How Many Posts Can BindleSnitch Snatch When a BindleGlitch Snatches
When is a BindleSnitch post not a post?
When it has been BindleSnatched.
Was this a BindleGlitch?
When is a BindleSnitch post not a post?
When it has been BindleSnatched.
Was this a BindleGlitch?
08/09/2020 @ 10:03 pm
As you have noticed there has been a glitch. Actually, there have been several glitches, plugins that don’t work right that are driving me up a wall. We tried to fix the glitch by rolling bindle back a few days, which may or may not have worked but I don’t know whether or not it worked because I can’t get into my own account on my own website, so I can’t even post anything to explain what happened. This afternoon, we discovered that we had a dead battery. It fired right up when I jumped it, so we drove over to Auto Zone, where they checked the seven-month-old battery, told us it was the wrong battery for our car, and that it was leaking acid, and replaced the battery with a brand new one, free of charge. Then, later in the day, a neighbor knocked on the door to tell us that our brake lights were on. Sure enough, the brake light switch was broken. If you have ever tried to replace a brake light switch working on the ground, you know better than to replace a brake light switch on the ground. You need to put the car up on a lift so that you can see what you are doing instead of trying to crawl up under the steering wheel. So, now, we have to get up tomorrow. I have to re-attach the negative cable to the battery on her car and hope that my car will start. If it does, then I will follow my wife over to the repair shop, drop her car off, drive over to the car rental agency so she can rent a car to go to work, then drive back to the repair shop to explain what our car is doing there in their parking lot, then drive down to Boca for a 9 AM cardiologist appointment, while I am having a heart attack over what Trump is doing to us, so, yes, we a few articles, but we did warn you to keep copies of everything. It’s in the terms of service that no one ever reads. of course.
So, the moral of the story is that we didn’t intentionally erase anything. We just tried a reboot to fix a plethora of problems. That’s what backups are for.
08/09/2020 @ 10:04 pm
I realize that I may have confused things a little. Of course the dead battery has nothing to do with the glitches on BindleSnitch.
08/10/2020 @ 11:02 am
Bitey, I do not doubt you. I was reaching for some possible explanation for why the post disappeared. Imho, the site admin could have extended you courtesy of backing up your post and reposting it after the diagnostic, or better, made their own test post and run the diagnostics on that.
fwiw, re: bugs vs glitches, courtesy of my computer geek website, my savior during times of Covidian remote intruction:
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot.A glitch might also refer to a transitory fault condition due to poor power supply or an intermittent hardware fault on an external device. Ensuring good, clean, power to the system is not a programming feature and the only thing that we can do to defend against it is to ensure that all important saved data is verifiable with check sums, or hash values, and is written to multiple locations.
A software bug is an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways. Most bugs arise from mistakes and errors made by people in either a program’s source code or its design, or in frameworks and operating systems used by such programs, and a few are caused by compilers producing incorrect code.
Note that a glitch is described as “transient”. Also note that the glitch is the fault itself, whereas a bug might refer more to the code that causes the fault, which is less transient than the actual fault.
08/09/2020 @ 10:06 pm
Good to know.
08/10/2020 @ 9:28 am
seems fishy to me too…why make just the post about racism and caste disappear? If there’s a bug in the system, wouldn’t it be in all posts? I came back last night, saw it gone, and figured Bitey had taken it down, maybe because we mentioned his cousin and he didn’t want him to see. Otherwise, the post did not seem controversial, at least to me, and generated a lively discussion.
Ennyhoo, I have Wilkerson’s book on reserve at the library now. If others read it want to discuss, I’d enjoy that.
08/10/2020 @ 10:05 am
If I didn’t want him to see something, I wouldn’t write it. I wouldn’t use his real first name. Oh, how you underestimate me.
08/10/2020 @ 11:22 am
Greenheron: When you roil back a website, what you are doing is restoring a previous backup. There is no easy way to determine which posts would be lost and no easy way to copy, save and restore x number of posts. I don’t know what you think is fishy since I didn’t read the posts that were deleted. I have only deleted one post that I can recall removing, and that post was by Robert. There may have been one other. I am still not able to get into the back end myself.
08/10/2020 @ 11:26 am
…and Robert himself removed a few, which is why I wondered what happened, and why a notification is needed. People will call the authors out speculating that they have deleted something.
08/10/2020 @ 7:43 am
aha.
I’m gone fishin’.
Poof.
08/10/2020 @ 9:18 am
I’ve been in North Carolina for a week. Yesterday morning I was in Greensboro but didn’t feel the earthquake. Monday night I was on Oak Island within sight of the ocean when the hurricane made landfall, centered two islands over.
But my car battery works.
08/10/2020 @ 10:49 am
More often than not , it’s the comment stream that gives rise to the best and most noteworthy writing…
Saving the comment stream and the post can become cumbersome and space and time consuming…
‘Shit happens’ is not my idea of sound platform/website administration policy and practice…Even if it is ‘just social media’….
08/10/2020 @ 10:57 am
Yep. Yep. Yep.
08/10/2020 @ 11:04 am
ditto, and hi Ron 🙂
08/10/2020 @ 11:21 am
@Greenheron;
‘back atcha’!
09/05/2020 @ 11:15 am
Edit me silly, and I will draft along snitchless elsewhere. Unspell corrected and grmor checked…thank you.