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posted by martyb on Thursday June 25 2020, @11:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-goes-up dept.

This is to inform you we *are* aware of a problem with the site.

Symptom: The "Most Recent Journal Entries" box that normally appears on the right-hand-side of the main page is currently not currently displaying.

We have tried a few things, but have had no luck so far. We will update this story when we know more.

Problem first became apparent at about 17:45 UTC today.

Workaround: Use Search to look at the most recent journal entries. Specifically:

We will update this story when we know more. I have done all I (martyb) know how; hopefully TheMightyBuzzard will show up before too long and get things straightened out.

[Update-TMB]: The local mysqld instances on both web frontends both decided to be On The Crack for some reason or other. The database itself running over on the db servers was just fine and a restart of mysqld (and bouncing of Apache/Varnish which has to be done whenever mysqld is restarted) on the web frontends put things back to normal.

The cause of mysqld's drug use is unknown and shall remain so unless it happens more than once.


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Happy Anniversary SoylentNews — Seven Whole Years Since Go-Live! 42 comments

On Monday February 17 2014, at 02:06AM SoylentNews announced itself to the world!

(That's exactly seven years ago from the time this story posts.) Does it seem possible? I know it certainly amazes me.

A lot can happen in a year. Here are some items of note. As always, if you are not interested in this kind of stuff, ignore this post — a new story will be along shortly. Otherwise, this story continues below the fold.

  1. Random Statistics
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NB: An earlier version of this story containing much more detail seems to have jumped into a bit bucket. Please forgive any errors that crept into this quick reincarnation attempt!

Random Statistics:

Over the past year, activity on the site comes to:

Journals:2,161
Stories:3,927
Moderations:114,020
Comments:155,098

We previously had a great number of posts on the COVID-19 pandemic. It is still with us, but vaccines are starting to be rolled out. Sadly, variants of the coronavirus have appeared, and some appear to be more contagious than the earlier strains. We had let up on our coverage of late, because trying to merge 20-30 story submissions was extremely demanding of time and energy — yet with decreasing amounts of discussion.

In spite of the hit that COVID-19 had on the community, we had a successful fundraiser last year. When we have official results, we will get them to you.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:23PM (5 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:23PM (#1012134) Homepage Journal

    My latest journal entry has quite a long title, and I edited the title today (from "Part 2", to ", Supplemental") which made it even longer. Not sure how close that was to 17:45 UTC. I would have thought it was earlier. It probably has nothing to do with it but I just wondered if the titles overflowed a maximum string length or something.

    Anyway, good luck and thanks for all the great work on the site, guys!

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    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:33PM (4 children)

      by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:33PM (#1012137) Homepage Journal

      Just tried shortening the title, and removing the punctuation, to "Humanity Failed Supplemental" and the journal box didn't come back, so I guess it was either nothing to do with that, or whatever broke stayed broken. :)

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      If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
      • (Score: 3, Informative) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:39PM (3 children)

        by DECbot (832) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:39PM (#1012140) Journal

        Probably not you. I recall seeing your journal post as well as Takyon's journal post, Fake Noose II: Electric Boogaloo, in the slashbox.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:26AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:26AM (#1012305)

          But takyon's journal sucked racist southern donkey balls. Just saying.

          • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:41AM

            by DECbot (832) on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:41AM (#1012308) Journal

            Not sure, I didn't read it. The title was curious to me as the members of the Hermitcraft Minecraft server [hermitcraft.com] played a version of tag this season they called "Tag 2: Electric Boogaloo." [fandom.com] The similarity was striking if only coincidental.

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            cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:18PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:18PM (#1012360)

            It is a known fact that mysqld has a liberal bias.
            Kill takyon's journal entry and very likely the things will go back to normal - until Runaway post in his journal, that is. (grin)

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:35PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:35PM (#1012138)

    Why is there so much?

    • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:37PM (7 children)

      by DECbot (832) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:37PM (#1012139) Journal

      Apparently there's always that much spam, but it is filtered to just display users that have.... I don't remember specifically, but I think I saw once that they either have to have a positive karma or have posted a comment in a discussion.

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      cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:28PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:28PM (#1012192)

        You have to have some ridiculously low amount of karma, 5 IIRC. That amount is so low that a handful of comments and up mods would put you over that barrier. Even the most embarrassing of trolls seem to have higher than that around here.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:53PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:53PM (#1012201)

          Having super low karma, no comments and/or being newly registered and posting a journal right away really should just flag accounts for deletion.

          • (Score: 5, Informative) by Zinnia Zirconium on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:13AM (3 children)

            by Zinnia Zirconium (11163) on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:13AM (#1012235) Homepage Journal

            I registered an account in good faith to start a journal right away, and I didn't know about the karma requirement until I searched the rehash source code on GitHub to find journal_sb_min_karma is set to 10. Thanks for not deleting me.

            • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:03AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:03AM (#1012257)

              You heard it here. Mod parent up to get her on the front page where she belongs. It is "informative," isn't it?

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:41PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:41PM (#1012393)

              I think yours is the one that broke it. If you go via martyb's search, all of your entire paragraphs are links. If you go via your username, journals, click on collecting metadate etc, you get a journal entry that is properly formatted with discrete links.
              Other users' journals are ok.

        • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:09AM

          by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:09AM (#1012208) Journal

          I think it's 10, otherwise Zinnia Zirconium's (new user with 7 karma) journal would show up. I only noticed it when I checked the link in the summary.

          https://soylentnews.org/~Zinnia+Zirconium/journal/5557 [soylentnews.org]

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          [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:43PM (13 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:43PM (#1012141) Journal

    https://soylentnews.org/journal.pl?op=top [soylentnews.org]

    No names under Top Recent Posters By Date, and Top Posters By Number of Entries.

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    [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:11PM (11 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:11PM (#1012152)

      I'm suspecting a content encoding issue. If I click on your last journal and reply, the journal text itself doesn't show up. Click on this spammer [soylentnews.org] and then go to their last journal entry and nothing shows.

      • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:16PM (10 children)

        by DECbot (832) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:16PM (#1012157) Journal

        Funny that it will render when looking at his journal but not while posting a reply.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:52PM (8 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:52PM (#1012171)

          Yet the spammers Japanese text doesn't render when looking at his journal. Wondering if not all the code properly handles unicode or if there's another encoding managed to get to the db? I always use iconv, utf-8 in & out with //TRANSLIT flag to fix funky text encodings. The worst web app I ever worked on was a rent-a-coder mess with different encodings for every table. windows codepage, latin-1, utf-8, big whatever... like Pokemon they were trying to collect them all and without any kind of input validation. The fun I used to have explaining crap like that to clients...

          • (Score: 5, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:29PM (7 children)

            by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:29PM (#1012182) Journal

            1. That spammer journal is Korean, not Japanese.
            2. It is a true spammer, advertising a gambling site. I'd call that a soylent squatting.
            3. Very invalid Korean really can break some Unicode implementations, as well as some other scripts can.
            4. Future wave of emoji accepted to the next standard may be dangerous too.
            5. I didn't broke it :]

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            Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
            • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:09PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:09PM (#1012188)

              Those pesky Japanese Koreans. This is SN's Perl Harbor!

            • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:58PM (5 children)

              by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:58PM (#1012204) Journal

              Drop unicode, and all will be well

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              La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
              • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:33AM (4 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:33AM (#1012289)

                Monolingual illiterate uneducated non-edificated ignorant Americans. I will now say, "fuck you" in a non-English language, and you will not even know you have been insulted!

                アメリカ人はばかです。

                • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday June 25 2020, @09:15AM (1 child)

                  by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 25 2020, @09:15AM (#1012339)

                  Though you don't need non-Latin characters to do that:

                  Twll din pob ast a phenci diawl ar ochr draw'r iwerydd!

                  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:24PM

                    by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:24PM (#1012364) Journal

                    twll din fel ceg pot mwstard.

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                    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:31PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:31PM (#1012415)

                  Ow! Ouch! Oh the pain! Stop it! Stop it now!! Pesky gnat.

                • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 26 2020, @01:46PM

                  by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday June 26 2020, @01:46PM (#1012829) Journal

                  日本人は本当の誓いの言葉が必要.

                  "Americans are stupid" is weak.

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                  Washington DC delenda est.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @08:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @08:26AM (#1012332)

          Exaeta's last journal "bye" doesn't render when posting a comment. I don't think the comment I posted in reply ended up going through either.

    • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:14PM

      by DECbot (832) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:14PM (#1012154) Journal

      Interesting to note on that page, it is not parsing year for anything posted in 2020 even though the formatting for the year is still present. Not sure if that is important, but maybe it is a perl library thing?

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      cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:48PM (9 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2020, @08:48PM (#1012144) Journal

    I was hiding in the server room, sneaking a smoke. I noticed one of the boxes with a label, "/dev/null" was unplugged. I plugged it in. Want me to unplug it?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:09PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:09PM (#1012150)

      You should know better than to smoke around all these flammable elements like Sodium and Fluorine...and probably Oxygen too, although a quick search didn't turn up a ref to an SN server by that name.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:22PM (1 child)

      by DECbot (832) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:22PM (#1012160) Journal

      Just don't flip the "more magic [catb.org]" switch.

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      cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:19PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:19PM (#1012179)

      Just pump the server bank power toggle really fast about 20 times. That primes the null bucket pathway to 0.0.0.0.

      • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:56PM

        by DECbot (832) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:56PM (#1012184) Journal

        Make sure to disconnect the UPS batteries first otherwise your priming efforts will be wasted. Did you want to prime everything in the rack or just the UPS?

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        cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
    • (Score: 2) by Roo_Boy on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:53PM

      by Roo_Boy (1762) on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:53PM (#1012372)

      Perhaps "/dev/wom" is full?

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      --- The S.I. prototype "Average Punter" is kept in a tube of inert gas in Geneva.
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:26PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:26PM (#1012435) Journal

      What about the worthy idea of making all of SN's servers be solar powered or wind powered?

      Failing that, what if the servers could be powered by incoming posts?

      There should be an HTTP response code for Server Response May Be Slow Due To Being Solar Powered.

      That would signal browsers to have more patients.

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 26 2020, @01:53PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday June 26 2020, @01:53PM (#1012833) Journal

        We don't need to go that far. Hook up Runaway (blowhard) to Azuma (biogas), and route through aristarchus (ignition source--sparks crazily perpetually in all directions) and patch in Arik as a regulator and you'll have sweet, clean power forever. SoylentNews is People, after all.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:14PM (#1012155)

    My last journal entry was a detailed exposition of how millennials are being oppressed by Anonymous Cowards, and it's disappeared. Conspiracy! Censorship!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:21AM (#1012285)

      Censoir! Remove this meddlesome post!

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by NickM on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:01PM (4 children)

    by NickM (2867) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:01PM (#1012174) Journal
    This is no malfunction, the disappearance of the journals widget was planned by the official kabal to annoy jmichaelhudsondotnet!!!
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:45PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:45PM (#1012199)

      I checked the slashcode regarding journals, it looks like The Mighty Buzzard isn't up to date on proper sanitizations.

      • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:55AM (1 child)

        by RS3 (6367) on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:55AM (#1012275)

        IIRC it's inherited [slash] code that TMB has been hacking, so it might not be his code you're seeing.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:43AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:43AM (#1012295)

          Yep, we need to know the lines in question so the right people git blame.

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:35PM

        You're mistaken. User data going into the DB is all in prepared statements that automatically sanitize everything as far as the DB is concerned and HTML sanitization is done at page rendering time.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:59PM (1 child)

    by Booga1 (6333) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:59PM (#1012185)

    I can't repro it, but I could have sworn I just saw my mod stat box telling me I had "6 moderation points left" when I know I should have only had one. I used the one and the box disappeared like it should, so it looks like it's being tracked properly, but might be displayed incorrectly.
    Might be related since that's another box on the right. Mod points reset in a little bit, so I'll check again when that happens.

    • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:28AM

      by Booga1 (6333) on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:28AM (#1012219)

      Definitely no repro. Mod point counter decremented as expected. Never mind!

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:39PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:39PM (#1012195)

    I emailed you guys last night and early this morning about some of the stuff I noticed. I don't think what I reported was likely to be reproducible but it sounded like The Mighty Buzzard was working to resolve whatever he could reproduce from my email and perhaps other emails he received. I was impressed to get a reply so quickly, within an hour or so early in the morning. It reminded me a bit of how Slashdot was back in the day when CmdrTaco would reply to pretty much every email he received, no matter how insignificant the request might be. I didn't agree with everything Slashdot did, but I really appreciated that CmdrTaco cared enough about the site's users to reply to pretty much everyone who contacted him. I see the same thing with SN's staff and I really appreciate it. I know I can be an ass at times in the comments but I really do appreciate the hard work by the admins around here. Thanks!

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @11:44PM (#1012198)

    I like that it just doesn't include the journals section rather than blowing a huge error on the screen or erroring out with a 500.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:23AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:23AM (#1012216)

    There are still no comments on exaeta's journal of resignation. Is this why the journals are missing?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:58AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:58AM (#1012231)

      There's no reason to mock someone who's already been driven away, Ari. It's bad form.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:47AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:47AM (#1012316)

        Yeah, no need to sling insults at someone retreating to their safe space.

        Oops.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:11AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:11AM (#1012261)

      He would be soooo maaaaad about Harley Davidson telling Tennessee racists to go fuck themselves :D

      https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/harley-davidson-cuts-ties-with-west-tennessee-dealership/TX2Z4VOFPNB3TBBBTK6IR5PJ5U/ [fox13memphis.com]

      I'm loving that corporate America is on the side of morality. Possibly for many corporations it is mostly about demographics and how the majority of consumers will not support racist institutions so they're doing the smart PR thing, but I don't really care.

      I must admit I giggled a little at HD joining this political/cultural fight against racist conservatives, the douche bags debating whether to boycott their favorite 30k motorcycle must be having a real hard time.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:26AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:26AM (#1012264)

        Are you saying exaeta is a biker? Or that Ari is? Don't mess with Ari, if he is a biker, because those guys don't use logic.

        • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:31AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:31AM (#1012266)

          A deft unicycle performer and it's all declivity from there.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:34AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:34AM (#1012291)

            Who is this "Ari" of whom you speak?

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @09:49AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @09:49AM (#1012342)

              > Who is this "Ari" of whom you speak?

              newbie or new shill spotted.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @10:43AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @10:43AM (#1012351)

    Thank goodness the journal box is back up, so that we can all be treated to what Runaway1936 thinks, or at least thinks he thinks, for some values of "thinking". I expect an Ari journal any hour now. exaeta, appearantly, got dinged for mod-bombing, and is leaving.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:41PM

      Spam mod abuse. Mod-bombing doesn't carry any penalty except moderation reversal because we should be doing that on the servers instead of punishing users.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @06:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @06:19PM (#1012527)

      Ooooohhhh

      That makes so much more sense than the "people are doody heads" whining. Always the tantrum when any kind of consequences are implemented, and here I thought the motto of the rightwing was Personal Responsibility. He's been around too long to not know that spam mods are actually heavily punitive and should not be treated lightly.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:32PM (#1012416)

    The cause of mysqld's drug use is unknown

    No, the cause is known. You say exactly the cause above: "mysql".

    You are using the toy database that should never be used for anything even remotely important.

    Sadly, you also probably have no choice, because the soylent code probably assumes 'mysql'.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 25 2020, @06:47PM

      Indeed it does but there's a DB plugin architecture that would allow for anything from flat files to whatever the trendy DB is these days. If we had a plugin for it written and if the solution offered clustering like mysql-cluster does that is.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:28PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:28PM (#1012437) Journal

    Fortunately everything appears to be working prope

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:41PM (#1012469)

    'Bout damn time.

  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday June 25 2020, @10:17PM (3 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Thursday June 25 2020, @10:17PM (#1012667) Homepage Journal

    For the record, my journal entry was specifically designed to be linked as a citation to a specific person in a thread and the title of it reinforces this usecase. I thought this was just a thing the site did cause of overhead or some such.

    Now I understand why someone from staff showed up there. I mean I pick on one of you. But slightly different situation. Sorry.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 26 2020, @02:23AM (2 children)

      Was it me? Haven't read it yet.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Lagg on Friday June 26 2020, @03:50AM (1 child)

        by Lagg (105) on Friday June 26 2020, @03:50AM (#1012776) Homepage Journal

        You wish your generic-libertarian-veil of nonsense was enough to get me to write an entire journal entry specifically for you man, but no. I said it wasn't staff related and literally the second word names who it was for.

        My problems with the site aren't staff related besides personal issues with you cause I hate unnuanced nonsense. The actual issue that'll turn this into yet another conspiracy bigfoot generic clusterfuck site are the little shits that crawl around on here thinking they're going to be ignored cause they're used to the "don't feed the troll" logic and think it gives them permission to be the digital equivalents of people in trenchcoats jerking off publicly. The journal entry is a link for later to beat the individual in question over the head with until they stop playing victim and spreading their listicles of circular logic & aimless rhetoric flinging.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @09:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @09:13AM (#1013186)

    Have you thought about implementing a watchdog? Most problems you seem to have are fixed by restarting the process. That could be a quick setup with the right canary calls and PID checks. The watchdog daemon is very flexible and allows custom test/repair executables and can take stronger actions if necessary. Despite what many of the tutorials online say, you don't have to resort to STONITH if you use it, despite that being the original use case.

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