I'm still thinking about those 120 wpm hands you got, I want to hear that machinegun go

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (94): training convergence stagnation in image reconstruction using Vgg19‭ by shoab ahamed‭ on stats.SE

fp- feedback received on [MS] training convergence stagnation in image reconstruction using Vgg19‭

@CodyGray this is what I had in mind

I used to be a fast typer, but then I learned Dvorak. Then I became slow at both Dvorak and QWERTY. I tried it for a few years, but I just realized I'd rather have one set of keyboard shortcuts to know.

!!/approve 13072

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev adf1ca97b1 (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #13072 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1725367313) (running on teward/Cerberus)

!!/blacklist-keyword fastwebrecovery

@Cow Oh man, that reminds me of this.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev d3c39f9730 (SmokeDetector: Auto blacklist of fastwebrecovery by Jeff Schaller) (running on teward/Cerberus)

!!/approve 13071

@Spevacus holy sh** I was actually scarred there for a moment

!!/approve 13070

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev ffa129195e (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #13071 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1725364739) (running on teward/Cerberus)

@Cow CRAM just calmly considering a warcrime for a moment. Hahaha.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 21de582757 (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #13070 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1725364721) (running on teward/Cerberus)

wtf roflmao

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad asn for hostname in body, potentially bad keyword in body (2): LINE REACTORS (INPUT CHOKES / OUTPUT CHOKES)‭ by Noemi Shielding Technology‭ on electronics.SE

Anywho, back to your regularly-scheduled spam.

tpu- feedback received on [MS] LINE REACTORS (INPUT CHOKES / OUTPUT CHOKES)‭

!!/watch noemiglobal\.com

oh man if those passengers knew that

getting targeted by a massive robot that could take out that place in seconds

I do believe CIWS systems have a manual trigger, so an operator would need to press the "Destroy" button for anything to happen, but still!

there's the button again

Just got this mail: Access to the Cowm00/SmokeDetector repository has been disabled by GitHub staff due to a terms of service violation.

Uh... that's weird.

did someone take over the Github?

it got hacked?

I have no access at all to the Github

It looks like the main GH repo for Smokey and every single fork has just been disabled.

Well that's not good. @Makyen @tripleee The Github repository for SmokeDetector has been disabled by Github staff. Please take a look.

Which... is a problem.

Do you think it has something to do with us having a master list of spam-catching regex and spam phone numbers? :P

hehe no idea

github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector

yeah I get the same

i got this on my fork too

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): What's a good test network right now?‭ by Peter Clark‭ on ethereum.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks‭ by Edutrainex22‭ on mathoverflow.net

tpu- feedback received on [MS] Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks‭

fp- feedback received on [MS] What's a good test network right now?‭

Yeah, I got the mail as well... That's messed up.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad asn for hostname in body (1): smtp server error tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority‭ by muhammed aktaş‭ on askubuntu.com

@Cerbrus yeah the two who can do something has been pinged

Surely it's a mistake. I can't imagine what ToS violation SD could've done. Perhaps they responded to a flood of false reports with an automated removal?

I have never seen so many people here

only goes to show how much it means

Well, anyone that has done anything with the repo has been mailed with a GH service violation notification...

Hopefully once the main repo is restored the forks will be, too. I'd rather not fill out the appeal form.

@Mithical yep, got a mail about that as well.

fp- feedback received on [MS] smtp server error tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority‭

Pretty sure everybody's here for the same reason with the same confusion :)

:D

maybe someone closed it and took all the cryptocurrency

oh wait..

I'm guessing it's probably flagged as containing malicious software / code or something like that...

I just hope it's not something ridiculous

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): How to get SEPOLIA TEST ETHER from TESTNET FAUCET without ETH balance in METAMASK account‭ by Peter Clark‭ on ethereum.SE

Or spammers got clever and started reporting the repo 😅

But it is malicious against spam ...

I sent them an appeal just now, no idea what happened but they sent an email with instructions for how to respond

great

Thank ya.

@tripleee thank you!

they disabled my personal fork as well which was at least a day or two behind so it's not likely to have been caused by a very recent commit

@Spevacus I did, if only to add another voice saying "this shouldn't have happened".

yeah all my forks are dead too

@tripleee Did you get any more information on why it was locked down?

@tripleee Mine was years behind and got disabled.

I can speculate that some disgruntled spammer might have complained about something, or that our blacklists contain addresses of sites they have started to block

@Cerbrus nope, just a brief notice, presumably automated

SmokeDetector's GitHub repository has been disabled. It is unclear why beyond "for a ToS violation". Forks were also affected. An appeal has been filed.

@micsthepick How does someone being reported get your fork locked down?

github.com/tripleee/SmokeDeTest is still live but it contains some random chaff from my testing yesterday

GitHub rarely disables a repo while leaving forks open, so it probably won't help much speculating

I suspect it the bad words list

@micsthepick Did your fork get locked (significantly) earlier than ~17 minutes ago?

Received my copy of email notification at 15:07 UTC today

7 past the hour

if its' some sort of automated testing, we have some unsavory Tor sites in the website blacklist which they may be scanning for

The person I reported is likely to have had motivation to strike back at me

@micsthepick That's when the main repo was locked, so your report is probably completely unrelated

okay so its not just my fork that is impacted

Hmm?

i am raising my own hell with GitHub.

I have a local copy of all my important repos, sans issues and PRs of course

@micsthepick all your other repos are available so it seems unlikely that it is related specifically to you, though of course there may be scenarios where your clone of our repo was the one they decided to attack

the report form was kind of wacky so I'm not 100% sure my submission went through

I had a fork that got tanked too, that hadn't been touched in years. Nothing else on my GH account is affected. Email also received at 15:07 UTC

Thomas have you received some sort of ack or etc?

@tripleee You should have gotten a "view this ticket" button after submission, as well as an email about it.

Can we have a summary and timeline of events?

15:07 UTC - Github locked the repo

That's it.

That's about it. ^

We don't yet, nothing more than having the repo locked

I don't think there is much more beyond that, no (-:

Maybe tripleee could add one line - 15:xx appeal submitted

15:21 UTC - Tripleee sent in an appeal (successfully?)

For the moment, I do think SD can operate on limited functionality. So long as we don't perform git actions, we should be okay?

:21 I sent in an appeal for my fork as well

@Cerbrus Now I know you live in UTC+2 :)

well if the form submission didn't work that's not true, the email had one broken link and one appeal site which didn't seem to work well with my mobile browser

@iBug self-doxxed T.T xD

@tripleee Did you get an email after you submitted the appeal?

@tripleee did you get a confirmation email?

Wow, I haven't been in here in a long time... not a great occasion to meet everyone again but hi :) Same thing on my years old fork and all, unsurprisingly.

Well, time to open that ticket an automate [F5] :D

Whatever they say, GitHub has a good track record of handling support tickets in a timely manner.

@Mithical nothing so far, submitted the form again just now

and this time the screen displays "Thanks for getting in touch with us", not just the same form

weirdly, the first time, the form asked about my phone number and other details; not so now

hmm

i'm preparing for my own war against GH here

i'm polling a few of my Law Enforcement sources in the Feds to see if they can pressure GH as well if SE can't push it

:x

so the War is approaching

> This is an anti spam tool for detecting spam. I am fine if it is not generally available except for the appropriate age group if that is a concern, please don't mark my account down for trying to make the internet safer.

Reword?

@ThomasWard calling in the big guns, eh?

militant as ever...

"except for the appropriate age group" don't give 'em any ideas, that implies login-required to clone

finds pitch fork

@micsthepick Maybe not a popular suggestion but have you tried ChatGPT for rewording?

@ThomasWard Inb4 GH locks everything down "Please communicate through our lawyers"

This is what I sent in, you can blame jetlag for any awkward wording.

lights the torch

Recommend ya'll sit back and relax - this'll get resolved, there's not much of a reason for us to worry about it. One of the few things SE management is still good at is having wealthy well-connected people in charge.

Well is there a problem? Does it ci

@micsthepick all GH and Git related actions are broken while its suspended.

Onvey the appropriate info

@Undo CAlling in some favours, eh? Wink wink

in accordance i'm also doing a force git push of master/deploy from what's in Smokey/Cerberus now to my own git as acopy in case we have to get back online fast.

@ThomasWard That one is probably old AF

Cerberus is my latest instance lol

!!/location

@ThomasWard teward/Cerberus 21de582757 (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #13070 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1725364721)

^^ that one

Ooooh

Yep, you're an instance now, Cerbrus. How's it feel?

lol

For a moment, I felt important T.T

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title (2): How can a startup create a successful digital marketing plan on a limited budget?‭ by Tushar‭ on stackoverflow.com

tpu- feedback received on [MS] How can a startup create a successful digital marketing plan on a limited budget?‭

I'll just close my ports :3

FWIW, GitHub has been tolerant of large projects in the past but eventually they do notice high-volume stuff

we're nowhere near that kind of volume, and we basically never do full clones outside of CI

@Machavity That sounds like a few orders of magnitude larger

cocoapods/homebrew were using GH as a CDN, that's what put them on the radar.

That sounds like abuse (or at least misuse)

and for the record I got an email ack for the ticket too around the time I submitted it

@Machavity Size differences aside, that's a fantastic response by that infra engineer. Really well-written.

I suspect Microsoft ownership has lowered their tolerances considerably

@Machavity That is... a confusing abbreviation to use in this context

@Spevacus It's still probably one of the best community responses I've ever seen. Open, honest, and the CP team was responsive in making changes

definitely not a volume thing, this is going to be a bad-words thing

@Mithical Microsoft has a hatred of spam and stuff. It's a Microsoft problem

as long as we get this solved we'll be fine

M$?

@Mithical Yeah, shoulda remembered the context here

they whacked another one from ye olden times too

thus not a volume thing

@Undo WORST CASE we move the large huge blocklists, etc. to a separate source or a git subrepo that pulls form elsewhere

but i digress

@Undo was this a fork with a peculiar name or a completely independent copy?

completely different thing

in probably 2016 I messed with the NLP of the day

Then it's probably some content in there that was also in the larger SD repo

I forget what was in there, but probably a bunch of stuff from metasmoke

Certain keywords / lines

@ThomasWard Ya'll can do what you want, but at some point should consider whether the world is saying it just doesn't want the service we provide

@Undo oh it's always on my mind

Fighting with people to do something good for them is draining

but, can't touch private git hosting so :p

can't touch it yet

No good deed goes unpunished

That's a little dramatic

@ThomasWard you just haven't angered enough Brazilian judges

@Undo well if it's not internet-exposed then they can't touch it at all muahahahahah

I mean

i could just shut off Metasmoke too and piss off everyone

!!/location

@cocomac teward/Cerberus 21de582757 (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #13070 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1725364721)

@SmokeDetector Didn't realize we were up to 10-char commit short-hashes, looks kinda cool

@ThomasWard Metric for impact on society: How many people you could piss off but choose not to

Oh... reads transcript, it isn't just gone/removed for me

@cocomac hreading stars would've been sufficient too :)

GitHub staff really came back from Labor Day weekend and chose violence :P

This is one way to get anyone who's participated to Smokey in the past to check in...

Blow up the repo, -> See, our chatroom is active with actual people!

@Spevacus with a side of (metaphorical) nuclear warfare too.

:^)

need shades with all these diamonds sparkling

@Cow Heh. It can get pretty loud, since I prefer mechanical keyboards. The Model M is my favorite, but I have a limited stock of those. I also recently bought a board with Cherry MX Green switches, which are like the MX Blues, but higher actuation force (so more like the buckling springs in the Model M), and I quite like that one. I like the clickiness of the MX Blues, but they're too soft. I can't rest my fingers on them, which means I am using muscles to hover my fingers off the keys, which leads to increased fatigue. Sadly, all of this meticulous preference goes out the window when I have to use a laptop. My typing speed is very much dependent on the keyboard. The 120 WPM is a realistic number on a laptop with a decent keyboard, but it goes higher under ideal conditions.

@GeneralGrievance Exactly that is why I've never been interested in learning Dvorak or any other alternative layout. I switch around to different machines all the time. I don't want to sit down somewhere and be completely lost.

@Spevacus Err... wow. That's probably some kind of illegal.