Might pull up some gorse today, too - a hateful process but oh so satisfying! (We have this crowbar-like thing that grabs it by the taproot, but getting in there sucks!

[–] Dave 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also, teenagers about to get slabs of chocolate.

I like to imagine you put it in their rooms last night but as teenagers, they are still asleep at 11am.

Might pull up some gorse today, too

Ah, gorse. Where settlers thought "This new land doesn't seem as hellish as the one we came from, how can we fix that?"

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, a few years ago they figured you how much more you get when it's not hollow, so we've gone boring with slabs of the stuff. Still did a hunt for it though - Our clues aren't as good as they were now the kids are older and have developed genz language, etc :)

[–] Dave 3 points 7 months ago

Kids were up at 6:30 this morning digging into chocolate. Then packed everyone into the car to head to a family gathering, and I got told to relax and come in a few hours. So I'm playing Dredge, an indie game from a small Christchurch team that made headlines last year.

Also my personal server keeps dying so I should probably try to work out what's causing it, but to be honest I'm not sure how to start troubleshooting 🙁. It died twice while watching something last night, and then again overnight when not being used. It's currently Ubuntu server with the desktop environment installed on top when we started wanting to use it for Kodi, but I will probably install a full version of Ubuntu on it and see if that helps.

Plus I also still need to update Lemmy's image system "pictrs" to the latest version, which I planned to do this weekend. Will see how much time and enthusiasm I have.

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Happy Easter!

Are we still having issues with federation btw? I've been coming across several threads (mainly from .world) where the votes haven't been coming across, eg like this one:

[–] Dave 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep, that same issue with Kbin.social keeps happening. There are currently 130+ instances that are lagging behind lemmy.world.

Because of our special setup, we are getting the posts and comments through almost immediately but the votes are lagging quite a bit at the moment. The last couple of days have been pretty bad. This graph shows lemmy.nz in red, and aussie.zone in orange as a comparison. We are doing better than them now because of the pre-fetching setup we have (which also results in all the lemmy.world posts and comments with no votes). But it's currently getting worse. Lemmy.world are investigating options for rate limiting kbin.social so they don't send too much at once.

graph showing number of activities behind steadily growing

And here's a graph of the lag time. We are back up over 8 hours now. Lemmy.nz in yellow, aussie.zone in green:

Time behind lemmy.world graph showing lemmy.nz showing this steadily increasing. Aussie.zone over 10 hours behind

I know it's annoying and I apologise for that! This is one of those growing pain things.

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No need for the apology, was just curious what was going on. :)

It is an interesting issue though, going to the extent of rate limiting other instances. I wonder if it's just a capacity issue, or a flaw in ActivityPub's design? Just thinking out loud on how Lemmy can handle future growth.

[–] Dave 3 points 7 months ago

Mastodon uses ActivityPub and has been around a lot longer, I suspect that our issues are specific to the lemmy implementation, and I suspect there is a lot we can learn from Mastodon. But I'm afraid I don't have the skills to contribute so I'll just sit back and let the people with the skills sort it out 🙂