Posted on za 03 december 2022 in networking
Recently I was discussing VPN options over coffee when the subject of ethernet bridging came up. My co-worker had no experience with VPN to move other traffic than IP packets. It was then I remembered using ethernet bridging over openvpn all the time. Like 20-15 years ago.
Would it still …
Posted on di 29 november 2022 in mastodonnl
Last week we upgraded Mastodon.nl to Mastodon release 4.0.2. Because we moved platform the week before, we were running on a platform with some changes and unknowns that would come and let us shoot ourselves in the foot.
So the upgrade was less pleasant than the last …
Posted on za 05 november 2022 in mastodonnl
Like most of the fediverse, the sudden influx of users came as somewhat as a surprise. Last weekend we barely kept the system responsive by extensive live system tuning. Just after the weekend Maarten was interviewed by a national newspaper. So it was decided to move to a larger VPS …
Posted on za 29 oktober 2022 in mastodonnl
Vanmorgen bleek ik geen plaatjes meer te kunnen uploaden op mastodon.nl. Niet veel later bleken meerdere gebruikers daar last van te hebben.
Toen ik de credentials van de server ergens uit een Signal chat had gevist, kon ik op onderzoek uit. Uiteindelijk bleken er tienduizenden berichten in de sidekiq …
Posted on za 29 oktober 2022 in software
Vanmorgen had ik bedacht dat het wel leuk zou zijn om hier ook video content te kunnen toevoegen. Dus OBS Studio was snel (weer) geinstalleerd en het eerste video was zo gemaakt. Maar hoe krijg ik het dan op deze website? En dan echt op deze website …