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IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord displacing IRC, for most people who even have PCs, there is a much different vibe of re-posting meme pics and gifs, or even youtube videos.
Yet, I don't know if this is because of the higher production requirements, or not, but there isn't a database of spontaneous funny moments.
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?
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.
Rather they have some bare metal, FTP-ing files directly to prod, right?
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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...
Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are backed up. https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
What do they mean by "cleaned"?
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.
Almost, the password is ********.
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It's more than money, they still require care and feeding. At some age (and I'm getting to that), you just tire of being a sysadm, esp. for "home"/hobby stuff.
Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions. This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories. It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.
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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.
Happened to me recently when moving. Couldn't find one of my zigbee temperature sensors, but it was still reporting information diligently, so it had to be somewhere in the house. Took about 6 months before I found it.