Our Mastodon server stopped working after around 22:37 UTC time yesterday. It appears Mastodon spun out of control consuming lots of CPU, disk and memory. It locked up the server with a massive amount of I/O. There isn't a lot of information about what happened since logging stopped persisting to storage shortly after it started. It was quickly detected by our service monitoring but we just weren't around to fix it for 7 hours. It's working again after a server restart but nothing was changed.

Lol Florian is big mad because I called him out for defending a Nazi salute and spreading AfD (German Neo-Nazi party) propaganda.

It's true though, I do dislike him for other reason. I've disliked him ever since 2020 when I had to unfollow him for posting MAGA nonsense. I then disliked him even more when he decided not to respect my decision to leave Twitter and kept reposting my posts there without my permission while simultaneously mocking my decision to leave, and now that he's gone full blown mask-off neo-Nazi, I dislike him close to the maximum amount I can dislike a person.

What is the shape of lightning? Not as we usually see it, in all its jagged forking beauty, but in cross-section. Are those formations cylindrical? Hexagonal? I'd love to hear your thoughts.