the database is operating on with a larger but more conventional model that is fully supported by the Linux kernel so that I’m not forced to run buggy insecure kernels while I wait for the manufacturer to port the drivers.

I will also be replacing with a much larger flash drive so I can move the root file system to a partition on the flash drive which should speed up boot significantly. As it is now, it takes about five minutes for the OS to fully boot on this machine because of all the virtual machine start-ups. The copying of this data is what will be the major time factor and I have no idea how long it will take so may be a couple of hours or might be five or six.

This will also affect friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and eskimo.com/. Incoming mail will be stopped to prevent errors due to unavailability of the /home partition during this operation.

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Eskimo North Extended Maintenance Outage 11PM March 12th – 4AM March 13th Pacific Time


Posted on March 12, 2022

Tonight I am going to perform hardware surgery on the machine that hosts home directories. As a result, ALL services except virtual private servers will be down for a number of hours.

The server which hosts the /home directory partition has an ill drive in the RAID array for this partition. It has about seven bad sectors which if they were HARD failed would not be a big deal, the drive would re-map them and life would go on, but they aren’t. Instead if you write them and read immediately they will pass but sometime in a week or so following reads will fail again.

If the mate to this drive in the RAID array were to fail, this would result in data corruption so I’m going to replace this drive tonight.

The other issue, when I tried to get the kernel upgraded on this machine last night, the drivers for the Fusion I/O flash drive would not compile under the 5.16 kernel. Earlier kernels have a bug that can result in either data corruption or privilege escalation, either of which are undesirable. The Fusion I/O folks tell me it may be a while before drivers are fixed as there were extensive changes to the kernel.

So I am going to replace the fusion I/O drive with a Western Digital Black 1TB drive which is natively supported by the Linux kernel. This drive is much larger so I am going to put both the root file system and boot block and database on it. It will take some time to copy all this data and change the boot block to this drive. The database copy should go fast as it is flash-to-flash but the rest will take several hours. This drive also does not have a conflict with the Broadcom NIC card, so when this is completed and I can remove this drive, I can restore the Broadcom NIC which handles hardware offloading properly.

This will affect ALL services EXCEPT for virtual private servers which do not depend upon the site wide /home directories. It will affect all web services including virtual domains, hosting packages, and virtual domains. I had hoped to put the new server in place and just transfer these services over to it and then fix the old but the security flaw being publicized in the Linux kernel no longer affords me this luxury.

This will also affect friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and our main website eskimo.com/.

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Rare Earth Barium Copper Oxide (ReBCO) High-Temp Superconductor Ribbon Magnets - Fusion Breakthrough


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Kernel Upgrades Between Wed March 9th and Saturday March 12th


Posted on March 9, 2022

Because a very nasty exploit has become known that could lead to privilege escalation, a kernel upgrade will be applied to all servers as soon as possible.

Because the exploit requires some sort of inside access to utilize, shell servers will be done first, then virtual private servers, and the rest. The physical machines will be done Friday evening between 11pm-midnight Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8). Most things will take about five minutes but the web server could possibly take much longer as it requires compiling special drivers for a special SSD device we have on that machine for fast database access.

This will affect all of our servers and services. But with the exception of the web all outages will be brief. Most of the work will be done during the evenings 10pm-2am Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8), especially shell servers and virtual private servers. This will impact all eskimo.com services including friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com, nextcloud.eskimo.com, e-mail, shell servers, private virtual servers, and virtual domains.

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Radiation Levels Just North of Seattle, WA, USA


Because of all the bullshit surrounding the Ukrainian nuclear reactors, I've been keeping an eye on my Geiger counter.

The normal background radiation in this area is 11 us/hr, that's eleven microsieverts per hour, or about one banana daily equivalent (the amount of radiation you get in a day being equal to that which you get from eating a banana).

However, the last two days have been an unusually low 8 us/hr or eight microsieverts per hour. I have no explanation or idea for what could LOWER background radiation.

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Don't Let Ukraine Distract you from Global Mass Murder by Elites


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Crown


This be my new doggo Crown. He is a melanistic Doberman which basically means his genetics produce a lot of melanin, hence all black. He's a big boy, 3" over the standard at 27" at the shoulders. He's got a head wrap on because he got in a fight at his former owners and has an ear injury and so is wearing this while it heals so he doesn't shake his head and tear his ear.