newport
6mo ago
We're probably around the same age, I was a young elementary schooler in '07 when the iPhone dropped so they were everywhere by the time I was in high school. We had the same policy.
Except ours was a bit more draconian. Confiscation on sight with no warning, and parents could not retrieve them from the office until after a 3-day waiting period. As much as this pissed me off at the time, this model is probably ideal. Plus I had a collection of old androids I kept for tinkering so I'd just reactivate one of those for the length of the holding period.
newport
8mo ago
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.
newport
8mo 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
11mo 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
11mo 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.
Facing down the possibility of a layoff or a forced relocation. Nothing has been announced yet (to our business unit at least; leadership of the other business unit we share an office building with has already been informed that they'll be moving to a different office down the street), but there are lots of rumors flowing. What has us worried is that they are doubling the size of our sister site that we provide redundancy to without telling my site about that change or providing any justification. There's been a complete lack of info coming down from the top other than "nothing is happening, everything is fine, proceed BAU". We found out about the sister site change through lower level employees of that site, not leadership. The place they'd ask me to relocate to if things go that route is several states away, and while I just so happen to have family there, I'm really not making enough at this job to justify moving.
Can't wait to spend 6 months unemployed again like I did before I got this job 🫠 I'll probably be very active on here again at least haha
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