dregin @dregin@mastodon.ie

Utterly fucking awful. As season 8 progressed they became less and less interested in any sort of plot progression and jumped straight to the "end". Literally the worst TV I've ever watched. So, so disappointing.

Who needs a time machine when you can just turn on the immersion whose auto timer doesn't work to bring you right back to the 80's???

Being templebar-adjacent for much of my adult life has led me to hate this song, but Lankum fucking nailed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKvzalEdywk

LET'S GO LEINSTER!!! #rugby #ireland

Listening to this in work, I miss an old mate who is a massive Greenday fan. Quality tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWR5TRSOJw4

I can't stand the way #football has gone, but my hands are actually sweating watching #Liverpool V #Barcelona.

Mad craic altogether.

#admin
Right. Backups of toot artefacts (/var/www/mastodon/public/) were still massive after disabling the relays. I'm going to skip them for now and only take nightly DB backups - mostly just user account and instance config.

Since they shouldn't impact on DB backup sizes, I'm going to re-enable the federation relays.

The cynic in me can't get beyond the thought that Met Eireann are holding off until 'later this morning' to declare a red weather warning after businesses bitched about employees having the audacity to prioritise personal safety over the company's profit margin in the past. #ireland #weather

#admin
Further interruption was caused by backups filling storage on mastodon.ie. They've grown by about 300% since I added the relays.

As a temporary fix I've dropped backup retention to 2 days from 7. That should be more than enough, as I'm transferring them to remote storage nightly.

I missed this outtage as I was mostly offline over the last few days. Need to get monitoring in place sooner rather than later.

The perfect setting for this morning's cup of tea. #ireland #mayo #fog

Ok, mastodon.ie is now updated to version 2.8.0 - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8/

I've also added a few Federation Relays.

https://relay.mastodon.host/inbox
https://relay.linux.pizza/inbox
https://neighbours.aus.social/inbox
https://relay.cloutfla.re/inbox

They essentially share any public toots between all subscribed mastodon instances. They were released in 2.5 and more info on them is available here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/09/mastodon-2.5-released/

#mastodon #ireland #irish

I'll be upgrading mastodon.ie to 2.8.0 in the coming days.

Here's what you can look forward to: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8/

Any time I came up to Dublin for a gig, I'd head down to Rhythm Records on the quays to pick up a bootleg of the previous night's gig. Loved them!

https://comeheretome.com/2019/04/15/original-pirate-material-oconnell-bridge-and-bootleg-tapes/

#ireland #dublin #music

Unbelievable game and great win for Leinster. We played pretty badly in attack, but deserved winners in what was essentially a war. Ed Byrne's blood seemed to be all over everyone at the end. #rugby #ireland #leinster