#server migration

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[blackmoreops]

How to Migrate WordPress to GCP Server Using WordOps and EasyEngine

Migrating a WordPress site to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers numerous benefits including improved performance, scalability, and reliability. In this comprehensive guide, I’ll walk you through on how to migrate WordPress to GCP using WordOps and EasyEngine, with special attention to sites created with the --wpredis flag. This guide works whether you’re migrating from a traditional hosting…

[servermo]

Smoothly Switching Web Servers: Your Easy Guide

Upgrading your web server doesn’t have to be daunting! Whether you need more speed, space, or better security, follow these steps to make the transition seamless:

Understand Your Needs Assess your current server's performance. Is it slow? Lacking space? Not secure enough?

Pick the Right Server Choose a server that meets your requirements. Popular options include Apache for reliability, Nginx for speed, and LiteSpeed for efficiency.

Prepare Your New Server Install your software, configure settings, and add security features like SSL certificates.

Test Before Switching Check website functionality, database connections, and loading speeds to avoid surprises.

Transfer Everything Move your files, databases, and settings carefully. Verify nothing is missing.

Update DNS Settings Link your domain to the new server. Remember, DNS changes may take 24–72 hours to fully propagate.

Verify Performance Test your site again to ensure everything is working flawlessly in the live environment.

By planning ahead and following these steps, you can ensure a smooth server migration that keeps your website running at its best!

[vastedge330]

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) simplifies the process of migrating on-premises servers to AWS, reducing downtime and complexity. This blog explores the features of AWS SMS, including automated replication, migration scheduling, and real-time monitoring. Discover how to leverage AWS SMS for a smooth transition to the cloud, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations. Learn best practices for planning and executing server migrations using AWS SMS to enhance your cloud strategy.

[msilverstar]

That's a failure of communication, they mean the back end, the server part of Tumblr. It's actually a good thing, it means they are not planning to shut down the servers, it's a big investment.

Looking for a few good folks to help with one of the largest migrations in history, 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress.

[lacamorte]

miniscule bing doodles

art raged hard over a composition for feesh so i made bing cry abt it for me

[waitineedaname]

if tumblr goes down where can i find youuu

roll over your nearest moss covered log and you will find me 🐛🍃

[transgenderastronovalite]

wet whimsy

[ipreferfiction]

hey so for the character asks thing, what lead to your characterisation of cassus fett? also what got you interested in him initially?

oh BOY you have activated the Cassus Thoughts that are perpetually about half a millimeter below the surface of my brain. congrats! i never stop thinking about him!!! read-more because it got. um. long.

initially, he just kind of came to be because Revan needed an enemy to focus on that wasn't Mandalore himself, because i didn't want Revan and Mandalore meeting on the battlefield before, well, Malachor. honestly, a lot of his early characterization came from me looking at what Canderous said about the war in kotor (and k2 i guess. but i didn't play k2 until later lol) and going "...okay, this is a guy who's going to believe the same things, but he's also a strategist of Revan's caliber, and he's going to spend the entire war setting traps for her."

Mandalorian honor has always been the central part of his character for me! and the fun part was making all the war crimes fit within that framework. there's only one thing my Cassus holds more sacred than his honor, and that's his mand'alor, which creates some FASCINATING interactions with Revan when... he can order entire cities to be bombed, he can give the commands on Cathar and Serroco, he can and will use Alek to lure Revan into an impossible situation so she'll sacrifice her own men to save him! that's all fine! because, by the standards of the Mandalorians of his time, absolutely none of that is dishonorable!

he and Revan are very very much the same in many ways. and he knows this, and spends the entire three years of the war trying to get Revan to acknowledge it. and she does! finally! on Malachor, where she kills him in the first version of my kotor canon. a lot of that came from me talking with @azems-familiar; our Cassuses are effectively identical, and a lot of that early characterization came from me writing him as he is in my mando wars fic, and then Lee writing their mando wars fic and developing him even more, and it just kind of snowballed from there. they made him the initial Revan foil; my fic didn't quite get that far! (first draft, at least. it will be much more obvious when i edit it)

the second main aspect of his characterization is the loyalty, for which i entirely blame @tarrevizsla. they invented the initial characterization for Mandalore the Ultimate and it all went downhill from there, by which i mean they went "cassus/te ani'la" and the collective old republic hell server braincell activated to cement that forever into our worldview. it wasn't even on the horizon of my thoughts when i wrote bright burning. which is so funny to me now, because... it's so central to how i write Cassus! that loyalty is just as important, perhaps moreso, to him than his honor. in my timeline, he was twenty on Cathar, thirty-three at Malachor; he's spent most of his adult life in this war serving Mandalore, and most of that time as Field Marshal - and canonically, he was not only a genius tactician but hugely responsible for some of the most important changes the Mandalorians underwent at this point. and to do any of that, he had to have Mandalore's trust.

it's just so fascinating to me to explore this character who is barely mentioned in kotor (is he mentioned at all outside the flavor text of his armor and blaster??) but who had to have such a huge hand in shaping the war. he has some more appearances in the kotor comics, but the kotor comics are.... bad. they're very bad, and i ignore most of them. in that regard, his rank in my fics is a little different in practice to how it appeared in the comics; he is part of high command, but he's the only field marshal, not one of several (because... look. nothing about the ranks makes sense in canon, canon is fake, and Mandalore just handing out the position of marshal to a bunch of people to keep the piece makes no sense!!!).

that wasn't a deliberate rewriting of the comics, though. i figured out all the rank stuff for my universe way before i even touched the comics, which is why so much of my Mandalorian worldbuilding is just... vastly different. anything important i got from wookieepedia. again: the comics are fake, and if i don't look at them they don't exist. the sole exceptions are, like, three panels that live rent-free in my head. that's it.

uh. that went longer than i thought! hope that answered your question, and thank you so much for the ask! i'm so normal about him.

[poissond-avril]

the way i still haven’t even played lord of the rings online yet

[pc-98s]

i want to host a bluesky personal data server on the same machine as my plex server but i’d have to migrate it to ubuntu since only ubuntu/debian is supported. hm.

[goldenflowers]

a3 yaycupcake wiki please come back to me i miss you so bad 🥺

[wreckingball4good]

Thinking about Mastodon? Peertube? here’s a primer.

[kotoal1011]

jesus just delete the entire discography already

[queensparklekitten]

people with multiple capes how do you picture your elytras