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<wolfspraul>
wow the openmoko wiki has broken down under the spam
<wolfspraul>
the entire wiki should be set to read-only asap
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<pabs3>
wolfspraul: have an example? looks ok to me
<pabs3>
ah, RecentChanges :/
<wolfspraul>
check RecentChanges
<wolfspraul>
looks like a fake account every few minutes, two new spam pages her hour or so
<wolfspraul>
and the heroic folks that kept pressing the delete buttons all these years seem gone :-)
<wolfspraul>
needs to be set to r/o asap
<pabs3>
passed the message on to LaF0rge, will send a mail too
<wolfspraul>
poor Harald :-) that was not my intention :-)
<wolfspraul>
I would have set it to r/o a long time ago, just checking now since I keep cleaning the qi wiki but need to be careful there
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<pabs3>
afaik he is the only one with access to the servers, not sure if mediawiki or the openmoko wiki has admin users that can do that
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<roh>
pabs3: i can surely give you access if you want to help
<pabs3>
hmm. I volunteered for that a bunch of months ago but Harald wanted to clean up some private stuff before giving me access, don't think anything happened with that yet
<roh>
may be.. but for the wiki for example that should be no issue i guesss
<pabs3>
maybe see what Harald says first
<roh>
he has enough on his plate and surely doesnt care if someone cleans up the wiki ;)
<wolfspraul>
won't work as the bots create new accounts automatically
<wolfspraul>
even generously blocking ip ranges won't work since they probably sit on botnets or other variable ips
<wolfspraul>
the only thing that would work is to upgrade the captcha to the very latest-gen, or block all edits wiki-wide, or (haven't tried that yet) block the creation of new accounts
<lindi->
wolfspraul: or require users to type their openmoko mac address :))
<pabs3>
yeah, for the Debian wiki, recaptcha worked well but some folks complained so we had to implement a bunch of other stuff
* pabs3
wonders if reverting to an older copy of the database with less spam would be best
<roh>
i need to run... if there's nothing happening, holler me
* pabs3
gives up on blocking the spammers, they register as fast as I can block them
<paul_boddie>
I guess you're used to configuring MoinMoin for this kind of thing?
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<whitequark>
this fucking country can't even make a decent electric stove
<whitequark>
the moment I turned it on, something inside died and it became perma-on and tripped the circuit breaker.
<whitequark>
fuck.
<whitequark>
I'm so glad I had that breaker in the first place. the previous flat I've rented did not.
<roh>
you live somewhere weird
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<whitequark>
roh: russia
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<whitequark>
I'm not terribly surprised that this happened, to be sincere. just annoyed.
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<whitequark>
me: "it's big, heavy and there's some crap inside" friend: "that's called "done according to Soviet spirit!". indeed.
<whitequark>
now I face a choice of either: 1) calling a professional and paying >$300 upfront, which I don't have atm 2) calling a... state-funded technician, who'll probably be drunk and not very qualified.
<whitequark>
3) fixing it myself, during which I'd probably injure myself with some really big, heavy and not properly fixed part of it.
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* lekernel
has had funny experiences attempting to fix soviet stuff
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<paul_boddie>
I once lived somewhere that had a Soviet fridge.
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<wpwrak>
siberia ?
<viric>
did east germany have soviet fridges?
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<paul_boddie>
A previous apartment in Norway. There was a fridge from a company called Elektra that said "Made in the U.S.S.R." on the back.
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<lekernel>
as far as I can tell east germany manufactured a lot of stuff locally
<viric>
yes, I also heard so
<viric>
until the unification, where there was a conflict of interest between the east factories, and the lobbying west companies
<viric>
no?
<lekernel>
it seems a bunch of eastern companies went bankrupt as everyone wanted to buy western stuff instead
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<lekernel>
former east germany is full of abandoned factories, which are sometimes nice to visit, but often vandalized heavily
<paul_boddie>
Wasn't there a famous East German motorcycle manufacturer that was able to survive post-reunification due to its cult reputation or am I mixing up stories?
<lekernel>
east germany also has an impressive number of abandoned russian military barracks, which are nice places to see soviet propaganda (frescos, sculptures etc.) uncurated
<lekernel>
though (around Berlin at least) they are disappearing fast to make room for apartments
<viric>
lekernel: I watched recently 'Catastroika', and it explained the bankrupcies with a more 'planned' point of view
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<wpwrak>
viric: sigh, the wikipedia article on their previous work "debtocracy" is sad. " The term is coined from the words "χρέος" (debt) and the Greek "κράτος" (power, -ocracy)". c'mon ...
<wpwrak>
then they give the examples "in a similar manner of other words regarding forms of government (such as democracy, aristocracy, theocracy etc.)."
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<lekernel>
a lot of activist stuff those days is sad for similar reasons
<viric>
hm I'm not following
<viric>
what makes you feel sad?
<viric>
did you want a better naming?
<viric>
or you dislike how the wikipedia article worded that?
<wpwrak>
what makes me sad is that the authors of the article don't understand the structure of the language. there is no "-ocracy". it's "-cracy". the "o" comes from the first word, aristOs, demOs, theOs.
<viric>
Ah, the article then. ok
<viric>
fix it
<viric>
:)
<wpwrak>
phew :)
<viric>
that's sad too ;)
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