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posted by martyb on Sunday June 07 2015, @07:15PM   Printer-friendly

We are having some difficulties with the site at the moment. We are aware that there is an error being presented about our certificate being expired. We are working on it and appreciate your patience while we iron this out.

Interim measure #1: try to use the non-secure link to the site http://soylentnews.org
Interim measure #2: Accept the expired cert, but be sure to uncheck the 'Permanently store this exception' checkbox (this may not be available to you on very recent versions of Firefox).

If you have other suggestions on workarounds, please submit as a comment. Be certain we are doing all we can to get the site back up and running!

[Update] NCommander reports that: "New SSL certificate has been installed and the site no longer generates certificate errors. I'm continuing to do work to get performance for Firefox to be decent."

[Update 2]: A revised frontend proxy is nearly operational and ready to go into service which will resolve performance issues for firefox

 
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  • (Score: 1) by throwaway28 on Monday June 08 2015, @11:34AM

    by throwaway28 (5181) on Monday June 08 2015, @11:34AM (#193604) Journal

    Why not? The simulation can take any form and any rules the AI desires.

    If we're in your simulation, we're not in my simulation.

    Lotsa rules have been measured to extremely high precision. Conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, conservation of electric charge, stability of constants over time. Recently, the fine structure constant was determined to stay constant, within 16 or 17 decimal places, over the span of a year. http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/117 [aps.org]

    If rules were constantly being broken on a macroscopic scale just because Roko's basilisk hates someone, it wouldn't be possible in the first place, to measure anything to 16 decimal places of accuracy.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 08 2015, @01:06PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday June 08 2015, @01:06PM (#193625) Homepage

    The idea doesn't state that we're in one of these torture-chamber simulations now, but that we'll be resurrected as a simulation to be tortured in the future if we don't do enough to help create Roko's Basilisk now, in what (for want of a better term) we call reality.

    If rules were constantly being broken on a macroscopic scale just because Roko's basilisk hates someone, it wouldn't be possible in the first place, to measure anything to 16 decimal places of accuracy.

    What macroscopic "rules" would have to be broken?

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk