Slrpnk.net outage
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I know, I'm the one who approved your application.
You happened to sign up right before we've had our first particularly bad issue in 3 years. Unlucky, yes, but it's a bit out of order (IMO) to say we're a poorly managed instance based on that, especially seeing as you lost nothing besides the time it took to write your application. :\
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Evil tongues claim he is in North Korea.
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You are acting like this is a life or death situation. I think you may need to take a break from the internet.
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My loss of time is small true. I will just move on. But keep in mind new users may not be as knowledgeable as myself.
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It usually can be reset, it's entirely unexpected that a component that enables that functionality would randomly break. You're essentially implying that any admin who self hosts cannot ever leave their house for any length of time without being irresponsible because they cannot ensure with 100% certainly that a computer component won't fail while their gone, or a lightning storm won't fry something, or a flood won't harm the servers.
Like, dude, c'mon. We're volunteers, and poVoq is running this stuff for free. We're not an enterprise business with multiple staff on hand to swap out failed components 24/7 so that our 'customers' don't lose millions of dollars.
If anything, this only proves the strength of decentralized media, as we're able to swap to a functioning node and continue on our merry way while the other is being repaired. Like what an incredible and resilient system considering none of this is making anyone any money.
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Shit happens. Thanks for the update
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Sending positive vibes, and passing offer of technical assistance once you get access again.
Hopefully it's an easy fix once you get into things again.
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Not sure about your area, but a wireguard accessible OOB connection is a great piece of kit to keep handy. I use a cheap 768kbps SIM in an Ethernet connected switch into my personal systems. It's saved my skin numerous times.
I'm sure this is obvious, especially in hindsight, but just mentioning because the existence of IoT LTE data plans for a minimal fee ( $100/year for me in Midwest US) was NOT obvious to me until 2 years ago.
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And on the punk side of things, anybody familiar with volunteer community action, cooperative events, whatever, knows that sometimes a person doing shit for the community fails to do the shit they were supposed to do because some other shit happened in their life. It happens. We just move on to the backup shit-doer-person or find a workaround for the lack of shit.
And this is the cool thing about a distributed network like Lemmy. If a giant centralized database like FB goes down, its users can't do anything. If our favorite Lemmy node goes down, we can log into other nodes until our home base is back up.
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Yeah I had plans to set up something like that, but always other priorities and in this specific case I could maybe access other internal servers but i would need KVM access to reboot the firewall or some other way to cut physical power. And exfiltrating hundreds of GBs of lemmy database wouldn't work over such a small pipe either.
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That's unlucky, but is it hosted at someone's home?
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Good luck and all the best. Time to touch grass, everyone
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Sort of yes. It is a homelab a few people have access to, but currently they are all either on holiday or on extended work related travel. It seemed like an acceptable risk as everything worked smoothly for years.
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You're going to want to try "my little Internet" by Fisher-Price before using this adult Internet we're on.
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That makes sense, given the ethos of your instance, I hope you can fix it a soon as reason allows!
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That sucks. Thank you for your time and running the instance. Gonna miss you all like hell while you're gone.
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Thanks for the info, a healthy amount of real life awaits then. :)
I knew it was running on solar energy and old hardware so I guessed something like this had happened.
If you need fail-over to awaken a backup system when the primary fails, things can be designed. :)
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Does Lemmy let you retroactively deny applications?
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As a matter of fact it does, actually
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Sorry to hear that! My main account is on slrpnk.net. But don't let it stress you out, "solarpunk" says "punk" which implies "DIY" which means this sort of thing happens. Much better to have an instance run by an admin who truly cares, rather than some soulless corporation.
