@SmokeDetector vandalism

Conflicting feedback on How can solve method readFile.

we need an FDSC extension for "vandalism" IMO

so we can mark it as "positive" for vandalism, but not have to issue a false positive

or you could type six characters in chat ;)

^

@ThomasWard short form for sd vandalism is sd tp-

Thats even shorter to type

(I know)

:)

@Magisch yeah except hitting the reply button then typing 'vandalism' doesn't autocorrect anything on the mobile chat

It's back up now; were you updating it or something?

whereas tp- becomes any of fifty profanities :/

@NobodyNada No, it doesn't really go down during updates. Was working on some other stuff

alright :)

@Undo

Someone over in the tavern is saying a moderator was "encouraging harassment" against them. So far info is sparse but maybe you can investigate

and prevent them from opening yet another meta that'll get to -50 in a day

meh, these are pretty much never worth investigating. Let them post something on meta.

@Undo I don't mean investigate as to see if there's something to it

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: What do I do to a door knob to open the door? by Made on english.stackexchange.com

Most certainly not

@SmokeDetector vandalism

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating words in answer: What do I do to a door knob to open the door? by Made on english.stackexchange.com

Rather finding out what exactly they misunderstood and preventing them from embarassing themselfes on meta

sd 2k

@Magisch he's beyond a single moderator (you're part of the problem!) telling him anything

:(

Meta is a well-oiled machine for putting people in their place.

I guess even meta needs a stream of opportunities for people to get reversal badges, eh

@Undo Never more true.

@Undo this happened recently over on another site heh

Happens almost weekly on SO

If anyone wants to help stress test a thing, open primaries.erwaysoftware.com and leave it for a while

@Undo connects 25 VMs to it simultaneously

@ThomasWard Actually, I wouldn't mind that :P

I suppose I could open a bunch of tabs

... well i would...

... if my VPN didn't just die on me

I opened about 10 tabs; let me know if you would like more or less

Doesn't seem to be slowing it down much

@Undo opened 25 tabs here

and going to spawn load 50 tabs on my VM shortly

lol, great :P

... assuming SSH doesn't die

grrrr

I'll write an AppleScript to launch like 50 tabs

@Undo +10 tabs from me

Watching the logs on this is hilarious

@Undo is curious

There's no way it could have handled this amount of traffic with polling, so I suppose it's working

@Undo What is it?

alright, here comes 100 tabs

@ThomasWard Mostly I've just never had anything with this kind of concurrency before

@Undo just opened another 20

@Undo You said you wanted it so I'm technically not DOSing :p

It's taking 0.1s to send out all the websocket things, which isn't half bad

would you like any more?

Nah, this is enough

Thank you!

loads five hundred anyways

I have a linux center in a data center with 64 gb ram

Maybe I should give it a go :p

@Undo No problem! App Nap or something might kick in and suspend all of the tabs, but I don't think anything like that will happen. Let me know if it does/you need more tabs/you need less tabs

If I need less, I'll just kill it ;)

hah, it's had to spawn a thread for every one of these.

And it's still going fine on a t2.nano

So this should test both the getting-data-from-SE part (in the "please don't ban me" sense) and the getting-data-to-clients part.

@Undo at least it doesn't have to spawn a copy of itself every time

@ThomasWard Yeah, that'd break stuff

and probably blow up the server

I wonder if I can deploy to it without breaking all the WS conns

Should be able to, worst case they'll reconnect

@Undo no. worst case is it causes catastrophic evils.

because it could

Yep, sure can. Worked fine

@Undo are you just randomising the last two columns?

at the moment, anyway

So from Brad Larson, we go to:

> ArtOfCode 2016! You've got my vote. – zero01alpha 58 mins ago

...who I'm not sure I've ever interacted with

@ArtOfCode yeah, he is:

@ArtOfCode Randomizing the delta between any two polls, so the cumulative column also tends to be random

ah, that makes sense

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Advice for a college student interested in investment opportunities. by Austin on money.stackexchange.com

^^^ FDSC not feeding back to MS again :/

It is. The websocket just isn't working, so...

!!/reboot

Goodbye, cruel world

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 7ab17f0 (Undo1: Merge pull request #296 from bwDraco/patch-2 --autopull) (running on ArtOfCode/EC2)

Restart: API quota is 5457.

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started in reverted mode at rev da28392 (SmokeDetector: Auto blacklist of t90xplodecanada\.us by Ashish Ahuja --autopull) (running on ArtOfCode/EC2.Backup - something is wrong, @ArtOfCode, fix it.)

Restart: API quota is 5208.

Restart: API quota is 5207.

uh oh...

huh, so that works

What triggers the "something is wrong?"

my backup script

did it detect Smokey crashed so it started it in reverted mode?

!!/master

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 7ab17f0 (Undo1: Merge pull request #296 from bwDraco/patch-2 --autopull) (running on ArtOfCode/EC2.Backup - something is wrong, @ArtOfCode, fix it.)

Restart: API quota is 5160.

Restart: API quota is 5159.

!!/test Marlin Woods

@NobodyNada no, it's not reverted mode

!!/test wingding

regular mode

> Would not be caught for title, body, and username.

> Would not be caught for title, body, and username.

but the regular copy crashed, so the script brought a backup online automatically

Uh, what's going on? It looks like two instances of the bot are running...

...interesting.

@bwDraco yeah

that would be because they are

metasmoke status reports red for some reason

!!/help

@bwDraco I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and offensive posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

I've killed the backup copy

Okay. Things look normal now.

Do you know what happened? Did it temporarily lose connection to Metasmoke so your script started a backup?

For that to happen, metasmoke would have had to report status red

SD is running on AWS, right? Maybe the server lost connection for a few minutes?

I doubt it... this is Amazon datacenters we're talking about here

true

hell-o/

Yep. This is what the console showed:

> Status RED: launching backup Smokey!

status.aws.amazon.com doesn't report anything

can i use !!/notify here?

yep

yay

!!/notify 11540 stackoverflow.com-

!!/notify 11540 meta.stackexchange.com-

hang on

@ArtOfCode what happened?