Free Radical is now on Mastodon v3.2.2.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v3.2.1.

In my 9 years in this city up until now, we’d lost power once. And now, in the last month, we’ve had three outages for completely unrelated reasons. Our lights went off about 3 hours ago and we don’t know when they’ll have the busted transformer to our part of the city fixed. Until then, Free Radical’s database server (and its Internet connection) will be offline. Sorry, gang – I don’t have the budget right now for a many-hour battery backup.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v3.2.0.

In the interest of curtailing spammer signups and developing a more personal community, we’re at least temporarily switching to an invitation-only membership model. If you would like to create an account on this instance, or if you’re already a member here but would like to invite a friend, send a direct message to @tek@freeradical.zone.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v3.1.5.

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v3.1.4.

We had severeral hours of downtime yesterday because of a “fun” PostgreSQL problem (see Beware of your next glibc upgrade for details). Short version: because there are lots of ways to encode text, and they can change subtly when you upgrade your OS, some of your unique database keys may end up being not so unique. This resulted in quite a few Mastodon tables having duplicate rows, despite having unique indexes. It also meant that PostgreSQL was all like “indexes? lol never heard of ’em” and query performance was pretty awful.

Happy (slightly belated) anniversary to all Free Radical users and friends. It’s been a fun time, and here’s to many more!

Free Radical is now on Mastodon v3.1.3.