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Automatic Updates

We have instructions for setting up new Tor relays on Debian. The only time the word “upgrade” is mentioned here is: Be sure to set your ContactInfo line so we can contact you if you need to upgrade or something goes wrong. This isn’t great. We should have some decent instructions for keeping your relay up to date too. I’ve been compiling a set of documentation for enabling automatic updates on various Linux distributions, here’s a taste of what I have so far:

Webpage Load Times

gordonjcp ╡ irl: jesus christ, scale your fucking images My last post about the adventure to the Donmouth Local Nature Reserve turned out to have a total page size of 69.2MB. Oops. I’m new to using Ghost as a blogging platform, and in the past blogging platforms have scaled images for me. It turns out that Ghost does not do this. There is currently an open issue on GitHub discussing this but I don’t think this feature will be appearing at any point soon.