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Email sending is working again
You can now reset your passwords!
Pinned: 2025-08-07 19:44
CALS is up again, blame AI for the downtime
CALS have been half broken/down since at least 2025-07-10T19:27:05+02:00 thanks to AI bots. When any page here is visited the visit (and any errors) is logged to disk. If there are too many visits in too short a time the system that removes old logs can't keep up and the disk fills up. When the disk is full, things start to break.
CALS is no longer running on its own hardware and for that reason it has a much smaller disk than it used to. For the same reason the logs and the database are on the same disk, so when the disk is full of logs, the database have no more space to write its changes, so the database stops working. The bits of CALS that do not need to look up anything in the database still worked... but only for a while.
(A full disk will also break sending of email, needed for password resets. Turns out email has other problems in addition so password resets are still not back.)
The logs have been cut down to size, and need to be automatically cut down to size so brutally that Your Humble Admin™ have started looking into methods that will prevent AI bots from playing. Stay tuned.
What a nice thing to discover the first day back from vacation.*grmbl*
Pinned: 2025-08-04 17:29
2025-08-20 23:57 New translation of "I can eat glass" into Jarda by Herman Miller
Śôn cig ziṛa ļêm, vadṛêg zi.
śôn cig zi-ṛa ļêm va-dṛêg zi can eat I-ERG glass not-hurt I-(ABS)
I can eat glass, it does not hurt me.
2025-08-20 23:55 New translation of "My hovercraft is full of eels" into Jarda by Herman Miller
Gav bölga zalxêbin zii.
gav bölga zal-xêb-in zi-i fill eel-(ABS) hover-vehicle-DAT I-GEN
My hovercraft is full of eels.
What defines your conlang?
By adding your language here, and answering the questions by choosing a single value for each relevant WALS-feature (e.g. it's not a goal to answer every single one of them!), you might discover new things in your conlang, or grammar gaps that need to be filled somehow. By reading the descriptions of each feature at WALS, you also get a crash course in linguistic typology and universals – but be warned, some of those papers are overly scholarly...
CALS challenges
- Pick some features and values at random, then try to make a language out of that.
- What would the most average conlang look like? Should it be updated to stay the most average?
- Contrary, would a conlang with many rare and unusual features be usable at all?
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