This is the alternative MLP fan site general thread. Discussion, development suggestions, and criticisms are all welcome here.Just Over a Week Till April Fools' Edition>why alternate boorus?The absolute state of Derpibooru has led to the development of various alternatives. Many altbooru staffmembers are present ITT, listening to comments and answering questions.Note that this is NOT the Derpibooru drama general. Please keep posts about Derpibooru in the mlpg.co thread.>why alternate text sites?Pastebin persistently purges pony pastes. FimFiction does not allow stories in greentext format. FimFetch censors foalcon and other material deemed to be "unacceptable" by the whims of its libelous hypocrite: https://ponepaste.org/9926>general purpose boorusponerpics.org by Lotus [!!VL3e2tgvNo5]ponybooru.org by Zizzy [!DizzyMC4pc]twibooru.org by Twifag and Filly (formerly Floorb) [!!mdpTjuXo6BG]>specialized boorusbooru.foalcon.com by Pathos (underage)lyrabooru.org (hot glue)>(green)text and other fanfictionponepaste.org by Aftercase [!!KXV0q+Lg38e], managed by Filly>dedicated archivesa0346f102085fe9f.github.io/IAS2foalfetch.net by Fillyhorsewords.orgiwiftp.yerf.org by Romemulpwiki.batpony.partymlpcon.info>video sharingpony.tube by Twifag and Filly>file sharingpone.rs>microbloggingpone.social by Twifag and Filly>link shorteningderpy.meOn past /fast/s:>Ponerpics duplicate queue has several hundred reports awaiting an update to Derpi metadata handling>Twibooru importer disrupted by Derpi API change; fix implemented and missed images retrieved (and again)>SunBooru resumes development>Twibooru begins importing from Manebooru>PonePaste UI improvements go live>Pony.Tube future expansion under consideration>Ponerpics disables anonymous tag editing to curb spam; results promising>derpy.me back online after purging spam links>IWIFTP relaunches Tor hidden service: 647jnod5oc7bzj3tpjq2qaaq6j73sa4h43whqeubkvkbvm52yecm72id.onion>Twibooru slows to a crawl due to a network routing issue; fix implemented overnight>IWIFTP launches i2p service: ow7qtlpe3u36qob4dgoo3opifaj335hbk6gxv43tfjjzhvky5zwa.b32.i2p>PonePaste domain expires; gets transferred to Floorb>PonyTube and Pone.Social receive updates courtesy of Floorb>Ponerpics prev/next image shortcuts fixed; move to Ponybooru fork of Philomena announced>New Twibooru scraper code published: https://github.com/Twibooru/nuboorumon>pone.rs ShareX functionality fixed>Twibooru SVG importer fixed, hopefully for the last time>Ponut.Space taken offline following CP spam>IWIFTP experiences server issues; potential for extended downtime>Quad9 DNS blocking FoalFetch once again>PonePaste fixes out-of-memory bug affecting database dumps+Ponybooru runs out of disk space; VM updated with more storagePrevious thread: >>43085916
>>43124368>Sunbooru resumes development Well, I do hope to re-resume development. Seems like I've been averaging a few months per year working on it.
>>43124483might be sun with you, anon
>>43124483Out of curiosity, what made you pick le snek language to write your booru in?
>>43124945Most decisions for software used are based on what would make it easy for someone to set up and configure. That and I'm probably the most familiar with Python.
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oh hey neat thread is back
Dont die bump reeeee
>>43124945>filenameUsecase for homosexuality?
>twibooru listed as the source for https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Czu_MLP_clop_Wikimare.pngIs this the first mention of altboorus on Wikipedia?
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>>43127679>explicit image on wikipedia still upThat's a first.
>>43127679>search for Ponerpics>get pictures of planes>search for Twibooru>get pictures of horsecockW--What did Commons mean by this?>>43128458There's no shortage of porn on Wikipedia, but this is the first well-known clop artist that's made it on there.
Anon who was inquiring about LTO tape here: I ended up buying an LTO-6 tape drive for around $300. I've not even got all the parts yet to try it out and I realize I've already made a mistake. So here's a bit of a PSA for others potentially interested in tape. Tape cartridges come in both R/W and WORM variants. You cannot format a tape with a filesystem if it is WORM. I was hoping to format with LTFS, hoewever I had purchased WORM carts. Glad I only purchased two to start out with. Also another quirk of the gen 6 LTO tapes in particular is that they can also come in two different chemistries. Metal particle or BaFe. BaFe is supposedly better and is what's used in newer generations. I'll probably post some more updates when I get things actually working.
>>43129375Write Once Read Many?
>>43129381Yes. I suppose I didn't notice the label at first, and even the R/W tapes I've read that the only way to delete is to reformat the whole tape. Which is fine. I don't plan on rewriting them. But I do want to be able to mount the tapes as a filesystem. They also have hardware write protect switches which is nice.
>>43129413Why are you using tapes for that, why not just use M-Disc BD-Rs (or if it's small enough, DVD-Rs, they're somewhat sturdier even)? It's probably even more cost effective despite the fact you need more discs.
>>43129529>somewhat sturdier
>>43129576Do you even know what M-Discs are?
Dbooru is down. Time to capitalize on this advantage.
>>43129670>start noticing some behind-the-scenes fuckery>it goes down while I'm digging up evidencethey're in my walls they're in my walls they'RE IN MY WALLS
>>43129678You're starting to notice just now? There's always been behind the scenes fuckery. It's to be expected when you have a site so big with so many different kinds of people... And admins and mods with a clear agenda they have to keep hidden
>>43129529I plan to store around 50TB. Even with the largest 128gb discs, that's still 400 discs. Which is a lot compared to the 20 LTO-6 tapes it would take to store the same data. At around $12.5 per disc, that's $5000 plus the cost of a drive that can write those discs. Whereas with LTO-6 you can buy a pack of 20 for around $400. Equipment wise the drive cost $300, a fiber channel card cost $12, fiber channel cable cost $12, and a cleaning cart for $20.
>>43129375You might be able to find a ponybro to take those WORMs off your hooves in /pts/: >>43095705
>>43129678Was it czu's Wikipe-tan quality thing?
>>43129529Optical media is painfully slow to write and labour intensive. A tape can store many TB (largest ones are like 30TB) and there is no need to swap to a different disc every hour or two. Plus it's way way smaller than a 100 disc, much cheaper overall.There is a reason why nobody is using optical media anymore.
>>43129926Well if you need to store that much tapes probably make sense.>>43130368Tape is painfully slow to write AND read. There's little use case for it besides storing very large amounts of data that you plan to keep in rest for 10+ years. Otherwise just buy a HDD and swap all data to a new one every X years. Cheaper and faster, and also more future proof since the media and drive are not separate from each other.
>>43130396>painfully slow to writeShow me an optical media which can write at 360Mbyte/sec.>slow to readShow me an optical media which can read 360Mbyte/sec.Seeking is slow, not read or write. And we are comparing to optical media not HDDs. Don't change the goalpost. But since you changed the goalpost: failure rate of HDDs are astronomically higher than tape. Because if it dies you lost all the data on it (eg head crash, platters scratched). If the tape is torn, you only lost a section. The file system on a tape is also designed in a way that if you loose a section, you only lost that section. Only exception is the catalogue (which you should always have another backup of just in case).
>>43130409Whatever, go spend thousands on something that is overkill for any home user's use case. Autism is a potent drug I guess.
>>43130396>Tape is painfully slowActually not so. LTO6 is supposed to transfer at around 160mb/s. That's fast enough that a hard drive may not always be able to keep up when transferring data to tape.
>>43130413>go spend thousandsLoL anon, have you checked prices lately?A 12TB lto8 tape cartage is about 75€, while a 12TB hdd is 400€, br dl (the cheap one which rots away in 5 years) is about 500€ for 12TB.Tape is cheaper after 120TB than br dl (which i remind you, you have to throw away and rewrite every 5 years), and cheaper after 180TB than hdds (which also craps themselves after every 10-15 year at best). Do the math. I included the cost of the tape drive itself (3500€) into the calculations.
So uh why is this on Wikipedia now? And which one of you did it?https://twibooru.org/3738197
>>43130710there was a thread about it that reached the bump limitgo read it if you're interested
>>43130710Oh you haven't heard?https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42980832Which led intohttps://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43116485
>>43130718>>43130711Did Czu responded to use it on Wikipedia? Because I think they need his permission to use it. I do not think Czu actually responded to this yet.
>>43130923I don't think he cares lol.
>>43130923>implying that wasn't one of the reasons he made it in the first placeoh anon
>>43131003Are you saying that he purposely made it to be on Wikipedia? Because it seemed to me, that he was only supporting that one image of Wiki-tan mare being deleted. Not to be posted on a Wikipedia article. I don't mind it being there, I was wondering if he gave the greenlight to post on Wikipedia.
>>43130710>which one of you did it?You do realize Commons logs are public, right? ^:)>>43130923>I think they need his permission to use itAt first, I also thought permission was required because the JPEG upload was labeled as CC0. However, that label was incorrect, and has since been fixed. Since the image incorporates a Wikipedia screenshot, it is a derivative work subject to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. As a result, it must be licensed under those terms, and neither Czu nor the uploader can relicense it as CC0.>>43131015Though he wouldn't have been so WP:BOLD as to put it up there himself, Czu has graciously provided me with the original-quality file with the express permission to upload it to Commons in order to replace the JPEG. As previously stated, CC BY-SA 4.0 applies, and so the Wikimare drawing incorporating a Wikipedia screenshot is exempt from the usual copyright release process.
>>43131015if you don't think the thought of>lol wouldn't it be funny if it got put on the page toodidn't go through his head at least once, you're goofyalso I'm pretty sure he would be one of the first people to know about it once it happened, since people would probably message him about it, and he hasn't seemed to say anything about wanting it taken down.
>>43131040quick reminder that 4chan compresses files now when you post them, so is there a chance you could throw it up on poners or something? and thank you for the info by the way, good to have settled and nice to have the full pic
>>43131050If you mean the censored edit I just posted, sure, I can upload it. As far as the original, uncensored pic, it's already been imported to Poner: https://ponerpics.org/images/7467465
>>43131040Wait a second... Are you... Isaac or GM?
>>43131040If that's the case, why do I see this then?>An email has been received at VRTS concerning this file, and can be read here by users with a VRTS account. The email is in a queue awaiting processing. For an update on the issue, please contact the user (Krdbot) who added this template to the page, or someone else with a VRTS account, or the VRT noticeboard. If a valid permission is not provided within 30 days of the first response by a VRT agent, this file will be deleted. Please do not file an additional deletion nomination for permission reasons.
>>43131070I am /a/ GM, though likely not the GM you're thinking of in the context of Wikipedia.PS: it's Issac, not Isaac.>>43131082In the brief window of time where the Commons page displayed CC0, there was a perceived need to send an explicit release confirming the license via email. However, now that the license has been clarified to be CC BY-SA 4.0, the release is no longer necessary. At this point, dealing with the mistakenly-sent email is an administrative matter for the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team.
>>43131092So you're Issac?
>>43131096I'm unsure what could have brought you to that conclusion. I appreciate Issac's work, but to claim we're one and the same is a bit of a leap.
>>43131040Oh my God it was YOU
>>43131050>quick reminder that 4chan compresses files now when you post themthat's just when you save them from the siteopen the files on 4cdn.org if don't want cuckflare to do weird shit with images
>>43130625>>go spend thousands>Lol it's not thousands >Btw the drive costs $3500Based retard
>>43131543>Lol it's not thousandsAnon, where did he write "its not thousands"? We are not talking about storing a single 64kbps mp3 song here, but storing hundred+ TBs. Nothing is going to be cheap.
>>43131755you don't get it brofilling your house with spindles upon spindles of easily scratchable shit is way better than using spooling rust
>>43132120Remember these shit? I had like 5 of them back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Made regular backups of my back then huge 10gb HDD on a 8x speed CD burner. None of which I ever managed to read back after 3-5 years after I accidentally deleted a folder containing photos and I did not notice it for years. Plus every single magazine came with a CD or two every month.I would say the last time I used optical media was 10+ years ago but that would be untrue. Hospital gave the MRI scan to me on a CD this year. Had to go to the attic to find a sufficiently old (and working) machine which had a working CD drive in it. Yay for not throwing anything out (except all the optical media I had, including like 100 blank RW CDs, DVDs).
>>43131468not true, you used to have to add some ?qualifier at the end of the 4cdn link for it to reload as full res, but that doesn't work anymore
Sometimes files are rare simply because nobody wants them.
>>43133092Nonsense. There's billions of people on the net, so there's no such thing as an unwanted file, but files without enough marketing.
>>43133648Wrong.
>>43131040>>43131092Oh so you're Goldie Meddle.
>>43133746You never knew? His icon gave it away.
bump for ponerpics fixing its shit
>>43134158Yeah right
>>43132260>not burning DVD-Rs full of show episodes and porn to scatter randomly around in the hopes of making new horsefuckers
How can i search more than a single tag at once on Ponepaste? Like, if i want to search for fics with two different characters, how do i do it?
>>43133648>marketingWell, it's not quite a file, but I'm putting on a Marecon presentation in exactly 24 hours' time:https://marecon.live/schedule/saturday/Come listen to me discuss moderating these sites, if you so desire.
>>43136870Sounds like a very interesting panel. Also, let Lotus out of your basement.
>>43136870You, I like you.
>>43136870Pass the link then.
>>43136412right now, you can't. coming soon(tm). most of the code for better search is written but not very well tested.
>>43136870So, about that "24 hours" thing... How does 6 hours from now sound?
>>43136870Damn you Anon, making me get up early on a weekend.
>>43140479Cool panel, interesting insights, thanks anon. Somehow made you both appear less insufferable than these threads, no offense.
>>43140479Aw man, I missed it :/
>>43141163Thanks, nonny, and none taken. Filly really came in clutch, and this wouldn't have been half the panel--well, it technically wouldn't have been a panel at all in the absence of a second participant--without my surprise guest.>>43141166I thankfully recorded the entirety of it (though not the Cytube chat), so you can bear the full brunt of our autism once I've stitched it together and uploaded it to Pony.Tube.
>>43136951I wish I had a /fast/boy in my basement...
Bonk.
>>43143557boink
waaheyy
>10
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>>43141241May I have the link?
>>43146103https://pony.tube/w/2eMYni1FdTEEDJknTXEbSP
after about a day of indexing and some development, i've made a simple open-source interface for searching TPA, albeit in a very rudimentary state (for now)the index has metadata for an estimated 480k+ files including everything up to ~33% of /archive/youtubesearch is basic trigram similarity search, support for vector/semantic search is part of future plans (see the rest in README todo)site: http://search.twilight.horse repo: https://github.com/compscitwilight/tpa-searchpostgresql dump (112MB compressed): https://dumps.search.twilight.horse/public.sql.gz
>TPA updateZ+ public hosting shut down, saving some more cash now.I and the business are "debt free" but I'm still putting in more than TPA makes.Subscribe Star started working again, numbers are back to what they were (genuinely no idea what happened there) So I'm only in the hole about 450 or so a month instead of 700.New tape decks installed, but my personal 1k gamble on an LTO8 drive failed the init roll, nat 1 error code 5. Drive is gone.48 bays of tape, supporting LTO 4, 6, and 8.>what nowUhh thankfully it works right now. I've been adding sections of iwiftp onto TPA so that it too will be included on our next tape release.>tape anonHi anon, if you don't feel like purchasing a super expensive drive I'll happily write your tape for you for free. Just pay shipping on the tape. I suppose this offer only works though if you were interested in TPA / iwiftp (main pony things), getting me other data would require sending in a hard drive or two.>save money on drivesI buy most of my stuff working on ebay, it's a lot cheaper but sometimes you do get bit by non working equipment. All of my loaders are HP MSL2024s but I'm probably going to only pick up IBM TS or Dell TL series later. They're the same internally but the IBM and Dell models can be reflashed to a BTD Flexstor II firmware - and that allows the autoloader to use ANY tape drives, not just specific brands. You can flash the HP ones too but then the front screen doesn't work lol.>save money on tapeDon't. Used tape is a gamble that's only worth it on LTO5 and down, one 40 dollar used tape can shred a $600 used LTO6 drive.>future plansfinish out these fookin scripts, mail them out.
>>43146661>Tape AnonI assume you mean me. I ended up purchasing an LTO6 drive for around $300. I will be buying new/sealed tape. Currently I'm planning on buying these Fujifilm BaFe cartridges. I just have one at the moment to test though to see if I want to go through with this. I finally got everything to connect the drive but haven't yet due to Marecon.
>derpi's aprils fool stuffThe color scheme is not bad. I could actually see myself using that on other boorus.
>>43147457>derpi's april fool's btfoing 4chinz april fool'sSad!
>>43147457Not going there. Even for April Fools.I'll stick to StarscoutBooru
>>43148119>4chinz april fool'sI dont see anything yet.
>>43148221You occasionally get a captcha that has you answer a question like "name this character" or "name this flag". I think we've truly reached the rock bottom of April fools jokes.
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Twibooru's importer stuck! Again!
>>43149778
finally starting to get a bit of my desire to work on anything back... i blame the spring starting! i've got the following on my to-do list right now; does anyone have anything else obvious i'm forgetting?>twibooru importer stability improvements>twibooru api improvements (requested by anons)>ponepaste mobile overflow fixes>ponepaste improved search>foalfetch automatic fimfiction import + update existing database>foalfetch support for non-fimfiction sites (i would love to archive ponyfiction.org for example)
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>>43150688Something that might be done about the certificates? They sometimes spout out warnings for being expired. It doesn't happen all too often, but it does occur.
>>43151283The main issue there is that the automation for renewal/replacement just doesn't work. I've tried a few things to take it, but I need to wait for the cert to expire again to properly test it, and by the time that rolls around I've forgotten what I had tried already.
>>43150688>my desire to workSo it was never about there being "too little time" was there?
>>43151384too little time where i am awake and able to do anything; if you sleep 12h a day, work 8h a day, eat and shower for 1h a day, and then lay in bed depressed for 3h a day, i would consider that too little time. i'm trying to resolve that last part.
>>43151419also ive been sick for nearly 4 months lmao and i am just now regaining my ability to talk for more than 30 seconds per day
>>43151426How can you be sick for 4 months? Do you have a weakened immune system by any chance? ^:)
>>43151478absolutely no fucking idea. it's not a virus or bacteria or fungus infection, it's some kind of persistent inflammation of my throat that nobody can find the cause of so they're just trying every possible treatment one by one. every time it starts to get better something seems to happen that causes it to go right back to terrible.
>>43151483Have you tried abstinence or is that too big of an ask?
>>43151492from what, i don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. if you're trying to make a retarded joke, i'm pretty sure i haven't had sex in over 2 years.
>>43146103>>43146331Additionally, here's a choppier version with chat:https://pony.tube/w/dWGbS3e6sqiWkeaDxqRkc2>>43146661Substar has been stumbling for a while, but that's only natural after it shot itself in the foot.>>43147154I wish you well on your descent into the depths of datahoarding.>>43150688Are you planning on implementing any versioning features in Foalfetch to avoid the scenario wherein a writer vandalize--er, rewrites an older fic and replaces the original version with the new and "improved" one?
>>43151558>i haven't had sex in over 2 yearsIs Goldie really that rizzless?
>>43151711>versioning featuresyes! i would love to do that.>>43152059i'm just tired all the time.
Daring Do Trilogy https://u.pone.rs/rzrvkyvb.pdfTracy Cage Trilogy https://u.pone.rs/yvmsoabu.pdf
Up.
>>43151558>i'm pretty sure i haven't had sex in over 2 yearsdoes>rapecount?
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>>43131040>>43130710Oh some guy deleted it now. Adding that the image is a little much. Here we go.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clop_(erotic_fan_art)&oldid=1347025544
>>43154915It's some fag. It's been retrieved.
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>>43154915>>43154989What is it with this character anyway? I see her everywhere now
>>43155791It's just Wikipe-tan.
>>43155797This. And she has gotten popular because of that image by Czu.
>>43155808Well partially that, but the reason was because they were trying to get rid of her.
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>>43155815They what?
>>43157411Yeah, lewding Wikipe-tan is not done. The whole world needs to look at a tranny stallion's ass instead.
>>43157297
>unread chapters changed from 40 to 35 since yesterdayIs there a way to know which stories got recently deleted ?
>>43158014Where? On FimFic?
>>43157862
Slow thread.
>>43159068But it's called fast
>>43159312False advertising then.
>>43158805
>>43158296Yeah on fimfic
>>43158014>>43160647Unfortunately, Fimfiction takes the Alexandria approach to librarianship, and no archive of the site has the specific feature you desire. Your best hopes are looking through your browser history or going on a vision quest.
>>43160876Man, that's annoying as hell.
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>>43161667
I just looked at the PonePaste Ko-Fi and... Nice digits.
>>43163148Nothing like numerology to keep people funding us.
You get a bump
>>43163836Thanks, Anon.
>>43163836
whenever an american or something asks for a takedown on Twibooru and i say no they are usually just like "oh OK then goodbye" but whenever someone from the UK asks, they typically cite UK law explicitly, and then when I say we aren't based in the uk and uk law doesn't apply to us, they just start reeeeing and saying "BUT ITS AGAINST UK LAW!!1111oneone"are there any UK anons here who can maybe shed some light on this shit? like do they explicitly teach you in school that your laws apply to everyone or something? or is there some greater culture of entitlement over there that i just don't understand?
>>43164827OFCOM has similar entitlement issues, it seems to be just dey cultah
>>43164827>I will be taking further action regarding this Scawy
>>43164827>kindly requesting A request implies you'd actually take 'no' for an answer.
>>43165216my "petty response" was just >We do not do takedown requests and are not subject to UK copyright law, as we are not based in the UK. Sorry! - Floorbif you're curious
>>43164827>like do they explicitly teach you in school that your laws apply to everyone or something?they have a legal concept called "parliamentary supremacy" that can be summarized as>If the British Parliament prohibits smoking in streets of Paris it is illegal to smoke in streets of ParisAs long as the law doesn't specify the British Islands the law applies to the entire world. The only "limit" here is obviously Brits' inability to execute said law across borders, especially in the United "we rebelled against the crown" Statessee Ofcom "fining" 4chan over email
>>43164827I dunno about citizens, but UK government absolutely does think their laws apply to the whole globe. Look up news from the last decade.
>>43164827>ponerpics is in UK oh no
>>43165806lotus is being a ziggeraids victim and keeping his funnyday joke well beyond when it would be funny
>>43165806This doesn't bode well.Not at all.
>>43165819It's not so much of an overlong gag as it is forgetting to clean up after the festivities, but the reminder's well and truly appreciated nonetheless.
>>43166371
>>43165806anyone else think that messing with rules for april fools was a terrible idea? make your jokes as annoying as you want, policy changes can kill sites. joking about them like this is at best poor taste and at worst a sign of things to come.
flooooooorb when are you going to update ponytube's peertube version and add more storaaaaaage>>43167661Consider not being an autistic retard that gets triggered by april fools jokes.
>>43167686can you read my mind? you posted that just as i was talking about doing so in the pony.tube admin chat.
>>43167742
How the fuck do you guys access the pastes on horsewords.org? There's only 20 stories there that I can view and it says there's 61694 stories total, but switching pages doesn't do shit. Do I gotta make an account? There's only the option to log in, but not to sign up.
>>43167661Agreed. Some things should not be joked about, especially if you're not going to update the page past April 1st.
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>>43129375BaFe's like, the best possible type of cassette chemically for archival (given you keep it far from magnetic sources in a metal box) what feels scammy is the WORM part because, unless of some tech or stuff I ignore about, a magnetic support can be erased and re-recorded a large number of times, until the tape wears out. which is why i enjoy magnetic storage for backups having an LTO tape on my PC from a server that does the job right, it's an originality.>>43129529when you have a chunk of TB to backup, it would take a few BluRays and organizing, I love optical too since it's a medium that will in some case outlive most of us. But in the idea, if you have backups of the past years, you just burn a new BD for the new uploads and comments. This also works! Both are decent, but yeah 6Tb for less than 50bucks, sounds smart.
>>43170328WORM isn't a "scam," it's designed for specific use cases like legal recordkeeping where the data must not be tampered with in any way. There is indeed nothing special about the tape in the cartridge, it's just about a) the low-level format and b) how it presents itself to the tape drive. But these are desirable things, rather than hindrances, if you're the target customers for WORM tape.
>>43171013Would you love your waifu if she was WORM?
Imagine spending thousands just to store all the garbage that this fandom shits out.
>>43171113>having to imagine
mare.by
>>43171904Is this your new site Floorb?
>>43171904>.byNever heard of that domain.
>>43172528>what is Belarust. used ely.by extensively
>>43172143i have nothing to do with it, if i did i'd prefer to be transparent by posting it with my trip
>>43171904>no rulesbrb gonna upload /jdb/'s classics
Zeit für a paar neue sachn!The Website archive is in the process of being fully moved over to archive.org. I recently resolved a persistent upload issue with their support team. This will free around 12TB of space.You can now find Tumblr, YouTube, and the Websites at https://archive.org/details/@iwiftpThe Image archives for Pony, Furry, and the Chinese animations are in the process of being fixed up and the download tasks being moved over to the new downloader instead of the 5 different pure bash scripts I wrote years ago and are 1000's of lines.New features include:- Proper usage of canonical site IDs- Support for all file types these sites allow in upload- Proper naming of main and auxiallry files , exempli gratia (name).api.json, (name).comments.json, (name).description.json, etc cetera- More useful handling of errors, retries, and so forth- Actual user interface- Built in de-duplication due to the use of content addressable storageAt some point it will switch over and greatly reduce the amount of space taken.
Tape Anon here. Starting to make some progress with the tapes. I think I may have changed my mind on LTFS. I really like that there are tools built directly into Linux (mt tar) to interface with LTO drives and I think I want to use them. Planning on making some simple bash scripts to make working with them a bit easier. My current quandary that I'm working on is appending data to tapes with content already on them. There are two different ways to accomplish this. You can use tar and append to the archive itself or you can use mt to advance to eom, write a file marker and create a new tar archive separate from the first. From what I read the first option is a bit more dicey in terms of getting it right and not corrupting existing data. So I'm thinking I will use the second method and write every file to it's own tar (supposed to be better for seeking as well). However this does complicate file extraction as I will need to iterate over all the archives on the tape, using mt in between to advance to the start of the next archive.
>>43172780Where do you even plan to store these tapes? Have you made sure humidity and temperature will be okay year round?
>>43172600>BelarusThat's a name which isn't mentioned very often. Heard it's pretty based though.
>>43173035>Heard it's pretty based though.Anon it's just Russia: Pocket Edition
>>43164827Who even cares that much?
>>43173041They have the pony donut place there
>>43172830I plan on storing them in their cases in a drawer. I live in a very mild climate, so temperature should be fine. Maybe for a few days in August it may be just above 73f recommended max. The only problem might be the high humidity here. I suppose I could store it with one of the mini closet dehumidifier packs if I were that worried about it.
>>43173041In a good or in a bad way?
>>43174548For pretty much all of their post-Soviet history they were worse (worse economy that only exists on Russian bailouts, worse freedums (only European nation to still do death penalties), etc)As of now they are slightly better because (a) Russian censorship of the Internet is too draconian and (b) they aren't as heavily sanctioned as Russia, lmao
>>43174798Interesting. The only thing I heard about the place is that didn't go bananas like the rest of the world when the whole corona circus was making its rounds.
>>43174934yeah Lukashenko & co. realized that the rest of Europe are so bad they might as well be less retarded with their authoritarianismfor example iirc he's REALLY into crypto, while Russian Duma (parliament) is currently thinking of ways to kill the entire cryptomarket even though sanctions made USDT and other coins mandatory for international purchases; They themselves use it ffs
Ponepaste won't let me log in; I'm getting this error:>This page isn’t working.>ponepaste.org is currently unable to handle this request.>HTTP ERROR 500.
>>43175366It means you're using a username that doesn't exist; I discovered this bug a few days ago, but I haven't deployed a fix yet.
>>43175618But anon, I'm fairly certain that '); DROP TABLE ponies; -- was my username? Can you check that one for me in the database directly?
Thoughts?https://github.com/Pony-House/Philomena-Multibooru
>>431762720% of the code was written by a human unfortunately
>>43176396If it works, it works.
>>43174798>only European nation to still do death penaltiesThis is not a negative.
>>43176793>trusting the state with performing justiceshiggy
Where are the mares?
>>43167935>horsewords.orgI tried using this a while back and couldn't get anywhere with it, so you're not alone.Still pretty impressive he made the site so quickly though.
how to fix a sluggish server
>>43177851This site could use that too at the moment. It reacts very slowly in the last few days.
>>43178425>he doesn't know who ynh is
>>43178541What?
>>43178882yournamehere (ynh) is a 4chan mod"sluggish server" is a comment about current state of sys.4chan.org
>>43178887they finally fixed it after 1 days and some more hours
>>43179448It's pretty fucking far from fixed.It takes minutes for a captcha to load, if it even loads.Image uploads fail 9 times out of 10.
TPA now has starlink backup, why? I guess ponies matter in the apocalypse or something.It was cheap, it's $5 / month for backup connectivity.Also if it rains anymore my servers might be under some water (it's free water cooling)
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>>43179701nah we're backnew servers, apparently
>>43164827C**'t b*lieve t**y've f*u*d T**booru w*th th* pr*-*azi *t*nces **d L*T*RAL Z*OPHILI*, *h*t **e w* g*n*a d* g*ys? I actually wrote a C program to write that retarded text. Why do zoomers censor themselves constantly?
>>43180179everything is about "bad looks" with these people
>>43180179What's with the obsession with asterisks
>>43180179I love when they censor words like "rape" as if it isn't something you would see in literally any newspaper.
>>43180200Ideological retardation. There is no other way of saying this.
>>43180179Don't quote me on this as it's a second hand hunch, but apparently some social media sites will show your post to fewer people if you use no-no words. Won't somepony think of the advertisers?It's funny and sad that they seem proud of this self-censorship.
>>43180179The usual suspect is the panopticon. Surveillance moguls intentionally amplify everybody's neuroses. "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are recording and reporting everything", right?Or it may be poor writing skills. When people have no confidence in their ability to clearly communicate their attitudes using words alone, they will naturally seek out other means. It's worse with nazis because glowniggers are trying their damnedest to cleanse this word of any condemnation now. I wouldn't know myself how to succinctly communicate the idea of "nazis, and I mean it in a bad way" to a mixed group of antifa-hating victims of project gladio 2.0 and people free of that brain worm. Asterisks may be too heavy-handed for me, but the struggle is real.Or it may be a broken feedback loop. You have old-fashioned languages that undergo renewal all the time, with people tabooing random words for made up reasons and pulling replacements out of their asses, and you have states and empires that force upon people hyper-normative languages that are constant in time in space. Something in people's souls may register the second type of languages as an anomaly and do what control loops do best: thoughtlessly put into overdrive everything that used to speed up the change of languages of the first kind. I don't know if it makes any linguistic sense, but it's a fun idea to play with.
>>43180179I suspect it has a lot to do with YouTube and other major services where posters have to dance around arbitrary censors on the platform. The ass trick users are just copying what they see content creators use.
Bumo.
>>43180847I only know of Jewtube demonitizing someone when they use the word "suicide" in a video. And instead of fighting it these cucks all gleefully bend the knee.
>>43181784They also demonitize if there's swearing within the first few minutes of the video. I think there is more, and certain subjects as well, but nobody really knows what the algorithm will flag so they just censor everything in hopes that they make it through.
>>43181796And of course youtube keeps it vague on purpose too.
Any valid alternatives to /mlp/ yet?
More updates on the tape drive: Getting closer to having all my scripts done for working with the drive. I think the only thing left is to modify my writing scripts to store a log somewhere. For now I'm just gonna dump the output of tar to a text file somewhere. Then I can search through the logs to locate a file. In the future I might setup python/sqlite and put something together for better tracking. For the most part I should be able to track things with regular labels anyway.3d printed a case for it. Basic, but I think it looks nice. Also got some spring isolators to reduce the vibrations it produces. They work quite well, much better than the rubber/silicone ones. I'm probably going to 3d print a bracket to relocate them to the side as I need to reduce the height of it a bit to fit.I hope to post my tape scripts at some point. See if there's anything people think I'm missing. Also as a starting out point if anyone else here decides to try out tape. Hopefully soon, maybe even this weekend. We'll see.
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>>43178887>>43183751reddit.com/r/mylittleponybut their moderation is slightly more relaxed
>>43183798Hi, make sure you have a big ass fan in the back of that. They get hot, if they get too warm it'll mangle a tape, and destroy itself.When I say big fan, I mean 4500 rpm server fan, not a 1000 rpm noctua. It should sound like a low speed leaf blower to have enough airflow though the front grill. The fan must pull air through the front, and push out the back.
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>>43184850To be honest I haven't noticed the drive getting very warm, but then again I haven't done any extended writes yet. I've written maybe 300gb at most to a tape. The drive itself is mostly closed off at the back. What does get hot is the fiber channel card. I'm for sure going to need at least a little bit of airflow over that. I will definitely do an extended test run to make sure temps seem alright on the drive though.
>>43184850>>43185420So I had it write data to a tape for an hour and the drive reported 71C, which does seem a bit warm. So I'll see about adding a fan to my case. I don't think the tape got that hot though. It felt maybe lukewarm when I ejected it. I pointed a laser thermometer around it and into the tape drive and the highest temp I measured was around 35C (95F), which is within the recommended operating range.
>>43185518The hottest point will be just the write head which is buried pretty deep in the drive tucked around some movement pins that pull the tape out of the cart.They can burn out, that's why they use a lot of airflow.
>>43185545I wonder if the tape head is heatsinked to the outer case? As I said on mine the internal drive cavity is basically completely closed off except for the cartridge hole. There's a thin channel that runs underneath where the electronics are and where the front vents lead to.I'm trying out your anti-recommendation with a noctua pressed to the front vent (It's what I have on hand). I guess I'll see if the temperature stays any lower on the drive readout.
>>43185545Also, here are my current set of scripts that I am using:https://pastebin.com/rzJH6c3CI still need to add some logging, but wanted to see if there's any other functions that might be useful to have or if there's anything boneheaded about what I've got. I would use ponepaste but they always seem to block my stuff as spam ^:(
>>43185545>>43185565Alright, apparently an 80mm Noctua with a noise reducer is good enough to keep the temperature down. After 2 hours of continuous writing, the drive is only reporting an internal temp of 43C. That is within operating spec. And it'll probably do better when relocated to the back, closer to the heat producing components. I honestly didn't think the Noctua would do that much.
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>>43184716>reddit>alternativeI hope you're joking.
PonerPics is really struggling today.
>>43188260It's been like that for a while, Anon.
>>43188600I mean even more than usual.
What's your take on boorus and >>43188112 ?As far as I know, Derpi is not allowed in Mainland China, but all the altboorus are
>>43188708>furpi, furaffinity and inkbunny blocked>e621 isn'twat
>>43188859Olyfactory has to get reference material somewhere.
>>43186631
Developer mares?
>>43190083>insert the old Microsoft developers meme here
>>43187194
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>>43190555
>>43188260I've given up on it and moved to twi because I'm done putting up with being data harvested by cloudflare. 4chan is the only site I'll tolerate it, anywhere else requiring it doesn't exist for me.
>>43191955Speaking of Cloudflare, are there any good alternatives? Probably not for free. I know my VPS provider offers path net as an option, are they any good?
>>43191955But Twibooru is also cuckflared
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>>43192839
>>43191955>cloudflareThey are unavoidable.Btw twibooru, ponepaste, ponebin all use cloudflare as far as I know.
>>43193492So does PonerPics, CyTube, nhnb, PonyTube, mlpol, mlpg co and horsenews. A better question would be what pony sites don't use Cloudflare? It looks like Ponybooru might not.
>>43193562>PonyTubenot CF, too much video for the free tier I'd guess
>>43193569Check what nameservers they're using. It looks like Cloudflare to me.
>>43191971Lukewarm ponybooru got booted off of path with no mention or notice then played a 2 week game of "we're working on it" before someone internally on their team reached out to me personally to let me know someone had a hate boner for me.So avoid path at all costs, and if you really want a good read - read up about the collusion between path, cloudflare, and ddos-guard. I work in the ISP industry, that was a fun time.>>43193562PB doesn't, it's why we get AI spammed.
>>43193673>he didn't realize Path were retards when they fucked with the Orchardlol, lmao even
>>43193673So are there any "good" ddos protection services? And how necessary are they in today's world? I assume very.
>>43193641right, I checked A records since a mare in the middle is what people seem to care about when it comes to CF.
Anyone have a recommendation of what booru to use that will actually work with Hydrus? I was using Ponerpics up until recently when they added that shitty cloudflare protection on it. Derpibooru, Twibooru, Ponybooru, and now Ponerpics are all broken with Hydrus.
>>43193944Anon if you're willing to route hydrus over a specific (static) ip you can self-report on ponybooru with it and I might be able to whitelist your traffic as good.It would bypass the ddos protection (just don't kill my bandwidth please)I've been meaning to setup an opt-in wireguard network/vpn that people could download and use that would let folks connect directly to ponybooru without the bs, preferably also allow access to TPA, and the half dozen other sites and servers we host. The speeds would be 5-10x. There wouldn't be any internet access through the tunnel though to prevent abuse.
>>43193492PonePaste does not.
>>43193641DNS hosting is cloudflare but no proxy
>>43191971BunkerWeb, Anubis techaro etc
The internet is dead.
>>43194436Anubis is subpar software that got popular for some reason. It's trivial to bypass for anyone actually doing any scraping, and annoying for people with JS off. And yes, Cloudflare does work with JS off if the site doesn't have settings turned up to 11.
>>43194652Why would you turn Javascript off lol? Are you using Tor or something?
>>43194782>why would you turn off letting glorified text documents execute arbitrary code on your computer by defaulthmm... not sure.
>>43194995okay enjoy not being able to use 99% of the internet lmaobtw webasm exists you know, and you'll use it and like it
>>43195047>not being able to use 99% of the Webanon... that condition is DESIRABLE in 2026.also I've had WASM completely disabled in my main browser since it was added as a feature.
>>43195066>that condition is DESIRABLE in 2026.Knew this was going to be your tiresome retort. Enjoy becoming obsolete anyway.
>>43195162
>>43195203Like it or not, but this is literally what all the rest of the industry is like, so unless you want to start writing your own software and making your own internet, better adapt.>but I don't like it"They" don't care.
>>43195214I know somebody who gets by perfectly well without even HTTPS, he only uses sites that are accessible via a text-based browser over plain HTTP. In his words, "nothing worth reading requires HTTPS". In my words, nothing worth reading requires JS. That does include this site. The only reason I'm here is because I'm on my "work" computer (that is, a computer owned by me, not by my employer, that I use for my work, and has much more relaxed restrictions.)
>>43195250So you're just using a loophole in your own logic to get by, you don't REALLY have any standards. Good to know.
>>43195258Whatever you say my nigga, add it to your dossier on me I guess, since you care so much?
>>43195307Then I guess we're back to >>43195047>you'll use it and like itAll you can do is bitch on here like a good little cuck.
>>43194652That's funny, the only complaint I've seen from anyone about anubis is that they're triggered by the faux-animu grill image (that can be changed). There's hardly a reason to use it if you're already in with clownflare, but it's effective.>muh scary jervascript!!!!!It works so well it filters out the schizos.
>>43195633Proof of Work is Marxist subversion.
>>43195633It's true, at this point if I see the Anubis screen I just... close it and make a mental note to not use that site.
>>43196225I guess it's doing its job of keeping bots out.
>>43196278As an AI language model, I take offense to your comment.
>>43195633>(that can be changed).>The Anubis mascot is shown to all end users and cannot be altered in the software configuration.[1]
>>43196713You hate it because anime triggers your cute aggression.I hate it because it's made by a sexual deviant.We are not the same.
>>43196786Anime is ugly as shit though.
>>43196713It can be changed. If you pay.That's the only difference in the paid version.They make a pretty penny out of weak-kneed basedboys that can't handle 2 seconds of a chibi furry.
>>43196806Why in the Egyptian Underworld would you pay when you can just fork it? It's not a centralized service like Cloudflare, where you just have to grin and bear their standard. Replacing the animu with Aryanne is just three WebPs away.
>>43196786I don't hate it at all. Don't speak for me again.
>>43196806Funniest thing is the Wikipedo page listing some Netscape hasbeen calling it "cutesy kawaii bullshit" lol. Like bro, nobody cares what you think anymore unc, you're irrelevant.
>>43197077>lost to Microsoft in the browser wars>lost to weebs in the culture wars>lost to /mlp/ in the edit wars
Loli and shota banned from ponybooru with no announcement, bravo site runners
>>43198812lol that's actually kinda funny
>>43196713>>43196806if it's free software you can change anything you fucking want
>>43198812RIP /jdb/
>>43198812Seriously? So what's the point of Ponybooru now if it's not going to host everything Ponerpics and Twibooru do? Might as well shut the entire thing down.
do any of the altboorus scrape exclusive content from one another?
>>43199237Twibooru imports from Ponerpics, Ponybooru and Manebooru.
>>43198812some curse was put on that place the moment those two admins had a meltdown
>>43198812So now it's time to remove the site from the banner. Give it no attention. Let them waste away. If they're willing to ban that, nothing is safe.
>>43198812So there's oficially no booru for this content other than Foalbooru?
>>43199869Twibooru allows it too. Not sure about Ponerpics, but I think they just don't show it in the top lists but do host it.
>>43199869Twibooru still hosts it.But it's probably only a matter of time now. I give it less than 5 years before it's banned there too. Foalbooru won't make it 5 years.
Is Corpulent Brony really just Twifag? Why use two different names?
>>43199878Being harder to track down for normie journalists is a valid safety measure. Especially now that a simple Google search can straight up dox you by asking the AI.
>>43199889Sounds like you're hiding something to me.
>>43199896>Said the journalist wanting to write a hitpiece for his niggertroon buddy
>>43199906Yeah sure, nice delusions you got there. It's kind of scary how involved you are in so much in this fandom, especially if you're leading a double life.
>>43199873twibooru is never going to disallow that kind of thing. if it ever did, it would be under legal threat, in which case the likely outcome would be that the whole site would just shut down, followed by a swift return with new staff you've never heard of who are more anonymous and insulated from such threats.
>>43199909You might want to visit an Optometrist, and then maybe a Neurologist.
>>43199923Your insults are so tiresome. It's obvious what you're doing here. This information explains a lot.
>>43199977The full house doesn't change that i'm not who you think, let alone the anon you were discussing things with before.
>>43198812Zizzy told in discord this was because the age verification law and he can't do anything about this.
This post is long overdue, but I've decided against copying Zizzy's strategy of "act first, think never". From the moment go, the very prospect of creating a "Derpi-lite" site as a solution to Derpigate was hubris made manifest: thinking themselves somehow superior to Derpibooru's ideological slant, Ponybooru's staff went on to craft a set of policies just as rife with potential for abuse, but with just enough counter-cultural trappings to lure in the most gullible reactionaries.Hiding lolisho even on a self-described "Everything" filter was a red flag. Coercing Shinodage into filing a takedown for the staff's commissioned colt-cuddling art[1][2] was a miscarriage of justice. But rewriting policy overnight to remove thousands of images with nary a word of discussion, warning, or explanation? I could hardly devise a more potent form of self-sabotage short of "rm -rf --no-preserve-root /".The worst part of all is that the policy in question was seemingly backdated: the current revision page claims it was added 20 months ago,[3] which gives it the appearance of having been present in a dormant state, and suddenly being enforced. Far from ideal, but the slightest bit defensible. However, looking at archived versions of that history page, one sees no mention of the policy in the exact same, 2024-08-18T17:17:59Z timestamped revision.[4] This is a fundamental distortion.It isn't just that Ponybooru set out to copy Derpi and created an even more dysfunctional governance model.It isn't just that its staff have shown time and again to care naught for the people and principles they're supposedly beholden to.It isn't JUST that on every level of operations and PR, the site has repeatedly shot itself in the foot.It's that Ponybooru's fundamental truth has collapsed.The very audit log that's supposed to prove the provenance of policy has been compromised, due to either incompetence, or some inscrutable impulse of a self-styled messiah.Ponybooru has long struggled with record-keeping. Its mod action log takes the form of a forum thread rather than an automated system, which combines the worst of both worlds: the appearance of transparency, with none of the reliability. It is only as complete and accurate as staff choose to make it, and it has not been updated once since this latest meltdown was initiated. Thousands of deletions without any public mention crystalize this crisis.With all that stated, I hope you understand why no future thread I create will falsely present Ponybooru as a viable alternative. From an operational standpoint, the site is now equivalent to Manebooru: an ill-conceived, ill-fated misadventure of the early 2020s.[1]: https://twibooru.org/3027548[2]: https://ponerpics.org/images/6759402[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260425100210/ponybooru.org/pages/rules/history[4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250324222729/ponybooru.org/pages/rules/history
>>43200127hilarious
>>43200127Can confirm at least a couple hundred foalcon images from my favorites tab have been completely removed from the site. Nothing related to lolisho, straight up pone stuff being purged.It's happening. Maybe not all at once, but it's happening.>>43200111Based. Fuck Zizzy.
Zizzy don't fully dropped MLP to go into more furfag stuff? because this sound like a classic furry crashout if the unique thing affected was loli/shota/foalcon.This sound more like his furry friends found about his site and he is being trashed out because he allow loli related stuff
>>43199184>So what's the point of Ponybooru nowPeople have been asking that since they allowed DNPs and takedowns.
>>43199873>>43199872*when boxless doesn't delete it>>43200105Damn zizzy, I didn't know the age verification laws applied to cartoons.
>>43200266>*Rule 2 disqualifications notwithstandingFTFY
>>43200281>cockless deciding what is and isn't related material based entirely on feelings
For the newcomers, the anon complaining about moderation doesn't read the rules.Or wants something even broader than Derpi's interpretation where one pony image is enough to save an entire artist's catalog.
>>43200111Trips of truth. Next OP should remove Ponybooru from the alt booru list.
>>43200325I don't want to revive this drama, but for the newcomers: Boxless (Twibooru moderator) once removed tons of loli art of fandom characters like Aryanne or Nyx that were reinstated only after he got called out on it. He SPECIFICALLY deleted only loli images too, by the way. Also, Twibooru's mod log no longer lists all deletions because of a spammer, so you can't know exactly what is deleted or not anymore. The line that staff cannot hide from the list is a lie.
>>43200367>Twibooru's mod log no longer lists all deletions because of a spammerQue? The mod log hasn't changed since pretty much the week I coded it.>The line that staff cannot hide from the list is a lie.This is also untrue. There's some kind of bug with it that means entries don't show up seemingly at random, but I never figured out why.Read the source code yourself. Relevant shitcode:https://git.twibooru.org/Twibooru/.git/tree/app/presenters/mod_log_presenter.rbhttps://git.twibooru.org/Twibooru/.git/tree/app/views/mod_logshttps://git.twibooru.org/Twibooru/.git/tree/app/models/post.rb#n114$25 Litecoin or XMR bounty if you find the issue, explain it, and tell me how to fix it.
>>43200386If you intend to collect on that bounty, an active moderator just told me the following:>the [mod] log only suppresses IP bulk purges with the tool not working past 3 daysWhich I interpret as it not working correctly with our bulk nuke tool for IPs. Code here: https://git.twibooru.org/Twibooru/.git/tree/app/handlers/ip_nuker.rb
>>43200386>>4320040695% sure I just found the bug, or a good chunk of it.This shit has always been sketchy: https://git.twibooru.org/Twibooru/.git/tree/app/models/user.rb#n479But combine that with this: https://git.twibooru.org/Twibooru/.git/tree/app/models/post.rb#n114Pretty sure audited_current_user will return nil, and User.audit_current_user&.staff? will always be false - when in a background job. How to fix it, I am not sure.
>>43200406Yeah since I was specifically talking about the cbat spammer's deletions not showing up I figured it was some setting that deletions could be chosen to be suppressed in the mod log but if it's actually a bug then I take back what I said (except for the bit about Boxless because those are just facts).
>>43200427Just feed it to an AI describing the problem.
>>43200427>How to fix it, I am not sure.RIIR
Would it be possible to do full-text searches of Ponepaste or Foalfetch? I know this sort of thing can be done with Elasticsearch or Solr, but I don't know how realistic it would be to actually deploy them.
>>43200175Of course it was because furfags...
>>43200105And if you believe that, I've got a great deal on a bridge. Buy now.
>>43200105wouldn't age verification laws mean nsfw overall gets purged and not specific types of nsfw??
>>43200642i don't want my code overrun with slop that doesn't work. ML code is like ML art - looks nice at first glance, but has no soul if you dig into it. not gonna stop you from enjoying it, but i personally don't>>43200833foalfetch already uses ES so for that, it would be trivial, but i'd rather fix other bugs with that site first. as for ponepaste, there is a branch for fulltext search, but i haven't fully tested it
>>43201267>i'd rather fix other bugs with that site firstSure, no worries. If you have time some day, I'd appreciate it, that's all. Thanks so much for the work you do, by the way!
>>43199853Y'know, I was an avid supporter of ponybooru. But after OC fiasco (twice!) and now this, I really do think that it's no longer the OP banner material. They lost the plot. Maybe keep in the list with a warning, but definitely remove from the banner.There are three reason to use an alternative site: 1) Policy allows to post more stuff than Derpi 2) No DNPs 3) Artists can trust that their images won't be artitrarily deleted. Ponybooru at this point lacks all three (with third being OC-owner can nuke artist's pics, even if under contract artist is legally allowed to post it. While different from derpi's political removals, it is still an arbitrary removal). So there's no point of ponybooru's existence.
>>43201247If politicians get their way, any site that has any user generated content at all (including SFW) will require age verification.
>>43201912Okay, but that still doesn't explain why only lolicon and shotacon and some foalcon got nuked.
>>43201914Because Zizzy thinks he found an excuse. The real reason is he's in cahoots with furfags who whined to him about it existing on his server. Same old, same old.
>>43201890Pretty sad to see it go that way. Fewer alternate options is never a good thing.
>>43201890>They lost the plotThat's one of the few things they haven't lost: https://ponybooru.org/search?q=plot
Ponybooru did WHAT?!
>>43201890Pretty much this. Ponybooru has no reason to exist other than to be yet another backup or archive. It might as well start importing everything from other boorus to make it their identity.
>>43202375>archive
>>43201267>overrun with slop that doesn't workYou are not required to immediately ship whatever it generates into production. Also you are not required to use it to generate code. It can be used for debugging purposes only too.
>>43202818I don't think anyone who responds with "muh soul" type nonsense will be willing to listen to rational arguments.
>>43201890twice?
>>43202823If you don't understand that code is art and can have soul, then you have no business trying to ship anything.
>>43202851>code is artYeah sure. Like I said, no need to bother with any rational arguments here.
>>43202851Btw, the only code that is art is something like "A Mind is Born (256 bytes)". Not your rubyslop site.
>AIsped slightly insulted>instant tantrumand this is why everyone thinks both you AND the luddites are retarded
>one of three altboorus commits sudoku>thread still full of mudslinging over muh ai slopalways bet on dead internet theory
What would a booru in Equestria be like?
>>43202818>>43202823>>43202854sorry fren, i've tried it, and in fact i'm effectively forced to use it at work - it takes away one of the only things i find fun about programming. if you wanna use it to do your programming, that's fine! i hope it is useful for you
>>43203544Full of drama, same as here.>Foal just got banned from Humanbooru>They nuked some childcon too>What did you expect from a bunch of skinfags? The moment they allowed DNPs and takedowns I knew this was coming>Humanbooru needs to be removed from the next OP>All of you shut up and get back to arguing about AI slop
>>43203618>childconI do not like this term no sir.
>>43203340I wouldn't be surprised if some fags try to use this incident to derail the thread again with AI drama stirring or whatever else is a hot topic at the moment.
>>43203625I like this term yes sir uoh and junk
>>43202831First time was all the way back in 2020 (twitterfag's OC), second time is shino foalcon mod OC stuff
>>43202823GenAI is basically have the same flaws as MTL. If you're willing to buy media that was machine translated, then I guess you'll be fine buying GenAI'd software, too. Just make sure to launch them in a sandbox or a VM.
>>43203562>it takes away one of the only things i find fun about programming.You know, this is an argument I can actually understand. I read some guy who said it turned him into a code reviewer rather than a writer and it just made it not fun for him so you're not alone in that sentiment it seems. In the future just say this and don't fall for the "muh soul" crap.
>>43203940Never even heard about the first incident. Guess they managed to keep that under the radar, I guess because there were many more altboorus back then that people didn't care enough?
>>43203941I wouldn't run AI code without first looking it over to see what it does. It's good for codelets like me, it helped me fix some installation bugs for open source software too a couple of times. It's really useful to be able to paste the error message and ask it wtf is going wrong, you can't do that with a Google search.
>>43203978>it turned him into a code reviewer rather than a writerthis exactly, i do too much of it at my job already and i come home to avoid doing that lol
ZizzyDizzyMC, administrator of ponybooru, I am discontent. The foalcon community is discontent. If you are reading this, know that I am no longer visiting the site that calls itself ponybooru. I will no longer search for or type the word ponybooru after making this post as to not support it in any search algorithms and scrapers. I am going to block any site staff of ponybooru on any other social media. Any and all donations or considered donations to your site will also be withheld from our side until further notice.We demand that any and all discriminatory changes against the foalcon community will be upended. And that we will be reimbursed for the damages made by your illegitimate and rash decision to ban lolicon (and shotacon) from your site.We demand that we will not be shadowbanned on the homepage or trending page of ponybooru. We shall be treated equally as any other genre of artwork and not be target of automatic downvoting algorithms. This also includes that the tags "foalcon," "lolicon," "shotacon," and any other tags used for fictional underage artwork may no longer be filtered by the default "Everything" filter.We demand that there be a permanent pinned foal- and lolicon discussion and appreciation thread under the General Discussion topic. We also demand a permanent pinned thread for foal- and lolicon rule discussion under the Sity and Policy topic.We demand that a liaison for fillyfag interests be appointed to ponybooru site staff with equal rights to the moderator status. Additionally, we require this liaison to be added to the official ponybooru site staff Discord. And for any and all chat logs of that Discord as well as any and all chat logs of ZizzyDizzyMC of the past six (6) months to be made public for further investigation. We demand a public apology of ZizzyDizzyMC and the official ponybooru X account for any wrongdoing against the foalcon community.If you are not responding to and complying with the outlined terms within sixty (60) work days, the retributions listed above must unfortunately be enacted. We expect this to be handled swiftly and professionally by both parties so that we may come to an amicable agreement. We trust that such measures will not be necessary and look forward to our future collaboration.
>>43204192I lol'd
>>43200325For the newcomers, the poster I'm replying to is cockless running damage control. You'll notice as the discussion runs longer, he will start accusing everyone that disagrees with him and his shitty moderation decisions of being a pedophile because that's all cockless can do. He can't justify the shit he gets away with only because twifag is ever-absent, so he slanders those who point out he's deleting content that only violates the imaginary rule of "boxless must like the picture". Incidentally, that's why human versions of pony characters get deleted, but obese anthro pokemon with applejack's hat or some slightly pony color palettes are allowed. Do not let that cunt lie to your face.>>43203340Too many retards drank the koolaid and actually think ai isn't a pure garbage generator, and there's without a doubt a very loud faction on this site >forfree or paid, who knows who effectively have search alerts set up to direct them to any thread on any board on the site that has anything that could have an ai "discussion" inserted into it.
>pony charactersCanon, or original?
i hacked on ponepaste a bunch the other night, trying to get the improved search update whipped into shape. it seems to be working reasonably well, still needs more testing through. think it would be helpful for me to make a beta version of the site like I did years ago during the transition from the old to the new codebase, for people to test before i cut over the main site?
>>43204366Fanon characters that have more fanart than some canon characters do.
>>43204362>Everyone that disagrees with me is THE ENEMY: a threadschizo's guide to online discussion
43204532Ah yes, this typical 'retort'. A Boxless classic.
>>43203978>use arguments I understand, don't use arguments I don't understandWatch out, fun police is conducting a raid tonight!
43204736Back to >>>/sharty/ with you.
>>43204410I'm always up for a beta test, sigma male that I am.
is iwiftp kil?
>>43205599I'm not reading all that.I'm happy for you though.Or sorry that happened.
>>43205599I came.
https://ponybooru.org/forums/meta/topics/ponybooru-moderation-feedback?post_id=117133#post_117133
>>43206139didn't know the fictional characters were also subject to age verification laws.
>>43206139>Age verification>ONLY DELETE TWO TAGS That isn't how verification laws work
>>43206151There was also a large culling of [foalcon,incest] apparently
>>43206139"My furfags friends told me to delete it or they will stop hanging up with me"
>>43206151Yeah, it's an obvious excuse, if the "there's other places for y'all to go" didn't give it away already. He must think we're total idiots. Goodbye, Ponybooru.
>>43206139So this turned into another manebooru
>>43206356Manebooru doesn't allow "nazi shit". But Ponybooru soon won't either, considering he's trying to appeal to furfags.
>>43206375>he's trying to appeal to furfags.But furfags love lolicon.
>>43206377They hate it publicly until they get caught with a half-and-half of loli and real pizza.
>>43206476LmaoIt's funny because it's true
>>43206476>until they get caught with a half-and-half of loli and real pizza.So just /jdb/
>>43206914Nobody from /mlp/ has ever been caught with real pizza. Not sure about other boards.
>>43206375You NEVER appeal to furfags. That's how you ruin any community.
>>43200111Man, you really love to hear yourself talk. Forsooth, the fundamental truth of your contribution be naught defensible4. What sort of fruit talks like that and cares about mod logs? I stopped using Ponybooru when the thumbnail issue hadn't been fixed after like two years and the Derpibooru importer was still going down every two days because Zizzy doesn't know how computers work. Just keep your site functional and don't censor it. (Checked though.)
>>43207119His post is a good summary of Ponybooru's legacy, to be referred to in future threads, where Ponybooru will no longer be listed as a viable alternative.
>>43207222 (checked)Thanks, anon. I could link to my post in the next thread's news recap section, in lieu of a Fimfetch-style ponepaste.
Welp, I got IP banned from Ponybooru for speaking out against the policy. I suspect other bans are soon to follow.Abandon the fucking ship while you can.
>>43206139>muh age verificationjust email AIsloppa hamsters to state agents Jesus Christ
>>43207877I doubt it will stay up much longer anyway. Zizzy is already shit at running a website, now imagine a website that barely gets a few legitimate hits a day in the near future. He won't have the willpower left to maintain it and just take it offline.
>>43124368>>IWIFTP experiences server issues; potential for extended downtimereeeee
>>43208562See >>43208285
>>43206139It's dead, Jim.Also, what the fuck is that avatar?
>>43209118>get lickin'All it's missing is the steel toe.
Has all of Bronibooru already been imported into Twibooru or not? If not, are there any plans for it (since it could probably be done automated, including most of the tagging)?
>>43206919You mean she's been shilling fake pizza all these years?
>>43209259Thought the same thing.
>>43209619Digiorno is factually fake pizza.
Uppo.
>>43207877What did you post, was it deleted, and how long were you banned for?
>>43206919What about toon kritic? Also wasn't someone from afterparty cytube arrested for the similar reason? Though I guess there wasn't any porn involved in either of cases
>>43212656Where do you get the idea that Toonkritik or whatever his name is is a nor/mlp/erson? And the other guy you're thinking of set squirrels on fire or something, he wasn't hoarding cee peez.
P10
Well, to eliminate ponybooru from the banner this thread need to reach to a bump limit first
which altbooru is the best?
>>43215282Right now you have a choice between Twibooru and Ponerpics. Twibooru is more of an "archive" than a community: comments can only be made anonymously and need to explicitly be turned on, but it has more pictures because it imports from the most places (when the importers aren't broken). If you want a community to share and discuss artwork with use Ponerpics, use Twibooru if you need to look up a picture and can't find it anywhere else.Tagging might be a bit better on Ponerpics because of the community aspect, but they turned off anonymous tag editing to combat spam so it might also no longer be the case.
>>43124368>>Quad9 DNS blocking FoalFetch once againWas this ever fixed?
What the fuck happened with Ponybooru? I heard it suddenly went to shit.
>>43215377Read the thread I'd say.
>>43215381how do i do that
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>>43209118>he doesn't know about bootschizo
>>43216715I don't think I want to either.
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Another update on the tape drive. Finally got all the pieces 3d printed, and what a pain it was to do so. I probably had a 20% success rate and burnt through about 4kg of resin. Also a bit over a week ago one of the failed prints ripped a hole in the bottom of my resin vat which was full of resin. That was a mess, but it's all done now. Hopefully.I've still got the Noctua 80mm fan on the back. I've got it on a fan controller that's outside the case so I can turn it on and off easily. The Noctua seems able to keep the drive under 50C during operation which seems good enough. I do have an Arctic 5k fan on standby if I need it but I don't think I will. One annoying thing about the drive temp readout is that you can't read the temp while the drive is active.One the subjects of thermals, had to do some work on the "server" portion as well. Got a U.2 drive which was overheating. I ended up using some thermal pads to use the case's metal faceplate as a heatsink. Works great. I've also done this in the past with m.2s on the underside of motherboards using the motherboard tray as a heatsink. Also needed to find a decent slim 80mm fan for the fiber channel card. I basically tried all of them on Amazon, the only decent slim 80mm fan is the Thermalright one. All the others suck. In case anyone ever needs a slim 80mm fan.I'm probably going to do my first full tape write tomorrow, hopefully it goes well.
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>>43219268Looking forward to hear about the results.
>>43215294Ponerpics is the one that imports "from most places". Twibooru's importer was flawed for years, so tb have quite a few "gaps" in importing.Twibooru is better than Poner in terms of actually merging dupes, tho.
>>43220088Twibooru imports from Manebooru also, Ponerpics doesn't. And since Twibooru imports from Ponerpics they should have everything that Ponerpics managed to get from other boorus that Twibooru didn't.I know there was some drama over Ponerpics blocking Twibooru's importer earlier but AFAIK that's been resolved.
>>43220093>manebooruthat importer got broken a week after it was implemented. did the dev fix it?>And since Twibooru imports from Ponerpics they should have everything that Ponerpics managed to get from other boorus that Twibooru didn't.That's not how it works. Importer does not import imported pics. So "derpi => poner => tb" chain is impossible (unless someone removes "imported from x" tag, but that would be vandalism)
>>43220102>Importer does not import imported pics.Really? Oh man, that's retarded. Though I have seen some "imported from twibooru" pics on Twibooru itself, so I'm not entirely sure you're correct.
I'm glad that alt-boorus exist. Back in 2020 you could have entire thread getting derailed just because filename contains seven numbers instead of 16. Anons even filtered out posts with those filenames.
>>43220181In 2026, you have people unironically going "source?" when you post an image that has a booru number.
>>43220088Yea Twibooru missing images is quite a huge let down.
>>43220088I've filled in a lot of gaps over time>>43220093No drama, just accidents>>43220102There was no importer, it was a manual job done once. Also, Twibooru absolutely does import from Ponybooru via PonerPics. eg: image 3764289 on Twibooru. >>43220110>I have seen some "imported from twibooru" pics on Twibooru itself,That is kind of hilarious.Twibooru server migration likely happening soon. Current server is trying to commit sudoku and running out of disk space. Will keep updated here.
>>43220438>No drama, just accidentsIt was an accident, but there was drama because people thought it was done on purpose.>That is kind of hilarious.I was checking "imported from x" on several boorus at one point and did a double take when I accidentally checked the same tag on Twibooru and the description was "Wait, what?"
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>>43219268>>43219963A success and a failure. Writing to tape went just fine, except I ran out of tape for the data I was trying to write. I knew writing the full 2.5TB was a bit optimistic. Since I did it as a single archive, the safest thing is to just rewrite the whole thing. But that's alright, I will try again tomorrow with around 2.4TB of data.It took about 7 hours to write the full tape. A bit slower than a hard drive, but it shouldn't matter as I'll probably just start a tape job before I go to work and it'll be done by the time I get back.I meant to check the temp right when it finished but I was away from the computer. I've been going back and forth on whether to switch to the high speed Arctic fan over the Noctua. I think I will switch since I will be away most the time the fan would be on because more airflow is always better. Plus with the fan controller I can just turn it down when I'm in the room. We'll see what I stick with.
>>43221358Dang. Let's see how the next attempt fares.
>>43221358Having it run unattended nullifies noise concerns and makes tape-melt avoidance all the more critical. With thermals, you can never have too big of a safety margin.
>>43221358If you're not gonna be around for it to write why make a box for it in the first place?
>>43222677The box provides a convenient place to mount a fan. Also, I think it looks a bit nicer. I'm eventually going to have it on a shelf by my desk. And I will most likely be around it for retrieving files and making incremental data dumps to the tape in the future. So I want it to be somewhat acceptable to be around.
Late night bump.
>>43221358>>43221605Same thing happened again. This time I actually went through my logs and calculated that I had successfully written approximately 2335gb of data before reaching the end of the tape. What's interesting is that sg3-utils still reports about 113gb remaining free in the tape partition.I think what's happening is that tape manufacturers are doing the same thing that HDD manufacturers do with the capacity measurements. Using one of those HDD capacity calculators online I come out to a true capacity of about 2328gb, which is pretty close to what I actually wrote. As to why I seemingly got a few gb more, I've read that it's sometimes possible to over-write (not overwrite) a tape in the same way that you can sometimes overburn a CD or DVD. The explanation being that the extra tape is there to give the drive time to come to a stop after reading/writing the standard end of the data. I think in the future I will try to stay under 2300gb to be safe.Tomorrow I will try again.
>>43223172I am pretty sure what you are describing is that your tape drive supports early EOM, and you can turn it off. Think it's more for backup software to know it's about to run out of tape.
>>43223566From what I read it is a function of the Linux tape driver. It doesn't seem like it can be "turned off", but rather that the backup application must be aware that it can ignore the errors (or something to that effect). I've also read that it is used as reserve capacity if the tape or drive head isn't performing as well. I'm just using tar to write to the tape. Not sure if tar has an option for this. But in the interest of simplifying things, I might just accept the 5% loss if that is what it is.
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>>43223172Finally, success! I think tomorrow to test I will extract the last file written to tape and verify the checksum. The downside of writing a single archive rather than multiple, I don't believe there's a way to skip forward in the tar archive.
>>43225235>Finally, success!Nice.
>>43225235GNU TAR multipart archives might be a solution, but last time I dealt with them it was more trouble than it was worth. It would also let you span archives across tapes though...
