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Rob Thomas [Admin m.au]

Rob Thomas [Admin m.au]

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27.7K
Account age
3 yrs
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Finally, as a birthday present to myself (it's 4 mins past midnight here), I have upgraded all the storage bits and pieces to the latest firmware versions. I don't think it'll fix anything, and I'm expecting to go crawling through my box of spare parts tomorrow to find replacement bits. Goodnight #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ - The silver lining is that if everything falls apart overnight, we do kn19 views Finally, as a birthday present to myself (it's 4 mins past midnight here), I have upgraded all the storage bits and pieces to the latest firmware versions. I don't think it'll fix anything, and I'm expecting to go crawling through my box of spare parts tomorrow to find replacement bits. Goodnight #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ - The silver lining is that if everything falls apart overnight, we do kn It's amazing how fast and responsive a server can be. Admittedly, this server is in a Data Center in Brisbane, with a fibre-optic connection to the internet, and is full of 1TB SSDs. This is because I am REALLY REALLY trying hard to avoid the next visit of the fuck-up fairy.12 views It's amazing how fast and responsive a server can be. Admittedly, this server is in a Data Center in Brisbane, with a fibre-optic connection to the internet, and is full of 1TB SSDs. This is because I am REALLY REALLY trying hard to avoid the next visit of the fuck-up fairy. Good news, everyone! I turned off the blade, and turned it back on, and the bad drive was so bad it vanished! This means it won't be locking up the server every 30 mins or so. #MastodonAU win! The bad news is that SOMETHING is still causing 503s and it doesn't appear to be the usual AI scrapers going wild. I also managed to "slightly" break #MastodonNZ when I moved it from the failing blade and..12 views Good news, everyone! I turned off the blade, and turned it back on, and the bad drive was so bad it vanished! This means it won't be locking up the server every 30 mins or so. #MastodonAU win! The bad news is that SOMETHING is still causing 503s and it doesn't appear to be the usual AI scrapers going wild. I also managed to "slightly" break #MastodonNZ when I moved it from the failing blade and.. Well I was wrong. The 503s ARE caused by AI scrapers going crazy. Or at least one scraper going crazy. This was triggering the front end proxies to mark the back end as bad for EVERY connection. Time to do some low level filtering now.9 views Well I was wrong. The 503s ARE caused by AI scrapers going crazy. Or at least one scraper going crazy. This was triggering the front end proxies to mark the back end as bad for EVERY connection. Time to do some low level filtering now.

📊 Post engagement

10
Avg engagement / post
0%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2023
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Finally, as a birthday present to myself (it's 4 mins past midni · 19 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
10.8 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 3 text · 9 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
391×
Follows 71 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Finally, as a birthday present to myself (it's 4 mins past midnight here), I have upgraded all the storage bits and pieces to the latest firmware versions. I don't think it'll fix anything, and I'm expecting to go crawling through my box of spare parts tomorrow to find replacem… ★ 19
Today I learned that the "world's oldest profession" is actually Midwife. Kinda obvious in hindsight! Sorry for this not being funny-ha-ha or nerd related, I just found it wildly interesting. Please boost if you think it's interesting, to… ★ 14 It's amazing how fast and responsive a server can be. Admittedly, this server is in a Data Center in Brisbane, with a fibre-optic connection to the internet, and is full of 1TB SSDs. This is because I am REALLY REALLY trying hard to avoid… ★ 12 I've been doing some nerding today, replacing and upgrading routers. Here's some before-and-after CPU utilization graphs (higher is worse). I wasn't at capacity, but it was getting close which is what brought on the upgrade. For the nerds,… ★ 4 For anyone still following along with the #MastodonAU storage server crash, I did find an upgraded version that never made it onto a SPP ISO - Vers 7.2. So now I'm moving everything (mastnz and mastau, to act as a load test) back off tha… ★ 5 Nope, no firmware update for the storage controller. A BIOS upgrade to fix SPECTRE-style vulnerabilities was the only thing it wanted to do, so I let it. The SPP ISO also has expired its self-signed certificate. You can only hope HP will … ★ 3 Well, it said to upgrade the controller firmware. I have the latest G9 SPP, so let's see if it finds anything to upgrade. ★ 2 So for the NEXT pile of funtimes tonight at #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ, as I was going through tidying things up, more strangeness happened. One of the storage servers (not the one that had the replaced motherboard on Wednesday) decided t… ★ 7 Hopefully that's the end of the blips for tonight. #MastodonAU has been upgraded to 4.6, with some new features that people may want. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/ ★ 12 I believe I have found the cause for the 503s, and it's going to be annoying to fix. For the nerds, Caddy is running as the front end proxy, sending requests to 4 back end servers. Caddy checks the responses to make sure the back end serv… ★ 16 Well I was wrong. The 503s ARE caused by AI scrapers going crazy. Or at least one scraper going crazy. This was triggering the front end proxies to mark the back end as bad for EVERY connection. Time to do some low level filtering now. ★ 9 Good news, everyone! I turned off the blade, and turned it back on, and the bad drive was so bad it vanished! This means it won't be locking up the server every 30 mins or so. #MastodonAU win! The bad news is that SOMETHING is still causin… ★ 12

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
mastodon.au
A Australia server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Feb 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 10 views per post.
📤Posts about 10.8× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
49/100
Fair Credibility score
78%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 78% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

I push buttons and break things! I am the guy that runs mastodon.au (and mastodon.nz, and a few other things) I live in Central QLD, and do FOSS stuff. If you feel like donating, feel free to sponsor my open source work on GitHub https://github.com/sponsors/xrobau

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It's amazing how fast and responsive a server can be. Admittedly, this server is in a Data Center in Brisbane, with a fibre-optic connection to the internet, and is full of 1TB SSDs. This is because I am REALLY REALLY trying hard to avoid the next visit of the fuck-up fairy. I've been doing some nerding today, replacing and upgrading routers. Here's some before-and-after CPU utilization graphs (higher is worse). I wasn't at capacity, but it was getting close which is what brought on the upgrade. For the nerds, it's routing about 400k PPS at 5Gb-ish. For the REAL nerds, who I am certain will comment, YES I KNOW THAT'S NOT THAT MUCH! #MastodonAU #MastodonNZ #routing #i Finally, as a birthday present to myself (it's 4 mins past midnight here), I have upgraded all the storage bits and pieces to the latest firmware versions. I don't think it'll fix anything, and I'm expecting to go crawling through my box of spare parts tomorrow to find replacement bits. Goodnight #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ - The silver lining is that if everything falls apart overnight, we do kn For anyone still following along with the #MastodonAU storage server crash, I did find an upgraded version that never made it onto a SPP ISO - Vers 7.2. So now I'm moving everything (mastnz and mastau, to act as a load test) back off that storage server, and I'll upgrade it and see what happens. It's currently running 7.0. Nope, no firmware update for the storage controller. A BIOS upgrade to fix SPECTRE-style vulnerabilities was the only thing it wanted to do, so I let it. The SPP ISO also has expired its self-signed certificate. You can only hope HP will push a fixed one, but they don't seem to care. Well, it said to upgrade the controller firmware. I have the latest G9 SPP, so let's see if it finds anything to upgrade. So for the NEXT pile of funtimes tonight at #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ, as I was going through tidying things up, more strangeness happened. One of the storage servers (not the one that had the replaced motherboard on Wednesday) decided that it didn't want to be a storage server, and stopped talking to its storage controller. Luckily for me, I had already moved almost everything off it because I Well I was wrong. The 503s ARE caused by AI scrapers going crazy. Or at least one scraper going crazy. This was triggering the front end proxies to mark the back end as bad for EVERY connection. Time to do some low level filtering now.

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