...And we're back.

(What? What do you mean back?)

So...what happened, as best I can tell, is that around September 9-10, another application running on my server ran into a bug that caused it to exhaust all available disk space recording far too rapid retries to the syslog.

Unfortunately, in my first attempt to figure out what had gone wrong, I was ...kind of sleepy, and got to the point of "Well, maybe I should just rebuild the instance with a larger boot volume" before I reached the point of noticing the 24GB of syslog - mainly because I thought the problem would turn out to be something else I'd already been worried about - and I wound up losing the instance reservation and having to wait until capacity was available again in order to bring it back online.

I suspect that a lot of instances gave up on sending posts to me while my server was unreachable...I wonder whether they'll just start again or if there'll be a Hassle involved.

shared 4 months ago
shared 4 months ago
shared 4 months ago

It's getting to be that time of year again. The time of year when I might work up a sweat from doing something like, say, standing still outdoors for a few minutes.

shared 5 months ago
shared 6 months ago

seems to work pretty well with these days. The result of trying to post with "public" checked but "followers" unchecked seems to be "direct," which I think may make sense but was not what I had guessed.

self-hosting jargon

I got quiet for a while, huh? Here's the latest...

I noticed rendered the posts I was replying to with u-comment where I thought it should be u-in-reply-to, so I changed it. Then I realized the reason it was like that to begin with is because the same block is used for rendering replies to me as comments. So I thought about that for a while, and concluded that since the most likely consumer of that markup is something checking to see what I'd said because of a webmention I sent, and therefore it is way more likely that said consumer will see things I am replying to than things that are replying to me, it made sense to leave my change in place until I could do better.

Then I went to commit the change (since I'd made it in production) and while I was at it, I figured out how to make it depend on whether it was part of the thread before or after the post the permalink is for, so I did that instead. So that's what's new around here.

Today marks one month since I got my site/instance set up and made my intro post, and I want to make sure I post something today. (Actually, if I'd posted before I went to bed, I could have hit that one month pretty much on the minute.) However, I am not sure I'm actually going to get any of the things I want to write next fleshed out enough to be ready to post them tonight, so I decided to post a quick list of what I'm planning to work on or write about:

  • https://bringback.blog, whether I qualify, and whether I'm participating
  • 100days projects, 100DaysToOffload specifically, and whether I'm going to do such a thing
  • Terminology quirks between the Fediverse and the Indieweb, and how they and the way microblog.pub works make me go "huh"
  • Follow-up the first: Why that makes me feel like I need a convenient way to post something that is public, but doesn't hit my followers' timelines
  • Follow-up the second: How that means I think I should try to interact with other people who do both Fediverse and Indieweb stuff
  • Bonus: Why can't my instance seem to interact with Tantek's fediverse presence? Is it because I'm doing something wrong, and can I fix it?
shared 10 months ago

: giving bees jet lag (and treatos)

I saved the holidays and stopped the villain! holidayhackchallenge.com Don't miss out on SANS x @KringleCon https://holidayhackchallenge.com

The 2022 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge holidayhackchallenge.com

All right, settled in for the evening...as soon as I finish running some updates, it's time to see how much more of I can finish. I might have to come back to this fountain thing.

Tweaks to my site in the last couple days:

  • My Articles page was already marked up as an h-feed, but because the links to the posts were not marked up as h-entry it appeared empty. I remedied that and submitted an issue to the dev.
  • I added <link> so that, at least in theory, I can now support old-fashioned pingbacks by having webmention.io forward them to me as webmentions.
  • Tracked down why, when I try to start composing a reply and one of the actors in the thread is a profile I can't retrieve (such as because their instance uses a whitelist I'm not on), I get a 500 error; wrapped the offending attempt to add them to the "@" list in a try and, for now, just drop them from the list, the same way the instance where my other account lives seems to do it. Submitted an issue for that too. (I might investigate later what happens if I try to leave the @-mention in place even though the lookup failed.)
  • Implemented a config toggle (not sure why I bothered to make it a config toggle; maybe I think other people might like it eventually?) to change the object IDs of posts from being a hex representation of a UUID to being a NewBase60-encoded...well, unix timestamp divided by 60, because I wanted resolution to the minute. Why? Because I have a few edge cases I think I might come across eventually in which I want to work around the fact that I can't easily edit my posts by predicting a permalink in advance. I may remove the division by 60 eventually, because I am pretty sure I generate one of those IDs for everything I do, and therefore I now can't post two things within the same minute. That might not sound like a big deal given how long my notes are (no, I can't type this much in under a minute), but the ID in question is also used as the ActivityPub ID of the action, so it applies - I'm pretty sure, and have tested at least one combination - to likes, shares, and so forth as well. By comparison...well, I suppose I might try to like and boost something within the same second, but not often. Anyhow, I'll see how it goes - the other nice thing about it is that as far as I can tell, since the IDs were already just something standing in to be unique, I can switch it up whenever I like and it just affects my posts during the time I have that configuration active. Come to think of it, I should make it configurable whether it uses seconds or minutes. Maybe tomorrow.

So there's just one problem, from my perspective. Which is that before I decided to muck around with all that, I had meant to use this weekend to work on the , because I thought I might actually try to submit my write-up this year... 🤦🏼

h-feed - IndieWeb indieweb.org
shared 10 months ago

#Indieweb testing

With apologies to my followers...one disadvantage of this setup, I guess...I've decided it's time to try to test sending and receiving webmentions, using https://webmention.rocks.

Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Test 6 Test 7 Test 8 Test 9 Test 10 Test 11 Test 12 Test 13 Test 14 Test 15 Test 16 Test 17 Test 18 Test 19 Test 20 Test 21 Test 22 Test 23

Webmention Rocks! webmention.rocks

Merry Christmas, folks. Got wrapped today. I've got some stuff I think I want to write up as an article about my site ( ) with respect to syndicating and backfeed; I need to run a test and submit a bug report (or possibly a pull request) to before I forget about it; and I have a book I want to finish soon; but over the next week I hope to make some more serious inroads on .

https://tryhackme.com/0x3b0b/badges/adventofcyber4

Decided to celebrate getting caught up in by trying to post a note with a client.