Hey r/usenet
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At around 23:00 UTC we experienced a fairly catastrophic disk failure on our main database server, causing a few things to crash. For now althub.co.za will display the status page showing the progress of a rebuild.
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We’re taking the time to freshen things up a bit on the backend, potentialy the frontend too. Currently we’re trying to retrieve one last file backup before doing an SSD swap. Once done we’ll start with a fresh OS install and restore to the latest backup.
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DB backups are done incrementally so we have a recent copy of that on hand. Once things have re-built we’ll work on better redundancy measures such as a cold/hot-swap SSD, a more graceful fallover when things do fail and general measures for a quicker recovery for failures such as this.
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Everyone’s information, subscriptions etc are safe. Happy to answer questions below.
The SSD that failed had 440TB written to it over the …
I’ve always been fascinated by the early web (and web-like communications), so I’m interested in Usenet for historical reasons. Archaeological, you might even say. Heck, I’m even in at least one fandom whose major history was primarily on Usenet even after the web began to be firmly established.
So if wanted to browse through newsgroups from the nineties, where would I go for that? Would it even be possible?
Release Notes - SABnzbd 3.2.0 Beta 1
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## Changes since 3.1.1
- Python 3.6 is now the minimum required version.
- macOS release is currently restricted to macOS 10.14 (Mojave) and above
due to changes in our build plaform. We are trying to resolve this.
- Post-processing can be aborted at any stage, including scripts.
- Improvements in the downloader to recude CPU-load.
- Custom date ranges for server graphs can be selected.
- Keep track of article fetching success-rate of each server.
- Added `Minimum Free Space for Completed Download Folder` option.
- Added option to `Auto resume` for both `Minimum Free Space` settings.
- Using SSDP, SABnzbd instances are now listed in `Network` on Windows.
- Improvements to parsing of job name and filenames listed in the NZB.
- RSS titles can be edited.
- Show commit hash when running from git sources.
- Removed Glitter fade-on-delete.
- Notify through …
But I wanted to revisit this, as I used to get (1998 and before) great info from the various groups. I logged onto a server and found some groups of potential interest. They appear to either be dormant, or all spam. Are there any groups with a better signal to noise ratio? Is it all about moderated vs. non?
Any groups you all find useful/interesting?
Thanks much!
currently i only am using newsgroupdirect… any sales on some usenet sites that will widen my search?
I have refreshed numerous times but it still wouldn’t update lol. Is it just me?
I’m not too sure what has happened here but seems an interesting episode title for a Disney+ Marvel show!
Hey guys!
You all are movie afficionados, so I hope this sparks some interest with you.
I love movie sites like IMDb, Letterboxd, trakt.tv, etc. a lot, but what I miss with all is the option to follow actors, directors, or other filmmakers and be notified when there are new release announcements. And because I really want this for myself, I hacked a site together and fell in love with it: https://skriber.tv
You can follow people (put them on lists, so called “skribelists”), you’ll receive notifications by email, it’ll tell you upcoming releases based on your lists and people you follow, and you can create infinite watchlists. Bit by bit I implement more and more features: as of now, you can write reviews for movies, shows and even people, import most of your Letterboxd data, and some more.
Best thing though, and that’s why I post here: your public watchlists have RSS links, which can be read by any RSS reader - radarr as well ;-) So in case you are …
So I have set radarr to add points to x265 but a lot of times it still grabs other files first. How do I make it grab x265 first and others as a fall back?
A while back, I switched my build from latest
to preview
so I could try out v3. Now, I want to switch it back to latest
. When I do, it appears that the database isn’t compatible, as all my items/settings are lost. Reverting from latest
back to preview
fixes it.
Is there a way to roll from preview
back to latest
without losing my items and settings?
edit: I thought stable was v3 already. I’ll roll back to the :latest
tag when v3 is stable/latest.