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I got some 502 for a couple minutes half an hour ago, and from that point Forum is working fine to me. Oh, krap. I don't even know if this is an improvement or not... ==== POST EDIT ==== Anyway... Follows my monitoring reports for the past 7 days. Dec 18 and 19 I was updating the rig that hosts the monitoring, being the reason for a flat line on one of the graphics. The "worst response time" chart shows a slightly improvement related to 7 days ago, but then I got a huge spike at 18:00Z today. Yet more interesting, there was another spike at 20:00Z on Dec 15. Essentially a week ago - perhaps a pattern? In the last two days, I see an apparent worsening on the 50x events - completely denying my claims of apparent improvement. However, the CF subnet I'm monitoring is different from the one I use at home. Interesting enough, I'm noticing that every day we have 3 hours without events, and that apparently they are 6 hours apart from each other - 1 good hour, 5 screwed ones, repeat. It's a huge improvement from Dec 15, no doubt, and apparently in pace with Dec 16 and 17 - only the distribution over the hours changed. I don't like coincidences. Good hours each 6 hours, terrible response times each 6 days... Looks some automated processes ended up syncing while directly or indirectly causing the borkage? It's interestingly the same M.O. : some 502, then some 503, then profit... With a few 504 now and then... Anyway... Interesting enough, Forum looks good to me right now. === POST POST EDIT === I let this one pass through, my apologies. There's another possible interpretation for a 503 Service Unavailable : It still means that there's no one left available to service the request, HOWEVER, it's also raised when you have workers around, but they are all busy with something else, and so there's no one left available to service you the same - having no one left available for servicing you may mean both there's no one around, as the ones around are all busy and can't talk to you now. So, and due the regularity things are happening on my reports (possibly meaning quotas being exhausted), it may be just a too much reduced budget to pay for hosting the Forum. They need to scale up things a bit, but the host is not going to do that for free - obviously. On my DayJob© (and this also implies our partners) a 503 means that we had shutdown the services because... HELL, we never put our servers at full capacity, this would be suicidal. We do that extra mile to guarantee that no request would be left behind, because there's someone paying for that request and letting it down will mean that someone paid for something that wasn't delivered. There's always about 20% of idleness on the servers because we use this 20% as a trigger that we are overloading and someone need to scale things up (what always involves footing more money, sometimes lots of money). But Forum works on a different paradigm - people using it are not the ones paying for it, and so we have a completely different dynamic, and the alternate meaning for a 503 makes sense. The double posting I had experienced (by doing reload with sending again the form when getting a 502) strongly suggests that the quota being exhausted is not from the BackEnd/Database, but instead something related to outbound traffic. AWS, for example, don't charge for incoming data, but charges for outcoming traffic. If whatever Forum is using as host does the same, we have (another) very good explanation for the symptoms I'm describing. Given the (at least) temporary relief I'm experiencing, I think that someone decided to bite the bullet and footed some more money on the server farm. But once Forum started to behave a bit better, more people come back to it (we had nearly 3K guests yesterday, where the average on the last months were between 1.200 to 1.800) and the problem started to happen again by obvious reasons.

Someone feeling Classic today?

There~s more ads on YouTube right now than on "alternative sources" for similar content nowadays. Heck. Even... Hum... "Not Exactly Family Neither Forum Friendly Video Streaming Sites" have less ads than YouTube nowadays - and, believe it or not, less scam and bet ads too. Got figure it out...

Surprisingly, yes!! Wondering if @Fizzlebop Smith is around?

This is something that should probably be asked to the kOS team, but I can say everything is done "by the book" on AL. If kOS can introspect PartModules for KSPFields and KSPActions, it should work as it is. If not, tell me what I need to do and I will do it. Cheers!

I don't remember right now if I had already published this, but better safer than sorry - this is too good to let it pass! Launching from ships with hydrofoils . Perfection!

But still, is a bug that happens due a different response from the server. If there's a response, it's because the server received the request. On my specific case, I had sent the request with the post; got a 502; then retried; then came a page with two identical posts. This means that the first post was received by Forum, it was the response that got lost in the process. If Forum received the first post, it was alive and well and, so, whatever happened on the response, it probably wasn't "his fault", but whatever is responsible to deliverer that response to me!!

It's about 2 of 3 days in which I barely got any 502 errors, and I got none in the last 24 hours. Someone else can confirm this? (I still get some on my monitoring tools, but even them are showing some improvement, with the "clean window" getting wider)

What information? There is none. Therefor the narrative is one of incompetence and mismanagement. Considering the end state.. pretty sure that would still be the case when all the cards are down. IMHO, it's exactly their point! A good narrative hides crucial information to be released gradually, over the plot, to maximize the desired goal: to promote a character, to demote another or, or whatever. Agatha Christie is famous for hiding information from the plots, somethings using them as Deus Ex Machina in the end to tie the book. Denying information, believe it or not, is also a source of information because it allows you to infer why such information would be important to hide,

Don't bother. Nate needs to buy it himself for the book make any effect on him; the best you can do is to manage to get this book into his attention and hope that eventually he will remember it later, when it would be the right time. Changes needs to come from inside. This made me remember another one of my "presepadas" . Long story made short, I once jumped out of the frying pan into the fire - resigned from a job that wasn't paying me well to another one that will, but ended up getting screwed due unrelated reasons (I think I had already talking about some years ago). In the end, knowing that getting fired would be the best outcome at that point (due severances), I ended up thinking it would be a good idea to lend two books to my Manager: How to work for an idiot, John Hoover The servant, James C Hunter. Let me tell you, I got my severances. Some years later, this dude tried to reach me for recruiting. Apparently he finally decided to read the books - but at that time, I had switched industries already. But the dude climbed the ladder, it would not be a bad move if I would still working on that field. Anyway. There are some books that you need to buy yourself, otherwise they will probably not work as intended. (And I just ordered this one for me, by the way. Thanks for the tip).

It was this double posting that made me consider the hypothesis I explored on this post. The double posting, at least when I got it, was due doing a Page Reload with a 502 error page with retransmission of the post request. If by doing it, you get two identical posts once Forum is normalized, it means that the first attempt had, indeed, posted normally and it was the response that got lost. If the post was successfully processed, then Forum was working normally and then the problem should had been in the infrastructure where Forum "lives", that would be losing the response before it reaches CloudFlare. Then I'm monitored Forum in two different Continents just to see if anything changes, and I realized that different CF subnets would be working or borking independently. Heck, if on a given instant a subnet borks but another one works, it's because Forum itself is working fine otherwise both subnets would be borking at the same time. This ruled out Forum from the equation, and the rest was merely creating hypothesis and applying the Occam's Razor on them to see what remains. In time, since yesterdays' late night I'm not getting such pesky errors anymore (knocking the wood). === POST EDIT === Nope, 2 hours later and they are back. === POST POST EDIT=== No 502 anymore 15 hours after this post, 13 after my last POST EDIT.

I can't understand the equations, but the few plain English parts I could said and Emphasis are mine. In both sentences, the waves are clearly said to be able to break from the horizon, clearly contradicting what you had said in your post. Granted, apparently they can reenter too - and if instead of "can", the paper somehow says mathematically "they will", then I'm only partially correct on my presumption. In a way or another, even if such gravitational waves would not be allowed to permanently escape the Cosmological Horizon, at least the English spoken part of the paper says clearly that they can (even if for a "brief" moment), and even if they wold not be allowed to poke the Horizon nowadays naturally, I'm still talking about a Level III Civilization that hypothetically could had find a way to do it artificially -and so modulating Gravitational Waves still would be better than Light and Radio (not to mention Golden Records - I'm looking on you, V'Ger!!!) to send one way messages to the Infinite (and beyound). In order that I quote myself (again):

Existem duas formas de "colar" dois "assemblies" (o nome técnico da estrutura de dados que representa uma nave na memória): Radialmente Vc "gruda" uma parte no lado da outra Nem todas as partes permitem isso Axialmente (Empilhando) É o que vc quer fazer, vc "gruda" uma bolinha verde na outra. Nem todas as partes permitem isso. Em todos os casos, o assembly secundário (aquele que é meio transparente) é colado no principal através do root node (a primeira parte da estrutura). O caso em que você descreveu acontece quando o root do secundário está no meio da estrutura. Por exemplo: Pegue uma Cápida Mk1 e começe uma nova nave Pendura um tanque de combustivel embaixo dela Pendure um tanque de combustivel menor em cima dela. Chamemos essa nave de "Nave com Root no Meio" Nessa configuração, a root deste assembly tá bem no meio da estrutura de dados. Se você salvar essa nave, abrir outra e dar Load/Merge na "Nave com Root no Meio", você deve encontrar esse problema. A solução é usar o botão de "ReRoot". Tem um tutorial aqui:https://pinter.org/archives/13171 E aqui o detalhe do botão (é o 4º da Esquerda pra Direita) em formato de "Z": Você clica no botão em formato de 'Z', e então você clica (por exemplo) no tanque pequeno no subassembly da nave "Root no Meio" que agora tá transparente no Editor. KSP vai rearranjar as partes da nave de forma que o tanque pequeno no bico da Cápsula passa a ser o novo root, e então devem aparecer as bolinhas verdes para você pendurar o subassembly onde você quiser.

Surprised? I don't know... Worst yet when it really is!!! ===== Now appears to be a good time to duck under my desk...

So... What I should understand from this statement: Source: https://inspirehep.net/literature/503497#:~:text=Primordial gravitational waves are amplified during eras,density per unit logarithmic frequency%2C denoted Omega.

This is what I don't understand. In theory, there's a thing called N.D.A. that exists exactly to solve such problems. So, Logic (always this crap! ) dictates that one of the following is likely what really happened: They are incapable of enforcing the current NDAs, so it would be stupid to think a new one would solve this problem What would explain why everybody and the kitchen's sink around here insultingly violates the License, and nobody cares about. This is just an excuse, they had other reasons and don't want us to even hint about them.

The information I have, and that inspired this Thought Experiment (®1896 Einstein), it that the Primordial Gravitational Waves can be pushed outside the Cosmological Horizon (thanks for the wording, I was struggling to find them!): https://inspirehep.net/literature/503497#:~:text=Primordial gravitational waves are amplified during eras,density per unit logarithmic frequency%2C denoted Omega. Granted, we are not talking about PGW, but about "artificial" Gravitational Waves modulated by an advanced (but somewhat ego driven) Level III Civilization. They are probably impossible to be created, but heck, for the sake of this Though Experiment, let's assume that given a wondrously advanced Civilization ever existed on this Universe, they would had discovered things that are currently beyound even our imagination, in the same sense that transmitting a video from Mars would be to the Neanderthals that barely were able to rug dirty fingers on a cavern's wall. Would we be able to detect modulation in Gravitational Waves?

Again, Gravitational Waves. Gravity Waves are a completely different thing. If we are going to dive on this rabbit's role, we need to communicate our ideas correctly. Light have such limitation because the photons are "walking" on the space time like you would be walking on a side road. If the side road stretches faster that you can run, you will never reach the other end. But Gravitational Waves are not a "thingy" walking on the spacetime, they are something on the spacetime itself. So if the spacetime stretches faster than light, so they do the same. There're stellar bodies running away from us beyound the speed of light at this very moment. How they would be doing it otherwise? No. Gravitational Waves don't travel through 'stretched' spacetime. They propagate on it. If the spacetime stretches, they do the same at the exact very rate, unlike Light that ends up with more spacetime to travel through. You don't block a Gravitation Wave unless by ripping apart the spacetime (like on a blackrole) to prevent the propagation.

CF is not a content generator, it's a content delivery. Someone must provide them with content. In our specific case, if you see a page like this (I had documented the ones I got here): This is (AFAIK) the only "content" CF generates for us. It means that CF tried to reach forum, but couldn't. But when CF reaches something, no matter what or who, they send us whatever they get. When we get a page like this: It means that CF reached something where Forum "lives" (but not necessarily Forum itself). If whoever is hosting Forum built their infra as most server farms do, this page is being generated by a load balancer or similar service. A load balancer is like a doorman or gatekeeper, that redirects the request to someone inside their premises that would be idle and willing to take the task. But on this case, apparently the desk chosen by the gatekeeper was found empty - the worker had just left the desk and didn't advised the gatekeeper, and then we have this 502 above because the gatekeeper got fed up while waiting the worker to respond. Then, eventually, the worker goes back to its chair and then is able to attend some requests for some time, but then it leaves again, and then requests bounce back on 502 because there was no one there to respond again. Please note that a 503 is a completely different thing. A 503 means that everybody had left their desks, warning the gatekeeper that they are not going to receive requests anymore - so the gatekeeper promptly answer back with "sorry, there's nobody home at this moment". EDIT: A 503 can also means that everybody is at their desks, but none were idle in order to take the task. I completely missed this possible interpretation, because on my day job we just don't have this one. There're so many reasons to hate Discord, and so few to love it. And the later ones are vanishing... At best. There's also a worst option, see my post above. You see, this doesn't appears to be some transcendental bug beyound good and evil debugging and visual inspection, it looks like a plain and prosaic infra glitch/misconfiguration/silly-mistake. To this thing be being left happening unchecked since forever, the only options I can think of are (again, I'm pretty sure I had talked about this before): There's no one left; There's no one left knowing where to look; Or to do something if they managed to look at the problem; There's no one left willing to do something; There's someone there intentionally screwing up. Since we are completely in the dark on the matter, Logic suggests that currently there's a 25% chance of Forum being sabotaged internally since all the evidences I was able to collect strongly suggests it's something botched somewhere on the server farm hosting Forum. Using the same rationale, there's a 75% chance of Forum being in a mess due negligence of someone - be because this one wants to screw things up, be because this one is not being paid for the job and not willing to add unpaid burdens to their life - or not knowing what to do (and, in these two last cases, the negligence is from someone above their pay grade). The good news of someone being negligent is that there is someone that should be doing things, and so there is someone paying him. And if there's someone paying for something, this something has a chance of being alive for some time. As I like to say: "Follow the money". EDIT: There's another possible interpletation for a 503, see above. Under this possible perspective, Forum's budget was just reduced too much, and so there's nothing we can do until someone decide to foot some money more. I have a different point of view. Would the new owner had not some plans for this Forum, they would had pulled the plug already. Forum gone dark for 2 weeks, but then it came back. So they found someone still having a face to be saved. Forum itself is healthy (this time). Whoever is taking care of the Software and the Database is apparently doing their job (if paid or pro-bono, doesn't matter for our purposes). We are facing a infrastructural problem, something above the pay grade of the dudes that are doing their jobs about Forum. On a wild guess, looks like something they had done while trying to diagnose the Forum some months ago ended up being forgotten activated/deactivated. It's a pretty common mistake that I did myself more than once.

Yes. But, yet, Gravitational Waves doesn't share this limitation! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#Primordial_gravitational_waves Granted... The way we detected it nowadays is from their effects on the cosmic microwave background... Just fount this: https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phz6607/fall20/Reports/Farshad_Kamalinejad_Primordial_Gravitational_Waves.pdf Note to myself: come back to this later (Working hours right now). Yep, but they are still trapped on their Observable Universe. Their problem, not ours!! They are Level III for a reason!

It's not a CF problem. It's a problem that involves CF - CF is the messenger of the problem, not the problem. What's more amicable than Discord, that plain ban permanently any account suspected to be owned by an underage. I had read hilarious reports from people sending them regularly photos from passports to unblock their account just to have the account blocked again after a while. It worth to note that if you get a ban, you lose access to your own content on all the channels you had posted. You just can't login anymore, this is a GDPR nightmare and a ticking bomb. I would not want my name involved on a problem created by 3rd parties just to save some pennies on hosting my own solution (where I can control what is being done with the customers). That's exactly the problem: they are not allowing it, only the OP can have images and videos embedded. The threads for the challenges are terribly boring, you need to click on links to open the images on another browser tab or window. Not to mention some challenges being systematically being down-voted by reasons I don't understand. Additionally, after 48 hours posts are removed from the limelight and they became somewhat inconvenient to be found, and so any challenge that would not be ran on the same day is doomed to be buried and forgotten. There's not a SubForum for Challenges, everything is on the same bag, it's a hell to filter out what you want. So if there's a challenge that you plane to pursue on the weekend, you need to post a "ward" in order to have it on your history, making less worse to find it later. Reddit's format just doesn't works for this type of content.

The problem is that all of this costs money. The database hosting costs money, the frontend costs money, CloudFlare costs money. The Forum's software costs money (and the license was renewed, besides not being necessary if they would not be willing to use their Support, what would not be the case if Forum would be abandoned in the backseat). It's Xmas. Lots of people are coming back to KSP for the Seasons, and someone is wasting money with all of this - and, worst, is getting negative value back because this someone is, essentially, paying to be bad mouthed on the hottest months of the year. At least on Steam Charts, KSP¹ is hotter this year than the respective months in the last one. I will say again: there're more people playing KSP¹ online on Steam on September, October and November this year that on these months from 2023. So there're more people being let down by Forum right now - with the unavoidable repercussion to whoever is going to announce being the new owner. Makes no sense paying CloudFlare to serve error messages to the customers for months. Not impossible, indeed, but there're cheaper ways to commit suicide. Someone is going to pay some money on a P/R campaign to rebuilt the Forum's reputation - and Forum is part of the sell, it's an asset that was sold to the new owner and if the new owner would not be interested on Forum, they would had just pulled the plug at the moment of the buy.

Are you suggesting (even that indirectly) that Forum may be being intentionally sabotaged? In a way or another: Reddit is not biting. That format is just terrible for challenges and a lot of other content where this Forum used to rule; Discord is a mistake. The timeline is a mess and the search is a joke - and the Company is not profitable, expect to have the services charged, reduced in scope or the company getting the receiving end (relatively) soon. As soon some content would be restricted to Nitro customers, expect a mass migration and loss of data. Oh, yes... Just remembered... Users under 13 (but up to 16 on some other countries) that gets permanently banned when reported. Thank COPPA for that.

So assume that such Level III civilization can modulate neutron stars collisions! I'm interested about how we would receive such transmission. Yes, they are. And yes, I think this is the worse part of the problem. Nope. Gravitational Waves are not blocked by matter like light. And there's no Horizon other than the Big Bang. Now, being picky, Gravity Waves are a completely different thing. And there's no doubt that radio and light are infinitely easier to produce, but they are limited to the Observable Universe of the emitter. Our current Observable Universe have a 44.5B Light Years Radius and it's shrinking, so the same will be happening/had happened to theirs. Given the fabulous distances and the uncertainty about the statistics for the existence of intelligent life, if you have almost infinite resources you will want to use the method that would maximize the chances of someone getting the message. Under this criteria, modulating Gravitational Waves have a infinite better RoI than Light.

Assuming a Civilization Level III on the Kardashev Scale would like, by reasons beyound our reasoning, transmit a message to the Universe. It's known that Light have a horizon that limits the reach of such message, not to mention the shift to red due the spacetime expansion. Yeah, I'm talking about the limits from the Observable Universe. But since Gravitational Waves are not particles traveling in the spacetime, they are the own spacetime compressing and expanding (waves). So such waves would not have the same limitation of Light, that reaches a point in which the spacetime length it's going to travel "stretches" faster than it's own speed. Gravitational Waves travel on the spacetime itself, so these waves ends up being stretched together the spacetime itself instead of staying behind. So, the best way to transmit a one way message to the rest of the Universe would be by modulating Gravitational Waves (how they would do it it's out of the scope of this thought experiment - they are a Level III and not us for a reason!). Would we, primitive beings stumbling each other on the 3rd rock from the local Star, be able to detect such modulation on Gravitational Waves?