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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 18/09/2026

Heck, somebody must be reposting movies or something- our cache storage has jumped by 412GB in the last 7 days ^.=.^;;;

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Zeimyth ΘΔ @zeimyth.dragonchat.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Lots of chatter about Drag'n Wash lately. Folks are forgetting that you can wash your dragon anywhere! Just be careful; if you choose a river or lake somewhere, it could quickly devolve into a water fight. Art by @MatchaPeaches #Dragons

A white bipedal dragon and a green quadrupedal dragon standing in a river. The green dragon is rearing up onto his hind legs with his wings down and forward in a splashing motion. The white dragon has an arm raised to shield himself from the splash. On the riverbank is a bucket and a brush with suds. Soap bubbles float around in the sky.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 12/09/2026

Rawr! Due to an ongoing flood of bots attempting to sign up (right now I've got 178 in the "pending" queue), registration to Dragonchat is temporarily closed. However! Current users are still able to provide invite codes (go to "Preferences" -> "Invite people"). If you would like to invite a […]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 13/08/2026

Rawr, Dragons! Thanks for your patience! Dragonchat is now running happily on an upgraded database and the latest version of Mastodon. Thanks for being part of this derg haven! - Talon ^.=.^

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 10/08/2026

Rawr, dragons! It's been a while, but it's time for some maintenance! On 8/12/26 beginning around 9pm MDT Dragonchat will be going offline in order to finish a database upgrade, as well as moving to the newest Mastodon version. Downtime will last a few hours and as always I'll keep everyone […]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 07/07/2026

Internet at the lair has been out for 4 days now. Thankfully I’ve got other locations I can work from, but with AWU coming up shortly the timing couldn’t have been more inconvenient…

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 13/05/2026

[Macro cuddling] RE: meow.social/@kurrikage/116568697093… As you can see the room is still mostly intact, no reason to stop until it's outgrown <3

meow.social

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 27/04/2026

Was not expecting to receive a text from my 65yo dad tonight: "Is Magic the gathering a video game? Board game? Or something else?"

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 09/04/2026

We're back! Quick little downtime, droplet is resized and ready for the db upgrade. That'll probably happen next week.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 08/04/2026

Data team complaining about access issues, blaming it on AWS (it's actually firewall rules). Insisted on a support case to figure it out. I spend the next 3 days trying to convince AWS to look at it, even though we both know it's not them. Finally get them on […] [Original post on dragonchat.org]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 03/04/2026

Unexpected question of the day: Do I want to embark on being a DBA instead for the next 5+ years :|

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 31/03/2026

Discovering it's rather difficult to copy 25.8gb of postgres database into ~6gb of free space... On the plus side, DigitalOcean will give us an extra 30gb for free? Weird but ok. Just gotta schedule some extended downtime now.

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Zeimyth ΘΔ @zeimyth.dragonchat.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

St. Patrick's Day is the day when everyone is jealous that they aren't a green dragon.

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cotton candy derg ΘΔ @barkshark.xyz · 19/02/2026

what if dragons, but more dragon

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 29/01/2026

Me: Gonna spruce up my website, I'm not an expert but let's try making the background change color. Also me: What if I added Oauth to this page so I can adjust text on the fly?

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 27/01/2026

Unrelated, DigitalOcean's "App Platform" sucks as a maintenance page. Spent the first 10 minutes of downtime trying to get it to accept DC's traffic before giving up.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 27/01/2026

...Well that was probably the quickest "major update" we've ever had. Dragonchat's patched, updated, and running again, in under 30 minutes! Have a great night dergs ^.=.^

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 24/01/2026

Time to update the siiiiiiite! Gonna take Dragonchat offline on Monday, 1/26 at 9pm MST. Since this is a more "major" update (4.4 to 4.5) the site may be down for a couple of hours. I'll make sure to keep everyone update on the progress as it goes.

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Here be Dragons and Whatnot @herebedragonsss.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Alrighty, first of the photo-draw over commissions is up! Definitely over-rendered this, oops :'D Here is a very large @jrain.bsky.social emerging from behind a waterfall. What was he doing back there? Giant dragon things, no doubt. #art #dragon #furry #macro

Digital illustration of a massive blue anthropomorphic dragon emerging from behind a waterfall. The figure is a digitally drawn over a photo. The dragon is hundreds of feet tall, and his smooth skin is glossy with water. His lower half is partially obscured by the waterfall which runs down his legs in torrents, splashing off big blue plate-like scales on his thighs. A thick tail lined with fins snakes out from behind him and is cupped upward. Mist obscures his feet. He is looking down with a friendly smile at two characters on the rocks below. They are absolutely dwarfed by his immense size.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 05/01/2026

While it’s always a bummer when a storage drive goes bad, at least I can be glad that it was a redundant disk on a secondary backup system. …I have too many servers. #datahoard #dragonhoard

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 18/12/2025

Spotify Wrapped Youtube Wrapped Discord Checkpoint Marco-Polo Wrapped Mastodon Wrapped LinkedIn Wrapped ... Now I'm getting emails at work from a security vendor- "Observability Wrapped". Why is this trending so hard XD

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 11/12/2025

Mastodon 4.5 has been out for a few weeks, I know! The holiday season has been busy on a few fronts, but we'll probably make the jump after Christmas. This will require a bit of downtime due to some updated software requirements.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 01/12/2025

Work has a hack-a-thon project going on. Fairly normal stuff... Except for the part where my boss wants us to showcase the demo in a Terminator-themed music video??

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 13/11/2025

Praise whoever included dataset snapshots as a feature in TrueNAS, just avoided losing a ton of files.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 11/11/2025

Been so busy I forgot it was Dragonchat's 3rd birthday on November 8! Happy belated birthday, and to everyone here thanks for being a part of it <3

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 31/10/2025

Dragonchat has welcomed 7 new users in the last week. Where'd y'all come from?? Also, welcome!

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 29/10/2025

2am. Managed to duct-tape things back together enough to where I can revisit in the morning. Ugh, why does Proxmox make things so convoluted. Also IDSDMs are the worst.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 29/10/2025

Me: “Wow I’m free tonight, let’s play some games.” Homelab server: “What if I eat my install disk instead?” :dragngrimace:

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 23/09/2025

Had to kick the tires on Dragonchat, something got stuck. Should be back up now, apologies!

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 19/09/2025

Found some new friends on the roof of this small skyscraper! (The rest of the city is fine... probably.) A raffle sketch from the fantastic @BlurTheFur ^.-.^

Talon is city-sized and is peeking over the top of a skyscraper at some people on the roof. Where's the rest of the city? Probably underneath but it's ok, dragons can sit where they want.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 22/08/2025

Rawr, dragons! Hope your night is going well! Dragonchat is officially on Mastodon 4.4.3, AND is on a brand-new vm! This means we can finally close the book on the "oops no more storage" problem from last year, hooray! And now we shouldn't have any more major downtime for a while ^.=.^ There […]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 22/08/2025

Dragonchat's gonna go down in a few minutes! Get ready!

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 18/08/2025

Rawr, dragons and dragon lovers! As you may be aware, Mastodon 4.4 has been out for a bit! I've been doing some prep work behind the scenes, since this is a more major bump, but we're getting close to upgrade time! Thursday (8/21) beginning at 8pm MDT, Dragonchat will be going offline for a few […]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 18/07/2025

Dragonchat's been super quiet on my phone for months. Finally realized an update turned off notifications for everything ^.=.^;

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 10/07/2025

DERG HAS FIBER INTERNET IT'S SO FAST :dragnhappy: Hardest part was cancelling the old service. Had to spend 15 minutes convincing Comcast/Xfinity that yes, I do want to cancel. No, I don't need a "special deal" you just found. Just cancel. No, I already got the other service. No, I don't want […]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 08/07/2025

Mastodon 4.4 just dropped. Gonna be some big backend changes, oof... Might have to schedule some downtime soon and migrate everything to a new droplet.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 03/07/2025

Me: *Orders 4 of an item from Amazon* Amazon: *Sends 3* Me: Hey, I'm missing 1 item. Amazon AI bot: Let's fix this! You can either have a full refund or 4 more. Wat.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 23/06/2025

Guess who finally got scheduled for a fiber install? THIS DERG! #fiberinternet #xfinitysucks

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 12/06/2025

Dragons continue to rawr as the rest of the internet falls apart :3

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 06/06/2025

I'm now the main point of contact for redis at my job. I know approximately one (1) thing about redis. Who put me in charge??

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 21/05/2025

Devops question time! I'm (once again) attempting to learn how kubernetes works. I've got a 3-node environment set up on my homelab (1 control plane, 2 workers). --- To my understanding, if I wanted to connect to an nginx pod, I would need a ContainerPort, a NodePort service to point at that […]

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 15/04/2025

Curse whoever designed the Surface Book. Not only having to replace the ssd and battery, but now a display ribbon cable that couldn’t handle being unbent. Haven’t been able to join discord calls or streams for two weeks :(

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 09/04/2025

I think the ssd in my laptop is a little worn out...

CrystalDiskMark testing software with the results of an ssd test. It's slower than molasses.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 08/04/2025

*Disassembles Surface Book* *Tries to look up repair steps, on Surface Book* …Oh.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 31/03/2025

Next up for Dragon-ification: This little guy! They show up on the announcements widget, and really should be a dragon ^.=.^

The Mastodon "announcement" image, currently an elephant. Could be a dragon.

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Talon Windstryke @talon.dragonchat.org · 31/03/2025

For the last day of #MacroMarch let's go out with a thunderous bang! The thunder of course being me standing over more and more of your city >:3 Comm from a few years back by @blockmanthree ^.=.^

Talon standing over a city, using the power of the storm to grow even more colossal

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