mastodon.murkworks.net status update: back up

2024/2/14 10:13am: I’m so glad that worked. We’re back. And we also have a security update to apply. I can handle that, as long as we are, as they say, _back online_.

2024/2/14 4:09am: It’s not a great overnight here at the mighty mighty murkworks. Our mastodon server, mastodon.murkworks.net, has been taken down by FUCKING SanDisk; the drive went from “Everything’s fine!” to “lol fucked” in 0.0 seconds, panicked the kernel, marked itself “24 hours good luck” and closed off the top of the well.

The good news is the drive is responding to queries and I’m currently ripping the important partitions. If this doesn’t work, yes, of course we have backups, but that’s a lot more hands-on and I can’t sleep through it like I can this. If things go very, very well, we’ll be back up… maybe 10am Cascadian/Pacific time Wednesday morning? Probably closer to 11.

I do see replies to this post and can reply to those replies. Ironically, the only people who can’t see this are the people who need to see it most, our users. Lol.

This post will be updated as events warrant.

— @moira

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hugo awards: oh gods, it’s so much worse

I sure do feel good about all that time and work I put in helping try to save the Hugo Awards from the Puppies takeover.

I don’t know most of those people but while I’m not saying who, there’s one of them in particular who has really disappointed me.

Oh well. Onwards and… onwards, I guess.

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