Some small updates for those that care!

First off, the servers have been updated, and verified, to ensure that none of the systems are effected by https://copy.fail/

I've started truncating the blog posts to clean up the homepage of the blog. This should offer a much smoother experience in finding things! Small theme updates are also happening from time to time, if only because I'm bored.

I've joined Mastodon! If anyone wants to follow me there for whatever reason, feel free to. https://woof.tech/@kdb424

All systems are back up and operational after replacing the dead drive. Investigation is still ongoing to the cause, may it truly be the drive, or the data cable. Both are being tested, but it's unlikely to cause any more downtime, especially given the level of redundancy in the system.

That should be all for now! I'm sure I'll be back with more updates soon enough. Life's been a bit boring, so I'm bound to get into some chaos.

Data loss didn't happen!

So I've ranted, raved, and preached ZFS for so many years, and it continues to pay off! After many years of running my main array, I finally lost a drive.

For many years now, I've been running a set of 3, 10TB drives in a RAIDZ, and I later added another 3 12TB drives, also in a RAIDZ, I was smart enough to buy 4 drives when I added those, and left the last in a a hot spare. Low and behold, I woke up to a message on the 27th stating that I had no more hot spare, and my array was resilvering. My 10TB had enough errors, and was booted from the array, and replaced with the hot spare, all while I was sleeping.

Movim is up!

I wanted to get completely off of other's hosted platforms as much as I could, and noticed that there weren't always great clients for XMPP on some platforms, as they were all missing this or that feature, so I decided to host a movim!

Micro blogging, or just chatting with friends in the usual way, it's got something for everyone. Feel free to check out my instance at https://movim.kittie.gay or you can host your own! Speaking of which...

It's time to leave Discord!

With Discord ensuring it's own destruction, between collecting user ID's, to massive machine learning on it's users, to probable ties to palantir beyond what they claim, I'm done with Discord.

Over the years, I've moved from IRC, to many platforms that used XMPP (Google talk, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo, Facebook, probably more), to Skype, to Discord, and I even tried to like Matrix on the way. While Matrix never fit the bill for me for several reasons, XMPP seems to have what I'm looking for, so that's where I'll be with the death of Discord.

So you want to talk on XMPP, huh?

Welp, how do you do it?! Unlike most chat services you may be used to, XMPP is a protocol. There are many ways to connect to it, which is a blessing and a curse. It's nice to have options, but sometimes it's too much to look through if you don't know what there is out there. Here are my recommended clients for each platform to help get you started.