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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 15 2019, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the stuff-happens dept.

Earlier this morning (around 0520 UTC) we experienced a sequence of faults which we do not, yet, fully understand. Unfortunately this coincided with several key admins being asleep as they should be.

Several of the team started to try to recover the site but all the obvious efforts failed to have the desired results (e.g. restarting the failed software and switching it all off and back on again). Chromas took the lead in this but he was unable to resolve the problems. SemperOSS showed up next and made a mighty effort but things failed to cooperate. Martyb was next in and checked on status of our servers and a few other things but ultimately could not provide much assistance.

TheMightyBuzzard turned up at his usual time and he and SemperOSS set to work trying to recover the site. After a long slog it became apparent that the existing software had suffered some form of corruption and that a simple recovery was not going to be possible. The decision was finally made to restore to yesterday's snapshot, but this comes with a downside. All the stories, comments, and journal entries since that snapshot was taken (approximately 2019-08-14 22:02:36 UTC) have been lost. This is regrettable but under the circumstances unavoidable.

Some of you joined us on IRC and provided real or moral support to those carrying out the recovery task. Others sent us emails informing us of the outage and we also received offers of help. For this we thank you. We also thank our community at large for your patience while we carried out the work that needed to be done. The investigation into what happened has still to be done and will take some time to do. The site is now up again, but as we are not 100% sure what caused the problem we cannot guarantee that the site will function properly and we will have to wait a day or two to be confident that we have resolved the issue.

We tried to keep everyone updated on our progress on our IRC channel but, if you could not get there, then there was little else we could do to update you on our progress. Displaying a short 'Site Down' message actually exacerbated the problems so we decided that it was better to leave the database alone until the problems had been resolved.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to the guys who did all the work under difficult circumstances. Their efforts are appreciated. We used the usual piece of software on IRC to find out who should bear the blame for this debacle (~blame) — it responded with the only name it has in its choice of staff. Bytram!

 
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  • (Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday August 16 2019, @04:02PM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Friday August 16 2019, @04:02PM (#881144) Journal

    Hi, thank you for responding. And of course your work on the site. There is a nugget of extremly important information at the bottom as a reward fyi.

    There is a good kind of batshit crazy, it's also known as 'thinking outside of the box' sometimes. I am more of a person trying to destroy or radically modify the box as well. People ask me 'what am i smoking' and I respond, nothing, I am just thinking you should try it sometime. Calling something or someone crazy before attempting to ask them a single question about why they are doing what they are doing is, I also think, anti-intellectual.\

    What do you think would happen if timothy leary or terrence mckenna or marshal mcluhan or bill hicks or hunter s thompson or kurt vonnegut or john lennon or david foster wallace were here? Imagine. Long sentences or experimental grammar are signs of intelligence, modification of the language, and it makes the brain feel....differently when reading it. I mean, isn't this always a quality of good writing and reasoning, it stimulates you in a way that is hard to discribe? In our culture this is a major type of brain control, to get people to reject ideas without consideration, a massive campaign of thought terminating cliches.

    I do not have mental health issues, besides the accumulated effects of state and private surveillance and zersetzung tactics that have been used against me nearly my entirely life. I will answer all questions about this and the stories I have to tell are extremely indicative about how the system works to silent dissidents without anyone knowing anything was done at all. It should scare you. It is scary.

    But I meditate regularly and when I start experiencing anything I can't handle internally I'll let you know.

    If there is a quality I think I share with MDC, I think it is the capacity for true free thought and speech without fear(also known as "balls") and I would like to see more people give it a try. If you want to talk about the truth, you have to talk about it like you have nothing to lose. Also, I have just noticed, and I think this is a good thing, that everyone on the internet may have spoken, but my idea still will not be represented in the thread. Writers are supposed to do this, this is what original writing is, adding something to the discussion that is valuable and not yet heard, and I would prefer not to be shamed for it. I want to be told I am wrong and why if I am, not have people stand back and point fingers at the wierdo who dares to actually try to be original.

    MDC's poverty was due to his illness, mine is due to being secretly attacked by spies, there is a big difference.

    Read the 'Important definitions' page on my website then tell me what I get wrong, and what you find helpful, and from that please determine who and what i am not some armchair blind diagnosis from a distance.(also why i left reddit, everything i posted was eventually responded to with accusations i was insane or on drugs and this is a tactic the use of which puts you in bed with people I think you would rather not be.

    Insane people write horrible essays generally and have difficult times explaining themselves, I bank my sanity entirely on the writing on my static site if necessary. Tell me what i say that is crazy and I will discuss it with you all day long but dismissing without thought is, again, anti-intelletual and I came here to have an intellectual discussion.

    New developments, sorry it's so long.

    1 my bus this morning was shut down 300m before my stop with a red light on the dash that driver could not explain. this is also what happened to my honda crv before i left the usa.

    2 when i was handing out flyers i was definitely surveilled while talking with someone by 3 people who took 5 minutes of selfies of a euro gallerie sign for no reason 3 feet from us.

    3 walking home a low flying airplane crossed my direct path, i was unable to get a photo before it flew into the sun

    4 my nordvpn account is cancelled and out of order as of today, first time that has ever happened. this indicates without doubt that nordvpn is not a legitimate company and everyone using it needs to be warned.

    See I told you there would be a nugget of objective value :)

    And if you want to help me find a nugget of value, why was my demonstration in amsterdam not news anywhere? Can you or anyone even confirm it happened to prove I'm not making it up? Why not, rather than pointing fingers and throwing labels around willy nilly, actually put what I'm saying to the test and find out for yourself?

    What if someone else tomorrow starts a campaign to shut down victoria's secret and claim they thought of it first, and that gets turned into a branch of the victoria's secret corporation to actually PREVENT the investigation and traffic more 13 year olds to elderly creeps for fun and profit on huge yachts?

    That's the level I'm playing at, what level are you up to? Where do you stand? What kind of person are you really, do you care about other people and living in a society where the weak and innocent are protected rather than food?

    ps torbrowser for this site is kindof bad, i get a dark text box which is good, with a white background which is very bad and makes it unusable.