/mlp/ — /fast/ -- Friendly Alt-Site Thread #115

Reposting because new thread.

>>43228102 (You)
>>43228141
>>43228339 (You)
I switched cables back to the previous one. Cleaned the ends as best I could. I didn't clean the inside of the ports as the connectors are way back there. I tried re-reading the same tape from the other day and got I/O errors again, at exactly the same place. That would be very suspicious if the problem were the card, the cable, or even the drive. If it's failing at the same place it would suggest something's up with the tape, though the drive does not report any errors with it.

Although perhaps, if there was an issue with the card or cable during writing at this spot? But then would Linux report it as an I/O error? It seems odd. I think I will have to write a second tape and see if the same thing happens. Maybe I'll also try writing the files that it's failing at to another tape and seeing if somehow the contents have something to do with it. But I really doubt that.

>>43229456 (OP)
It's going to take a while to get used to the new image.

Anonymous05/09/26(Sat)01:12:45No.43229598

I used Ponybooru as an alt for years and barely noticed much beyond the site functioning less and getting weirder.
With is demise and essentially 'Nigel Farage' reveal of being the same as the other shitheaps, where shall I go?
Who's the freedom of speech and art bastion who will stand by anything within accepted legal limits, including the fantasy foal stuff etc out of pure principle?

>>43229598
>accepted legal limits
>including the fantasy foal stuff etc out of pure principle?
Ponybooru, after all only something that's illegal got deleted

>>43229477
Another question I have: What's the deal with fiber channel and SFP? I'm trying to find a new cable to buy and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what the compatibility is between fiber channel and SFP. The cables I bought previously were explicitly advertised as for fiber channel. But will any SFP direct attach cable work? What rating do they need to have? Most are sold with base 10 speed ratings, whereas my fiber channel card is indicated to have a 16gb connection?

Anonymous05/09/26(Sat)05:38:11No.43230145

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>>43229598
Currently, you have two choices: Twibooru for a pure pony archive, Ponerpics for a more community-focused experience with less strict rules about pony-relatedness.

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>>43229477
>I've got all these tapes to write
>Now is the time that I start getting errors

>>43230168
Oh boy. This will take a while, I reckon.

>>43229598
That's gonna be Ponerpics. Twib is a mess of aislop and fucked up tags.

>>43230364
doesn't poner import all the ai stuff from twi?

>>43230610
Yes. With the exception of mp4s.

>>43229860
>>43229477
You may want to move your discussion to /pts/, it's veering into way off-topic territory. This thread is not meant for tech support.

>>43230610
Yeah, that guy is just another mindbroken retard.

I need to get back to backing up all Catbox files linked on /mlp/... but it's getting more difficult now that Catbox is constantly shitting the bed. Unfortunately, I don't have the disk space required to back it all up right now, I'd need to hook up a different system first. And also first update my vibe coded (because I'm a codelet) script to account for every transmission error that now undoubtedly will pop up.

Anyone else already have an operation to back up Catbox links from /mlp/ underway before it will inevitably shut down?

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It's not joever yet

>>43229860
That's a whole fucking can of worms. I've only used up to 8Gbps fiber channel. You can use a regular 10Gbps Ethernet SFP in place of an 8Gbps fiber channel SFP, at both ends. I do not know what the situation is for 16Gbps. However, if I recall correctly, SFP DAC cables are not "smart" in any way. They literally just directly connect some pins of the SFPs at both ends. I doubt the cable is your issue in this case though.

Why is Twibooru's featured image an image with the text "God loves you"? Aren't the owners of that site fags? That message does not apply to you.

>>43231335
Anon... literally the entire point of Twibooru is "letting people post things the owners don't agree with"

>>43231080
I suspected it was a simple cable, but even there you can have different specs like cat 5, 6, etc for ethernet.

I doubt it's the cable as well, I think it's the card. I've had similar issues with SAS HBAs in the past. I've purchased a new one and it's on the way, but I do find it suspicious that it failed in the same place twice. So while that's on the way I'm going to write another tape see if that exhibits the same problems. Another thing I've read is that I should check dmesg for more info. I'll do that when/if I get another failure.

>>43230739
There wasn't much else going on in the thread when I started posting about it. I probably won't have too many further posts. I'm hoping I'm near the end of setting this up.

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>>43230614
Poner imports MP4s as WebMs because Philomena is quarter-baked garbage that still hasn't added MP4 support. Even fucking Yotsuba managed that.

>>43231840
MP4s have legal problems.

>>43231848
>what is the DMCA
this is why you don't rely on spineless cucks for your software.

>>43231335
this is to rechristianize the booru and damn that's working!

Up.

>>43231514
Well, I have written another tape and read the whole thing back without any error. This really makes me think that it was the other tape that was the problem.

However, this does raise it's own questions. The tape drive did not report a tape error. From what I read, the tape head is supposed to verify data as it writes it. If the other tape was written without any reported error but there was error in reading it back, that really brings that verification into question. I think at this point I can start actually making my tapes I should just read them back first before calling them done. At least for the first few, as this brings the time to complete a tape to 14 hours from 7.

Other notes: I do wonder if something went wrong with the other tape. When it arrived, the case was cracked even though the shrink wrap was still intact (I ordered a few singles from a couple different sellers before I made a big order from one of them). So perhaps it sustained some internal damage in shipping, even though it seemed to start out fine. That particular tape does sound nosier now and it fails at the same place every time. I will also note that this other tape I just wrote is a metal particle chemistry rather than the BaFe all the others are. So hopefully the drive doesn't have an aversion to BaFe. But I don't think so.

I'm also happy to report that drive temps are still looking good. I had the fan down at a level it was still decent to be in the room with (about 2/3 speed) and temperature is still good even after 14 hours of continuous operation. 39C.

Probably not too many more posts on this unless something else happens or more problems arise. I plan on making a printout of all my scripts to store on paper with the tapes (I'm only using tools that come included with most Linux distros). I may post that when I get it together.

>>43232302
Shrug, whatever you say. I just think open formats should be encouraged at all times, no matter if you're personally affected by the law enforcing them or not.

>>43232792

Anonymous05/10/26(Sun)22:00:17No.43234420

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>>43233236
Encouraged, yes. Enforced, no. Transcoding video files is particularly troublesome because their codecs are almost universally lossy, which leads to quality degradation and increased file sizes even in an optimally designed system which Philomena most definitely isn't.

>>43234420
Astonishingly ignorant.

Anonymous05/11/26(Mon)02:03:53No.43234897

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>>43234868
I don't claim to know my way around the pseudolegal restrictions that started this argument, but the fact remains that an archive should not discard the original encoding for an open format conversion. Just look at how Archive.org handles it: original formats available alongside a variety of reencodes for those who require them.

Was going through the last couple of threads and came across >>43088250
>Ponybooru updates:
>>we ran out of space
>>updated the vm and made more space available
>>running nominal however I will need to take it down for a full reindex later.
If Zizzy was really planning the purge long before his furry friend got v& why didn't he nuke lolisho then to both free up disk space and get rid of that "legal risk"?

>>43235185
>implying any of it was actually deleted and not just hidden from public view

Anonymous05/11/26(Mon)15:22:56No.43235745

>>43235185
vm space = database storage and root directory (logs etc)
storage space = image storage space
tl:dr the volumes are separate and independent of each other.

>>43235745
And what about falsifying the edit dates on the rules page?

Anonymous05/11/26(Mon)16:55:53No.43235861

>>43235748
The page clearly says whatever odd days ago, I'm still confused what ya'll are seeing there. I had edited the page twice cause I made a mistake and I didn't like it lol. There's two pages with the same edit date till you get to the last edit like a year or whatever ago.

Anonymous05/11/26(Mon)21:09:35No.43236318

>>43235861
When exactly did you make those edits to the policy page, and how?

>>43236318
>still trying to reason with someone who's merely pretending to not understand

Anonymous05/11/26(Mon)23:42:20No.43236572

>>43236318
I clicked the edit button.
I carefully reviewed what you were talking about, there's two edits for 18 days ago, and then one 2 years ago and then it continues.
So how that works is that it shows the current revision (18 days ago) the previous revision before (18 days ago) and then the one that came before (2 years ago)
It shows the (2 years ago) one with the *edits*, stuff in red was removed , stuff in green was added. You can confirm this behavior by philomena by scrolling down to see the discrepency between 2 years ago and 4 years ago revisions. Can't explain it, just default behavior. The one 2 years ago revision is blank with no green or red, I think someone probably pressed edit, then save, without changing anything but not sure there.

Anonymous05/12/26(Tue)00:00:10No.43236608

>>43236572
So the records weren't tampered with, they were simply presented in an incredibly misleading way that, alongside the rest of the purge, wasn't elaborated on until you were finished making your excuses for befriending a kiddy diddler. Forgive us if that doesn't set our minds at ease.

Anonymous05/12/26(Tue)00:26:54No.43236664

>>43236608
I can't control what you think, that's fine you're your own person. At least you know now that I wasn't acting in bad faith.

Anonymous05/12/26(Tue)00:27:14No.43236665

>>43236664
Do I?

Both of you are flaggots. I trust neither of you. Fuck off.

Anonymous05/12/26(Tue)03:49:16No.43236935

>>43236701
An enticing offer, but duty calls.

>>43231840
Kekked at that image. Who made this?

>>43237057
Looks like Plunger's style.

>>43237057
It is as >>43237174 says: https://x.com/plunger_notreal/status/1879592992434164001

>>43237174
>>43237474
Thanks.

>>43234084

>>43238477

Slow phase again.

>>43239276
no news is good news sometimes.

>>43239492
That's true.

>>43238860

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>>43220529
>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?"
Speaking of

>>43239903

>>43240950
>Twi: Posts
>Pon: Images
Why is philomena videophobic?

>>43241196
What?

Anonymous05/14/26(Thu)12:20:49No.43241615

>>43241196
It could be argued that a moving image is still an image, and that Twibooru's terminology is yet broader to accommodate text posts and the like.

bumping