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: 2) by jasassin on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:43AM (12 children)
The VT100 theme is broke. Too bad, the VT100 theme is my favorite.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:48AM (11 children)
Theme looks the same as always for me. Plus the browser is saying the site has a valid certificate now.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:08AM (10 children)
Strange. VT220 works, VT100 is get on white for me. Using CyanogenMod now, will try on a desktop.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:34AM
VT100 (green on black) works for me as usual.
As usual, thanks to all the wonderful volunteers that keep this site going!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:46AM (8 children)
Almost certainly a caching issue.
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:32AM (7 children)
Not sure, just witched back to VT100 and it's working now. Cool.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:40AM (6 children)
> witched
So you had to use magic to fix it? :)
(Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 01 2018, @08:09AM
Judging from his comment, I suspect the issue was corrected automagically.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:11PM (4 children)
Never underestimate the utility of voodoo when fixing something technical.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @08:28PM (3 children)
Yep, works like a charm on the economy...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @08:43PM (2 children)
Makes perfect sense, really. I mean the currency is based entirely on magic, so you should be able to magic any of the economy up.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @09:01PM (1 child)
Actually the bedrock of any 'economy' is faith. Magic = "I don't know"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 02 2018, @12:34AM
Well yeah but faith = "I don't know" as well, just with the addendum " but I believe anyway".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.