On Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 07:29 Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com wrote:
On Nov 15, 2023, at 13:55, Erik Huelsmann ehuels@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 13:39 Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com wrote:
On Nov 15, 2023, at 12:29, Erik Huelsmann ehuels@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, this is nothing new and has happened on several
occasions over the past weeks. I have no idea what could be causing this issue, but could it be related to reverse proxying paste.lisp.org which is no longer serving pages?
I missed the retirement of paste.lisp.org http://paste.lisp.org/: it
was running read-only for quite a while. Was a decision made to shut it down permanently?
No, that decision made itself: the ever since the bots have been kicked
off Libera, the server has been failing to serve lisppaste as well. The only thing I did after months of failure (which I did note only in arrears; I wasn't actively looking at these failures happening), I took the sbcl out of its misery and just shut it down.
I heard about the “libera.chat bans bots” ambiently over the last couple months.
I just had the following conversation in #libera-bots
<easye> Mornin' all. I am trying to get some up-to-date information about the status of bots being allowed on libera chat networks. Over the past couple months, I've heard ambiently that "bots are now banned", but according to https://libera.chat/guides/faq#are-bots-allowed bots *are* allowed. [06:14] <easye> Has the policy outlined in the libera faq ("bots allowed with
permission from channel operator") been changed?[06:19] <moonmoon> hasn't [06:21] <moonmoon> whether a bot is allowed in a channel is up to the ops of that
channel<easye> moonmoon: thank you for the clarification. [06:22] <moonmoon> so if you heard that bots are banned from a particular channel, it means that. not a network-wide thing
So, it must be that the operator of #commonlisp that banned the bot? Who is that at this point?
Anybody have insight into whatever drama is
I can shed a bit of light on that: the bots were alledgedly continuously reconnecting to the IRC network. When I found them, every connection attempt was answered by the IRC network with a message like "you're banned. Fix your setup."
So I expect that this isn't an issue with the libera policy on bots in general neither with the ops of the channels the bots want to join.
Thanks for looking into this!
Regards,
Erik