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posted by martyb on Thursday August 22 2019, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the say-that-five-times-fast dept.

I just finished updating the certs for SoylentNews.

We get our certs through Let's Encrypt. Yes, we could automate the whole process, but it has been discussed and decided that given our... unique configuration, it is best to have a human in the loop than to let a script somehow run amok and then try to restore things when who-all-knows-what got deployed and things have gone sideways.

I have checked our web sites for production, dev, and staff as well as sending and retrieving e-mail; all seemed to be okay.

More than anything else, this is a check on us to see if we (well, me, actually) overlooked anything. If you do detect any issues, please post a comment to this story.

(Hat tip to The Mighty Buzzard for standing by in case I bollixed up something.)

[Update: Unless, of course, you cannot post a comment to this story! Then pop onto the #Soylent channel on our Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server and let us know over there. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday August 22 2019, @11:15PM (1 child)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Thursday August 22 2019, @11:15PM (#883834) Journal

    Well, thanks again to martyb, and to the rest of the team.

    I'll just put in another plug for my attempt [soylentnews.org] to drive some new subscriptions to this site (as well as people already subscribed to donate a bit more). There's a link in that journal post to a more detailed explanation, as my primary motivation was to build on goodwill after this very quick site recovery last week.

    Unfortunately, the comments devolved into a crapfest of BS argumentation, which honestly makes me sad.

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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday August 23 2019, @02:53AM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 23 2019, @02:53AM (#883898) Journal

    I very much appreciate your most generous subscription and attempt to build interest in others doing the same. I wish you the best on that one!

    What I am unable to contribute in money, I have tried to make up for in other ways. Obviously, my contributions as an editor here stands out, but there are other things as well. I don't have nearly enough time to actually read the site as I would like, but when I do, I am also mindful that performing comment moderation is a contribution, too. We hand out 10 mod points every day at 00:10 UTC &mdash for a reason: use them to help your fellow soylentils to find the wheat amongst the chaff.

    Another helpful contribution is to post a comment. Fact-filled, reasoned comments are a real gift for me to read in this day and age of fake news.

    Lastly, submit a story! Was reading something on-line that you thought was interesting, informative, or entertaining and that had some kind of technological angle to it? Please! Send. It. In. The Submit Story [soylentnews.org] link appears on the left-hand side of the main page (and many other pages, too). On the submission page is a link to suggestions on how to craft a well-written story and, thus, improve the chances of its getting accepted for posting to the site.

    --
    Wit is intellect, dancing.