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Game/Book Reviews / Re: Eversion
« Last post by Mayne on May 16, 2023, 07:36:50 AM »I really enjoyed Revelation Space by the same author, so I'll probably take you up on your recommendation. Thanks!
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Game/Book Reviews / Eversion
« Last post by vorpal+5 on May 14, 2023, 11:40:37 AM »eversion by alastair reynolds ...
Probably one of the best book I read in many years! I warmly recommend it.
Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to a vast uncharted lake - and their goal--
Until disaster strikes.
It starts as a kind of XVIIIth century maritime voyage tale and then you discover progressively some Gothic/horror sci-fi stuff meshed with that. Reynolds writes very, very well. Plus he is in "hard sci-fi". What's not to like? :-)
Probably one of the best book I read in many years! I warmly recommend it.
Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to a vast uncharted lake - and their goal--
Until disaster strikes.
It starts as a kind of XVIIIth century maritime voyage tale and then you discover progressively some Gothic/horror sci-fi stuff meshed with that. Reynolds writes very, very well. Plus he is in "hard sci-fi". What's not to like? :-)
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Forum Issues / Re: unable to see board icons
« Last post by boolybooly on March 28, 2023, 08:11:13 AM »hold your horses I seem to have just fixed it my end using a tip from stack overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73875589/disable-website-redirection-to-https-on-chrome#:~:text=Type%20in%3A%20chrome%3A%2F%2Fnet,domain%20to%20delete%20from%20HSTS.&text=Save%20this%20answer.,-Show%20activity%20on
the domain name is "pentarch.org"
I just entered that in the bottom field, exited Chrome via the three dots top right and restarted Chrome and bingo it worked!
PS I think what happened is I used an old bookmark with https in the URL and it rejigged Chrome back to https and borked pentarch.org, so now I am checking and editing my bookmarks to use http only for pentarch.org
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Type in: chrome://net-internals/#hsts in address bar of chrome. At the bottom place the domain to delete from HSTS.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73875589/disable-website-redirection-to-https-on-chrome#:~:text=Type%20in%3A%20chrome%3A%2F%2Fnet,domain%20to%20delete%20from%20HSTS.&text=Save%20this%20answer.,-Show%20activity%20on
the domain name is "pentarch.org"
I just entered that in the bottom field, exited Chrome via the three dots top right and restarted Chrome and bingo it worked!
PS I think what happened is I used an old bookmark with https in the URL and it rejigged Chrome back to https and borked pentarch.org, so now I am checking and editing my bookmarks to use http only for pentarch.org
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Forum Issues / Re: unable to see board icons
« Last post by boolybooly on March 28, 2023, 08:03:59 AM »see below see above, Chrome Win10 switches randomly from being able to see images to not being able to see them without my doing anything, currently if I set the URL to http://~ it still loads https://
dont know why for sure but maybe its because Chrome responds to something serverside forcing HTTPS
on the HSTS preload checker site, pentarch.org currently gets a warning for unecessary HSTS header and two other error warnings which are related to not redirecting to HTTPS which is probably what we need but I wonder if the unecessary HSTS header might be triggering Chrome to go HTTPS, or something ?
I think there must have been a recent server adjustment of some kind which reverted it to how it was before whatever tweak made it work again, I havent done anything, am hoping it can be tweaked back
dont know why for sure but maybe its because Chrome responds to something serverside forcing HTTPS
on the HSTS preload checker site, pentarch.org currently gets a warning for unecessary HSTS header and two other error warnings which are related to not redirecting to HTTPS which is probably what we need but I wonder if the unecessary HSTS header might be triggering Chrome to go HTTPS, or something ?
I think there must have been a recent server adjustment of some kind which reverted it to how it was before whatever tweak made it work again, I havent done anything, am hoping it can be tweaked back
My Chrome has no problem staying on the http version
Neither did mine until a few days agoIt automatically reverts to HTTPS whatever I do. Is OK in Incognito though if I remove the s.
Query of aurora2.pentarch.org in Chrome Domain Security Policy page for HSTS/PKP returns a list of policies including ...
"dynamic_upgrade_mode: FORCE_HTTPS"
Delete function does not work, meaning it is preloaded.
So if admins want to do something about that it looks like you can remove a domain from the preloading list. Scroll down for the removal form link.
https://hstspreload.org/
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Forum Issues / Re: unable to see board icons
« Last post by boolybooly on March 27, 2023, 03:38:56 AM »If anyone is reading it seems to have broken again.
I have no idea why. Everything has stayed the same at my end.
I have no idea why. Everything has stayed the same at my end.
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Forum Issues / Re: Need help recovering password
« Last post by Garfunkel on March 03, 2023, 12:08:25 PM »Erik, help needed!
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Forum Issues / Need help recovering password
« Last post by eric_I_need_help on February 24, 2023, 11:57:47 AM »Eric, I can't seem to reset my password OR post as a guest. When I ask to reset password, I never get an email. When I try to post as a guest, it gets flagged as spam. Please help!
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Forum Issues / Re: unable to see board icons
« Last post by Gyrfalcon on February 22, 2023, 02:09:52 AM »Nothing I did, but I appreciated that you dug up a possible solution for Erik. No idea if he went ahead and implemented it, though.
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Forum Issues / Re: unable to see board icons
« Last post by boolybooly on February 22, 2023, 01:02:55 AM »wow it is working again... 
was that something you did Gyrfalcon ? (Or was it a delayed post-reboot result of pressing delete button?)
was that something you did Gyrfalcon ? (Or was it a delayed post-reboot result of pressing delete button?)
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