Deebster

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[–] Deebster 8 points 6 days ago

pic #1: Dumb and Data

[–] Deebster 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Normally we could expect that there are at least records that will eventually come out, but we've seen the current administration use things like Signal to prevent any official records ever being created.

[–] Deebster 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You see absolutely loads of these around Oxford and Reading, and they're starting to become a problem because people are feeding them and they're becoming bold enough to steal food out of people's hands (like seagulls) (sorry, that's not good news).

Kites from Spain were introduced to the Chiltern Hills back in the 90s when there were only 52 breeding pairs in Wales for the whole of the UK. Thirty years later there's 4000 breeding pairs in southern England alone and red kite chicks were being sent back to Spain to help with their numbers.

[–] Deebster 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's how I understood it, but you could read it as saying the author's experience with Win11 revealed problems with his previous setup (i.e. Linux).

[–] Deebster 2 points 1 week ago

REUNION October 24, 2025

I solved it in 1️⃣9️⃣ moves!
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

[–] Deebster 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On first glance, I understood the title as saying there were nine problems in Win11; it might be ambiguous but I don't think it's fair to label it as very deceptive.

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 week ago

Hmm, I do remember installing that at one point - it might be that I needed to extract a key from it to configure the plugin. I was on Windows then so it wouldn't have been too hard.

[–] Deebster 3 points 1 week ago

The fact that they fixed the jailbreak just as I was about to do it was part of the reason I moved to Kobo (went with the Clara BW and am very happy with the upgrade).

[–] Deebster 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have the DeDRM plugin set up on Calibre and it's either it's working perfectly or everything I've bought from Kobo didn't come with DRM (I think it's the first one).

[–] Deebster 9 points 1 week ago

thirst spaces

I can't decide if this is a joke or a Freudian slip.

[–] Deebster 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That StealthWriter thing doesn't feel very reliable to me, e.g. it pick up the first paragraph:

After 4 years with Rust, I love the language – but I’m starting to think the ecosystem has an abstraction addiction. Or: why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction.

I think AI would write "four" instead of 4, would use an em dash, and the construction of the second sentence (a Doctor Strangelove reference?) doesn't feel like most LLM's style.


Anyway, there is this massive red flag at the end which suggests I was completely wrong:

P.S grammarly forked me over vro 🥀

I'm not 100% sure what that means, but Grammarly is an AI writer thingy (or maybe it's only their premium level?). I know that AI tools do pick up on Grammarly-filtered stuff as these somewhat false positives are a problem in educational circles.

[–] Deebster 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Really? I would be shocked if an LLM's been anywhere near this, it's not in AI style at all.

 

sync-on-luma is obsessed with Akira-style diagonal freight lifts and has made a video about their appearance in computer games. No sponsors or anything, just an unnecessarily deep dive into his favourite examples.

 

For those outside the UK here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGKSCDLFhc

Let's discuss tasks and contestants.

Fatiha El-Ghorri
Jason Mantzoukas
Mathew Baynton
Rosie Ramsey
Stevie Martin

Expect spoilers in the comments.

 

For those outside the UK here is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGKSCDLFhc

Let us discuss tasks and contestants.

Fatiha El-Ghorri Jason Mantzoukas Mathew Baynton Rosie Ramsey Stevie Martin

Expect spoilers in the comments.

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For those outside the UK here is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzZkDSPky9Q

Let us discuss tasks and contestants

Fatiha El-Ghorri
Jason Mantzoukas
Mathew Baynton
Rosie Ramsey
Stevie Martin

Expect spoilers in the comments.

 

Archived link: https://archive.ph/Vjl1M

Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived.

This is genuinely fun, and you can find lots of examples on social media. In the world of AI Overviews, “a loose dog won't surf” is “a playful way of saying that something is not likely to happen or that something is not going to work out.” The invented phrase “wired is as wired does” is an idiom that means “someone's behavior or characteristics are a direct result of their inherent nature or ‘wiring,’ much like a computer's function is determined by its physical connections.”

It all sounds perfectly plausible, delivered with unwavering confidence. Google even provides reference links in some cases, giving the response an added sheen of authority. It’s also wrong, at least in the sense that the overview creates the impression that these are common phrases and not a bunch of random words thrown together. And while it’s silly that AI Overviews thinks “never throw a poodle at a pig” is a proverb with a biblical derivation, it’s also a tidy encapsulation of where generative AI still falls short.

 

The notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend. The hackers claim to have exposed code for the site, the emails of moderators, and a list of mod communications. This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, another image board that splintered off of 4chan.

It’s still unclear what the fallout of the hack will be, but the notorious image board remains down and a huge amount of data appears to have been leaked.

Users struggled to load 4chan on the evening of April 14, 2025, according to posts on other imageboards and forums. A few hours before that, the banned board /qa/ reappeared on the site and someone using the hiroyuki account, named after 4chan’s owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, posted “FUCKING LMAO” and “U GOT HACKED XD.

The hiroyuki account was flagged in bold red as an admin, suggesting the person posting the messages had control over a real admin account. /qa/ was a “questions and answer” imageboard on 4chan. Pitched as a place to discuss concerns that affected the whole of 4chan, /qa/ was in practice a board where various factions fought.

Soyjak is a popular meme you’ve probably seen before. It’s a balding man with glasses and shaggy beard, his mouth agape in docile joy. He is now the name of a rival imageboard.

At about the same time 4chan struggled to load, someone on the soyjak.st posted a thread that claimed to explain what happened. “Tonight has been a very special night for many of us at the soyjak party,” the thread said. “Today, April 14, 2025, a hacker who has been in 4cuck’s system for over a year, executed the true operation soyclipse, reopening /qa/, exposing personal information of various 4cuck staff, and leaking code from the site.”

The thread shared images of the resurrected and defaced /qa/ board as well as what appear to be screenshots from 4chan’s internal moderation tools. The screenshots included discussion about why users had been banned from 4chan, pieces of its backend in phpMyAdmin (the infrastructure that runs 4chan and other forums and imageboards), and traffic stats for specific boards.

Elsewhere on the internet, someone leaked an alleged list of moderator email addresses and a portion of what they described as the “source code” for the site. 404 Media reached out to an email in the leaked list that appeared to be for Nishimura but did not hear back.

It appears that 4chan was susceptible to a hack because it was running very out of date code that contained various vulnerabilities, according to 404 Media’s look at the code and people sorting through the hack online.

So 4chan very likely got hacked because they were running on an extremely out of date version of PHP that has a lot of vulnerabilities and exploits and are using deprecated function to interact with there MySQL database.

Web security 101: Keep your code and software up to date. pic.twitter.com/JFDOsbr5rt

— Yushe (@_yushe) April 15, 2025

That starts to answer the question of how this happened. But why did it happen? This all has roots in a five year old meme fight.

Soyjak.party, the site where a user began posting about the 4chan hack, was an offshoot of 4chan created as a joke about five years ago. Besides being a general cesspool,

4chan has long been a place that incubates memes. lolcats, the NavySeal copypasta, and Pepe the Frog grew and spread on 4chan’s imageboards. From time to time a meme is overplayed or spammed and mods on the site get tired of it.

Five years ago, users spammed the /qa/ board with soyjaks. Unable to quash the tide of soyfaced jpegs, 4chan shut down the entire /qa/ board. The soyajk loving exiles of 4chan started a new site called soyjak.party where they could craft open mouthed soyboy memes to their heart’s content. When 4chan was hacked on the night of April 14, the /qa/ board briefly returned. “/QA/ RETURNS SOYJAK.PARTY WON” read a banner image at the top of the board.

As of this writing, 4chan is still down. When you attempt to access a specific board, the connection times out. “The initial connection between Cloudflare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed,” the error page says.

 

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Bum Farto was a real person, with a life as ridiculous as his name.

 

Overview

Navidrome 0.55.0 introduces the highly anticipated Big Refactor (BFR), significantly enhancing core functionalities, and introducing robust new features. This release brings substantial improvements in handling file management and metadata usage and customization.

New Features

  • Multiple Artists in Albums and Songs: Navidrome now supports albums and tracks with multiple artists, allowing users to group tracks with different artists under a single album. This feature enhances the organization of compilation albums and multi-artist collaborations.

  • Contributors and Performers: Composer, conductor, and other contributors can now be added to tracks, providing detailed information about the creators and performers involved in the music production process.

  • Album Versions: Support for ALBUMVERSION tag has been added, enabling users to differentiate between standard releases, deluxe editions, remasters, and other versions of the same album. This feature enhances album categorization and provides a more comprehensive music library experience.

  • Multi-valued Tags: Support for multi-valued tags has been improved, allowing users to store multiple values for any single tag. This feature enhances metadata flexibility and enables more detailed categorization.

  • Custom Tags: Support for user-defined custom tags has been added, allowing enhanced metadata flexibility and personalized categorization. Learn more.

  • Smart Playlists Enhancements: Smart Playlists supports all newly added tags, including multiple artists, contributors, performers, and album versions, as well as custom tags. It also behaves better with multi-valued tags.
    Learn more.

  • Persistent IDs: Tracks and albums now use persistent IDs (PIDs), ensuring stability in playlists, favorites, and external integrations, even if your files move or are renamed. PIDs can also be configured to change the way
    Navidrome disambiguates albums and tracks. It is now also possible to group albums by folder, bay setting PID.Album="folder". Learn more.

  • Scanner Improvements: Optimized file scanning, with improved handling of file moves and retagging, "watcher" mode for real-time updates, resumable scans and enhanced performance during library updates.

  • Improved Handling of Missing Files: Enhanced mechanisms for managing missing files ensure better accuracy and easier troubleshooting. Learn more.

  • Beginner-Friendly Tagging Guidelines: A comprehensive tagging guide has been introduced to assist new users in properly tagging their music collections. Learn more.

New configuration options

  • PID.Album
  • PID.Track
  • Scanner.Enabled
  • Scanner.Schedule
  • Scanner.WatcherWait
  • Scanner.ScanOnStartup
  • Subsonic.AppendSubtitle
  • Subsonic.ArtistParticipations
  • Subsonic.DefaultReportRealPath
  • Subsonic.LegacyClients
  • Tags

Deprecated/Changed configuration options:

  • ScanSchedule was renamed to Scanner.Schedule
  • Scanner.Extractor was removed. ffmpeg extractor is not supported anymore and Navidrome will now always use TagLib for metadata extraction.
  • Scanner.GenreSeparators was removed. Use Tags.genre.Split instead. Check the Custom Tags documentation for more information.
  • Scanner.GroupAlbumReleases was removed. Use PID.Album instead.

Check the Configuration Options documentation for
more information.

Upgrade Instructions

  1. Backup Database: Before upgrading, create a backup of your current Navidrome database.
  2. Stop Navidrome: Ensure Navidrome is not running before proceeding.
  3. Replace Binary: Download and replace the existing Navidrome binary with the latest version (0.55.0).
    If using docker, pull the latest image.
  4. Start Navidrome: Restart Navidrome to automatically migrate the database schema. The upgrade process will trigger a full scan of your library, which may take some time depending on the size of your collection. While this full scan is in progress, please avoid using Navidrome, as the data will be unstable until the process finishes.
    Please don't report any bugs until this full scan is complete (check the logs)

For detailed discussions and comprehensive insights into this update, refer to
our Big Refactor announcement and the original BFR Pull Request

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