Updated Voyager to 1.8.0 since that was just released (linked)

Expanded the volume for lemmy by 100GB

Cleaned up old snapshots of VMs, created new baselines.

Scripting and posting shit on Gitea.

New VM for Lemmy w/ separate VMs for Redis and PostgreSQL are just about done. Same with MediaCMS, Pixelfed, and Invidious.

I was also smart enough this time to remember and make snapshots along the way so I don't have to start over if something goes completely wacko.

Documentation, configs, etc (gitea.beyondcombustion.net)
 

Finally started putting some things up on the Gitea for the server config.

Started by adding the docker-compose.yml files for two of the lemmy-ui alternatives that are running now.

mlmym, Voyager, and others don't seem to have docker-compose.yml files on their project pages yet, so I'll fork and properly PR those later this afternoon.

 

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/306030

Here is a message from his family:

Dear all,

It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023. Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks.

Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of.

We as family are now arranging the funeral service of Bram which will take place in The Netherlands and will be held in the Dutch lanuage. The extact date, time and place are still to be determined. Should you wish to attend his funeral then please send a message to funer...@gmail.com. This email address can also be used to get in contact with the family regarding other matters, bearing in the mind the situation we are in right now as family.

With kind regards,

The family of Bram Moolenaar

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  • ya know, it's not hard to setup a totally independent instance on the same hypervisor as another.

    I have servers, you have people, we could make independent lemmy instances on my two Dell R720xd and one Dell R730xd servers. They're not overloaded with people like lemmy.world yet, that would put way way more stress on that server.

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  • VAS hit hard today (lemmy.beyondcombustion.net)
     

    To prep for my bike trip, and have some new shit to post about here along the way, I let VAS get me a little today. It'll give me another thing to make videos/pics of too.

    Pretty excited to try the Mambo! It looks like a neat little entry level vape.

    The Tomcat head seems interesting/weight saving if just using herb but wanting to change up bowl style while traveling.

    Mighty will let me send my USB C + Mighty in for service, then I'll have two when it's fixed mwahaha.

    Then finally the Starry v4 cause the v3 was pretty dope imo, and I was already ordering the Mambo from XVape so fuck it.

    BeyondCombustion.net Updates - 7.27.2023 (lemmy.beyondcombustion.net)
     

    Was messing with the docker earlier, took it down for a sec then got busy and forgot about it for a bit.

    My bad.

    Anywhoo.... Lemmy 0.18.3 seems to be nearing release. Just updated the server to lemmy-ui: 0.18.3-rc.5 and lemmy: 0.18.3-rc.4

    I'm going to migrate this instance to a couple new/individual VMs over the next week or so (hopefully) so it can scale better/improve uptime. This one that lemmy is running on currently pisses me off because docker has the zfs overlay enabled. It's harshing my mellow making me think disk space is lower than it actually is.

    I also want to get the redarc VM accessible (the reddit archives) finally. I need to go over to the colo to unfuck the iDrac on the current before going on vacation. I was going to take more drives to the current server.... but fuck that. I'll take another R720xd over w/48TB and add it to the rack w/the R730xd. Needs done anyways, no time like the present i guess.

    Gitea is back online. The VM's virtual disk filled up QUICK because I was pulling in some larger projects which were just stupid to mirror. Got those removed, expanding the drive and offloading the DB/Storage for gitea to two additional VMs/containers dedicated to SQL and file storage which should help avoid issues down the road.

    Additionally over the last couple days I was also configuring Prometheus, OpenObserve, and Garfana. Really needed to get better eyes on logs and what's going on in different parts of the server to make sure that nothing crazy happens or gets hosted/posted on the box that could cause me issues. Went through and made individual email addresses for each service so it's way easier to quickly identify what server is having an issue when alerts are sent out via email.

    Finally, I was just finishing up with Authentik and configuring it as an LDAP provider so it can integrate with the webmin consoles and locally on each VM. Since i got Webmin setup on each VM and managed by a central console and LDAP is the only way Authentik can interact with it, it makes sense to finally cross that bridge. LDAP should work easier with Discourse too, then it can be opened up for posting fun.

    Hopefully I can get more of this buttoned up and additional admins setup prior to my vacation next month. Otherwise, it'll be hard to take a vacation lol

    Stay medicated, fellow ents! - PHJ

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