Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (G)

  • The siege has lifted, now 100 Days To Unwind

    For the last couple of years, I have mentally been in a sort of siege mentality.

    This has been because persistent ASB (anti-social behaviour) threatened to stop me and others selling up and leaving the neighbourhood. I had managed to get the problem contained enough to sell up, though I still live locally. However, the ASB started to pick up again.

• Science

  • Pedestrian Life and the Urinary Leash

    So if you read my gopherlog you know this isn't the post I'd intended to post next to this space, but it's the easier thing to write than the long post about navigating the line between amorality and scruplosity that I've been trying to work through.

    Instead I wanted to write something about my experiences living in a city as a pedestrian and my thoughts about public---or lack there of---space. This might be a little loose and messy because some of these ideas are hard for me to articulate. I'll probably come back to these topics in the future.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Upgrading jails to FreeBSD-14.1

    Today I've been upgrading my llttle FreeBSD jail- and bhyve server. This server runs several FreeBSD jails and some virtual machines, using the great and easy vm-bhyve management system created for bhyve virtual machines.

    The server is installed using the wonderful ZFS file system.

  • Fixing an annoying Postgres issue

    I'm a pretty bad server operator, all things considered. I never really take the time to know my services deeply and typically deploy things by following the most basic instructions online. It's probably not a good way to do things, but it is what it is.

    I run a public Funkwhale server. I have done for years. I probably started it back in 2018-2019 and have kept it going ever since. I originally started it as a way to self-host my own music collection and to learn Docker, so it's basically been trucking along for the last half decade in Docker containers without too many issues.

    A while ago, though, I noticed a really strange issue. I couldn't upgrade the API container. When I would try, I would see strange issues in the logs about collation and unique constraints. I troubleshot this issue with Georg and we discovered that - somehow - the index of one of the user tables had corrupted and a unique key violation had occurred. This was very strange. We looked into it more and more but could find no cause. Oh well. I removed the offending entry and reindexed the table. The upgrade worked and I thought nothing more of it.

  • Film development issues

    I like to take photos with my film camera, though recently I have started to notice issues with the developed film and I want to get to the bottom of it.

    So, what’s been happening is that on random photos I take, there are these vertical bars of over-exposure. I don’t know if it is because I develop my own film and there is a problem with my methods or if there are problems with my film or a problem with my camera.