I have a copy of the mee.nu system up and running on the new server. I do need to test more before switching over, since we're upgrading the versions of Python and the database server at the same time - but we're certainly getting there.
Expect things to be about twice as fast as before as well.
Is Microsoft hiring State Department spokescritters to handle its communications?
I noticed recently that the new Asus Ryzen-based NUCs lack the headphone jack found on the old model. Today I discovered that so do recent units of certain QNAP NASes.
It's not that they decided users no longer wanted audio output. They can't get the chips - or rather, the chips are prioritised elsewhere.
Don't use cloud databases. Cloud servers, yeah, okay, though I still prefer to run my own. Cloud services, maybe. Cloud databases, hell no.
What's Facebook been up to lately? I've been busy kicking Apple, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon... Oh, there we go: Facebook Messenger silently censors links in private messages.
FB messenger silently censors some covid-related links but claims the messages were sent 🙃
I'm ready for my closeup, Mr Skynet. Just get it over with.
Unsolved Mythteries: The Hole In HoleEN Video of the Day
There's a hole in the Hololive English Minecraft server. It's claimed three lives - Kiara (twice) and IRyS, and nobody knows who created it.
So by the power of weaponised autism, the internet discovered the random seed used by the HoloEN server, recreated their game world in its original state, did a frame-by-frame analysis of all 173 Minecraft streams, narrowed down the creation of the hole to between the 9th and 12th of October last year, and blamed Ina.
Who says she is Ina-cent.
Disclaimer: Have you tried unplugging your Skynet and plugging it in again?