CerebralHawks

Pirated vBulletin. I sure didn’t have the sack for that. I figure, pirated software running on a server, especially if it’s not your hardware (and self hosting wasn’t an option for me back then) is kind of dangerous.

When I found out I could get at the DMs in an Invision board I was running for a minute, I made a post letting everyone know, and worked it into the thing you agree to when you sign up. I made it clear that I wasn’t good with SQL and it wasn’t easy to read them, but that I did have that access and to not use our DMs for anything you wouldn’t want someone to be able to see.

I assume most of the noods requests were from the juggaloes to the juggalettes exclusively? Or did it go both ways? Never cared much for ICP, though “The Amazing Jekyll Brothers” had some cool songs on it (“Everybody Rize,” “I Stab People,” “Mad Professor,” and maybe a couple others)… but the fandom? Absolutely wild. Even if I thought ICP straight up sucked, I’d have to admit the fandom is awesome.

I sorta recently (couple years ago) learned that some US states actually brand juggaloes a gang. Like it’s illegal to be one. That’s wild to me. I don’t think Deadheads ever got the same treatment, and, same thing, different genre.

No. Shit.

People who say Facebook (now Meta) paid $21 billion (with a B) for WhatsApp to be charitable. Even though the original creators have distanced themselves from it after the acquisition.

Fun fact: every forum running phpBB, Invision, or vBulletin (as in, traditional Internet forums) can read your DMs in plaintext. They’re unencrypted in the SQL database. However, the forum’s Admin Control Panel (ACP) does not provide this functionality. All three have mods that add it in. So imagine you run a forum. You have a hidden forum where only your mods and admins can interact. No one else can even see it. You could have a whole other one that is just all the DMs. I’m not sure about social networks. But I know if you have command-line access to the SQL database, you can query a user and see everything that user has put in the database. Public messages… and private ones. So a lot of the forums started saying “Personal messages” or “Direct messages” instead of “Private messages” because they were never private.

Disbelieve anyone who says they can’t see your private or personal messages.

Jellyfin doesn’t work without complex setup on Apple stuff. For the Apple TV app, you’ll need to know the server’s IP address to get started. It can’t just detect it like Plex can.

I had it up and running at one point, but tried it again this year and it was a complete non starter.

The left? The right?

Progressiveness is defined by embracing change, sometimes to the fault of change for the sake of change. Conservatism is defined by embracing tradition, sometimes to the fault of rejecting change that benefits society.

However, some artists are politically left, and they don’t like AI because they say it steals their work.

I do agree those who take a moral stand against AI are putting themselves at a disadvantage to those who use it. Not everybody who is opposed to AI is in a position that would be improved with AI use, however. So there is that.

In American politics, I see the president doing dumb shit with AI (such as making himself appear as Jesus and healing Jeffrey Epstein) but we all know it’s AI and most people don’t take it seriously at all.

the physical media only containing some of the game files, requiring a download to play

Fallout 4 did this like a decade ago (and probably wasn’t the first). It came with a DVD that had like 5GB of data. The rest had to be downloaded.

It was a fucky situation because those of us who bought the Pip-Boy Edition but had slow Internet couldn’t play the game on day one, we had to download the whole game when we got the game in the mail. People who paid far less for the digital version were able to preload it and play on day one. I found a torrent for the preload (not the game and not cracked!) and put it on my computer. So when I put the DVD in and entered my code, it went to download it, found the preload, and just signed off on all of it, and I was off to the races. But that wasn’t how Bethesda intended for me to play. They intended for me to have to wait for several hours or the next day to play the game I paid for.

So yeah, nothing new there.