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Just a quick note, as previously noted, our SSL certificates were due to expire. Due to various headaches involving issues changing our DNS records, and my personal unavailability, we were unable to renew our certificates in time. Right now, soylentnews.org is running on a LetsEncrypt certificate that was issued after quite a bit of pain. We're still trying to fix the fundamental issues that prevented us from being issued a two year Gandi certificate. Currently, I'm unable to resolve this issue more in-depth, but I've granted access to TheMightyBuzzard to be able help handle the necessary issues that caused the downtime. I will try to get a full writeup of the situation, but for the time being, the main site is up. Secondary services remain down due to the same renewal issues.
Apologies for any inconvenience,
NCommander
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:43AM (12 children)
The VT100 theme is broke. Too bad, the VT100 theme is my favorite.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:48AM (11 children)
Theme looks the same as always for me. Plus the browser is saying the site has a valid certificate now.
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:08AM (10 children)
Strange. VT220 works, VT100 is get on white for me. Using CyanogenMod now, will try on a desktop.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:34AM
VT100 (green on black) works for me as usual.
As usual, thanks to all the wonderful volunteers that keep this site going!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:46AM (8 children)
Almost certainly a caching issue.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:32AM (7 children)
Not sure, just witched back to VT100 and it's working now. Cool.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:40AM (6 children)
> witched
So you had to use magic to fix it? :)
(Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 01 2018, @08:09AM
Judging from his comment, I suspect the issue was corrected automagically.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:11PM (4 children)
Never underestimate the utility of voodoo when fixing something technical.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @08:28PM (3 children)
Yep, works like a charm on the economy...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @08:43PM (2 children)
Makes perfect sense, really. I mean the currency is based entirely on magic, so you should be able to magic any of the economy up.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @09:01PM (1 child)
Actually the bedrock of any 'economy' is faith. Magic = "I don't know"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 02 2018, @12:34AM
Well yeah but faith = "I don't know" as well, just with the addendum " but I believe anyway".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:46AM (5 children)
I fell out of bed. Literally. I'm blaming the cat, but I found myself falling to the floor. Picked myself up, went to the bathroom, poured a coffee, and sat down at the desk. Log in, look at the browser, and refresh the page. SSL warning. Couple sips of coffee, and I pull up extensions, to tell HTTPS Everywhere to make an exception for Soylent. Go back to the tab, and refresh - there's your post at the top of the list.
So - did the exception work? I guess I'll never know.
Need moar coffee . . .
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:00AM
I guess we're officially exceptional now then.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:30AM (3 children)
Well... I had to go read that other (/.) site for 2 minutes while you guys figured it out, and my IQ dropped 20 points because of that.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:49AM (2 children)
I still read /. headlines on the crapper (Not the comments though, because why? We took the best of the community with us when we split.). I've already read everything worth reading at my desktop, so...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday July 01 2018, @11:31AM (1 child)
I had made a few enemies over there too. Probably best not hang around where I wasn't wanted.
I love a good discussion... and a lot of times the other people bring up things I had not considered, and often changing my take on it.
But the flamebait name calling... I do not like stooping to that level unless the discussion concerns Congressmen, RIAA, or Microsoft.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:14PM
Flame wars and name calling are the spice in an otherwise bland discussion. There's room for both intelligence and entertaining jackassery in any discussion worth having.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:10AM
It finally made me look into faketime command. For example:
faketime -f "-2 months" wget https://soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]
Some will say it could also be:
wget --no-check-certificate https://soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]
But if the tool doesn't want to let you override certicates, and it can fall to LD_PRELOAD tricks, faketime is a good solution. Better than changing the clock for everything, which means NTP has to be stopped and file stamps will also "time travel".
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:30AM (5 children)
How do you have so much trouble renewing a certificate, much less a Let's Encrypt one?
I'd be interested in hearing the technical details of what caused this.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 5, Funny) by RS3 on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:52AM (1 child)
It involves the ACME protocol and a pesky roadrunner.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:56AM
Truth [youtube.com].
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:55AM (2 children)
Well, NCommander will have to fill you in on the Gandi cert but what happened with LE was Linode quit pulling soylentnews.org zone updates from boron for some reason while I was figuring out the proper TXT entries to add, so no DNS challenge possibility for a new cert from them. I dunno if it was something I did or something fubar on Linode's end but I'll give it another shot tomorrow to see if we can get a "soylentnews.com,*.soylentnews.com,sylnt.us,*.sylnt.us" cert and just pass it around to all the various boxes that need it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Sunday July 01 2018, @03:01AM (1 child)
Would this help? https://certbot.eff.org/ [eff.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @03:28AM
Not especially but thanks for the link. They're all "no http challenges for wildcard certs" and I'm not automating something that fucks with our nameserver (too much potential for epic breakage), so I'll just be updating it every couple months by hand.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:34AM (2 children)
For whatever reason, I had www.soylentnews.org in my bookmark. That still isn't working. Dropped the www, and everything is working fine now.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:57AM
Yeah, we don't use www. Haven't for ages.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:12AM
www works on Chrome, but it redirects or drops the www.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday July 01 2018, @05:34AM
at 22:33 PDT https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] still down in Firefox.
Perhaps this is caching problems.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1) by AlwaysNever on Sunday July 01 2018, @10:00AM (3 children)
I'll blame that Gentoo thing you guys chose to use to run the site.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday July 01 2018, @10:25AM (2 children)
I'll blame Microsoft for buying GitHub.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:16PM
I blame Quebec. That way I get to blame Canada and the French at the same time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday July 02 2018, @03:43AM
I blame GitHub for selling out to Microsoft.