Bird
bird@birdbox.party
<p>Admin and moderator of a small Mastodon instance. For anything related to that or the operations of the instance, please contact <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://birdbox.party/@theadmin" class="u-url mention">@<span>theadmin</span></a></span> instead of this account.</p><p>Don't mind if my own posts are searchable on <a href="https://tootfinder.ch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tootfinder.ch</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, but my views are not representative of others.</p>
Posts
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Post #4419320
So I restarted my Mastodon server and it appears my Sidekiq queue has a problem #MastoAdmin
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Post #750121
@GossiTheDog The challenge here is turning this so the school children are not working *against* the security put in place by IT, but are instead working *for* it. So instead of using the vulnerability for themselves, the pupils do responsible disclosure properly.
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Post #750120
@lzg No amount of safety notices or signs will prevent human stupidity because there will be at least someone who wonders if the sign really means that and do it anyway 🤪
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Post #750118
@GossiTheDog Isn&#39;t the first and won&#39;t be the last thing the current US government get cancelled either directly or indirectly
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Post #750117
That was slightly more drama updating to Mastodon v4.5.0 than I wanted. The OS restarted while the database migration was in progress so I had to restore the database from backups. Except this took some time because of the size of the database and the fact that the backup software I have for the #PostgreSQL server needs to rewrite the entire database to restore older versions. #MastoAdmin
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Post #750115
In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API. More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file. Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses as...