Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

genehack @genehack@dementedandsadbut.social

12/2/2025, 3:17:22 AM

Public

On the one hand, this is absolutely correct.

On the other hand, one of my most professionally terrifying years was inheriting a server I did not build, that already had more an a year of uptime, and being 100% convinced that, were ebook, it would not come back up or be at all recoverable.

It took more than a year to replicate and validate the functionality before it could be shut down https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/115644675759593580

Mauricio Teixeira 🇺🇸🇧🇷 (@badnetmask@hachyderm.io)

The best way to test the resilience of your service is: reboot the server. I mean it. Don't just restart the service, reboot the server. A story in two parts: Part 1: a while ago I configured ZFS under my Talos Kubernetes cluster, and everything was fine, until I decided to reboot. When it came back, nothing was working, because I forgot to properly configure a way for Talos to read the ZFS volume encryption key. Part 2: at some point I configured Audiobookshelf to store data on top of said ZFS volume. Everything was working fine for a few weeks, until I had to reboot the server again (for reasons). When it came back, I lost all my downloaded podcasts, because I had a typo on my configuration that was pointing to a directory outside of the PVC, so it mounted as an emptyDir volume. Honestly, I should have known better. I had issues in the past when some servers went down because of power failures (battery didn't last) and they did not come back properly. You gotta do a reboot/power test every once in a while, just like you have to test your backups on a regular basis. #HomeLab #TalosLinux #ZFS #SRE #DevOps @homelab@fedigroups.social

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