Rashly, He Left Them Unsupervised
As Typepad is only intermittently functional at the moment, and with some “additional maintenance” occurring this weekend, and with attempts to get anything done during that process a recipe for meltdowns and mood stabilisers, I’ll be taking a few days off. By Monday, the worst of it should be over and normal service will resume.
Until then, play nicely. Use coasters.
Oh, and remember, sometimes one person can make a difference.
sometimes one person can make a difference.
Behind the scenes at Typepad? 🙂
She seems nice.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1585724321200189440
‘Gates of hell’…
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1585875177992167426
I’M RUNNING WITH SCISSORS!
Imagine hundreds of people running down an icy hill with scissors.
Six arms, two legs
https://twitter.com/i/status/1585603114895167488
Parody – but is it?
https://twitter.com/TyTheFisch/status/1585749756235902977
Maybe the photograph accompanying this article could be sub-titled?
My suggestion would be “a confederacy of dunces”.
Maybe the photograph accompanying this article could be sub-titled?
My suggestion would be “a confederacy of dunces”.
“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.”
https://twitter.com/NoContextUSA/status/1585367728223047680
Imagine hundreds of people running down an icy hill with scissors.
[ Awakens from alcoholic haze. ]
As long as they use coasters, right?
Does “bleeding bodies” include people shot and stabbed? I mean if so, the pads and tampons might help, not sure about the chocolate.
[ Reads links in comments. Decides to guzzle more of David’s fine cognac and return to that alcoholic haze. ]
Pst314, better cork the cognac. Looks like you’re seeing double again.
Or maybe it’s Typepad that’s seeing double.
The reactions to Musk on Twitter are hilarious. Like the reactions to Libs of Tiktok. These roaches cannot stand the light. They also can’t seem to stand any humor at all. Musk walking in to Twitter HQ carrying a sink…”let that sink in” ahahahaha
But I guess this is the end of the world so we should all head for the hills.
Oh Typepad, don’t ever change, now with Clodfare, so it doesn’t work with common VPNs…
Colour me a bit skeptical about the Musk acquisition. His current plans are to take the company private, open source the codebase, and create an open protocol so anyone can run their own Twitter and seamlessly move from one Twitter service to another.
Sooooo….he spent $44 billion to recreate Mastodon?[1]
My prediction is that Musk will discover in short order that without black government funding it’s not actually possible to operate Twitter. A year from now it’ll look a lot like Facebook does now – only used by a small core of people and riddled with ads.
[1] Admittedly Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails, which makes it useless as anything but a toy
I think a good model for twitter would be reddit which has ads interspersed in the feed. Not too intrusive and not stealth. You should not have to sign up to read tweets.
ALTERNATE THE PRONOUNS, YOU FASCIST.
https://twitter.com/BraddockBessie/status/1585992785181560833
Pst314, better cork the cognac. Looks like you’re seeing double again.
I see nothing, Col. Hogan, nothing!
“let that sink in”
Groan…
[Sets Elon’s coat on fire with a Boring Company flamethrower]
Heh.
Decides to guzzle more of David’s fine cognac…
That’s con-yack not cognac. Privately sourced from HMP Belmarsh.
Privately sourced from HMP Belmarsh.
So you didn’t notice the secret compartment behind the front shelf of bottles?
David’s been holding out on us. Remind me, though, to refill this bottle with that Belmarsh stuff before David returns.
We have a serious mental health crisis in this country.
Now getting this pop-up when I click “refresh”:
To display this page, Firefox must send information that will repeat any action (such as a search or order confirmation) that was performed earlier.
(Cancel) (Resend)
ALTERNATE THE PRONOUNS…
TRAs??? I can’t keep up.
According to my kid, “let that sink in” meme has been floating around for a couple of years.
This was news to me, of course, since I spend all me spare time (i.e. when not commenting elsewhere) here, trying sequential combinations on the under-bar safe, carefully hidden under a crate of Wadworth 6X empties, the one labeled “Five Eyes”.
ALTERNATE THE PRONOUNS
My reply there: “Tshheey”?
TRAs??? I can’t keep up.
Trans rights activist.
Is it me or does anyone else think someone with Pelosi’s money would have really, really, really good home security?
Rock, paper scissors: K-9 bites cow, deputy tases K-9, cow kicks deputy.
Is it me or does anyone else think someone with Pelosi’s money would have really, really, really good home security?
As far as cameras and other technology go, yes. But PP being home alone without any other immediate physical presence doesn’t surprise me. People who have that sort of security forced on them don’t like it and it is generally not cost effective.
@Stephanie Richer: interesting that the drone photo of the house shows glass on the outside of the patio doors. Less of a break in and more of an attempt to break out?
Philosophy: “When you have a bad day…“
Irish regulatory apparat recognizes alcoholics as a protected minority.
“Discrimination on the grounds of disability” – after several incidents where a supermarket manager gets so drunk on the job that the other employees have to take him home for his safety, the store eventually fires him.
“Failure to provide reasonable accommodation” the store failed to turn itself into an occupational therapy facility, where the former manager would be set to stacking shelves, with a new manager supervising his shelf-stacking, and an addiction counselor supervising his sobriety.
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@Stephanie Richer: interesting that the drone photo of the house shows glass on the outside of the patio doors. Less of a break in and more of an attempt to break out?
There’s a lot that is weird about this story. Reports I’ve read say Pelosi called the intruder a friend while talking to the police on the phone and the assault didn’t occur until after the police had arrived.
@PiperPaul: I’m now getting a message that typepad is checking the security of my connection before connecting to this site. It flashed on the screen for about 3 seconds and then David’s site comes up.
disability: before the ADA (Amer with Disabilities Act) there were more disabled employed than after. Why? Before, you could try to employ a disabled person and see how they did. Now, you can’t fire them so better not to hire them. As more and more things qualify as “disability”–such as obesity–I feel for employers. Add in the snowflakes and wokies and we are pretty much doomed.
I’m now getting a message that typepad is checking the security of my connection before connecting to this site. It flashed on the screen for about 3 seconds and then David’s site comes up.
Yeah. At first I thought it was just my side having security concerns about wtf typepad was up to but now it stays on screen long enough to actually read it.
Reports I’ve read say Pelosi called the intruder a friend while talking to the police on the phone and the assault didn’t occur until after the police had arrived.
With breaking stories like these I generally check with Wikipedia. For all their (known) faults, the objective information there seems to be fairly trustworthy and as current as one can expect. If information changes, it tends to be more immediately presented there and the sources are multiple. When I checked this morning, the story seemed to be that PP told the intruder that he needed to use the bathroom. PP then dialed 911 but didn’t say anything, presumably out of fear the attacker would hear him. He then left the phone line open and the 911 dispatcher sent police on a wellness check just to be safe, as I presume any audio would have been garbled. In that context some of the “coincidences” seem to make sense.
Irish regulatory apparat recognizes alcoholics as a protected minority.
Shouldn’t that be majority? I’ll let myself out now.
I’m now getting a message that typepad is checking the security of my connection before connecting to this site.
Me too.
Does everyone feel secure? That is, after all, a recurring topic of conversation here.
Another great new typepad feature is that when you refresh the page to see new items, you go back to the top of the post and have to scroll down again. urgh
I’m now getting a message that typepad is checking the security of my connection before connecting to this site.
Yes, it is that Clodfare™ mess, and if you are using a VPN, one frequently must sift through different connections to get connected without a do-loop of it checking itself.
Another great new typepad feature is…
Rashly, someone left the Typepad engineers unsupervised.
Do you want Zombie Jacquard? Because this is how you get Zombie Jacquard.
This movie can be seen here (90 minutes).
This movie can be seen here (90 minutes).
Also on the youtubes if you want to watch on a TV via a Roku or the like.
Folks! Entertain me! Otherwise I have to go back doing my tax accounting, which is particularly nasty right now!
Does everyone feel secure?
We ought to. After all, this is a British blog, so we should all feel Secure Beneath Watchful Eyes. [ Scans the walls for CCTV cameras. ]
Folks! Entertain me!
How about something intellectual and high-minded like women’s beach volleyball?
Folks! Entertain me!
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1586120277137555456
He wasn’t a bad looking dude, had a bit of a following on gay tiktok, and a small acting career in Hollywood I guess. But then he saw what happened with the swimmer Thomas, the public health admiral Levine, and saw his ticket to fame with Days of Girlhood. And it’s paid off. White gay dude just isn’t fawned over anymore. Gotta kick it up a notch with the trans bit. I will be so glad when this trend goes by the wayside, although I am afraid what will have replaced it.
[ Takes a gander at LibsOfTikTok. Lets out world-weary sigh. Stumbles to drinks cabinet and liberates another bottle of cognac. ]
I think yer onto something there, pst.
[rummages around in the cabinet for a bottle of port.]
You’re finally back. I’ve been waiting all day.
And I’ve been waiting all weekend. (Except for when the blog was up for a few hours on Saturday.)
But I don’t think the problems are over: I got the following error twice when I clicked “post” for the previous comment, and may only have escaped it a third time by first clicking “preview”:
Unable to get dbh for role ‘user2’. Is ‘user2’ a declared role in your STACK.yaml ? ‘Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111′ (2013)
But I don’t think the problems are over: I sometimes get the following errors when attempting to post a comment:
Unable to get dbh for role ‘user2’. Is ‘user2’ a declared role in your STACK.yaml ? ‘Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111′ (2013)
and:
Failed to execute INSERT INTO event
(user_id, event_id, type, created_on, arg1, arg2)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
with user_id, event_id, type, created_on, arg1, arg2: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
[ Ponders how stressful this must be for David. Replaces stolen bottles of cognac and adds two more. ]
I’ll bet the above duplicate comments are just another symptom of Typepad’s new bugs.
The “I’ll bet the above…” comments did not become visible, even after multiple refreshes, until I left this page and returned.
All these problems cannot be good for Typepad’s reputation.
The “I’ll bet the above…” comments did not become visible, even after multiple refreshes, until I left this page and returned.
All these problems cannot be good for Typepad’s reputation.
The “I’ll bet the above…” comments did not become visible, even after multiple refreshes, until I left this page and returned.
All these problems cannot be good for Typepad’s reputation.
[ Steps away to wash dishes. Returns. Refreshes page. ]
Damn.
Aaaaannnnd we’re back? Maybe not for long?
Failed to execute INSERT INTO event…
That looks like boilerplate/out of the box/HelloWorld SQL. Not getting a good feeling.
Curious will this post? …
Aaaaannnnd we’re back? Maybe not for long?
Failed to execute INSERT INTO event…
That looks like boilerplate/out of the box/HelloWorld SQL. Not getting a good feeling.
Curious will this post? … try try again by not hitting Preview….
If you don’t get the fuck off typepad now you will have only yourself to blame for the morning when it all goes tits up and your work of decades will be erased.
Spend the fucking 8 to ten bucks a month and move this thing while you still can.
Hear me now or hear me later.
“’Gates of hell’…”
It’s Twitter’s eternal September. To which, I can only say this.
“Sooooo….he spent $44 billion to recreate Mastodon?”
I’ve long thought the idea that he just got up one morning and decided Something Had To Be Done About Twitter is misdirection. I suspect he’s working with some insiders who’ve grown as sick of the former management’s sh*t as the rest of us.
I’m now getting a message that typepad is checking the security of my connection before connecting to this site.
Yeah, it isn’t. It’s checking for botnets. I use a browser extension that randomly changes the user-agent string (in simple terms, it pretends to be a different browser – Firefox on Windows, Chrome on Mac, Firefox on Mac, Safari… – every time it makes a request, which helps prevent websites build a “fingerprint” of my browsing), and the gates were firmly closed as long as it was activated. Which kind of makes sense, but… ugh.
If you don’t get the fuck off typepad now you will have only yourself to blame for the morning when it all goes tits up and your work of decades will be erased.
Spend the fucking 8 to ten bucks a month and move this thing while you still can.
Hear me now or hear me later.
Okay, try again. If this appears twice, blame Typepad. Or Cloudflare.
“’Gates of hell’…”
It’s Twitter’s eternal September. To which, I can only say this.
“Sooooo….he spent $44 billion to recreate Mastodon?”
I’ve long thought the idea that he just got up one morning and decided Something Had To Be Done About Twitter is misdirection. I suspect he’s working with some insiders who’ve grown as sick of the former management’s sh*t as the rest of us.
I’m now getting a message that typepad is checking the security of my connection before connecting to this site.
Yeah, it isn’t. It’s checking for botnets. I use a browser extension that randomly changes the user-agent string (in simple terms, it pretends to be a different browser – Firefox on Windows, Chrome on Mac, Firefox on Mac, Safari… – every time it makes a request, which helps prevent websites build a “fingerprint” of my browsing), and the gates were firmly closed as long as it was activated. Which kind of makes sense, but… ugh.
when you refresh the page to see new items, you go back to the top of the post
Thanks a bunch, Typepad.
And Gerard’s comments are getting duplicated, too.
Hello, Gerard, hope you are well!
Hello, Gerard, hope you are well!
Hello, Gerard, hope you are well!
“Munchausen by progressive”. https://twitter.com/wrong_speak/status/1586161088470687745
I see a Donate via Ko-Fi button up top now. Has anyone used this before?
Aha – learned something about navigating the new TypePad horrorshow. Typed in the post above, hit Post, got the error message about missing SQL, hit Post again, got error message, gave up, closed browser. Came back later to peruse site, comments weren’t there, but Nate’s and pst’s were. Clicked on Nate’s link, backspace to here, and viola, double post from me. Interesting. Not sure if this is repeatable. But I’m wondering if the sudden increase in couple posting is from people getting error messages and trying again, and again. Nor am I sure that the comments will always post in spite of the error message.
This is too bad as i have always liked the look and feel of TypePad, both reading and commenting, compared to Blogger and WordPress.
Back to the usual nonsense…
“People wonder why we need a union at Starbucks…” that damn oppressive eight hour day.
But I’m wondering if the sudden increase in couple posting is from people getting error messages and trying again, and again.
Probably, if it appears not to post, open a new tab, same browser, and see if it posted – got error message with above, but it posted.
With David’s absence, I’m conjuring an image of him storming the barricades at TypePad armed only with a keyboard, dressed in his best blogging thong and smeared with Mel Gibson’s William Wallace camouflage makeup.
Godspeed Mr. Thompson, Godspeed.
Is Penny the Red aware of this?
Nose Picking Could Increase Risk for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Gerard isn’t wrong. Increasingly the only way to run an uncancellable blog is to host it yourself. Most of the security and anti-spam features can be outsourced these days.
Oh noes, triple posted. I took your advice Mr. Muldoon and still nothing appeared and I got the message pst314 posted above. Closed my browser completely, reopened to find three posts. With this one I’m going to post once, shut down and reopen. Keep my fingers crossed that it posts and only once.
Steve, sometimes the post doesn’t show up straight away, my second above showed up about 5 minutes after the posting. Wait about 10 and if isn’t ‘there by then, it probably won’t ever be.
Typepad was working fine till the recent round of “it ain’t broke, but let’s fix it” BS, but I guess their code monkeys have to justify their phony baloney jobs.
Cultural tragedy in Japan:
“The nation’s oldest toilet suffered serious damage when a careless driver backed his car into it. Quote from BBC News, October 18th: ‘The communal loo at Tofukuji in Kyoto dates back to the 15th century and is designated an important cultural asset. Its ancient door was ruined after the employee hit the gas without realising the car was in reverse, police said.’ “
The above link is courtesy of Radio Derb.
PST – see above workaround.
Yes, I see that one needs to wait 5-10 minutes for a comment to appear. Is Typepad the newest toilet, and who drove their car into the servers?
Yes, I see that one needs to wait 5-10 minutes for a comment to appear.
Sometimes – try the same browser, new tab, hit blog bookmark, go to comments to see if it posted. If not, may have to wait…
Next up in the Typepad clusterfuck:
OUT OF CHEESE ERROR
REDO FOM START
try the same browser, new tab, hit blog bookmark, go to comment, put your left leg down, your right leg up, tilt your head back and finish the cup.
Is Penny the Red aware of this?
Apparently, according to the research, it’s in the picking and not in the eating. Laurie practices both.
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.