:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Slight change of plans. Part of this update requires upgrading PostgreSQL to a later version. This is more of an involved process than upgrading the Mastodon version, so out of an abundance of caution I am going to test the Postgres upgrade in a test […]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: We are overdue for a Mastodon update so I will be upgrading us to version 4.5.2 this Friday evening/Saturday morning, depending on where you live. This will be a major upgrade because we are moving from 4.4 to 4.5, so I am scheduling the maintenance window […]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: There have been a couple new bugfix versions released in the past few days so I will be upgrading us to Mastodon 4.4.7 on Saturday, October 18th, or Sunday the 19th, depending where you live. The maintenance window will begin at 3AM UTC on the 19th and […]

For anyone who signed up recently and experienced long delays in getting their accounts confirmed, that was due to me dealing with a lot of real life stuff right about the time that the BlueSky exodus was happening. Everyone should be confirmed now but if you did not get a confirmation email […]

The thing to remember about social media is that it's human beings all the way down

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Looks like we had an outage today do to the certs expiring. I had thought I had renewed those early, but evidently I did not. We've also got a bug fix version of Mastodon I need to install so I am going to go ahead and do that now since we're already in an […]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: I just want to let everyone know that I am aware of the situation regarding Randahl Fink. That's about as much as I want to say about it at the moment because I want to take some time to gather all the facts and (hopefully) calmly consider them. Generally […]

A lot of people have asked me what the name "Beige Party" means. I now present the definitive explanation:

This is a test

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: The Mastodon upgrade is complete! We are now on version 4.4.2. This concludes this evening's server maintenance. Beige-bless :bb:

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Mastodon version 4.4.0 has been released, so I will be upgrading the instance this weekend. There have been a couple bug fix versions since the major release, so I will be upgrading us to v4.4.2. This is a major release upgrade, so I will be taking the […]

Hey folks, I want to give you all an update on what's been going on with me lately. I haven't been around as much as I should be, which is a generous way of saying that I've been dropping the ball quite a bit over the last few months. It would be easy to just say that I've been busy and move on […]

*listening to Cambodian psychedelic rock from the 60s and early 70s* Wow this stuff is really great! *googles the artists for more information* oh no

Hello! Welcome to the Fediverse! Please be cool. Please. I am begging you. Just. Be. Cool.

Look, it's simple. We all want to be safe. We all want to not be hungry. We all want to be warm. We all want to be comfortable. It's just that some of us also want this for others, and not just ourselves.

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers :bc: And we are back! I have completed my database maintenance and we are now on the latest version of Mastodon. I still have some more work to do on the database, but I can do that at a later date. I think that was plenty of downtime for one evening […]

*tap* *tap* *tap* Is this thing on?

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: I need to do some server maintenance as well as get us upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon. I'm going to be doing some work on the database, which means taking the server down to make a full snapshot before I start. This means we'll be offline for […]

Aix sponsa: The Wood Duck. A wooden duck, or a duck of the wood? Would you know the difference? Would that you could. And what wood would a wood duck duck if a wood duck could duck wood? No wood, for a wood duck would never shirk its sylvan duties. He so reveres the wood that he locks his child […]

Alive with Beige-ure

*slaps side of plane* This bad boy can fit so many emoluments in it

[uspol, image of Donald Trump] This Con Air remake stinks

Emoluments clause? In this constitutional crisis??

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Polls are fixed! I've been getting reports since mid March about an issue with polls not recording all votes. After digging around in the database a bit I found that polls with more than four options would only record local votes. I submitted this as a bug […]

@OhOkKay @laprice FYI - After testing this out with two new polls, I have determined this bug is reproduceable. If the number of poll options is greater than 4, only local votes are tallied. I have opened a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34662

Kira: What if I don’t want to ‘put myself out there’! Kira: What if I’m scared?

Air Travel: For when you absolutely positively must step in pee pee

[ SPARKING ! ! ! ]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Mastodon 4.3.7 has been released, so I will be upgrading us to the latest version on Wednesday night, or Thursday morning, depending on where you live. The maintenance window will begin at 3AM UTC on Thursday, 4/10 and continue until 5AM. If you are in […]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: State of The Instance - March 2025 Hey everyone, just wanted to give a quick update while it's still March. As usual we're dealing with a lot of new spammers. Thanks to everyone who continues to report these accounts. I'm […] [Original post on beige.party]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Once again we're being inundated by spammers. I have been blocking these accounts as soon as I get the reports, but I have not been able to follow up with all the reporters. From here on out, if you report a spam account and don't hear anything back from […]

A stable economy? In this economy??

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: State of The Instance - February 2025 Well it's leap day somewhere, right? Or maybe Groundhog Day. Or maybe Groundhog Day? Anyways, here's your update for February! First, I'd like to follow up on a couple of things from […] [Original post on beige.party]

They're good toots Brent

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: And we're back up! It looks like the database server filled up due to replication to the hot standby failing. Basically the main db server keeps a list of all the db changes to send over to the backup server and and if it can't reach the backup server it […]

Love this: Hostile government takeover (as featured on John Oliver's show last night). https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8GKzNAPQ

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: I have enabled post translation on Beige Party using LibreTranslate. At first I tried setting up my own LibreTranslate server but it took up a lot of resources and still didn't work all that well, so I went and bought an api key for $29 a month. This will […]

I've been experimenting with enabling translation on my instance and since I've seen zero documentation about how to configure LibreTranslate with a purchased api key, I'm going to share my findings here. Pretty much every guide out there for enabling […] [Original post on beige.party]

I get it, Hergé, I got a little too into nuclear reactors once too...

Old train roundhouse #Fensterfreitag #photography #abandonedplaces #victoriabc #darktable

Evergreen cartoon

Oh hi! I was Just thinking about what part of the country I should move to based on which coalition nation I'd rather be occupied by when this shitshow inevitably reaches its logical conclusion. How are you doing?

Hey Google, navigate to the Gulf of Amnesia.

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: Sorry about that unplanned outage. The good news is I have moved the Sidekiq processes over to their own dedicated server. This means I can allocate more resources to the Puma processes, so hopefully you will notice that the site is more responsive now. I […]

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: In the past month there have been two incidents that I'm aware of where the web server was hanging and the site was unresponsive for several minutes. One of those seemed to resolve on its own eventually; the other I happened to notice as it was occurring […]

Just some fencepost moss. No Whos detected...yet. #mosstodon #lichensubscribe

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc: State of The Instance - January 2024 Hey everyone, and happy 2025! Once again I'm getting my update out at the last minute, while it's still technically January, at least in Oregon. There's a couple of things I want to […] [Original post on beige.party]