schmelle's blog

another dead-on-arrival blog, just like my last one

7/27/78 by lasagnacat on piped.yt
Humanoid cat eating lasagna

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I have a weird fascination with FMV (Full Motion Video) games. Somehow they are very charming to me. I'm sure the fact that afk I neither see nor hear many other people has no bearing on that.

I don't remember how I found Her Story. Played 24 minutes of it so far. Liked it a lot. Should continue playing.

I found Knowledge or know Lady through Canadian-Taiwanese-Malaysian streamer Disguised Toast, as he did a video with LilyPichu playing it. Only watched the first five, maybe ten minutes of that, but was instantly sold. Have yet to play it, but it's waiting in my Steam library.

Love Is All Around was recommended to me by Steam based on Knowledge or know Lady. Or shown in the “More like this” section on the Steam store.

The fact that shortly after I bought these two new games (and was reminded of the first one, Her Story) I was re-introduced to Baba is You and am now endlessly playing that will surely not inhibit me from dating Chinese college girls and finding out the truth in a murder mystery. (Disappeared person mystery? I never got far enough to know why she's being interviewed by the cops.)

I recommend Miyazaki films to any and everyone, even if they don't watch anime on a regular basis (or at all). He just makes good films. I once told my mom Studio Ghibli is Pixar on steroids.

Recently a local cinema started a “Hayao Miyazaki Retrospective”, where they show one of his movies every Thursday at 7pm. So far they've shown – Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro – Nausicaä from the Valley of the Wind – Laputa: Castle in the Sky – My Neighbor Totoro – Princess Mononoke – Spirited Away – Howl's Moving Castle and upcoming are – The Wind Rises – Kiki's Delivery Service – Porco Rosso – Princess Mononoke (again) – Ponyo – The Boy and The Heron

Before this started I had only seen Totoro and Howl (and about a third of Ponyo). I knew I liked them, and I knew all his films are good, I just hadn't gotten around to it. I watched Totoro and Howl with my old “brass band” 15 years ago.

Then this year, before this particular cinema started this series, I watched Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke as special features at another cinema (Mononoke together with a colleague).

I watched Boy/Heron in January before all of this, twice, loved it. That probably also contributed to my current obsession.

I don't know how and if I can pick a favorite. Over on letterboxd I've picked Nausicaä because I really liked it and her (and her glider, and the message). (And I also want to limit myself on that site.)

I'm really looking forward to these next six weeks, it's holding my ~depression~ off quite well.

I have recently gotten the domain piped.yt and today, with the help of two colleagues (one of which is the person that gifted me the domain), configured the server its running on to send all its outgoing traffic through Mullvad, while allowing incoming connections on port 22/SSH, 80/HTTP and 443/HTTPS. So hopefully I will no longer have to switch ip addresses every day because YouTube will not block Mullvad. And the Mullvad account I use doesn't get shut down.

Piped on Github

I run two instances of misskey and firefish on a server that I want to decommission soon, as I have no further need for it (except for misskey/firefish, but the server has too many ressources to justify its sole use by those two applications). This post will be continuesly updated as I struggle to migrate both installations to my mstdn.fun.systems server.

It will be fun. I'm sure of it.

Currently I host my Misskey and Firefish instances on their own server, which I want to cancel, so I need to move them to where my personal mastodon server lives.

¹I am running a single-user instance as my main account on mstdn.fun.systems. ²I used to run a public instance on mk.zn.rs but couldn't figure out how to migrate it when I cancelled its server. ³Same as Misskey. ⁴I am running a “public” “single-user” instance on pxlfd.fun.systems. ⁵I tried installing it once and failed miserably, but I think that happened with every “successful” software that I run. ⁶I have only heard of it but am intrigued.

POSSE = Post on site, share everywhere.

(Originally published on February 3rd, 2024. Heavily re-written on May 25th, 2024.)

See this answer over at the Akamai community questions or your own .local/bin/upgrade-mastodon which is based on that answer.

Maybe actually also include that stupid script.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo -u postgres pg_dump mastodon_production > ~/mastodon_production.sql
sudo su
cd /opt/mastodon
git fetch --tags
git tag -l && git tag -l|tail -n1
git checkout $(git tag -l|tail -n1)
bundle install && yarn install
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:migrate
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
systemctl restart mastodon-{web,sidekiq,streaming}

This is just a guideline and not meant to be run on its own.

I broke the mastodon instance set up to annoy my employer. It's good I don't care about hosting services consistently.

I have too many servers and too many bad ideas. Sometime this will backfire in a major way. Technically it already has backfired, but that is in the past and also was really stupid, and all services I currently run are not that stupid and illegal.

I am the admin of – this blog – a misskey instance – a firefish instance – a mastodon instance set up expressly to annoy my employer – another mastodon instance (broken right now)

My WordPress blog also has the fediverse integration plugin installed but it doesn't work so good.

Most of these will probably be abandoned within a week and crash and burn in a year.

Oh well.