www.scmp.com Latest Covid outbreak has peaked with 164 deaths, China CDC says
Most severe cases and deaths were among the elderly population, according to health authorities.
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I got march of shamed once because I genuinely forgot, it somehow shortcircuits my brain when I need to wait for approval, thinking I've already paid and walk out after waiting for the person to come tap some buttons :|
Sure, I've created one here for you guys: https://mastodon.social/@latteisnotcoffee
Alternative contacts for admins
Since many people have asked me already, I created a Mastodon here: https://mastodon.social/@latteisnotcoffee
You can follow that for server downtime, updates when this server is down etc :)
It seems to be a Lemmy issue, I'm pretty sure it would eat 16GB as well :) but possibly fixed in 18.x so I'm going to wait for that upgrade first
Pretty sure Lemmy has a memory leak, it'll eat all the memory of the server and need a reboot. This was with 8GB of RAM as well, but hopefully getting it updated to 0.18.x will fix that (but I heard there's an issue with XSS at the moment so I'm holding back)
Yes of course, originally I planned to do this server move with a bit less "bang" but the server crashed for the... 4th time this weekend, so it was more of a "Fuck it let's do this" sort of thing.
I planned a page to show progress and everything, but never got the time to deploy it :')
No need for now, if it gets to be more of a handful I will start asking for mods, maybe crowdfund a larger server etc but I suspect it'll be alright :)
Aye we're still on 0.17.4, mostly because I was lazy, but it seems to have worked out in this case. I'll give 0.18 a little time to settle before we upgrade
Server has been successfully moved
Sorry for the downtime, the server has been moved onto better infrastructure so hopefully it won't go down as frequently in the future
0.18 released, should we upgrade?
They killed captcha support in 0.18, which basically negates one of the methods to stop the bots... so if we upgrade, we will likely need to email verification until 0.18.1 is released OR stay on 0.17.4 until 0.18.1 is released where they've promised to bring it back.
Not super easily. It can be done by querying the postgresql dabase, but there is no built-in method to do it using the browser interface at the moment. When anyone from any instance does report them, you will see the report.
Do you have an example of a query I could use? I'm a bit rusty with databases :) with an example I can get chatgpt to build me something better
I see, occasionally I get reports from local users about something elsewhere from a 'foreign' user... which I can then delete. I assume that's not deleting from their server?
For example I get a report from a local user about a lemmy.ml user with a post in lemmy.world
Is there an easy way to know who is spamming from my instance and contact other admins?
After the bot attacks I've cleaned up and implemented some additional measures thanks to some helpful users, but I'd also like to monitor the situation in case someone from my server decides to go on a spam rampage...
Is there a way to:
- Easily get a list of comments from all my users locally and across the 'verse?
- If I purge/ban these users, is there a protocol for letting other Lemmy admins know? I assume I have no power to delete things from their instances (just my copy of their instance?)
Registration is now reopened
Bots cleaned, there is now a captcha and I have some additional admin tools. I'm not going into too much detail as the bot maker may be reading :)
I will be keeping a close eye on the numbers and patterns over the next few days, so it may close again for a few hours depending on the types of attacks. If anyone sees a latte.isnot.coffee user spamming anywhere on Lemmy please let me know immediately
Admin approval now reqd for signup (Temporary)
Admin approval will be granted every few hours, not ideal but I need to get a handle on the 28k+ bots that have signed up.
Downtime again + cause seems to be a memleak
Seems we have a memory leak in Lemmy, I will report it upstream and see what they say since we have 4GB RAM now and it was fine with 2GB for days and now goes down with 4 over 24 hours :|
All I will say is bloody node.js
./syslog:Jun 18 04:38:38 ip-172-31-33-220 kernel: [142633.319174] Out of memory: Killed process 1349 (node) total-vm:2700484kB, anon-rss:2004100kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:18016kB oom_score_adj:0
Reported upstream, in the meantime I may need to do a quick reboot every 24 hours where the server may be down for 1-2 minutes: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3183
Hey :) I don't think we can drill down into communities yet, the search page is a bit haphazard unfortunately but I think 18.0 is supposed to bring a whole host of new features so I'm just waiting for that for now - deselecting NSFW in your profile does indeed work and stop them showing in results though.
And no problem! We're a small server but I enjoy hosting it :D
Sorry for downtime
Server went crazy in CPU and killed itself, looking into it now.
My lemmy instance :)
I used to self-host email with email and postfix, but I gave up with the amount of spam coming my way and moved to Proton
www.reuters.com Saudi Arabia seeks cooperation with China, 'ignores' Western worries
Saudi Arabia wants to collaborate, not compete, with China, the kingdom's energy minister declared on Sunday, saying he "ignored" Western suspicions over their growing ties.
Note the "Create Post" button is at the top
Not at the side like on Reddit
www.bbc.com Chinese censors take aim at AirDrop and Bluetooth
Authorities are relentlessly plugging the "cracks" in China's Great Firewall to quench dissent.
iamthatis (Apollo) even said he could do it with a bit more time after the initial shock, some negotiation etc, he was willing to try if Reddit would throw him anything at all so it was possible. But Reddit instead shut down all communication then lied about what happened
Weekly /c/china discussion post
This is a general discussion thread for any questions or topics that you feel don't deserve their own thread, or just for random thoughts and comments.
The sidebar guidelines apply here too and these threads will be closely moderated, so please keep the discussions civil, and try to keep top-level comments China-related.
Welcome to Lemmy
This is Lemmy, on this server (latte.isnot.coffee) we have /c/china and /c/chinavisa and any other communities you want to make which are local to this server and can be interacted with in the same way as Reddit, that's sort of cool but the magic happens elsewhere.
When you signed up for this server, you got [email protected], you can use this to go to different communities on different lemmy servers as a sort of guest and post there too! So you can post anywhere!
How to find other places? I'm going to call them "foreign" for the sake of simplicity - first you can go to Communities -> All (or click here) which will show you the ones the users here locally have subscribed to, and which server they're on (you'll see a lot of lemmy.ml) - if you click that you can go over there and make a post. Think of it as flying to another country
But not all communities are in that list, if no-one here has gone there yet y