Dreamhost is terminating my account.

[Drunk Sasquatch Fetishist]

I am going to assume setting up a registrar is something expensive and complicated, correct? Definitely not a short term option. Absolutely something that needs to happen in the long term. ETA: I had never heard of Jared Holt before today either.

 

[Tree]

It's actually terrifying that we live in a world that is normalizing mental illness and mainstreaming degeneracy.

Being able to use social media as a weapon and using a "botnet" of troons and morons to send tweets at whatever target you want to shutdown or disrupt.

Null is having his account close because people spammed tweets of something that has no proof of actually have happened. Let that sink in. Even if it wasn't a lie, this is spreading the message that if you want to accomplish a goal simply commit suicide, or at least lie about it convincingly enough.

Clown world.

Except it only works in one direction. Not anyone can do this and be noticed, and not for any cause. Only in the direction of those who control the narrative, manipulate the culture, and desire to subvert our soul. They support anything that cements their power, as cowardly and hidden puppeteers. They hate above all the virtues requisite of direct leadership. They know any strong leader desiring honesty in sovereignty would quickly purge them and their ilk. They would know, it's happened many times before.

 

[make_it_so]

What else has this Holt dickweed done? Sounds like a conniver, but today is the first I'm hearing of him.

He runs Right Wing Watch - which he uses to keep the world informed on "Right Wing extremism online." Off course the man is also a Globohomo water-carrier, so "right wing extremism" covers everything from actual legitimate Nazis to Trump populists to traditional religious conservatives to now autistic shitposting forums - and they're treated as equally as bad.

 

[timewave0]

What else has this Holt dickweed done? Sounds like a conniver, but today is the first I'm hearing of him.

he is the quintessential establishment leftist faggot shill — a “domestic extremism researcher” who bravely combats “””disinformation””” (aka any information that challenges our erverlerds) at the Atlantic Council/Right Wing Watch.

He’s probably even more worthy of contempt than the other usual cuckspects like Michelle Goldberg or “Viewtiful Joe” Bernstein. If I recall correctly he is also a known doxfag

 

[Nig Kang Theory]

After 26 pages of consideration, all I have to say is fuck this. Watching so many people turn their back on free speech has been the most painful out of all the insane social phenomena we've seen in the past decade. Because the landscape on all social media is so hyper-sanitized, I feel tempted to bring politics into this just to better explain myself. I refuse. I just want to laugh at bad fanart. And trannies. And retarded people, sometimes, but more importantly I want to see where this goes from here because it sure as hell isn't the end. Somebody in another thread said Null is one of the paragons of the modern internet and I think that's a very sound point. He's the absolute madchad we need in our most pozzed hour and I hope someone has enough pocket change to build whatever the fuck is necessary to keep these fatass pastel uwu mentally ill, never be a woman, rape daydreaming bleeding from the crotch degenerates OFF MY GODDAMN INTERNET.

 

[Tree]

This is so weird.
They kept you through CHCH, but some tranny threatening to kill himself was enough to yeet you? Something is off here.

It's almost like there are people advised and trained to take advantage of these sorts of situations, taught how to leverage them to their greatest extent, armed with relationships and contacts reaching in to many places to engineer that little extra nudge of material loss that a company needs experience for it to not be worth the hassle of ignoring what appears to us as just a twitter mob.

 

[Free_Palestine]

It's amazing that the second Jared Holt starts getting involved, Dreamhost cucks. The man must have some powerful allies somewhere.

He works for the Atlantic Council, they're like the PR front for the military industrial complex.

They've been working with the left and big tech to shut down the right wing ever since Trump won with his popular plan to pull out of NATO, there is a lot of money in arms sales being threatened.

 

[Meat Target]

He runs Right Wing Watch - which he uses to keep the world informed on "Right Wing extremism online." Off course the man is also a Globohomo water-carrier, so "right wing extremism" covers everything from actual legitimate Nazis to Trump populists to traditional religious conservatives to now autistic shitposting forums - and they're treated as equally as bad.

Oh, he's the head honcho of that libelous flophouse of mutual masturbation?

I'm glad my shitposting makes these creeps paranoid.

 

[Neil]

Null, the only thing I can suggest is that shutting regs down might be a good idea. This is going to embolden those fucking idiots to try something fucking retarded, I can feel the autism storm coming in my bad knee.

I propose making registering a new account a gauntlet. Take every sign-in challenge we've had in the past, like watching Chris fuck a blowup doll and the quiz people had to take on a video made by some lolcow, and combine them. Maybe throw in some Nickado Avocado goatse, randomized answers, a time limit, an attempt limit, etc etc.
Make it a challenge to try and do stupid shit.

 

[Dissapointed Grandma]

Internet history: DreamHost blog "Um, Whoops." 2008

Spoiler: old ass blog post

Hello.. how’s your morning going?


I hope it’s been a little better than mine.


We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night… my first clue something was up when I saw this morning’s daily billing report (so far): $7,500,000.


It turns out due to my excessively fat fingers, nearly every one of our customers has been seriously over-billed in the last 12 hours.


I bet when you read this part of the last newsletter:

4. New Office!
Another important thing I’ve been doing instead of writing newsletters
is looking out the window of our NEW OFFICE:
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/12/21/were-so-high-right-now-you-dont-even-know
If your next web hosting bill from us is mysteriously tripled, now you
know why.

.. you thought it was a joke!


Ha, the joke is on you! I guess. Um, okay, no, not really, I’m sorry.


How on earth could something like this happen?


Let Me Explain


A couple of weeks ago, just around new years, we started beefing up some of our internal “controller” servers. These are the machines that run all of our “behind-the-scenes” services; things from adding a user to registering a domain to configuring apaches to rebilling customers.


I was on a little-bit-too-long vacation, but when I got back, I noticed our daily credit card payments seemed a tad low in the new year.


So, late last week I tried re-running the billing services for all the days back three weeks or so. I knew this was safe, because after 10 years, the one thing you DO get perfect is your billing system. Our biller is pretty bug-free and robust at this point, because we’d be broke and eating bugs if it weren’t.


In fact, it’s so robust you can just run it on any day you want, and it’s safe. It won’t double-charge people and it’ll even automatically find any missing charges and catch everything up to the day you said.


Anyway, I ran it, and things were fine.. and sure enough, it caught a lot of missed payments. I didn’t have time to look into it right then, but I made a note to myself to check up on it on Monday (yesterday) and see if things were fine or still messed up.

Come Monday


Monday came. I checked the reports and sure enough, things were still pretty low. So I looked at the logs for some of the biller services, and I noticed they were only failing on the machines that had been recently upgraded!


That explained why we were getting some money still (since not all the controllers have been upgraded yet), but not all of it.


Anyway, it turned out there was no 64 bit version of the PFProAPI module we use to interface to the credit card transaction server. No big deal, there’s a new module that interfaces with their new and preferred https interface, and it was only a couple of lines of code to change to get us switched over!


So anyway, I made the change, and it worked, and I even tested it, and things were fine!


But then… late last night, I realized: when I re-ran those biller services last week, they must not have fixed everybody then either! It’s just that by running it again I randomly got different people being charged on the working controllers who had been assigned an upgraded (and therefore broken) one before.


So why not just run it all one more time?


Sure, it should be no problem! So I did, manually running the biller (which is normally automatically scheduled) for 2008-01-14, 2008-01-13, 2008-01-12, 2008-01-11, 2008-01-10, 2008-01-09, 2008-01-08, 2008-01-07, 2008-01-06, 2008-01-05, 2008-01-04, 2008-01-03, 2008-01-02, and 2008-01-01.


I probably should have just stopped there. But then I thought better. I thought to myself, “When did we start upgrading these controllers anyway?”


I couldn’t remember. But, since the biller is super-safe and robust anyway, I went ahead and ran it for 2008-12-31, 2008-12-30, 2008-12-29, 2008-12-28, 2008-12-27, 2008-12-26, and 2008-12-25, just for the hell of it.


Notice Anything?


Don’t feel bad if you didn’t. I kind of missed it myself.


THOSE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 2007!!


Heh, uh.. um, er.. my bad?


So what happened?


Well, that super-robust and stable biller did what it was programmed to do, it ran as though today was December 31st, 2008!


And what did it see? Well, it saw a whole lot of accounts (essentially all of them) who for some unknown, mysterious reason hadn’t been charged at all for eleven and a half months!


So off it went, busily through the night, “fixing” everything up for “today”, December 31st, 2008.


Really, it’s sort of amazing this never happened before in the last ten years.

There IS a bug here.


I can imagine the half second or so of thought that sprinted through the programmer’s mind when he was adding the ability to allow you to pass in what day to run the biller as though today is:

Hmm.. well, I could see us POSSIBLY wanting to be able to bill for a future date.

Well guess what… NO! We will NEVER want to rebill as though today were a day that hasn’t happened yet! But instead, somebody along the line (Sage? Me? Somebody else?) figured, “What’s the harm in keeping it flexible?”


About $7,500,000 in harm, that’s what!


The serious part.


The end to this story is that of course, I’m very very sorry, we’re very very sorry, and I’m sure you’re very very sorry this happened. I really am. I understand the sort of problems that an unexpected large charge to your credit card (or worse yet, your debit card) can cause. If the tone of this blog post seemed a little light, I apologize I don’t mean to offend and I realize how serious an issue this is. I’ve been up since 3:50am trying to undo the damage and maybe I’m a little shell-shocked.


A new service is running right now (in parallel on all the controllers) that fixes all those future charges, re-enables your account if it was erroneously suspended, and if your credit card was automatically rebilled, refunds the payment automatically. You don’t have to contact us or your bank, and you’ll get an email when your account is finished fixing up. It’s going to take several more hours to complete. There are (or were, after this incident) a lot of you these days!


If, because of this billing mistake, you somehow incurred some fees from your bank or credit card company, please let us know after tomorrow (today we are just replying to all 10,000+ billing messages with a generic explanation) and we’ll do our best to make it right for you.


And of course, the biller no longer allows dates in the future.


The moral of this story is that “flexibility” is rarely desired in programming! The less a program will accept/the less a program will do/the less options and preferences it has, the more usable it is/the more understandable it is/the more stable it is.


Tough Love

When designing a program, you’ve got to make some tough decisions .. and when you really can’t decide if this is something your users will need someday, err on the side of leaving it out.


Otherwise, your users will someday err on the side of your face.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

I propose making registering a new account a gauntlet. Take every sign-in challenge we've had in the past, like watching Chris fuck a blowup doll and the quiz people had to take on a video made by some lolcow, and combine them. Maybe throw in some Nickado Avocado goatse, randomized answers, a time limit, an attempt limit, etc etc.
Make it a challenge to try and do stupid shit.

I was literally saying the same thing yesterday to someone. Go to some private tracker interview shit lol.

 

[REALMizkif]

Ty is a lot of things, but he has absolutely no idea how tech works, and any hosting service he creates will be dead within weeks if it tries to host anything more spicy than a Geocities website. The man just doesn't understand, on a fundamental level, that the left has taken control of online banking and are using it to destroy anyone to the right of Mao that gets in their way.


I'd wager if he's gloating, he was involved in some way behind the scenes.

It's amazing that the second Jared Holt starts getting involved, Dreamhost cucks. The man must have some powerful allies somewhere.

Wouldn't surprise me if Dreamhost got told if they want to keep being able to use money online, they get rid of the farms.

He has no influence. He's not liked in liberal circles.

Andd still no body of the emulator dev fag found. I know its not the end but I've never gotten MATI before and this is the first fucking time I've gotten to this point.

These were the same sons of bitches crying and moaning about too many facist and transphobes on twitter or reddit so "they" decide to get rid of them they do it by abusing their report systems. But when the "facist transphobic users" go out and make their own websites they decide to get all uppity and attack it.

Face it @Null they're just pissed that they can't ban us off this site, that they can't report us, and can't even power mod us.
I wish you god speed on finding a place where we can freely say nigger faggot with out drawing flocks of troons to try and take down the farms.

Now this is the real problem. There are a lot trans people working in tech. How about Null moving all the trans related stuff to a new site? There's no community on the internet that went against trans people and stayed online.

 

[Meat Target]

Now this is the real problem. There are a lot trans people working in tech. How about Null moving all the trans related stuff to a new site? There's no community on the internet that went against trans people and stayed online.

This place would get awfully dull without troonery to laugh at. It'd just become more of a Green Reddit.

 

[REALMizkif]

This place would get awfully dull without troonery to laugh at. It'd just become more of a Green Reddit.

It would be the same but with a different domain, like 4chan does with 4channel. When journalists will email companies to cry about kiwifarms.com making trans people suicidal Null can email back and say there is no trans people related content on kiwifarms.com, that's transfarms.su or whatever.

 

[Neil]

Looks like everyone' favorite weasel's popping his head out again

his mentality is definitely
>KF goes down
>People forget about Byuu and forget to check Japan's death registry
>Byuu gets to resurface under a new name and continue development on Bsnes free of his shota cubfur ties

He wants the site down as quickly as possible so his bullshit story doesn't fall apart. Piece of shit.

 

[Übertroon]

Now this is the real problem. There are a lot trans people working in tech. How about Null moving all the trans related stuff to a new site? There's no community on the internet that went against trans people and stayed online.

That would only signal weakness and vulnerability

 

[Nekoi.Inukuma.00]

He runs Right Wing Watch - which he uses to keep the world informed on "Right Wing extremism online." Off course the man is also a Globohomo water-carrier, so "right wing extremism" covers everything from actual legitimate Nazis to Trump populists to traditional religious conservatives to now autistic shitposting forums - and they're treated as equally as bad.

He's a massive cunt, and also a massive hypocrite. (archive) Like his democrat operative comrade Neil Rauhauser, I am genuinely surprised he doesn't have a thread here.

tl;dw - He, like the ADL and SPLC, is a left wing attack dog, one of the many grifters who make their living off guilty white people who think they're fighting "RAY-CISTS", rather than funding literal fascists.

If I understand correctly, he's backed off Right Wing Watch, as he finally made it to the big time... as a fellow with the Atlantic Council. (archive)

 

[Meat Target]

It would be the same but with a different domain, like 4chan does with 4channel. When journalists will email companies to cry about kiwifarms.com making trans people suicidal Null can email back and say there is no trans people related content on kiwifarms.com, that's transfarms.su or whatever.

That would only signal weakness and vulnerability

I know nothing about running websites, but that sounds like too many plates for Null to keep spinning.

 

[CohenManischewitz]

ETA: I had never heard of Jared Holt before today either.

ETA? Wut da?

 

[The Demon]

my god. they're so hellbent on destroying us that they'd be perfectly happy with destroying themselves if we went down with them