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Working on New Server

Working on a new server that will, among other things, run this friendica node, friendica.eskimo.com/. The existing machine is a virtual machine with 96G of RAM on a physical host with 128G of RAM, 6 4.1Ghz cores, 12 threads, and an WD-Black 1G nvme for the database.

The new server has two 1TB WD Black drives in a RAID 1, that has /, /boot, and /boot/efi on it, everything else is on a couple of 14TB 7200 RPM rotory drives which are also configured as a RAID 1 array. It also has a 10 core I9-10900X CPU clocked at 4.6 GHz all cores. I didn't think I was gonna have the heat budget to run it that fast but I won the silicon lottery on this one and got a chip that runs stable at .85 core volts, typical for this chip is 1.29-1.35v for 3.7 GHz and higher for overclock. So must have gotten one right out of the center of the wafer.

And this machine has 256GB of RAM, so more RAM to buffer disk I/O during busy spurts when a lot of messages are coming in from other servers.

The trick was getting the machine to boot off of a software RAID device. Other people have done it but with rotary drives. There is an automated tool to do it for those sata disks but it does not recognize nvme drives so had to do everything by hand, and since I've never done it before it took me several days to figure it out but tonight I finally got it working! Yea!

So soon, this node will get a lot faster. It's also going to be on bare metal rather than virtual machine to minimize the overhead, particularly with how intensively friendica can beat mariadb.

The old system maxed out at about 10,000 tps, this should do better between more core and a RAID nvme disk array.

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Plandemic
I hope these people follow the command chain all the way to the top and put to death the genocidal maniacs responsible for this rather than just punishing their slaves.

MAORI VS. PLANDEMIC W/ ATT. REINER FÜELLMICH & INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEYS

https://www.bitchute.com/video/GDKMKXFy8qHw/ Download video: https://seed126.bitchute.com/ohmhw0HHXAdK/GDKMKXFy8qHw.mp4 PeppiDiCa...
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What Is A Woman
With all the artificial shit in our food supply, soy and plastic products that mimic estrogen, it's no wonder people are confused about their sexuality, but still any attempt to bring clarity and sanity is suppressed. If you search for this you can find trailers on Google but they will not return search results where the movie is available free such as on Twitter or BitchUte.

WHAT IS A WOMAN?

Controversial documentary by Matt Walsh exposing the idiocy behind gender identification.
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My Home Town
This is my home town folks, where I was born 64 years ago and grew up. I'm only 13 miles removed from this shit hole now and it's spreading to where I am also. This is what DemonRats have brought us.

DOWNTOWN #seattle MADNESS CONTINUES

The warm weather is fueling a crush of illicit activity in the downtown #Seattle core. Weekends are the worst. Dealers are out peddling fentanyl for as littl...
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Today’s May Outage

Today’s May 30th between 1:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time and 4:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, outage was caused by a circuit breaker failure at the co-location facility where our equipment is co-located. Our equipment did not lose power but their core routers did.

This affected all of our paid and free services, e-mail, web hosting, Linux shell accounts, virtual private servers, and our free services, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

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Kernel Upgrades and Other Happenings

Posted on May 25, 2023

Saturday evening starting at 11PM we will be performing a kernel upgrade of all of our servers to version 6.1.30. It has some significant fixes for bugs that, while they haven’t bitten us yet, could.

I expect reboots to be completed by 11:30PM, various services that don’t restart properly and NFS and NIS issues resolved by midnight provided everything works.

I do not expect downtime for any individual service, except for yacy.eskimo.com/, to exceed ten minutes but yacy will take 30-45 minutes to come back online owing to it’s keeping an index in memory that it needs to regenerate after each reboot.

This will affect all of Eskimo’s paid and free services including e-mail, Linux shells, Web hosting, virtual private servers, and free services such as friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Other positive news, I’ve got all the hardware for our new bigger server now. I am beginning assembly tonight. This will take some time to bring into fully operational mode as the thermal budget is rather tight and getting as much performance out of the i9-10900x as possible will take a lot of benchmarking and adjusting. Because this is used in a co-location facility, I do not wish to go with water cooling and the normal dissipation for this CPU is 160 watts and can double that with extreme overclocking.

Because this CPU is likely to be thermally limited before it is electrically limited, my plan is start with stock everything and increase the clock until it hits thermal limits under heavy load, then reduce the voltage and try to find the point where thermal limits and electrical stability are limiting at approximately the same point so that I’ve got as much performance out of the chip as possible.

This chip is a very hot chip but it’s the only chip capable of addressing more than 128GB of RAM in the Intel lineup except Xeon chips, and I don’t like Xeon because the memory controllers tend to be on the slow side so you can not get as much performance as the clock speed would indicate. I don’t like AMD chips because they tend to suffer worse CPU rot and also their thermal protection generally consists of exploding holes in the die. I’ve had some Intel chips arrive dead, but I’ve never had any fail in service, but my experience with AMD has been less pleasant which is unfortunate as they do tend to make more clock cycles / watt of heat than Intel, but the thermal protection is just inadequate.

This new machine eventually will replace Iglulik as the main web server, as well as holding home directories, the large amount of RAM will allow it to cache more of the files as well as allowing yacy to run more smoothly. I plan on running the web server on bare metal to get as much performance as I possibly can. Iglulik will then primarily serve to host virtual private servers and some file systems like /misc. Between having four memory channels and 48 PCIe lanes, this will have horrendous I/O capabilities which should lend itself well to this application. The OS and web server software will sit on a couple of Western Digital nvme SSD’s in a RAID0 configuration and the user files and other non-speed critical system files and also a swap partition will go on a couple of 14TB 7200 RPM rotary drives. Though the write speed of these high density drives isn’t great, with 256GB of RAM there will be plenty of RAM to buffer writes so it will not negatively impact overall system performance.

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Spam Filtering Change

Posted on May 25, 2023

The majority of spam filters here put spam in a folder named “spam” rather than rejecting it outright.

However, there are two types of spam that I manually block when discovered, virii and phishing scams. Virii are various computer viruses, especially ransomware. When I find a server is infected, I block mail from that server until there is some indication this has been fixed. The same is true of phishing scams, where people try to social engineer to get your authentication information here or elsewhere.

There are a few really bad players in this area, an outfit called Sendgrid is the absolute worst. I have had more than 30 of their servers blocked for ongoing malicious content and I’ve never gotten a response from them beyond a form letter and I’ve never seen the abuse actually stop. Unfortunately they are also used by major corporations to contact their customers. Therefore, I try to be very selective about servers blocked and limit only to clearly infected servers, but, occasionally I get overly broad. And these actions are manual which also make them less effective than they could be because often the scammer or spammer has already dumped his entire list when I notice and take action.

Yesterday I made a significant change in the way this is handled. I am no longer blocking servers and address space manually. Rather, I have created a fail2ban jail that recognizes many of these things, also things like a lot of mails sent to non-existent addresses, mail forged as being from eskimo.com but is coming from external sources, etc, and I’m now using it to block these sites.

After the first night of this being implemented, my spambox had about one third as much spam as it did previously. I believe this is because it’s acting much faster than I would do manually, but an additional plus, there will be less legitimate mail blocked because this is ALWAYS done on a per server basis never entire address blocks as I often did for some bad players and because these blocks are automatically removed after two days but if the abuse is repeated from the same server then it will be blocked on a longer basis.

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9 Days
We're nine days away from a possible federal debt default and what does ByDone do? He sends yet more Billions to the Ukraine. Would someone please charge this fucker with treason and send him to the gallows where he belongs?

Biden sends BILLIONS more to Ukraine as Putin warns of nuclear war | Redacted with Clayton Morris

The united states just “found” an additional $3 billion to send to Ukraine. They say that it was an accounting error that happened when they “overestimated t...
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January 6 Blown Wide Open As the Truth About Undercover Agents and Informants Comes Out - RightWingHeadlines

The events of January 6, 2021 have been an obsession of the left ever since they happened. The entire Biden regime has gone out of its way to chase down, identify, and jail as many people as possible tied to that day.
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OOPS! Founder of THE WEATHER CHANNEL "Climate Change is Not Real" Live CNN Interview.

John Stewart Coleman was an American television weatherman. Along with Frank Batten, he co-founded The Weather Channel and briefly served as its Chief Executive Officer and President. He retired from broadcasting in 2014 after nearly 61 years, havin…
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SpAmazon Abuse

Spamazon is listing the following contact number for tech and abuse for their address blocks with ARIN:

OrgTechHandle: ANO24-ARIN
OrgTechName: Amazon EC2 Network Operations
OrgTechPhone: +1-206-555-0000
OrgTechEmail: amzn-noc-contact@amazon.com
OrgTechRef: rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/…

Since 206-555-0000 only gets you directory information, this is false. Since listing false contact info is against ARIN's policy, this should be delisted and Amazon shouldn't get to route. Please take a moment to write to abuse@arin.net about this net block: NET-54-144-0-0-1 and perhaps we can force valid contact info or at least slow down the abuse from their IP space.

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Old Age Remorse
This is a situation we need to find a solution for. With birth rates down and people who avoid Anthony Fauci's Frankenstein virus and Bill Gates death shots growing older, the world is not getting younger. The French are revolting over the fact that retirement age is raised from 61 to 63, while I at 64 have no desire to retire. And I am fortunate in that I run my own business, so can not be forced into retirement by an employer, either my competence is sufficient to maintain my business or it isn't but at least that's something I have influence over. For many, they have no such choice. I think we need to rethink how we structure society particularly for older people to insure that they can continue to meaningfully contribute.

Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society

Tiredness of life is a distinct form of suffering in which life seems stripped of meaning.
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Bill Gates gave This Ted Talk in 2010
They've wanted to kill us for a long time, and Bill planned to use a vaccine to do it, listen to this Ted Talk, "If we do a really really good job with vaccines..." Put this fucker to death now! He is responsible for the deaths of millions.

Bill Gates Population Reduction Ted Talk

Did Bill Gates say in a Ted Talk that Vaccines will be used for depopulation? In a 2010 Ted Talk Bill Gates discussed strategies for getting to 0 carbon emi...
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Dwayne Parsons

It doesn’t seem to matter that much anymore what your form of government was supposed to be. COVID turned the world into one big communist/fascist/authoritarian state.

It’s hard to say which one exactly. It seems to be a combination of the worst of all of those ideas. On a Global scale. An all new hybrid form of tyranny.

Nothing protected people. I only avoided it thru carefully planned unemployment! 😁 Most were coerced by their employers, by way of their government, which is not supposed to happen, according to the Bill of Rights.

But that has been watered down to the point of irrelevance due to additional, pointless, amendments that only did one thing, water down the original ten.

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Pipewire SHIT

Just when I thought Ubuntu's audio couldn't be any more fucked with pulse but I'd pretty much worked out the quirks in pulse audio, they come out with 23.04 and a new piece of shit called pipewire.

I had audio working smoothly under virtually any load situation and with virtually any source, now running WinAmp under wine on an i7-9900k system running at 4.9ghz with hardly anything else going on and it skips like hell.

FUCK the ASSHOLES at CANONICAL for introducing this piece of shit!

Does anyone know how to adjust buffer size so as to avoid buffer underruns
on this thing?

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Kernel Upgrades May 13 11pm PDT (GMT-0700)

Posted on May 13, 2023

I am planning a kernel upgrade tonight Saturday May 13th starting at 11PM.

This will affect all of Eskimo North’s services: web hosting, shell accounts, e-mail, virtual private servers, and our free Fediverse services friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Provided all servers boot correctly no service with the exception of yacy should be down for more than about ten minutes. Yacy takes up to 45 minutes to re-index it’s database upon startup.

Also, I will be slow for a day or so to get payment receipts out. Processing them requires cut-n-paste and the middle button (necessary for pasting) of my Logitech G 203 mouse has bitten the dust. Actually I can cut-n-paste in Firefox without that using a pull-down menu, but not on my Xterms.

I must say I am deeply saddened as I’ve never had a Logitech anything die on me before, I thought they were invincible, even inputting cans of Diet Coke into the keyboard has only resulted in temporary non-functioning until it dried. I really can’t complain though, it has served me loyally for many years and a new one is on order.

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I personally favor the molten salt designs over liquid metals even though it may be more corrosive, sodium metal is also very corrosive and this has caused plumbing failures and subsequent fires in nearly every reactor that has incorporated it, where as the Oakridge molten salt reactor ran almost five years (from January 1965 to December 1969), 13,000 of those hours at full power, and they even did an experiment where they shut off cooling and pulled out the control rods, and all that happened was the salt expanded slowing the nuclear reaction and the reactor self-regulated, they let it do this for 24 hours. We really need to have absolutely safe reactors like this, not semi-safe reactors that occasionally catch fire and spread radioactivity into the environment.

Advancing Nuclear Reactor Technology

Today we are discussing Generation IV nuclear reactors and the prospect of Thorium fuels and Fast Neutron reactors. Special thanks to Ludovic Mathieu, LP2i B...
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