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Awrf!

Contabo has notified me that on Friday, 29th December at 19:00 UTC+1
there is required maintenance on the VPS. Contabo estimates 45 minutes
of downtime.

That's 2023-12-29T18:00Z, or 10AM US Pacific Time.

Thank you!
~ Citlali

Hi woofers!
This is a short announcement to let you know that
the server is going to be shutdown for some maintenance.
I will be updating packages and rebooting, in addition to
creating another latest sysroot backup and snapshot
for emergencies. This comes a bit later than last time,
i've been a bit busy with my classes ;p

This will happen around 2023-11-17T12:00-0800. That's
next Friday on the 17th, at around noon PST.

We also have a slightly updated user list, which now
shows links to user's web or gemini pages and detects
if they exist. It was made with some help from ~kind_foxie.

In addition, I plan on installing a fossil VCS server soon.
As always, feel free to reach out and ask about software!

Finally, as a small reminder, we have the UNIX.dog chatroom
discuss@muc.unix.dog on XMPP for general server discussion
or connecting with other doggies :3
I've also made a more general-purpose furry oriented room
at floofers@mux.unix.dog, so join if you're interested x3

Thank you everyone!
~ Citlali (formerly Kayden)

Hello woofers,
Unfortunately there was some system instability tonight
and the server kernel panicked twice and I did some quick
changes to mitigate the issues.

I don't know the original cause. So, I updated the kernel
and also set up a kexec panic handler to let me debug the
issue should it reoccur.

Thanks for understanding. Please let me know if anything
doesn't work right >.<

~ Kayden

Hello woofers!!

I will be performing system maintenance which will
involve shutting off the server on Friday, August 11th.

I'm going to create a full system root backup of a snapshot so that
in the event of something catastrophic happening to the VPS, I have
a fully-working systemroot to extract on a new machine to reduce
downtime.

In addition, I will be performing a routine emerge -avuDN and updating
all the services. It seems that due to some PHP shenanigans Movim is
being buggy and not fully-working, so I'll also attempt to fix that.

Thank you, and remember, keep barking!

WOOF ~ Kayden

Hello woofers!

This Friday, 26th of May at 4PM PST, UNIX.dog will be unavailable for
maintenance. I am going to migrate to Postgres 15 and reboot the server
then to ensure all the software works fine, so services might be unavailable
for max a couple hours.

Also, I am going to be removing Keycloak. It was an interesting little
experiment but I believe it caused more mess and confusion than it was
worth.

Thank you all!

~ Kayden