When I submit a comment, the resulting page usually doesn't load. It just spins for ages. Now it works. If you can see this, the journal is also fixed — I haven't been able to post to mine for months. Is this a nginx fail or something?

I wrote some user scripts for /., you can find them (with some other people's) on GreasyFork. The scripts remove hostnames from Slashdot links, so you're not being bounced to multiple hostnames, and to send you straight to the domain if you do get sent to a hostname by mistake.

I got interested in actually doing this because I couldn't leave comments on *.slashdot.org a few days back, only on slashdot.org. But it's annoying all the time, IMO.

My scripts probably have no elegance whatsoever, but they work.

Last time I tried to post to my journal I got an error, so I'm trying again now.

FACT CHECK: Snopes is no longer a website (Tb). When you go there without javascript you don't see any images. When I activate all the reputable javascript sources, I still don't see all of the images. I am no longer going to cite Snopes for debunking as a result. Are there any good fact-checking websites, as opposed to Javascript SNAFUs?

I don't know if Slashdot is malfunctioning, functioning poorly as designed, or whether I'm outright being censored. Since I don't know, I'll list that possibility last. I'm trying to leave a response to This comment by Bruce Perens. This is that response:

If this is not important, why are you engaging me?

Open Source is a wave that you've ridden, not one which you've churned up with your splashing about. There are obvious benefits in the Open Source model to developers and even to corporate rightsholders.

The internet, just as it remembers that people were using "Open Source" before Christine's claim. Faintly, distantly, because archival was not a major concern at the time. Perhaps one day in our apparently inevitable future of surveillance societies, we will remember everything and we'll always be able to look up who did what and when.

The audience thinks I'm being a troll because it doesn't know what trolling is, and because some people have abused moderation by modding me as a troll. Trolling is saying things you may or may not even believe because you want to make people angry. My goal is not to make people angry, although it's okay if people become angry with what I say. My goal is to support the truth, in the form of facts. I and others have provided citations which support the view of events which I remember. I'm not alone, nor does the entire discussion hinge on a single press release, and your attempts to suggest otherwise seem disingenuous.

The truth? I've thought about it again and again, and I just can't comprehend any other explanation than those we've discussed upthread why you spend so much time supporting this nonsense. You say it's not important, then you spend a ton of time on it, then you criticize me for spending time on it. Why don't you make up your mind?

I got a solid scoop on the fact that OSI members did not invent the term "Open Source Software" and Slashdot's not interested.

Slashdot is having serious problems with forms. https://slashdot.org/journal only loads sometimes. After submitting a comment, the subsequent page load almost always fails (but the form submission works.) What did you guys break this time?

So, moss is starting to grow under my feet and the road is lonely without me. Every few years, I meander off in a bout of wanderlust - often with no destination in mind. I haven't really done much of this since I hooked up with Jess. I'm thinking about doing it again, and soon.

I'm not sure where I'll go. I'm tempted to go to Europe and rent an RV. I might go to Canada, instead. I've hit all the States, multiple times, but that's still an option.

I'm pretty much done here, until hunting season, so I have nothing keeping me busy. The blueberry fields will be buttoned up later today. The garden is mostly harvested and put up. I got another chest freezer and will fill that with a moose and a deer.

I don't know, really. So long as I'm back for hunting season, I don't much care. I just have to move and wear out my traveling genes. I've always enjoyed getting out there and just going, the destination isn't important - the journey is the point. I don't do traditional touristy things, I don't like most of them. I'll do museums and things like that, but that's not the goal. Instead, I'm more happy talking with someone at a diner or a gas station, and finding out what the locals do and getting permission to join them.

Music is one way to get an "in" with the locals. It's a universal language and I've often used it to get to know people. That's more interesting, to me at least, than any museum, tourist trap, beach, amusement park, or sporting event.

I've been most everywhere, though I've never been on the Indian subcontinent. I'd want to plan that better, so that's not really an option. I've stomped across Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, North America, and Australia. I've never been to New Zealand but that's just a tiny place and I'd probably get bored pretty quickly because this is going to be a fairly short trip (no more than a month).

So, anyone have any ideas where I might want to go? It should involve a lot of driving and not a lot of touristy activities. I'm fond of rural areas where I can enjoy the people. I speak Spanish and English, Jess speaks some French. I can hire a guide and interpreter, if need be. I've seldom found that necessary, actually.

I'm open to suggestions. I'll also probably want to be back here in time for foliage season. I've seen it all before, but it's still somewhat magical to me. If I'm reminded, I'll get some pictures. It's beautiful...

Still, I'm not sure where to go - but I've the urge to go somewhere.

See Have Bruce Perens Keynote Your Confference at perens.com

Why does it need to be so damned hard to tell the difference between a visited and non-visited link on Slashdot? I have color-calibrated my display, so it's not me.

Went to Fortuna for the beer fest, which was pretty good except that I didn't have any beer there which I liked much which I hadn't had before. Found out that, shock amazement, Hoparillo became Hop-Trio due to threat of lawsuit by a Texan brewery which might have been in or had a beer named Amarillo. (Hello Texas, I hope you don't get your asses kicked too bad, some of you are with me always.) Anyway, most of my comments got up-modded. I'm certainly going to combine beer with Slashdot a lot more.

A big part of the formula had to be that I was using my phone, though, and less is more. So with that thought in mind,

Looking for sysadm or auto electrical work, willing to tone down online rhetoric if it's a dealbreaker

OpenLDAP (slapd) has always been one of the trickier things to have to deal with. I'd have a hard time figuring out what the fuck kind of magic shit needs to go into slapd.conf to deal with some interoperability problem, but Google is everyone's friend. Invariably someone else has had the problem first, and so I'd just look up the magic incantation and that's that. It wasn't too hard.

But that was old versions of slapd. They've changed how you configure it.

Have you seen recent versions? The slapd.d database? slapcat followed by ldapmodify? OMFG.

Words cannot express my hate. The man-days lost. Fuck you, slapd team! What were you thinking, you evil pieces of shit?!?

I was thinking about net neutrality, and it led me on a strange mental path. I ended up here:

It used to be that most people had issues going online, unless they were at work. Today, many people get in trouble for going online when they work.

I am returned, at least for a while. Quite a few changes had to be made in my life. It's a long story. ;-)

Either way, for now, I am back.