Changing Priorities Wildly

Things have not been easy in the last 3 months, and that might have been noticed to some level of degree by my latest presence. Life called up, a higher priority due to family reasons. I had to adapt... apologies if that disappointed some. Can't do much about it... beside just learn about it.

(source)

Since then it has been a shuffle between things I like to do, work, personal life and strategic thinking on what I can help with. I am still around, and once possible (actually more like in a very spiky way, where you might see Hive account@forkyishere getting a "I need this moment" 😄). He's out there always, listening... mostly at very BAD hours... 😪

It was never my intention to reduce time and dedication (and as much as possible of what I wish to continue, will as I can).

Not due to the latest news at all, OK? Not related... I, fortunately, don't need to care about it... just look at my stake history and you will quickly understand.

It's just a lack OF Time in this case, and this phase will pass, and I will come back as hard as I can. In fact, I would even bet that this "contraventional" blockchain blurp, will be probably one of the last opportunities to get hard on things if you can. 🤔 DYOR ALWAYS! 😉

I will be around, OK?... but probably less active until February next year. Life demands things from you as a parent and family fighter that you can't expect/predict. I can't stress how important that is for Everyone forging their "new" family. Enjoy while you can, is my recommendation.

The blockchain industry might be changing...

It's quite simple in the human world, in fact. The more damage it takes, the more society reacts and hopefully will come to a consensus effort on making things different, in order to change the previous outcome.

We are here for so long (most of us) and we will continue to be... but there is a major change that will drive visionaries to shift their thoughts for a moment. The world is getting into that state of "decentralized" consensus many of us so much would love to see, and that under everyone's noses, unnoticed and still unvalued, without much understanding, like in the first 3/4 years of bitcoin. This will start to shape, even if in a "corrupt" centralization of some sort that is just apparent to the "lawmakers".

Yes, more of the same (corruption and corporation control) will continue but things are hurting the ones that thought this was just a joke, and now that it's making more sense in their heads, turning things into becoming more real.

Hopefully, some "sharding" thoughts will come out of this... 💨🤣

I am just happy for more than just a few years of never again daring to lose any further "crypto" due to having funds on exchanges. Learned my lesson in 2014... 😍😎😁

REDUCE YOUR RISK as best practice...

Distribute what your outcomes have been by using decentralization and make sure you don't get biased by FUD...

...right, on to my last update (maybe) of things into this year... (if anything changes, I will do another one), stay safe!

2022 Efforts and Activities

For me to keep checking on what I am doing, mostly. If some are not achieved, then I will move them to 2023. It's important to document what you do.

✅ Upgrade my router+firewall
✅ MongoDB light-node (using Hive account@atexoras, and mostly for experiments)
✅ Do a bit of work on a script I have for the "archiving" of snapshots for when things go very bad (now offloaded to external drives)
✅ (ongoing) HPUD 3x 1k HIVE delegations giveaways + NFT teaser
✅ (ongoing) Occasionally go to people voting for LONG-stale witnesses and do a bit of voting awareness.
✅ Support at least one DHF project (with technical advice, review and/or direction) - I think I overachieved this one... ~~currently~~ did 4 at least!!! and I enjoyed every moment of learning/helping on it.
✅ Continue exploring SSL based traffic use-cases in order to make benefit from 3rd party tools/solutions like Cloudflare and minimize node exposure
✅ Add the Hive-Engine History node (https://he.atexoras.com:8443)
✅ IPv6 (light and full node now using IPv6 too, with IPv4 for backward compatibility)
~~💭(maybe)~~ ❌(deprecated due to realistic outcome) revive the google drive snapshots service for light nodes (only makes sense if the number of users running light-nodes increases exponentially) - might change this one to personal storage since ISP connection is going to increase.
✅ Maintain Honeycomb type nodes as active as possible on DLUX, 3Speak and Ragnarok side-chains. Support them as possible.
✅ Create an internal IPFS node to support Honeycomb side-chains (internally at first and primarily)
✅ Explore ZFS (requires more memory) as a potential replacement for XFS - Done! Totally worth it!
✅ Successfully migrate to HF26 (actually HF27, we needed another one)
✅ Moved ~~almost~~ everything to ZFS now, ~~but will need a couple of months of curation towards how things work in order to tick this box.~~ 🦾
✅ Some optimizations at VM level to reduce overhead on the "getting old" platform and to accommodate the new connection capacity.

Also on my list, but initially longer-term things... and these get updated as I learn more from them and plan my time strategically!

✅ ISP upgrade 😍 - on Fiber and 10-20% less latency, with a symmetric link!
👁‍🗨 More 128GB to 256GB ram for new projects! - THIS COSTS!!!! 🤬
👁‍🗨 Newer CPUs (at least one new ~~16-core Zen3 by the end of 2022 is my objective,~~ but in addition, a new host might be on the list for smaller stuff) - not sure what yet will I choose but so far looks like a 50% chance between old gear (due cost savings) and something with DDR5 and a board that can take multiple CPU generations...
💥 (probably not going to happen) Trying to create a new Storage Cluster (Ceph most likely) of (3-5) x nodes... but there are no resources... 😣 This would be awesome for future growth and versatility - maybe a 2023 thing...

🖐️HIVE5's!

Have fun, good luck on all the gaming, learning, and when/if you are up to, teaching new things to newcomers, showing them how interesting is this place.

🤝 Follow me on Twitter

Hive account@forkyishere 😈 (Hive account@forykw dark side) is a character I created, emerged from Crimsonclad imagination 🙏 while dwelling over the dark dungeons of Discord chat levels.

Follow for #news about the #HIVE #Blockchain, and other stuff. I sometimes get crazy with what happens around social media. I am following all HIVE users! No promises of behaviour. 😁

In addition, if you are looking for a nice place to either reach out, share or just have a great time, come along to Hive account@atexoras.pub gatherings. We welcome everyone on the blockchain.

👉 Vote for Witnesses

(⚡Vote) - Hive-Engine here - voting uses staked WORKERBEE
(⚡Vote) - HIVE here - voting uses staked HIVE

(✍Delegate) - 3Speak Network - You win 0.015% SPK tokens if you delegate LARYNX to other nodes, as opposed to only 0.010% from your powered LARYNX!

Hive account@forykw is running 😎 Hive account@atexoras.witness on all the above 💪