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2025-08-02 --Tech & Moderator Notes

Rantburg.com is moving to a new server — please donate!

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Posted by badanov 2025-08-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [734 views ] Top

#1 Thanks badanov. Setting up new web servers are fun!

Posted by DarthVader 2025-07-30 00:16|| 2025-07-30 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Xeon was a good choice.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-30 01:27|| 2025-07-30 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 How do you follow people on this site?
And how do you post memes and .gifs inline?
There is a button to post photos but it's bugged out. It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-30 02:39|| 2025-07-30 02:39|| Front Page Top

#4 We don’t have a following capability, sorry. But you can ask someone to meet you in the O Club chatroom — which is for everyone, not just whatever officers would be here — and exchange information there, if the other person is willing. Posts there age out and disappear instead of being archived like here in Rantburg proper.

About gifs and things, I don’t know, but tweets have Embed and YouTube has Share.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-30 03:29|| 2025-07-30 03:29|| Front Page Top

#5 We have discord: https://discord.gg/MDHJEhuw

You can access the o-club here, but be advised between 15 mins. after and 35 mins after , odd hours time Zulu, the server is shut down to update the database (it also is the backup server). Loads of spam also is conveyed there, until a mod clears it out.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 05:34|| 2025-07-30 05:34|| Front Page Top

#6 There is an informal group chat at Facebook, but you must get one of the participants to follow you.

My Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/chris.covert.1441

My X page is https://x.com/badanov

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 05:34|| 2025-07-30 05:34|| Front Page Top

#7 You can contact me at gmail grurkka

I have two Rumble channel: Telnyashka and Rantburg.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 05:35|| 2025-07-30 05:35|| Front Page Top

#8 It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

I thought those were your comments.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-30 09:55|| 2025-07-30 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 "Use your words"

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 12:06|| 2025-07-30 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 #

This gibberish test is what happens when I press "foto" instead of the usual dialog box that lets you upload content. Like on every other social media site on the internet.

Finally looking inside this comment, what I see is

img src= valign=top align=right /

I removed the enclosing angle brackets so it will display instead of act, if that makes sense.

—trailing wife for the moderators at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Saturday

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-30 12:29|| 2025-07-30 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 How do I block other users? Like the jerk who said my comments are random text. I don't demand others be censored, I just don't want to see them.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-30 12:33|| 2025-07-30 12:33|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Close your eyes and hum

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 12:46|| 2025-07-30 12:46|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 How do I block other users? Like the jerk who said my comments are random text. I don't demand others be censored, I just don't want to see them.

We have no provisions for that.

Sorry.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 12:48|| 2025-07-30 12:48|| Front Page Top

#14 It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

When I press Foto, I get a file browser window. Maybe you are not pressing the mouse right.

As for I thought those were your comments, I laffed.
I'm just a guest here, but as near as I can tell, the Three Commandments are:
1. Be insightful
2. Be snarky
3. Be both

Posted by SteveS 2025-07-30 13:15|| 2025-07-30 13:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Rantburg’s code could use a bit of cleaning up, ‘tis true. Something badanov and Fred will look into after the current move is complete. When they’re ready we’ll put out a call for the list, and get it all done at once so that it all dovetails neatly instead of each fix cascading other problems.

At that point we’ll point out limitations deliberately built in to prevent spam and other malicious actors — because of the sandbox we play in, there are bad people out there who would do serious harm if it weren’t for the security precautions Fred has worked to improve upon since the early days of stopping script kiddie DDOS attacks on the Burg. Y’all remember the epically annoying temper tantrums of little JUSTICE from Saudi Arabia?

It occurs to me, Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435, that some of your complaints may because you tripped one or some of those safeguards.

But we aren’t ever going to install Mean Girl flourishes here, no matter how popular TikTok and Facebook.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-30 14:33|| 2025-07-30 14:33|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ Perfect.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-07-30 15:59|| 2025-07-30 15:59|| Front Page Top

#17 It occurs to me, Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435, that some of your complaints may because you tripped one or some of those safeguards.

I have another suggestion

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 16:50|| 2025-07-30 16:50|| Front Page Top

#18 You all are cute with your Discord.

Xeon is the Cristal of Chips. Thumbs up.

Posted by mossomo 2025-07-30 16:54|| 2025-07-30 16:54|| Front Page Top

#19 Looking forward to putting together my inaugural post!:

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-07-30 20:18|| 2025-07-30 20:18|| Front Page Top

#20 ^#19 a keypunch IBM big, heavy unforgiving...

Posted by Alpha2c 2025-07-31 03:08|| 2025-07-31 03:08|| Front Page Top

#21 Done

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-31 07:19|| 2025-07-31 07:19|| Front Page Top

#22 With PayPal, it's so easy even a caveman could do it!

Posted by Bobby 2025-07-31 07:39|| 2025-07-31 07:39|| Front Page Top

#23 Added a tip to my regular contribution. Have a beer on me. My 2¢

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2025-07-31 09:02|| 2025-07-31 09:02|| Front Page Top

#24 Done

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-31 10:08|| 2025-07-31 10:08|| Front Page Top

#25 Done

Posted by Matt 2025-07-31 12:22|| 2025-07-31 12:22|| Front Page Top

#26 Done

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-31 15:01|| 2025-07-31 15:01|| Front Page Top

#27 Done.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-08-01 10:17|| 2025-08-01 10:17|| Front Page Top

#28 Americans in panic as PayPal and Venmo outages leaves millions unable to access money

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-01 11:07|| 2025-08-01 11:07|| Front Page Top

#29 Done. Have fun with the new computer...and the migration! That's always fun.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-01 11:38|| 2025-08-01 11:38|| Front Page Top

#30 It was always fun to put a snarky programming card into the programming unit of the IBM key punch and walk away.

Posted by 3dc 2025-08-01 13:29|| 2025-08-01 13:29|| Front Page Top

#31 Done, Thanks for 24+ years of honest and snarky reporting!

Posted by Snins Trotsky6480 2025-08-01 15:30|| 2025-08-01 15:30|| Front Page Top

#32 That's why I needed a week to install and configure the internals.

FreeBSD is notoriously bad about RAID arrays, and I suspected something was up when they took longer than usual to get me provisioned.

When I got the server, I had to finish setting up the disk drives. Not that I mind.

The last time I had a RAID array in FreeBSD was on a badly used Dell box. I had to disable the RAID firmware before I could finish setting up the server -- in this instance, it was a simple internal backup server.

It's why I chose a 1 Tb drive.

Posted by badanov 2025-08-01 16:04|| 2025-08-01 16:04|| Front Page Top

#33 I love the smell of fresh-baked servers in the morning. It smells like computation.

We appreciate you working on this, badanov. Along with the others working behind the curtain.

As for There is a button to post photos but it's bugged out. It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

The "random text" is the code to display a file browser to select a photo. For some reason, your browser is not executing it. Could be a browser setting, a browser incompatibility, or bad code. Or sun spots. Or Climate Change(tm).

Posted by SteveS 2025-08-01 22:29|| 2025-08-01 22:29|| Front Page Top

#34 Yay... a new server. Congrats. $$ sent.

Posted by Snating Clunk6415 2025-08-02 08:38|| 2025-08-02 08:38|| Front Page Top

#35 Done. Keep up the good work!

Posted by magpie 2025-08-02 13:45|| 2025-08-02 13:45|| Front Page Top

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