hey ~teammates,
there has been a bit of discussion on irc about this, but the main
limiting factor that we've been running into here on ~team is the disk
space.
this machine has two 250gb ssd disks that were autoconfigured into raid
1 by the default installer image. i originally missed this step during
setup (the option to reconfigure disks with the hetzner-specific
settings).
since all user data is already backed up hourly, i'm fairly comfortable
switching off the redundancy of raid 1. this would involve copying / to
a temporary machine that i plan on renting short-term as a staging
ground, reinstalling with the hetzner installer, then copying / back
onto the same machine, but with the disks reconfigured as raid 0 - up to
500 gb!
since this will inevitably incur some downtime, i wanted to reach out
and make sure that this is something that we want to see happen and also
check if there are any times that this should *not* be performed.
holler here on the list or on irc if you have any thoughts, concerns, or
other time constraints that i should be aware of.
thanks!
~ben
hey ~teammates,
sparked by a conversation on mastodon and solderpunk's phlog[0] today,
i've replaced fingerd with efingerd, a more flexible alternative that
gives you as the user full control over your finger output.
for more info on the finger setup, see man 8 efingerd and the wiki
page[1] that ~ahriman put together. for an example ~/.efingerd script,
see [2].
the other part of the equation is talk and talkd.
this is still partially ongoing, but local talk works (even with
multiuser!). up next is federated talk, which should be coming soon once
tomasino and i get it all sorted. the test connections are between
cosmic.voyage and here. some of our initial findings are posted on
tomasino's phlog[3].
holler if you have questions and have fun setting up your finger
output :)
i'll send another update once we figure out the talkd federation stuff.
[0]: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/were-bringin-finger-back.txt
[1]: https://tilde.team/wiki/?page=finger
[2]: https://tildegit.org/cosmic/cosmic/src/branch/master/efingerd/luser
[3]: gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20190102-talkd-on-ubuntu
