Status update, August 2020
August has been a month of revival. Six months of staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on most aspects of my life. I’m fortunate enough to remain employed. Working from home had introduced its unique set of challenges. Things like staying motivated and focused were especially hard during the earlier months.
I moved, at the end of April, out of my brother’s and into an apartment with a friend of mine. After three and a half months living here, I’ve learned some lessons for the next time I move in with someone. Hopefully, I won’t have to worry about it and in about 5 years I’m thinking about being a homeowner. I like Minneapolis enough to stay here.
Black Lives Matter.
All lives don't matter until black lives do.
Donate to Families of Police Brutality Victims
- Support George Floyd’s family
- Support Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend
- Support Ahmaud Arbery’s mother
- Support Tony McDade’s family
- Support David McAtee’s mother and family
Donate to Independent Media Organizations
- Support independent media like Unicorn Riot
Donate to Support Protests
- The Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund raises money for physical resources, bail, and medical care for black, transgender protestors, which will be redistributed to black, trans-led organizations.
- The NAACP Legal Defense Fund supports racial justice through advocacy, litigation, and education.
- The Legal Rights Center, a non-profit law firm based in Minneapolis, offering legal defense, educational, and advocacy services.
- The Black Vision Collective in Minneapolis, a black, trans, and queer-led social justice organization and legal fund that provides education and training in black and brown communities.
- The Know Your Rights Camp, an organization founded by Colin Kaepernick that provides education and training in black and brown communities has set up a legal fund for Minneapolis.
Support Organizations Working Against Police Abuse
- MPD 150, a participatory, horizontally-organized effort by local organizers, researchers, artists, and activists helping organizers in other cities to establish practical abolitionist strategies.
- Showing Up for Racial Justice works to educate white people about anti-racism and organizes actions to support the fight for racial justice and undermine white supremacy.
Support Rebuilding Efforts
- Support the Cities provides information on Lake Street clean up and grocery donations.
Provide Community Support
- We Love Lake Street gathers donations for small businesses and non-profits on Lake Street in Minneapolis, to help with the clean-up efforts, as is the West Broadway Business and Area Coalition.
This page will grow over time. Check back.
Mitigating Pi-hole ISE 500 Error on the "Long term data - Query Log"
When selecting a large date range on the long term data Query Log, say
last 30 or even last 7 days, I’d be greeted with the following error
message and some more information in Lighttpd’s logs.
And the relevant line in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log:
2020-06-07 19:40:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.421) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10489856 bytes) in /var/www/html/admin/api_db.php on line 422
Request Tracker: Automatically Set Ticket Owner to Specific User
Request Tracker is an insanely powerful ticketing system. I started using RT about 6 months ago, and I’ve been absolutely enjoying every hour of it. About 2 months ago, I used a guide on the RT Wiki titled AutoSetOwner to automatically set every new ticket’s owner to myself, on my personal hosted instance of RT. It works great!
Now, since I’m more or less the only IT person at this company, it’s safe to assume that any ticket in the IT Projects, or certain other queues should belong to me. So I adapted the AutoSetOwner scrip to automatically set the owner of a new ticket to myself, on certain queues. I have to admit, since I don’t know Perl hardly at all, it took a little trial and error to get this right, fortunately RT’s logs came in useful and I now have a working scrip!
VeganMSP.com
Late one evening, I was having dinner with some vegan friends of mine at Comet Cafe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Comet is a relatively punky-style small diner in the Lower East Side. We stopped in Milwaukee for dinner after spending about 16 hours on the road. The three of us had all rode together to a small vegan get-together in Knoxville, Tennessee.
This article was originally published on the old blog on 2018-09-03. It was republished here on the new blog on 2019-10-28, since I hadn’t mentioned VeganMSP.com before and I feel it’s one of my more important projects.