The following warning has begun to be distributed in Russia
In Russia they are purchasing equipment for large-scale blocking – the equipment is so serious that it will allow you to block YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, all VPNs or any other service with a click of your fingers.
RKN took into account the errors of Telegram blocking in 2018 and now intends to be able to cut off services using DPI (deep traffic filtering system), which will be helped by the equipment that providers installed under the law “on a sovereign Runet.”
It is still possible to bypass Cheburnet, but the average user is unlikely to bother so much. We are not waiting, but we are preparing.
Internet providers have been forced to follow the strictest path I know, and providers will scan absolutely all traffic for the use of applications banned in Russia to block them. If Telegram is blocked, then I will lose communication with 90% of my friends, but what’s worse is the limitation on the existence of a Telegram account for a maximum of a year. If, a year after the start of the blocking, I am unable to access my Telegram account, then my account will be deleted permanently! And I don’t know whether my foreign friends will agree to switch to some other social network or to my chat server in order to continue to communicate with me. Telegram also contains all work chats, but this is easier, because there is at least some kind of physical connection and there will be an opportunity to cooperate.
I think that if this really happens, then some more friends from the Internet will be weeded out and I will have fewer friends. But these will be friends in whom I will be truly confident.
Finally, I can announce the update of the status of my PeerTube instance from alpha status to alpha-2 status. This means that there is still at least some development of my instance and that I deployed this instance not in vain.
At the moment, on my instance you can find over 55 thousand different videos from 34 other servers to which my instance is subscribed, and 14 servers that see the video of my instance are subscribed to my instance. I hope that my instance will continue to develop and it will result in something really interesting and worthwhile.
Has anyone ever noticed that some people are satisfied with the conditions they are in, even if these people constantly complain about these conditions. When you start trying to help such people, this help turns into a rather thankless task and begins to put pressure on you in the opposite direction along with a complete lack of success.
If this happens, consider giving up helping these people at least for a while when you notice the lack of success, and try to analyze your behavior and the behavior of the person you helped. Perhaps the person you helped does not need your help at all, even if this person tells you every day how bad everything is around.
I hope that I will soon be transferred to another department where I can pay attention during the daytime to meetings that my colleagues are doing at the startup. I have also already written down all the necessary information about the production server and it seems that I have already started helping my startup colleagues to adequately launch their services on the server.
Finally, something happened. Today (if I manage to post this post on time, namely the 26th) I had an interview at a startup company and I finally saw people who are really burning with ideas and who really want to make the world a better place! It was a nice feeling to see such people and it really made me happier. Judging by the fact that these people added me to their main server and added me to the telegram group, most likely I can still call them colleagues now.
But there is bad news too. Since this is a startup, I still can’t quit my main job, and in connection with this, I simply decided at my main job to express my desire to transfer to the department of the boss, with whom I actually interact almost on an ongoing basis. I think that my good relationship with this boss and the ability to do a lot of work quickly and remotely (namely from home), will allow me to have more control over my time and tasks and allow me to easily join video meetings at the startup in order to participate in projects or at least be sufficiently aware of what is being done on each project (yes, at the initial stage of interaction with a new team this is important).
While I was surfing through different PeerTube instances in search of something interesting and thinking about the development of my server, on one of the portfolio sites of some person I noticed a large list of links to his services. This turned out to be quite convenient when the links are located not in a separate service, but right on the main page of the entire domain, so I will make a tab on my portfolio site with a list of links to my services. Otherwise, without knowing the subdomain, I don’t think anyone will be able to easily find all the links that I allow others to use.
I attempted an automatic update for the “wazuh” intrusion detection system agents. Due to the fact that, ironically, I have already updated the agents on all my devices, I now need to wait for my work colleague to start his laptop for 5-10 minutes and then I will find out whether I was able to do the automatic update or not.
On one of my streams, I noticed that when I turned on the HDR mode on the stream, the color saturation suddenly lost and the contrast deteriorated. For now I will avoid this, but I need to figure out why this happens, because none of the settings in the “Advanced” section helped get rid of the problem. Perhaps this will be fixed if you do a screen capture rather than a game capture (screen capture is the same as through a capture device).Avoid HDR in games when recording video or streaming in OBS Studio
On one of my streams, I noticed that when I turned on the HDR mode on the stream, the color saturation suddenly lost and the contrast deteriorated. For now I will avoid this, but I need to figure out why this happens, because none of the settings in the “Advanced” section helped get rid of the problem. Perhaps this will be fixed if you do a screen capture rather than a game capture (screen capture is the same as through a capture device).
After the second stream, I went to look at the video folder and found out that after the stream, if PeerTube does not explicitly specify transcoding to the required resolution (which overloads my server due to insufficient processor power for live transcoding), then the server simply does nothing. Because of this, with good stream quality, the files turn out to be truly gigantic! So far, I have found a way to solve this problem in the form of a built-in video editor and I will trim one second from the beginning or end of the video so that the transcoding process begins, which should have happened initially. If suddenly my instance grows into something worthwhile and there are a lot of streams, then unfortunately I won’t be able to control it all manually and will have to come up with something about it.
To give my server a stress test, I need to find as many people as possible and preferably even more than 20 people. At least 100 people. But the question is, where can I find such a large number of people? Maybe in time I will be able to do this.