Now that my solution for auto deleting WordPress comments has been tested for a couple of weeks, this post is to share the code. This will probably be merged with other shared configurations on a dedicated page in the future. The Problem: Automated bots don’t respect robots.txt and spammers find ways of bypassing spam lists.…

Finally, the image server is back online. This was by far the worst update yet… First, it was postgresql which underwent a major version change which happens every 5 years. This involved breaking changes and rendered the image database useless until properly migrated. Big learning curve. Then, there was a necessary extension which became flagged…

I knew it wouldn’t last long. The downgrade to make postgresql work and get immich back online has failed yet again with a dependancy of postgresql being upgraded… so the image server is back offline and the greuling upgrade of postgres is unavoidable… I wish I had time to delve into it today, but it’ll…

It’s been a crazy week for time, never mind the fact time is fluid and flexible. People have always observed time, but modern society obsesses on minutes and seconds being in sync ever since railroad time… then there’s Daylight Savings Time. Last weekend, it was time to Fall back an hour. For whatever reason, some…

Time is not linear. One knows this from dealing with death and dying. But in terms of a server and live video, time becomes uprooted, almost implied instead of defined. Streams have no specific beginning, no standard size or speed, and the data doesn’t even have to be audio visual. The possibilities are endless, but…

A brief progress report. Times are changing and much has happened here at skysurfer.media – for one, the migration to a new server is complete! I now boast almost 2Gbps unmetered egress and enough processing power to handle multiple streams and multiple viewers. Although I am the sole user, this means there should be no…

It just goes to show you don’t always get what you pay for… Ionos appeared to have a good price for the processing power on their VPS but there were hidden charges for additional features (that would be necessary), the network was more limited, and the OS a representative assured me of was not available.…

So, the time has come to change hosting providers and that will entail moving an entire operating system to a different data center in another city. This is much like moving a house, not a trivial task. I have had the same IP and server location in Fremont, CA since 2017 when I moved from…

Photoprism failed on upgrade. Librephotos is molasses slow on docker – fail. Going to try Picapport next – Every self-hosted photo management solution has failed for one reason or another – too many images, unsupported file types, no videos, no public web option, too basic, etc… Mail currently needs fixing, too. And, Current Status needs…

skysurfer.media So much to do. But things are better since I gave up deadlines for goals. They’re easier to keep. So much for launching this site in June… but things are happening, all the same. Still using WordPress but it’s really bloated and it has it’s own set of security issues despite being difficult to…

Finally, 25,981 images uploaded to the cloud – indexing should be completed tomorrow or the next day. Then, one mass search for images to remove and I’ll start putting the best back out to the public… thinking about using pigallery and maybe even removing wordpress – all public images are going into a random pool…

18,000 photos transferred 8,000 still to go ~ 7 or 8 hours left …and the server is cranking away at postprocessing. So far, it appears there are some duplicates and video files will need manual intervention. Also, auto tagging is worthless – I might make a post about this, the failing of “AI” – apparently,…