If someone appears to be repeatedly personal, lean towards patience as they might not mean offense. If you are sure, however, then do not deepen the problem by being negative; instead, simply place them on ignore by clicking the unhappy yellow face to the right of their name.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
No. of Recommendations: 81
The server was down with something I had not encountered before. For the nerds, it was "denial of service attack" protection erroneously executing from *my own use* of the server in upgrading the smallest thing, and the server thinking I was attacking it. The server then locked itself to protect, like an echidna laying flat - only an extremely paranoid variety of echidna.
After having the luxury of a few hours of sleep (which has no relation to day and night, especially when composing music exhaustedly as I was in the middle of doing) - I solved it on my own, which is actually a good sign as I can repeat the solution faster if it happens again.
You now have the option to navigate back and forth through posts, with the green left/right arrows having the extra options for "One month" and "One year" (we only had "One week" when launching Shrewd'm in December 2022). We are in early days, but I anyway put in the "One decade" also also, just as a reminder that Shrewd'm plans to be around for a very very long time.
- Manlobbi
No. of Recommendations: 1
"denial of service attack" protection erroneously executing from *my own use* of the server in upgrading the smallest thing, and the server thinking I was attacking it. The server then locked itself to protect,
Ha! I had something similar. I have an always-on raspberrypi that pings my main desktop computer to send out an alarm if the desktop hasn't been on for an entire day. Been working fine forever. A couple of months ago I ditched the third-party firewall on the desktop and replaced it with the Windows Firewall Control. Seems the default is to block all incoming pings, even from the home network.
Oops!
The monitoring program then ran around with its hair on fire, sending out alerts & alarms.
Glad you got it back working.
No. of Recommendations: 5
echidna laying flat
Hands up everyone who had to look up what is an echidna!
Manlobbi
Thank you for providing the forum. I appreciate it very much.
Aussi
No. of Recommendations: 17
Manlobbi,
I echo the sentiments of others. Thanks for providing this platform for so many smart, helpful posters. It’s so nice to have a non-crazy gathering space to post thoughts and ideas.
No. of Recommendations: 6
We are in early days, but I anyway put in the "One decade" also also, just as a reminder that Shrewd'm plans to be around for a very very long time.
Manlobbi,
I am so glad you are thinking long term.
Have you thought about how shrewdm.com will continue to function if you are unable to run it (perhaps only temporarily)?
It's hard to think about, but if something is going to last for decades, it shouldn't depend on just one person - no matter how hardworking and generous that person is.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Shrewd'm plans to be around for a very very long time.
Music to my ears :)
