overview for lodion

Greens’ election hubris – how the minor party lost its way and now its leader in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and that has put a smile on my face.

Welcome to Country booed by neo-Nazis at Melbourne Dawn Service in c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Saying this is not racist. It’s not “neo-Nazi” views. You claim it is as an excuse to be intolerant towards those people. No matter how you try to sugar coat it, you are being intolerant.

Except these are views held by self identitifed neo-nazis. Just because non-nazis also hold that view, doesn't change they fact they are neo-nazi views.

There will be no tolerance of nazis or their offensive beliefs here. To that end I've revoked your mod role. Further antagonism will result in a ban. I'm not interested in discussing this. If you continue to trolling while trying to give the impression of good faith discussion, you'll be banned.

Error when subscribing to a community on another server in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, what do you mean by "entered aussie.zone at the prompt"? At a guess you've browsed direct to lemmy.ml and clicked subscribe there, instead you should access that community via the aussie.zone site here: https://aussie.zone/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

WSJ Drops Shock Exposé on Elon Musk’s Alleged Attempts to Impregnate X Influencers — ‘To Reach Legion Level Before the Next Apocalypse’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

His term has covered 4 months so far... Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr.

Mintox in c/perth@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

No idea where it's from, but I used it as a kid too. Also munted, though that has fallen out of use for the similar sound to another word.

LW delay is growing again in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We've now caught up with LW, should stay in sync barring any issues or massive growth in activities from LW:

We are back in sync with lemmy.world! in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Ha just finished watching a movie and was going to post this, you beat me :)

LW delay is growing again in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Still on track to be caught up late tomorrow :)

LW delay is growing again in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

At the rate we're catching up, I think we'll be all caught up Saturday some time:

Go Private? in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a simple tick box in the admin settings interface. Trivially easy to enable, and presumably disable. Doesn't appear to even require a service restart.

Go Private? in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

It's not so much about cost, but impact on user experience when the server is busy serving non-logged in users.

Go Private? in c/meta@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not usually a concern, but having this in place would have mitigated the recent "attacks" we experienced without me having to do anything.

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Go Private? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

19 comments fedilink

Lemmy 0.19.11 (which I've just upgraded AZ to) has a new feature to allow regular federation, but require users be logged in to view content.

I'd like to gauge feedback from users on this. It will not add privacy, or limit the propagation of posts/comments etc. But it will limit AZ server resource consumption by bots or users that are not logged in.

Thoughts/concerns on enabling this feature?

Update: thank you all for your thoughts and feedback on this. We'll leave AZ as it is, though may use this feature in future if we need to mitigate attacks or other malicious traffic.

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Issues 23/3/25 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Not entirely clear to me what is going on, but we've seen a large influx in traffic from oversea today. This has lead to high CPU and performance issues.

I've put in place a block to what seems to be the source of the traffic, but its not perfect and may cause other issues. If you see/hear of any please let me know here.

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Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 4 months ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

6 comments fedilink

I'm about to restart services for this upgrade. Shouldn't be down longer than a few minutes.

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Upgrade complete to 0.19.6 (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

23 comments fedilink

I'll be working on upgrading aussie.zone to lemmy 0.19.6 today. All going well disruption will be brief, but there may be some performance issues related to back end DB changes required as part of the upgrade.

I'll unpin this once complete.

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Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone (old.aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

9 comments fedilink

I've spun this up for fun, to see how it compares to the base lemmy UI. Give it a whirl, and post any feedback in this thread. Enjoy!

It could go down at any time, as it looks as though the dev is no longer maintining it...

edit: using this https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

UPDATE Tuesday 12/11: I've killed this off for now. Unclear of why, but was seeing a huge number of requests from this frontend to the lemmy server back end. Today it alone sent ~40% more requests than all clients and federation messages combined.

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Nerd Update 25/10/24 (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Its been 6 months or so... figure its time for another of these. Keep in mind there have been some major config changes in the last week, which has resulted in the oddities below.

Graphs below cover 2 months, except Cloudflare which only goes to 30 days on free accounts.

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Comments: The server is still happily chugging along. Looking even happier now that I've properly migrated pict-rs to its integrated object storage config, rather than the bodged up setup.

RAM/CPU are all fine. Storage use is growing slowly as various databases grow. Still a long way from needing to purge old posts, if ever.

Cloudflare is saving less traffic these days, since Lemmy added support to proxy all images. Not a concern, well under the bandwidth cap for the server.

As usual feel free to ask any questions.

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image upload testing (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/localtesting@aussie.zone

2 comments fedilink

testing

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Pictures are broken (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

11 comments fedilink

I'm in the process of migrating images to a properly configured object storage setup. This involves an offline migration of files. Once complete, I'll start up pict-rs again. Until then, most images will be broken.

All going well this will finish by morning Perth time, and once up and running again may help with the ongoing issues we've had with images.

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Emails from Aussie Zone (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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After some users have had issues recently, I've finally gotten around to putting in place a better solution for outbound email from this instance. It now sends out via Amazon SES, rather than directly from our OVH VPS.

The result is emails should actually get to more people now, rather than being blocked by over-enthusiastic spam filters... looking at you Outlook and Gmail.

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REBOOTING (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

2 comments fedilink

About to reboot the server, hold onto your hats.

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Lemmy 0.19.4 (aussie.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

13 comments fedilink

Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.

One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...

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Maintenance (aussie.zone)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

32 comments fedilink

This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.

Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.

Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.

UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.

UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.

UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner 🙂

UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.