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| schestowitz | > Less and less news available even though it's Wednesday. | Jan 08 07:01 |
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| schestowitz | Yes, it has been dry. | Jan 08 07:01 |
| schestowitz | >>> Mea culpa if (I don't know) I've done something stupid. | Jan 08 07:30 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> Not you, me... | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> Thank you so much for reporting this!!! | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> So for more fussy clients/agents such as TB this was fatal, whereas I | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> did not catch it at my end (quiteRSS is rather fault-tolerant). | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > I'll have you know, us grumpy, old, men* are extremely tolerant - as | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > long as you do what we do! | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > * I'm assuming there'll be an outcry if I refer to TB as "she"! | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | We/they. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | Just to be on the safe side... | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> Our RSS feeds were thus broken for 11 hours (a phoronix item had a bad | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> symbol near it). | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > I fear so. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | I checked to see if the same issue crept into techrights... but no, thankfully. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Time to tell them to add a performance-test for feed-items? | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | They as in phoronix? | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | I wish Michael's RSS feed wasn't just a chopped down excerpt. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> I suppose upon a refresh you'll get everything posted since then, | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >> including the culprit, as the issue didn't last long enough. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Not quite, but 'spilt milk'. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Last msg received prior to break-down: "IOTA developer builds | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > OpenEmbedded Layer for Linux based devices" | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > <<< | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:36:47 +0000 | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Message-Id: <132566 at http://www.tuxmachines.org@localhost.localdomain> | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > First msg post-recovery: "Red Hat and Fedora": | Jan 08 07:31 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights | People's rights in the digital age | Plutocracy threatened by freedom, democracy, privacy & civil rights | Jan 08 07:31 | |
| schestowitz | > <<< | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:25:52 +0000 | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > Message-Id: <132585 at http://www.tuxmachines.org@localhost.localdomain> | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | Wait, so it is still failing for you? Odd. | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | "This is a valid RSS feed." | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuxmachines.org%2Fnode%2Ffeed | Jan 08 07:31 |
| schestowitz | > I've not thought to ask previously, assuming it a 'disposable' medium, | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | > but are the msgs archived anywhere? | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | IRC archives the pleroma posts: | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/132043 | Jan 08 07:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-validator.w3.org | Feed Validator Results: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/feed | Jan 08 07:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines IRC Logs | Tux Machines | Jan 08 07:32 | |
| schestowitz | >> If you did not report it to me, I'd not see it and it would not be | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | >> corrected, so thank you! | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | > All part of the service - and appreciating the effort that you guys invest! | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | If you see this again, holler! Quick way to reach me is IRC: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/121258 | Jan 08 07:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | IRC | Tux Machines | Jan 08 07:32 | |
| schestowitz | I read email about once a day, so might miss an alert. | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | I've meanwhile begun exploring possible tools that can alert me about silently broken RSS feeds. This is far from the first time this happens. Sometimes I'm notified by someone days late. | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | >> Regards from winter semisphere, | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | > Schurely that is a schemisphere? | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | > (but don't call me Schirley!) | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | Weird. Typo. Don't know why I typed that! Maybe one day it'll be a semi-sphere... to isolate away the bushfires :/ | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | We gave some money to the koala folks... | Jan 08 07:32 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/130738 | Jan 08 07:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Koalas Need Our Help | Tux Machines | Jan 08 07:32 | |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jan 08 07:33 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now/">A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now</a></h5> | Jan 08 07:33 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jan 08 07:33 |
| schestowitz | <p>Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.</p> | Jan 08 07:33 |
| schestowitz | <p>[...]</p> | Jan 08 07:33 |
| schestowitz | <p>Another date storage problem also faces us in the year 2038. The issue again stems from Unix’s epoch time: the data is stored as a 32-bit integer, which will run out of capacity at 3.14 am on 19 January 2038.</p></blockquote></li> | Jan 08 07:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.newscientist.com | A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now | New Scientist | Jan 08 07:33 | |
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