Busy Days, Exciting Progress 🚀
It’s been a couple working months, busy and sometimes hard but in the best way possible!
For starters, today the "GD" website went officially online, after we completed its migration from ZOPE to Wordpress and I couldn't be happier 😉
Another thrilling update is with COMMutiny, our social network project. The converse.js anonymous chat, originally set up for @wpn’s support room, has now found its own space within COMMutiny. This is a big step forward, and we’re inviting everyone interested in #XMPP, gaming, and social networks to join the conversation, anonymously or not.
On top of that, we’ve launched a brand-new freelance website, powered by Hugo. It’s sleek, fast, and everything we hoped it would be — hooray for #Hugo!
If you’re passionate about decentralized communication, gaming communities, or just want to connect with like-minded folks, we’d love to see you in COMMutiny! See you soon 👋
Happy 2025!
This new year brought a change in our webchat, which is now fully anonymous and auto-connecting to @wpn support room.
https://xmpp.woodpeckersnest.space/conversejs
I thought the anon support room could be better used by people "interested in/wanting to ask questions about" XMPP and @wpn services, without the need to register an account.
You can still join other local MUCs when in the anon chat, but external, server to server (S2S) connections are denied for anon users, as I mentioned in a previous post. Feel free to test it out and send feedback about your experience.
For the future months, maybe another rather-big change will happen, as I foresee troubles in upgrading Homarr to its new milestone release. Homarr is what @wpn currently uses as its homepage; despite the fact that I quite like it, I'm not sure I want to embark in a complete overhaul, since I already tried importing configuration to the alpha release and it was a major disaster 😟
Wishing You all the best for this New Year! Stay safe!
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.
Last evening, at around 22:00 CET, Contabo migrated my VPS from old Hub at Nuremberg to the newly built "Hub Europe".
They rebooted it and everything came back up as usual.. I wasn't at home when it happened, didn't even notice anything until I connected and found no tmux session running. Even my phone which was connected to wireguard, quietly continued working and sending notifications 😎
Meanwhile, my friends and I watched "The Creator" on Disney+
Can't really say I do recommend it, but for some casual evening/entertainment, it wasn't half bad.
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