We ended up caving and turning on the air conditioners. It got too hot and humid in here. So far everything’s behaving, but we’re going to trade time between the units just to be safe, (I.E., bedroom one on at night and living room one off, and vice versa during t he day), and see if that works out better. Unless by some miracle the rest of July and August somehow turn out not to be 182,000 degrees for some reason. Yay climate change I guess.
76 °F Scattered Clouds
There's finally a decent breeze coming through the window. #It'sFrickinHotInHereMr.Bigglesworth
So, fun story. In the middle of ActivityPub’s standardization, the Social Web Working Group nearly got shut down because we couldn’t get the big corporate players to pay attention to us, and the W3C’s membership structure required paid membership participation.
We tried *desperately* to get Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc to look at us. They weren’t interested. What I heard was that they had written off the idea that decentralized social networks could exist or work by then.
Luckily, management agreed that the SocialWG’s work was interesting enough that we should continue. And later having seen what happened when big players entered a standards group… ActivityPub was probably a better spec for being written by people passionate about it instead.
But anyway. That’s all to say… it’s so *weird* now to be in the present moment, as you can imagine…
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@JesseF8693 You have to set up a sound scheme for that in speech and sounds manager.
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@JesseF8693 Jaws with the Samantha vocalizer voice for right now.
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@alda Yeah I use MU plugins all the time for that kind of stuff. I just can't think for the life of me why someone would even think about putting that kind of thing in a theme. But then I'm a purist about CPTs too: Put them in a plugin not your theme FFS.
Hey folks!
I thought today of all days, when a new social media platform is grabbing all the attention, would be a great time to tell you all I have a brand new website! Let’s get anachronistic!
The morale of the story?
Hire a professional to work on your website.
I know it is difficult to filter us out of the rest of the bunch consisting of gold diggers, fraudsters and hacks, but we are usually available on a short notice in case something like this happens.
Then an actual Linux cron job was being run on the old server every 3 hours. It would run wget on index.php with that specific GET parameter set.
If there was no response or the status was not “200 ok”, it would try again and again.
Again and again, until the machine crashed.
It turns out that the guy who had been contracted for the accounting software integration had modified the active theme to include an obscure and weird PHP class that syncs the available products/SKUs with the accounting software.
This was a heavy task and took about a minute to run manually and was triggered by a request to index.php, using a specific GET parameter.
So, it happens regularly, it is index.php, there’s no plugin doing this and the WordPress core has not been modified.
Weird, right?
I didn’t find anything in the list of cron jobs on that machine and WordPress did not have a plugin or a wp-cron job that indicated anything happening every 3 hours.
The guy also rambled something about our machines being seriously underprovisioned, so we allocated more memory and CPU cores for this and while it did recover quicker, it still crashed regardless of havin 16 GB of memory and 4 cores.
And it was index.php of all things that was blowing everything up every 3 hours on the hour.
So I started monitoring things — and yes, it the server crashed every 3 hours as exponential amounts of memory were being reserved until the machine crashes.
I had a hard time isolating the issue as it seemed to stem from index.php (which is unusual), so I did the usual thing and cleaned out some large-ish values from the wp-options table and installed memcached.
Then I contacted the guy who had done this accounting software integration, who rambled something about a cron job.
An issue that I ran into last week:
A business sought me out because of an issue with a #WordPress site they were running. The server got overloaded and crashed every 3 hours for half an hour at a time and it was important to get to the bottom of this.
The hints that I got were that the site had been migrated to a new server in order to isolate it and that the issue started when someone was hired to integrate certain accounting software with it. 🧵
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@ppatel I hear you on that man. Getting tired of the same damn stuff every day.
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@KaraLG84 @FreakyFwoof @frog67 Right now I'm using Vocalizer because I need Hebrew support, and I'm using Jaws because Outlook. Still keep NVDA around though and keep it updated. If Thunderbird gets it together I'll switch back and switch back to NVDA but I need some of the advanced Outlook stuff right now.
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@alda I read this and I knew *exactly where it was going once you said "He modified the theme". God Don't do that kind of stuff for what's essentially plugin work, plus the obvious why are you doing that with index.php and some get parameters I want to boost this entire thread.
the eu is at war with meta over user privacy, and gruber has picked a side
There’s something very odd about gruber’s constant EU bashing for actually doing a good job at protecting its citizens. Meta is a privacy nightmare, the opposite of Apple, and all of the sudden now it’s cool to use their twitter clone and the EU is missing out?