newport
1mo ago
Legal thing by the looks of it. Hosting provider is not US-based, but rents from a US datacenter. Datacenter unexpectedly and forcefully terminated relationship with hosting provider. Unknown whether rdrama being hosted there had anything to do with it. Unlikely, I'd say.
rdrama, the /r/drama spinoff site that themotte.org's code is based off of, experienced roughly a day and a half of downtime from late Wednesday until half an hour ago. This was the longest outage event in the site's history (previous record was ~7 hours) and the first that was not caused by botched code deployment.
This time, the cause is "the hosting provider lost physical access to and control over their [edit for clarity: rented] US datacenter".
[sound warning, rdrama warning, bright colors warning] https://rdrama.net/post/790694/pictured-leaked-screenshot-from-our-illustrious
The site is currently in its annual "Donkey Kong December" theme event, which takes place in February.
The most recent backup that was not hosted in the same lost datacenter is from September of last year, so there has been a substantial rollback. Admins are working to retrieve a 2/4/2026 backup from another provider, but negotiations are ongoing.
newport
4mo ago
completely backward compatible to the start
Unless you lack a TPM2.0 chip, of course
(Your point is valid, I'm just still salty about this)
newport
5mo ago
Since Cops is off the air, I think, body cam footage makes a pretty good replacement
The modern replacement is On Patrol: Live (which was known as Live PD until it was canceled and later rebooted in the wake of the Summer of 2020), and it's about a 40/60 mix of non-live curated bodycam video and "live"-broadcast ride-along cameramen. With a small delay in case on-camera death happens and so that the producers can pick the most interesting feed out of the handful of police they're filming.
I don't know how to feel about how entertaining it is and what that says about me, but it can be very entertaining.
newport
5mo ago
To be fair to yourself, the antagonism may not have been entirely unwarranted since I just kinda dropped this without elaborating. Sorry. RoyGBivens is correct, it's a copypasta from shortly after Biden dropped out and Harris took over the nomination.
I intended this to be another example of what 07mk was talking about on /r/stupidpol.
newport
5mo ago
I was over at my dads house today helping with some household chores. He lives in a very rural area of a very red state. At the end of the work we went to one of the nearby country bars. It’s the kind of place that farmers, truckers, legit cowboy boot wearers and the working class go to unwind with a cold one.
Vice President Harris was on the TV and the local gun store owner said to his auto mechanic (friends since high school),
“You know what? She ain’t so bad. The economy is recovering, nobody’s rioting, and we’re standing up on the world stage again. Can’t believe I’m saying this but Ol’ Oakland Kam’s got my vote this year.”
I looked around and all I saw were heads nodding in agreement. I heard a few calls of “Yes sir” and “Damn Straight” from the men around me. Even saw the lonely ball cap wearing farmer in the corner raise his drink with a nod.
newport
11mo ago
Louis Rossmann has built a 2 million subscriber youtube channel complaining about this specific issue. Apple designs their laptop displays such that they cannot be repaired without replacing the entire upper half of the laptop, and has also made it basically impossible to source the replacement part from anybody besides themselves. This makes third party repairs just as expensive as repairs from Apple themselves.
Well, rdrama is presumably not the only customer of the hosting provider that got booted. But it is entirely possible that the hosting provider only served similarly radioactive clients. Details are scant.
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