17 comments Under maintenance

Jim says:

Testing commenting preparatory to restoring commands.

The security system I had to prevent commenter emails from being furtively reported by wordpress to the government is not yet restored, which should not be a problem since you should be using fake emals

Pax Imperialis says:

spam filter test

Pseudo-Chrysostom says:

So… what happened?

Jim says:

Some wordpress code was complaining that about the the PHP version, and bad things were happening. So I updated the php version. And the server died, would not boot

So reinstallation, with the latest PHP and wordpress. And it did not like my (very old theme) and crashed

Unfortunately the old database seems to operate on different theme selection principles than the new database, or perhaps I am doing something silly.

Happy to see you and the blog are still here. I was afraid “they” got to you.

Jim says:

I have just discovered that old mariadb backup has incompatibility with the new mariadb restore in edge cases

Still struggling to restore the comments.

The old Microsoft had religion about backward compatibility.

Lacking that, you get update hell. You update, and things break, so you have to update something more, and things break massively.

Jim says:

Nah, it was my error. There were a bunch of spam comments that Mariadb rightly did not like, and when I told it to ignore them, instead of halting with a mysterious error message, then all was well.

Dharmicreality says:

Well, as a side effect I think this is a nice theme, simple yet elegant. The old theme was not aligning properly on mobile browsers.

dharmicreality says:

Are we getting different coloured cats?

Jim says:

All changes are unintentional, and frequently things have changed when they should not and I do not know why.

I know why everyone is getting new cats. This was an accident and error on my part, and I neglected to fix it being busy with more urgent matters. (And more serious errors.)

If people are bothered by it I will fix it. The fix is trivial, I just neglected it.

Tyrone says:

I had posted something about the hot new LLM meme coins but it was either lost or I got my login wrong.

There are coins called things like GNON: Religion of Natural Consequences

I’m sure some of them were created by Our Guys

The prices are a lot higher than when my comment got lost, even riskier now to buy, but just as interesting to look at as a natural phenomenon of the internet.

The Cominator says:

Testing

Wulfgar Thundercock III says:

Testing

Hesiod says:

Testing to see what feline avatar I get.

skippy says:

Please feel no urgency in my comment given the circumstances, would you intend to make the comments smaller at some point? It was great being able to quickly skim through them.

X says:

I disagree. The small comments were very annoying to read on mobile. New theme is much better. Maybe a solution to what you want would be a reddit-style button on each comment to collapse its child comments

Calvin says:

Testing

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