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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait, what's happening with solarpunk.net?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Admin is out of their area due to work and the firewall server or something died completely preventing them from remotely accessing anything to bring it back up and also preventing using their backup (per a post I read a few hours ago).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ahhh, that sounds like a frustrating issue, I hope they're able to get it resolved before too long

Thank you for filling me in! :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apparently gonna be a couple weeks :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Well shit... Glad I'm on 3 different instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Literally came here looking for this thanks!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Too bad there aren't servers that come with mechanical arms that you can remotely control.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There used to be...

I have seen servers with optical drives rigged to press the power button of another server when the drive ejects it's tray.

Just SSH into it and run the eject command, wait a few min, run it again, then run it twice again.

This would make it hold the button to power it off, release the button, and push it quickly again to power up the machine.

Note that you need the old desktop style of optical drive with a powered tray for this to work

[–] threelonmusketeers 8 points 4 days ago

optical drives rigged to press the power button of another server

That's simultaneously janky and genius. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Hmm, that would really send a message to all my enemies...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that what they were "jousting" with at the beginning of the movie "Hackers?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I don't remember the scene, so I can't say.

Love the movie though!

Hack the planet!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I have great news for you, because that absolutely exists :)

Patch robot at DE-CIX (The largest european IXP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKaPKRggBM
Skip to 53 seconds to see it in action

With this you can physically reroute to another connection or server if something dies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Until the robot itself burns out and is unresponsive as well 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

That's okay, they have a robot to do maintenance on the robot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I would hope not. If that thing burns, then a large portion of Europe's internet comes crashing down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Remote hands are extra.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Is IPMI/iLO/IDRAC close enough?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

This here is Reason #1 why consolidation is antithetical to the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

"Warning. Local radiation readings suggest the Aurora's drive core has reached critical state. Quantum detonation will occur within 2 hours."