#dev 2022-02-23

2022-02-23 UTC
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[tantek] speaking of needing help, something seems broken with my site
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[tantek] what is Internal Server Error
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Internal Server Error" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Internal Server Error is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] literally any page I go to (even those that don't exist)
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aaronpk eep, sounds like maybe an htaccess syntax error then?
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[tantek] even purely static pages
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aaronpk if you can find the web server error log it may have a helpful message
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[tantek] haven't touched my htaccess in a while
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[tantek] at least it's not "all" my sites, e.g. https://asin.cc/ works
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Loqi Tantek Çelik
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[tantek] can't seem to find the error log through the DH Control Panel
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aaronpk might need to get to it via FTP
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aaronpk should be `~/logs/tantek.com/http/error.log` or something
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[tantek] well that's a confusing amount of detailed jargon
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[tantek] (in the error.log)
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aaronpk haha sounds about right
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[tantek] like wat:
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[tantek] [msg "Request content type is not allowed by policy"] [data "|text/html|"]
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aaronpk 🤔
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aaronpk one of the top results for that: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2021/01/dreamhost-broke
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aaronpk i think the best thing is to email dreamhost support and tell them that you didn't change anything, hopefully they will be able to undo whatever they changed
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[tantek] Indeed, I reached my devops time/expertise limit and filed a ticket
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[tantek] I mentioned the error.log and the ModSecurity warnings (and the fact that my other sites seem to be "working") so we'll see what happens.
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[tantek] yay troubleshooting admintax--
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Loqi admintax has -1 karma over the last year
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[tantek] on another topic, this is very well-written and insightful about a problem we've talked about a bunch here, that the very UX design of Twitter (and thus UX clones like Mastodon) lends itself to driving misbehavior: https://www.wired.com/story/social-media-harassment-platforms/
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[tantek] posting here in dev to pose the question(s) of how can we avoid similar bad (harmful to users/community) UX design in IndieWeb approaches (e.g. Webmention), and what positive alternative UX(es) can we create? (metaphorical "traffic calming" as the article calls it)
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[tantek] aaronpk, it turns out it *was* an .htaccess problem as you guessed, though why it suddenly started happening I have no idea
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[tantek] I had this line which was presumably for some php config options which I don't remember why:
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[tantek] php_value session.save_path /home/tantek/tmp
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[tantek] commenting that out (with a '#') fixed it which is what they did. like I said, no idea why it suddenly stopped working
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capjamesg[d] What is 500?
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Loqi 500 is an HTTP/1.1 Status Code returned from a webserver to signify that the webserver encountered an unexpected condition while trying to process the requested https://indieweb.org/500
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capjamesg[d] What is Internal Server Error?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Internal Server Error" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Internal Server Error is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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capjamesg[d] Internal Server Error is /500
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Loqi ok
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epoch What is 42?
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Loqi The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is … 42 https://indieweb.org/42
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barnaby fun fact I learned while fixing a php-mf2 bug: DOMXPath lets you register PHP functions with the XPath object, and call them from within XPath queries
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aaronpk 😱
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barnaby https://www.php.net/manual/en/domxpath.registerphpfunctions.php
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barnaby extremely useful for taking logic which XPath either can’t do at all or is badly suited to (e.g. regex matching)
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jacky that looks nifty
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barnaby and allowing you to write fairly expressive XPaths, once you get used to the quirks of the system
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barnaby I love finding quirky, useful, but barely known or documented functionality like this
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barnaby plenty of it in big, old stdlibs like PHP and python
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gRegor ooh, nifty
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Loqi gRegor: barnaby left you a message 2 weeks, 1 day ago: heya, any objections to me moving https://github.com/microformats/php-mf2/issues/184 to the 0.5.1 milestone and wrapping up the 0.5.0 release? it’s been four years since 0.4.6, and there’s easily enough features and fixes to justify a release IMO
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gRegor Nope! XD
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barnaby ha ha good to know ;)
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gRegor barnaby++ again for getting that out
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Loqi barnaby has 9 karma in this channel over the last year (21 in all channels)
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barnaby October this year will be php-mf2’s 10th birthday
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barnaby and I was wondering if it’d make any sense to aim for a 1.0.0 release
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[tantek] uh wow
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[tantek] that might depend on getting all the issues resolved against the parsing spec 😬
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barnaby take the opportunity to clean up the codebase and the API, taking into account ten years(!!!) of experience and technical debt
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[tantek] can also take that to #microformats 🙂
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barnaby yeah that too [tantek]!
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barnaby gRegor, GWG, aaronpk etc: anyone feel like reviewing https://github.com/microformats/php-mf2/pull/231 ?
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Loqi [barnabywalters] #231 Fixed issue parsing elements with mixed valid and invalid mf2 classnames
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gRegor barnaby, I'll try to look tonight
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jacky itch: a micropub client that takes audio, generates a waveform and uses one's h-card photo to render a voice post
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jacky wow lol https://www.kapwing.com/meme-templates
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barnaby gRegor: thanks!
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barnaby there’s something vary amusing about the phrase “best-in-class meme templates”
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