More news on the previously announced bridge for support MUC: we got another bridge set up. This time around, IRC joins the ballet, so matterbridge is now bridging @wpn support MUC for 3 different protocols.. XMPP and MATRIX being the previous other two.
https://health.woodpeckersnest.space/
On this matter I was thinking about making a "tombstone" of the current XMPP MUC, which is called status and move to wpn - In fact that's the name of the MATRIX and IRC rooms. This is not really something I want to do soon, though, because it implies changing several things.
Last, but not least, I have also set up an anonymous VirtualHost in Prosody. You can now login to anon.woodpeckersnest.space with a disposable account (whose data gets deleted from the server as soon as the account is not connected anymore) and participate/discuss in @wpn MUCs - access to external servers is not permitted to anonymous users, for obvious security concerne.
You can follow the steps in this GIF to connect anonymously with Gajim; Dino should also support it but I don't know how it's done.. Finally if you want to join via Android, these are the instructions provided by Daniel Gultsch, from Conversations IM:
you can just add the account something@anon.woodpeckersnest.space with an empty password to #Conversations_im and it will login anonymously.
Anonymous logins don't require registration. When I say 'something@anon...' you can use anything as that username. Doesn't matter (it's only used to get through the client side jid validation check)
TIP: If the server tells you can't join a MUC, make sure you have added a nickname in your profile's details (Android).
It's been a few days now that I'm experiencing downtimes at night, early mornings.
When I wake up, connect to the VPS and attach to tmux, I am welcomed by these messages in console:
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:13 ...
kernel:[1586232.350737] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:24 ...
kernel:[1586235.049143] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason
30 on CPU 1.
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:24 ...
kernel:[1586235.049145] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:55 ...
kernel:[1586273.642163] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck
for 27s! [dockerd:526408]
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:38:00 ...
kernel:[1586278.545172] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck
for 24s! [systemd-journal:257]
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:38:02 ...
kernel:[1586281.187611] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck
for 35s! [lua5.4:1702]
There's no need to say that when this happens, the server is completely frozen and doesn't respond to anything.
I already contacted support, but they didn't investigate at all, I believe. They manually restarted my VPS once and did some pings and connection tests (VNC, SSH) afterwards.. "everything is working fine!"
This last Saturday I was up when it happened, so I did a mtr from my PC to the VPS's IP and logged it, then I sent another email with the output to support.. Still waiting for them to reply, I guess tomorrow (Monday).
Friends like lorenzo and shai are having difficulties too, with the same provider, so I'm not imagining things.
Well, that's all I got to say, will keep you posted if any news.
I am most productive at night, when there is finally silence - apart from background music. The last couple hours of this Wednesday brought some nice additions to the @wpn support MUC:
- chat is not XMPP only anymore, but it got bridged to Matrix, via "matterbridge".
- a bot is now sending "BOFH excuses" to the chat, once a day.
XMPP MUC can be reached from: https://invite.woodpeckersnest.space/#status@chat.woodpeckersnest.space?join
Matrix room can be reached from: https://matrix.to/#/#wpn:matrix.org
Bridged chat means that everything being written in any of those rooms, gets relayed to the other by bots: there are in fact 2 bots connected to the 2 rooms, one is an XMPP bot and the other is a Matrix one, operated by "matterbridge", as I said earlier.
About "BOFH excuses", they are some fortune cookies from the relative Linux package, which are all about "Bastard Operators From Hell" excuses.. They are some short funny sentences about IT which an imaginary Operator (sysop, sysadmin, you name it) could say as excuse to justify issues.
Example?
BOFH excuse #266:
All of the packets are empty.
I have the same script running on gemini, at gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/cgi-bin/bofh
Basically it's some python spaghetti which runs the fortune command, does some formatting to the resulting text and sends it over gemini, or in the case of @wpn chat, over webhook to one other bot, which then posts its content to XMPP. It's more complicated to explain than do it 😀
P.S. @wpn support MUC is not publicly listed, so even if I'm posting links which may be used to join it, it should be treated as limited to @wpn users only.
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