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.
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.