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Friendica.Eskimo.Com


Friendica.Eskimo.Com was getting to be a bit slow. Did some analysis of redis and mariadb configuration and found some places to improve performance and it seemed to have a pretty significant impact upon responsiveness.

Still trying to get images to display automagically in misskey, if anyone knows the magic juju please let me know.

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We had hardware problems before and it took four motherboards to finally get one that completely worked. We had originally gone with a Thermaltake 1000 watt power supply. It became unstable so we replaced it with a Gigabyte supply. Then we had motherboard issues. We started with an Asus board, one of the four memory channels died so not all of the system memory was visible to the CPU. We replaced it with a second and it just up and died. We ordered a Gigabyte board but it would not post with this cpu, so then an Asrock, the Asrock board could not handle the power requirements of this particular CPU and melted the solder connection of the power at the CPU socket after 18 hours of operation. Then we learned that the issue with the Gigabyte board was the BIOS, so we upgraded the BIOS and then it mostly worked. Then the Gigabyte power supply got ill, so we replaced with a Seasonic 1200 watt power supply. There is still an issue with the RAPL code in the kernel and if the CPU is allowed to get hot enough to where the kernel tries to downclock to cool it, it can lock up. So at this point we have the hardware issue resolved, but there is still some stability issue in the kernel. This however will only cause a short outage for us to drive to the co-lo and boot it rather than the long and right now it tends to go several weeks between crashes. Of course we would like it not to crash at all. But I believe the hardware issues are resolved at this point. The Gigabyte board appears to be capable of providing the power this CPU requires (as much as 540 watts with all 18 cores and 36 threads fully occupied at 4.8Ghz) and the Seasonic 1200 watt power supply appears up to the task and we know there is still active development of the RAPL code in the kernel for this CPU so hopefully this will get fixed. I am also putting together another machine with similar architecture that should be capable of acting as a backup in the event of another lengthy failure. So while life offers no guarantees, I believe we have it better stabilized.
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I might add, how much and how fast I can get things done are largely a factor of funding. If you subscribe to some of our paid services such as web hosting, virtual private servers, e-mail, shell accounts, then we can do more things with the free services.

Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer five different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, Enterprise and Super-Max. Shell types very principally in amount of disk quota provided. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
Security

Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

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New Social Media Service


In an attempt to further the freedom of speech, I have added a new Misskey social media site to Eskimo North. It can be reached through our Web-Apps menu on the main website eskimo.com/ or directly at misskey.eskimo.com/.

It is a minimal setup at present so not super pretty but I’ll fill it out as time permits.

This joins our other social media sites, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, mastodon.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and our federated search engine yacy.eskimo.com/.

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Misskey


I am trying to build a misskey instance using manual installation.

I am to the point of building the software. When I type:

pmpn run init, I get:

> misskey@2024.10.1 init /space/www/misskey/misskey
> pnpm migrate


> misskey@2024.10.1 migrate /space/www/misskey/misskey
> cd packages/backend && pnpm migrate


> backend@ migrate /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend
> pnpm typeorm migration:run -d ormconfig.js

Error during migration run:
Error: Unable to open file: "/space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js". Cannot find module '/space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/built/config.js' imported from /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js
at CommandUtils.loadDataSource (/space/www/misskey/misskey/node_modules/.pnpm/typeorm@0.3.20_ioredis@5.4.1_pg@8.13.0/node_modules/typeorm/commands/CommandUtils.js:22:19)
at async Object.handler (/space/www/misskey/misskey/node_modules/.pnpm/typeorm@0.3.20_ioredis@5.4.1_pg@8.13.0/node_modules/typeorm/commands/MigrationRunCommand.js:40:26)
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
misskey@inuvik:~/misskey$ ls -ld /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/built/config.js
ls: cannot access '/space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/built/config.js': No such file or directory
misskey@inuvik:~/misskey$ ls -ld /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 misskey nogroup 424 Nov 15 00:58 /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js
misskey@inuvik:~/misskey$

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

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Eskimo North - Ice / Redundancy Setup


Just a heads up on how things are going with Ice and general redundancy measures. I’ve got cron jobs in place to distribute SSL certs across all of the physical machines so any one physical machine being alive will be adequate to get access to SSL certs.

I’ve got a 5th name server running as a virtual machine on my machine at home so even if the co-lo is down entirely incoming e-mail will not be lost.

I’ve got a cron job copying /home and mail spool to another machine so either machine being down, I will still have a way of making these things accessible.

I’m still working on ice. It turned out both Asus memory boards I have had dead memory channels, one because pins are missing from the CPU socket but the other is a mystery. I can not see any missing or bent pins, yet, the BIOS sees all the DIMMS even though the CPU does not so this still points to a socket problem, perhaps a bad solder connection or open trace.

So I ordered another board, but did not pay adequate attention to the description, it was a parts board so not usable. The seller agreed to take it back if I paid shipping even though he had said no returns up front. Thank God some decent people still exist.

Then I ordered another board, this one supposedly working, well it arrived and had a minor problem. Someone broke a screw off for the nvme drive in one of the mounts. I was unable to get it out of the mount so ordered a kit for $6 off of amazon that contains mounts and mounting screws and I will just replace it. A pain as I have to take the board out again as I can not get to it from the back.

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Remote Desktop


Shell is a command line interface to an operating system. Most shell providers offer a simple text only interface via ssh, telnet, or rlogin. With some of these providers it may be possible to execute X commands and redirect them to your display. While this allows you to use graphical commands, it is a tedious process.

While Eskimo North does provide traditional shell access, we go much further offering full remote desktop access with sound. This is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers and it is available from anywhere in the world. With a reasonably decent broadband connection, full motion video and high quality audio is possible.

Four popular remote desktop protocols are supported. All of these are tunnelled through ssh to provide encryption to protect your sensitive data and to prevent snooping on your activities or intercepting your login authentication credentials.

Guacamole Web Based Access
On our website under Web Apps, Desktop or Terminal Access, or by going directly to eskimo.com/guacamole/, login with “public” for the login and password. Then choose the server and whether you want a terminal or desktop and then login with your login and password. This allows you to access a terminal session or full remote desktop session from any HTML5 compliant web browser.

X2Go
X2Go is by far the preferable protocol to use. There are two clients that work with X2Go, the X2Go client, and PyHoca, a python client. The X2Go client is easy to configure with a simple graphical configuration interface. It tunnels all data through an SSH connection by default so there is little chance of accidentally establishing an unencrypted session and exposing critical data. It is the only remote desktop that supports sound well. It does an excellent job of eliminating X round-trip delays and it also compresses data very efficiently. It is the only remote desktop protocol that is sufficiently robust and efficient to make full motion video and audio work reasonably well over a cable modem connection. X2Go is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X based computers. For linux computers, it is usually included with your distribution. Try yum install x2go-client or apt-get install x2go-client.

VNC
VNC is an old X-forwarding protocol. The VNC servers we have here are configured to tunnel through ssh in order to provide a secure encrypted session. Consequently, you will either need a client that provides ssh tunnelling such as Chicken VNC (not to be confused with Chicken of the VNC which does not provide this functionality) or you will need to setup an ssh tunnel manually. VNC does not do such a good job of eliminating X round-trip delays nor does it compress as effeciently as X2Go or NX. However, VNC is available for more platforms and if you have an older computer this may be the best option.

RDP
RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol is the protocol used by Windows for remote desktop access. If you have a Windows machine, you most likely already have RDP built in so it is a quick way to get a remote desktop up and running. The performance of RDP is really not adequate for full motion video and it also lacks audio and remote printing.

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Social Media Lies


This guy makes such a valid point about Trump and all the scary things social media says he will do. He has been President before once, remember? Why do you think he will do all these ridiculous things when he didn't do them before and gave no hint he will do them this time?



justthenews.com/government/fed…
The Justice Department filed criminal charges Friday on in a thwarted plot linked to Iran to kill then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump before Tuesday's presidential election, which Trump won.

According to the complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard ordered his contact, Farjad Shakeri, in September to hatch plan to kill Trump.

The complaint said if Shakeri wasn't able to create such a plan, the operation would be paused until after the presidential election. According to the complaint, the unnamed official thought Trump would lose and it would be easier to carry out a plot to kill him.

Shakeri told the FBI the official asked for a proposal in seven days, which was a timeframe he was not able to meet.


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They don't believe in their own narrative. Net Zero is a scam.

BBC News - COP29 chief exec caught promoting fossil fuel deals

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmzvd…

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ANKI


At the request of one of our customers, “anki” has been installed on all of our shell servers. The version installed is the qt6 version from the ankiweb website with the exception of Mint.

On the Mint server, the distribution version is installed because system security would not permit some of the actions required by the install script.

For servers available see: eskimo.com/services/shells/ser…

Presently quacamole and vnc access is broken on manjaro and rocky8.

SSH, rdp, and x2go works on all of the servers.

For those without an account, free trials: eskimo.com/services/free-trial…

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Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change the Word


[Verse 1]
Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me, where is sanity?

[Verse 2]
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are no
Rich no more


[Chorus]I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

[Verse 3]
Population
Keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding
Still more feeding, economy

[Verse 4]
Life is funny
Skies are sunny
Bees make honey
Who needs money? No, not poor me
See upcoming rock shows
Get tickets for your favorite artists
You might also like
SKINNY
Billie Eilish
THE HEART PART 6
Drake
Fortnight
Taylor Swift

[Chorus]I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

[Ad-Lib]
Oh yeah!

[Verse 5]
World pollution
Is no solution
Institution
Electrocution
Spread them wide
Rich or poor
Them and us
Stop the war


[Chorus]I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

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I was Ok with dykes and fairies until they started grooming children, and then
sterilizing them. This is beyond okay and needs to end.

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It just occurred to me that we just had a presidential election where the president and vice president had numerous long form discussions on podcasts including significant policy discussion.

For someone like me, we're actually in a golden age. I want long form discussion and debate where ideas actually get a chance to stretch their legs, and that just won the presidency in a sweep!

It's crazy, like an anti-intellectual high intellectual golden age. One thing as bright as the sun in an otherwise dark era.

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