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Many people don't know I studied a broad when I was younger. Her name was Rachel. :byebrows:

Am I the only one who abuses RFC2119 in pretty much every white paper I write?

Sometimes I really really love the techno-jargon in some of the intros of the white papers I write... Here is one I was just reading that I am working on:

******* is a consensus driven, ultra-fast, Cryptocurrency providing Byzantine Fault Tolerance and guaranteeing a Perfect Failure Detector. In other words, Strong Perpetual Accuracy as well as Strong Completeness. It guarantees Strong-consistency and it can also be extended to provide State-machine Replication with all the same guarantees.

> It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
>
> So many adventures given up today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
Oh let it come true

-- Forever Young

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As for costs... the last year the total cost to run QOTO was **11,384.43$**. However I recently paid to reserve the instances instead of spot instances. So I expect the next year to be about 25% cheaper.

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As for costs... the last year the total cost to run QOTO was **11,384.43$**. However I recently paid to reserve the instances instead of spot instances. So I expect the next year to be about 25% cheaper.

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Attached a picture of the QOTO swarm's resources for those who are curious.

Some interesting facts about the cluster for those who are curious:

* Runs as a docker swarm, so easily scales as needed and services can move between computers in the cluster.
* Runs on a 7 computer cluster.
* Utilizes only about 5% at most of its CPU potential
* CPU has burst capability, so can go well beyond 100% for momentary high loads.
*Utilizes 33% of the memory (this includes caching). Almost all of the memory is from Gitlab.
* Requires half a terrabyte of on-disk size, with an additional 2 TB for used currently as shared disks.
* Supports 12 different services right now: fediverse-bots, discourse, wikijs, funkwhale, gitlab, 5-node load balancer, nextcloud, peertube, piwig, qoto-mastodon groups server, and two different monitoring tools.
* These 12 services run as 60 different interconnected docker containers spread across the cluster.

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We are currently upgrading all of the services. Our configuration allows for no-downtime upgrades, so most users shouldnt notice anything (except for their services suddenly upgrading). However be aware downtime is possible if things dont go well.

So far all database and Redis back-end services have been upgraded to the latest. Next we will be working on the front-end services. This may be over the course of several days. We will announce when upgrades are complete but in the meantime if anything goes down, don't panic, we will be back.

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Should I redesign the look of my personal website (check out the landing page and the blog specifically)?

jeffreyfreeman.me

Okay Fedi rate how much annoying I am to you :blobcatevil:

@mur2501 Newton summed up the problem of being a sexy ass scientist the best...

In an attempt to lure purple french titties into the trap, @freemo brings out his shiny baldy head :blobfoxcomfysmirk:

Had that last avatar for quite a while, figured I changed it. Then I realize I almost never show my face on QOTO so might as well use an actual picture of me for once.

@freemo @Electronics use it to rig many lights in your house and make it so that when somebody walks past a hidden motion sensor shit starts flickering like it's a hunted house and play those "creepy wind" sounds. Invite superstitious people to your house, record their reaction, put it on the internet.

What to do after coming back from a week of vacationing? Upgrading my Linux system of cca. 300 updates 😂

YAY! The Siru.box I ordered just came in. Havent used it yet but its basically a usb controlled and powered power supply. Lets you control the voltage and/or current and even has a very simple API so you can control it programatically. Not sure if/when I will have a use for this but it was cheap enough and cool enough I figured I'd snatch one up.

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Why do women wear mascara that makes it look like they just woke up and have the flu... in fact, why do women use mascara at all. Then again I kinda find most makeup extremely unattractive so I am probably more bias than most.

Jesus christ democracy.town is a cess pool. Democrats really are their own worst enemy. Kinda ashamed I spent most of my life being one.

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