Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social)

@christinelove Hah, Vectrex. A kid on my street actually had one of those when I was also a kid (I think it was pretty old by then). It was a neat gadget.

#Ethiopia government estimates 350m trees planted in a single day. Their goal is to plant 4bn during this summer.

Trees have an immense role to play in preventing global heating, environmental break-down, and climate catastrophe. Every country should have such ambitious tree-planting goals.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/29/ethiopia-plants-250m-trees-in-a-day-to-help-tackle-climate-crisis

#environment #globalheating #climatecrisis #trees #climate

A chilling account of the violent, homophobic mob protesting Pride in Poland.

"The struggle for LGBT equality: Pride meets prejudice in Poland"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/lgbt-gay-rights-poland-first-pride-march-bialystok-rage-violence

@sophistoche That's fair. They do take up space, especially when you have a lot of music.

Zdigital sounds good! I'll check them out too!

@sophistoche A good reminder.

I buy all my music on disc, or in a lossless open format in the rare cases that's available.

The quality on a CD is always lossless, I always have a copy no one can delete or take away, and I can do whatever I want with it.

Additionally, one can always sell trade, donate, give away, or buy used discs.

@er1n @elomatreb haha. You're welcome!! I'm glad you found the information useful.

The HAProxy documentation is outstanding, and there you will find out about tonnes of neat features and ways to set things up. There are also a bunch of how-tos online for getting a basic balancer up quickly.

I've run HAProxy lots and use it as the load balancer for almost all of the environments I manage. You're welcome to ask me if you have more questions or want to kick around ideas in implementing it. 🙂

@er1n
All that said, if you like and are very comfortable with Nginx, are not so familiar with HAProxy, and have relatively simple load balancing / reverse-proxy needs, then using Nginx for this purpose may work well for you -- to have one less different type of thing in your environment to learn about and manage (as @elomatreb pointed out).

@er1n
All that said, if you like and are very comfortable with Nginx, are not so familiar with HAProxy, and have relatively simple load balancing / reverse-proxy needs, then using Nginx for this purpose may work well for you -- to have one less different type of thing in your environment to learn about and manage.

@er1n Nginx is a fine web server -- and so it does that job very well -- while it does not have the features and capabilities of a dedicated load balancer like HAProxy (which is probably what most people are looking to do when setting it up as a reverse-proxy).

@er1n HAProxy is mainly meant to be a highly efficient load balancer. It does that exquisitely well, and brings an enormous feature set to accomplish the task of balancing production HTTP/S and other TCP traffic.

I've used HAProxy to balance insane amounts of traffic and it has always handled those workloads with remarkable efficiency and resilience. It's also easy to configure and set up for high availability.

@TrailRunner_B Hahaha! Yeah. I also like it very much. 😆

We have to laugh once in a while, in between the sadness of what this world is doing to itself now.

It will get better. 🙂

#Newspapers, #magazines, #bloggers, and other publishers, let's make a deal.

You turn off the invasive identification and tracking of your audiences, and we'll turn off our ad-blockers.

#media #Internet #news #economics #business

"Billion-dollar fines can't stop Google and Facebook. That's peanuts for them"

#Facebook and its ilk must be broken up and tightly regulated. The survival of #democracy and civility depend on it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/26/google-facebook-regulation-ftc-settlement

Totally awesome.

"Creator of fake presidential seal hails 'absolute hero'. . ."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/26/trump-fake-presidential-seal-charles-leazott

#45 #puppet #us

@Ste1lar Yup. That's why I said I did not know if that is how you personally feel or not. 😉

@Ste1lar Yup.