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bird dinosaur thing beyond my own comprehension

now actually with a functional account

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It happened again, and this time for four days… what a pain. I had already written off the server as a lost cause and was JUST about to spin up a backup thing when a friend told me my site was working again. Just a little bit shocking, but what an amazing surprise.

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my work is now complete. the logs are all parsed, everything ready to be searched and visualized...

time to close kibana and not open it again for a few months xp
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look up what the X in Xfce stands for this is the funniest shit I've ever seen

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Mark Suckerberg

For my birthday I got myself a fully functional and actually useful for once ELK stack. It only cost me most of my day and a little bit of my soul that I had to imbue into the regexes.

Pretty pretty parsed logs... dragndrool
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Mark Suckerberg

My cursed webserver setup is out to get me once again... I'm going to be away from it for a while, and my way to connect to it remotely suddenly stopped working for no reason. It randomly decided to start working again a few minutes ago and I quickly got in and fixed it, but whew.
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I put my email address on my website in plain text instead of munging it because I use spam as a sort of free intermittent functionality check so I don't have to test and make sure people can still send me stuff.
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As a programmer, I’m required to have priorities.

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Oh my FUCKING GOD

I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.

So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.

I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny

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consider: awawawawawawa

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@Flute I know it’s not really a gallery site, but I do know that bluesky’s API actually allows you to specify timestamps for stuff. I may have messed around with them a bit to make a post from 800 years ago VwV

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@Flute pfffftt, if you'd like to! I was thinking about releasing the code for mine publicly anyways, so I'd be more than willing to share it! (once I actually finish it, eheh)
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@Flute Yeah... one step closer at least x>. And, fair enough! Will still be awesome to see for sure. I need to rewrite my own hit counter someday myself...
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@Flute I’d love to see it if you go about making it! I know I would definitely add it to my own site if you’d make it public.

(also final update on the original counter, though I don’t want to discourage you from trying to make your own, I think you might be able to get it to work if you use https://images.weserv.nl/?url=cgi.boingdragon.com/count/[your account name]/0.gif&output=gif&n=-1 instead of what you’ve got currently. the end bit there just makes it render a gif, which it doesn’t seem to do automatically xP)

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Mark Suckerberg

Edited 7 months ago

@Flute Yeah… had a peek at it, it sadly seems (from my minimal testing) like it determines unique hits based off of IP addresses, which any proxy would lose. HOWEVER, if you’re willing to put in a little work getting it set up, they DID have downloads for the old C version of the counters! Looking at the code, it’s certainly… “charming,” the entire animation is generated from pixel arrays, and I’m unfamiliar with CGI so I can’t actually vouch that it’s safe to run this on a webserver exposed to the internet. It is an option though, hah…

https://web.archive.org/web/20120302143410/http://boingdragon.com/downloads.html

correction: sadly it’s just one part of two parts needed, you’d just point the actual boingdragon account you made at your own webserver, hah. It DOES still generate images, though you have to figure out what to pass to it, and I feel bad poking through and changing someone else’s work without permission dragnsweats

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@Flute Ppffft. I need to get some fun bird stickers for my hardware eventually... something to go with my pentium stickers xP
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@Flute Looks awesome!! Love how it looks from the outside, and I gotta appreciate the bird sticker on the GPU, lol. I need to try and use differently shaped cases more...
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Mark Suckerberg

I think wilds may be out of my computer's league... just a little bit.
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@Flute Surprisingly, despite all I've put it through, it's still going just as strong as ever! Server does everything I need, and for my desktop the bottleneck seems to be my GPU usually anyways dragncrysmile

And hey, the anniversary edition beats an older pentium at least!
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