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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Grafana and Alertmanager. For graphing and sending webhooks into Discord and Email for me to see in real-time.

    Prometheus and its exporters. If it has an exporter I can monitor it in Grafana. If it doesn’t have an exporter, I might be able to make one for it, since it’s just a plaintext static webpage with serialized metrics on it, anything can output that even PHP.

    Infping/Influxdb for smokeping-like data in Grafana, works great for telling me about any packet loss or increased latency on any network that responds to ICMP echo. My uncle uses my services to complain to Spectrum about his Coax connection, which has led to him being able to have his ISP physically come out and stabilize it, now it hardly ever blips.

    Also all of this is federated so if one server goes down I don’t lose 100% of my monitoring, and I can customize my data retention time based on how much disk I have locally. I use Ansible to automate updates and configuration.

    It costs me 2-3 small-to-medium sized VPSes a month, or under $30/mo USD, which is a bargon compared to enterprise cloud solutions/services you can pay for that have small data retention or other limits. New Relic as an example is expensive if you want anything more than 30 days of data and they don’t offer as much as I get with my own monitors.

    I’ve been running this setup since 2015 or so, I’ve used this setup to improve my craft and professional skills. I work with Linux Servers every day.


  • It’s required in the USA, but parents can claim exemption under religious/faith reasons and still send their kid to school. They don’t even have to provide proof they go to church, just saying their belief does not permit them to and signing to that effect is enough. Separation of church and state, they turn a blind eye to it, even if it puts everyone else’s children in danger due to their lack of vaccination. The only other common exemption is medical, in the case someone is allergic to a vaccine, though that’s rarer.






  • The script works fine. What actually happened was that some subreddits were in blackout mode and therefore the comments were invisible but not yet deleted. When they returned the comments became visible again. Anything the script missed was because of the comments temporarily not being visible from the API. Simply running the script again was all that was needed once subreddits returned. My comments have stayed deleted after that.



  • To be honest, Ubuntu likely has nothing to do with it and I find the headline therefore misleading. It’s mostly the Linux kernel from how it reads.

    Ubuntu 23.10 was run for providing a clean, out-of-the-box look at this common desktop/workstation Linux distribution. Benchmarks of other Linux distributions will come in time in follow-up Phoronix articles. But for the most part the Ubuntu 23.10 performance should be largely similar to that of other modern Linux distributions with the exception of Intel’s Clear Linux that takes things to the extreme or those doing non-default tinkering to their Linux installations.