astral0pitek's blog

I haven't written anything on my blog for a long time because I feel constantly tired and almost constantly sleepy.

I still don’t see much change in my life, but there are a couple of things I can talk about.

Job

I don’t remember whether I made a post about changes in my work or not, but I transferred to another department where I became more comfortable working and had a little more time for other projects. Yes, I still need to audit the servers, but this time there is at least some old audit and I don’t have to start from scratch. Plus, in the new department they allow me to touch the servers or deploy my virtual machines for some experiments.

Peertube

My Peertube instance began to grow, which I was quite surprised by. If this continues, I will have to figure out something with donations for my server, because my salary at work is not designed to support any services that require a lot of disk space or if anything requires a lot of power from my server. I have now transferred my instance to the alpha 3 state and will soon be updating the rules of conduct and moderation. I introduced the alpha-3 state quite a long time ago, but unfortunately I didn’t have time to immediately update the rules in the instance.

Radio

I recently got the idea again to spin up an Azuracast or Icecast server to stream my music library. At a minimum, I wanted to just test for one month how much Internet I would spend on my phone to check whether it would really reduce traffic consumption (which would allow me to stream music in better quality, and not compressed to 64kbps as at the moment) or whether I shouldn’t bother with this.

Social media

I still don’t see any reason to start deploying my own social networking instances, because the communities I’m a part of and my friends don’t really want it. But I don’t have my own personal community that revolves around me. For these reasons there are no social networks at the moment.

Recent Events

Recently, my work colleagues and I carried out a special operation to rescue a wrecked Lada car. For this we decided to use a radio-controlled small tractor. The decision to use a radio-controlled small tractor had at least 2 reasons: we wanted to check how far this small tractor would go this time and at the same time, if everything worked out successfully, to evacuate this wrecked Lada. It was a lot of fun and we even started evacuating, but for some reason the equipment inside this little tractor burned out and it almost fell into a ditch with sewage. We were unable to restore the electronics on site, so we converted the tractor back to manual control and evacuated the Lada to the end.

That's all I can talk about at the moment.

Finally there have been changes in my work. On November 1, I began working in my friend’s department and I noticed that I had deteriorated quite a lot after working in the previous department.

In my friend’s department, as usual, I will need to understand what he has in terms of servers, write it down and do an audit in the same way as I did in the previous department. Also, since I am allowed to touch the servers, then immediately after the audit I simply have to give my friend centralized management of servers and services in order to relieve his team in terms of at least the number of actions that the team usually does to maintain the servers.

And I need to do an audit at least in Excel, figure out and set up centralized management of Linux servers on Ubuntu (I’m thinking of using Ansible with a web interface for this, but everything can change depending on my knowledge) and coordinate and train my friend’s employees to use these services centralized management.

I hope I will be able to cope with this big task, taking into account the fairly frequent force majeure and rush jobs at the university for 2 departments.

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).