Tell HN: Bash.org is no more • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by bluedino » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:55 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #53

bayindirh wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything. The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too. So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side. Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the…

One of the most famous quotes was about a server that is online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore where it physically is.

Famously it ends with the server being behind drywall or something after some construction project.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by bluedino » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 1:56 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #33

bayindirh wrote: post #4

It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.

So you're saying the server pings but nobody knows where it's at?

Hah! I see you've never dealt with Rackspace hosting.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by CrlNvl » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:03 PM UTC

poisonborz wrote: post #36

There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online. Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.

https://danstonchat.com/ (previously bashfr.org) for France/French speaking countries

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by daneel_w » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:06 PM UTC

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #32

This is what happens when you don't use a proper capital-S Stack. Probably they weren't even using Kubernetes and a separate multi-cloud management DB for monitoring their data pipeline ingest.

On-point sarcasm. Have an upvote.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by GTP » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:11 PM UTC

bayindirh wrote: post #25

miroljub wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because of the HN security. It prints all passwords as stars. You can try putting your HN password in a comment, it would be visible only by you, and the others will not see it.

I guess you're right. My HN password is *****. When I edit, I can see it, but when I save the comment, it becomes starred. It even randomizes the length every time I save. Brilliant!

But this also means that they know your plaintext password, meaning that they're saving passwords in plaintext. Given that this is mostly a technical community, it's much more the risk of keeping a database of plaintext passwords than the benefit of being able to obfuscate passwords in comments.

EDIT: thanks to another commenter, I understood that what's happening in the above comments is just a meme and HN isn't storing plaintext passwords. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by susam » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:15 PM UTC

The last snapshot in the Wayback Machine seems to be from 19 Jul 2023: http://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://www.bash.or...

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by susam » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:16 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #53

bayindirh wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything. The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too. So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side. Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the…

One of the most famous quotes was about a server that is online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore where it physically is.

Yes, it is this one:

hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20230610235249/http://bash.org/?5...

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:24 PM UTC

vanjajaja1 wrote: post #9

can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something

Wikipedia deletionists would cull it. Twitter is going down the drain if you believe the popular opinions but it would mess up the formatting anyway.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by sph » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 2:26 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #53

bayindirh wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything. The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too. So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side. Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the…

One of the most famous quotes was about a server that is online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore where it physically is.

And decades before the Raspberry Pi.