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: 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".