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Hackyot

Horror and hacking is my life. Ask me for film recs, I got the obscure shit.

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2023-09-10 03:06:17

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I'm not really into any of the stuff you mentioned, but even I have to admit this is pretty damn good. 👌

2023-09-03 22:59:40

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What I mean to say, is that without the bitcoiners you essentially don't have Nostr. You kinda need a counterculture like that for these things to even have a market at all. Whether or not we can get this thing to be more mainstream is yet to be seen, but I hope we can because an idea like Nostr is more nessicary now then ever.

2023-09-03 22:48:50

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Eh, just the crowd these things attract. Unfortunately, the idea of a protocol that let's anyone post anything, completely anonymously if they wish, just doesn't jive with the mainstream culture rn. We're living in a time where the popular opinion is that social media should be something more akin to TV, where broadcasters control what you see. It's a shame, but I guess it's only natural that people with old school ideas want that old school control to censor things to their liking.

2023-09-03 22:31:29

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And even when they do, it's /r/privacy rolling up with the worst advice known to man. You'd think people who never touch grass would be better at this shit lol

2023-09-03 12:43:20

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Been playing Hotline Miami for the first time recently. Been really diggind the top down stuff recently, will have to try the others. First though, gotta finish my little unofficial trilogy of controversial top down shooters. The "hurting other people" trilogy if you will. Postal, Hotline Miami, and Hatred. Heard Hatred is kinda shit, but I'm usually down for anything edgy tbh lol. Gotta get through the rest of Hotline 1&2 first tho, so at least I get to play some good shit first.

2023-09-03 01:17:28

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The VHS era is even shorter if you consider when the stopped being made outside of South Korea. They held on to the format longer then anyone else, it was basically the only market for tapes by that late in the aughts.
It also could be considered much longer if you count new tapes being made for collectors. Many recent films have been put on VHS by companies like Witter Entertainment.
Dividing things into eras can be weird. Some things that you wouldn't expect to come back just do. Vinyl is another very good example of this.
I agree with your hope that physical media never goes away. Streaming just isn't a viable alternative, eventually all those films will get deleted and the people who "own" them will be left with less then nothing, as they won't get their money back either. "Ownership" of a digital product, when not backed up by anything but empty promises, is a disaster waiting to happen. There needs to be something more there then just a recepit.

2023-09-03 00:39:58

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Need to rewatch now that the unrated version is out, I only ever watched it in the theatre. Good film either way.

2023-09-03 00:07:03

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Normies: "Crypto is such a scam, you don't *really* own anything."
Also normies: "Wow, a Steam sale!"
Seriously though, we need a better solution for the digital distribution of games. Even ignoring the weird standards many of these distributors have, as it stands people are buying something that will inevitably be deleted when the company goes under or they lose the rights. Descentrilized tech could be a solution for both problems.

2023-09-02 11:25:35

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These things are definitely not limited to social media. You don't feel not optimistic about the Fediverse, you feel not optimistic about the human race. Truthfully, neither am I.
This is not to say that you are wrong for leaving, it's just to say when you go, when you go back to the "real world", you might still not like what you see.

2023-09-02 05:10:45

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Everyone seems to think that freedom only ever applies to them. We never learn, and it only ever makes things harder the next time the pendulum swings.

2023-09-02 04:23:38

The new Texas Chainsaw game reminded me to go read Chain Saw Confidential by Gunnar Hansen, the original Leatherface. Highly reccomended to anyone who likes horror, not only as a riveting tale of how one of the genre's best films got created, but also as an exploration of horror and people's reactions to it as a whole.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Chainsaw_confidential_cover.jpg

2023-09-02 01:30:44

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It's almost as if intentionally hobbling social media in the name of turning it into something more akin to television, where broadcasters control what you see, *isn't* a way to let it thrive. Who woulda thought? 🤔

2023-09-02 00:59:14

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Agreed, there's simply nothing to regret. The reality of the modern tech ecosystem is that much of the "conveniences" we're told we need simply aren't convenient. Having a phone that tracks me everywhere I go and listens to everything I say doesn't help me one bit.

2023-05-06 00:30:23

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Don't be evil is the biggest fucking joke at this point. The only good thing Google has done for the world is the AOSP and helping to promote DDG so they looked less shitty.

2023-03-15 05:36:05

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Hello IT, have you tried turning off and back on again?

2023-02-18 08:32:27

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I literally abandoned my first account because of shit like that. The thing that sealed that accounts fate was boosting a scam post when I meant to block the user.

2023-02-16 22:26:52

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/section-230-trial-heres-what-you-need-know

2023-02-15 05:22:38

Seeing all these Japanese news posts is wild, good early sign of mainstream adoption.

2023-02-15 05:20:28

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Have fun, hope you enjoy!

2023-02-15 04:05:45

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Bruh, you have the worst luck or something lol I've been saving my followers ever since you mentioned it yesterday, you got me paranoid lol

2023-02-15 02:05:19

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One can only hope that future adopters of the tech become our people through their adoption of it, that the ideals that founded it continue to be held true by all that use it. The struggle for mainstream acceptance is never easy, but it is certainly helped in our case by the fact that we're helping people escape what has become an increasingly undesirable tech landscape.

2023-02-15 01:36:48

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Fr, I think one of the best predictions I've heard for the future of Nostr is people being tricked into / accidentally posting their private key. It shouldn't be locked behind 12 different yes/no text prompts or anything, but you're definitely right in saying that some discretion needs to be shown.

2023-02-15 00:50:39

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Devs have decided that paid relays are the answer rather then filtering client side. It's sucky, but it's how it do. Nostrgram has client side filtering if you wanna check them out, otherwise just select your relays carefully. Most of the bots are only sending to one or two relays.

2023-02-14 06:08:21

Thinking about setting up a relay in onionland, but wondering how useful such a thing would be, seeing as pretty much all the clients load external content by default. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a relay on the dark net if people are gonna load a bunch of clearnet stuff anyway.

2023-02-14 03:57:40

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Ooh, this is going to be fun. Can't wait till I can use the real world equivalent of Jedi mind tricks to hack something lol

2023-02-14 02:04:02

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It very well might. Infosec / hacking is a pretty corporate scene nowadays, even the ones that do shit that would be considered "blackhat" are ultimately doing so on the instruction of a government meaning to take down rival governments / companies / journalists they don't like. Still, the work is considered "whitehat" or at most "greyhat" because it's for the gov, showing just how useless those terms are. Sad state of affairs, but what it means is that the modern "hacker" isn't likely to deal with much censorship.
That being said, there is still a good few non-corprate hackers out there who face censorship quite regularly and could benefit from a protocol like Nostr. Print Shoot Repeat springs to mind, although some would argue against calling him a hacker. Either way, giving the folks still doing it for the fun of it a place would be a positive development IMO.

2023-02-13 23:26:38

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Can't remember the exact search. I remember finding a random exposed VNC server and then using terms that it sent back to find even more. I'd have to retrace my steps, give me a sec.

2023-02-13 22:52:10

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No, just normal searching. Shodan is great though, well worth the subscription. The most interesting thing I found with Shodan in Osaka wasn't a camera. It was an industrial control system of some sort, fully exposed to the internet without a password. I won't link it for obvious reasons, but it should still be there if you look for it. There are also a bunch of unprotected VNC servers that log you in as a user on an Ubuntu command line.

2023-02-13 11:38:50

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The restaurant on the third floor on the right is great BTW. It's just a chain, but the view is good and the Okonomiyaki is pretty great.

2023-02-13 10:42:04

Got nothing else to post about this fine night, so I might as well share a cool webcam I found. Always gotta love finding interesting webcams online, it's been a hobby of mine for awhile. This is Dotonbori in Osaka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5yUUNaJSA

2023-02-12 09:13:14

Nostr, I just finished cleaning my VCR. Pick which film I'm watching:
- Ju-On The Curse
- IKWYDLS
- Scream
- Unbreakable
- Wait Until Dark

2023-02-11 23:08:17

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Hell yeah, Outrun! Love that game.

2023-02-11 03:24:44

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Ah dang, looks like it's dead.

2023-02-10 22:11:21

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Work, then maybe a horror film. Gotta check what's in theatres, I'll pick from the backlogbif there's nothing cool.

2023-02-10 18:41:39

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Np, those two films pair really well together. It's what Laura was filming in the room. Snowden actually recreates some moments shown in Citizenfour like the phone ringing, so it's kinda fun to watch them back to back.

2023-02-10 18:35:01

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Good film, although I prefer Citizenfour if I'm gonna watch a film about those events. If you haven't watched it, you should.

2023-02-10 18:23:51

Apparently the Fediverse just had a freakout about having a network wide search function 🙄
This is why I can't get into Mastodon man, it's all just boring independent instances that panic at the prospect of interacting with others and unfederate at the drop of a dime whenever they feel vaguely challenged. It's just lame and boring.

2023-02-10 16:57:31

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Do a pesto pizza to knock out both cravings in one go.

2023-02-10 04:41:53

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Yet another case of of the old world trying to treat social media like it's traditional media. What they can't control, they'll attempt to censor. I have no specific issue with the Turkish gov, as I am not Turkish, but this old world form of control is dying and they *will* fail. In all countrys, not just Turkey. We finally have the tools, and the culture, that will bring about their end. Long live Nostr and long live the internet.

2023-02-08 01:51:59

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I mean, shit like recaptcha will literally tell you that you "failed" everytime if Google can't extract enough data from you (ie. you're using Tor, hiding browser info, etc) so it could be option C: Too based for the internet lol

2023-02-07 11:32:14

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Honestly, the paid relays kinda serve the same purpose as private trackers in torrenting: good if you're really into it, but unnecessary generally. Spam is a bitch rn, but unlikely to be an issue in the long term if front-end devs figure out how to filter duplicate posts client-side.

2023-02-07 09:33:36

🍿 Tonights Film Recommendation 🍿
🎥 Tomie (1998) & Tomie Replay (2000) 🎥
With the anime adaptation of some of these stories having recently been released, there's no better time to experience the live action versions of these Junji Ito classics.
The films can be found here:
Tomie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsWhPEC9-UA
Tomie Replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpLHdKLNKMI
Enjoy!

2023-02-06 02:57:48

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Fr, I know people are hyped about the tech but if we want to make this "Better Twitter" we gotta use it like normal social media... well mostly normal anyway, not having censorship will definitely change the character a bit.

2023-02-05 21:56:42

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Kinda seems like half psychotherapy, half spiritual philosophy. A bit too like a religion for my tastes, I'm a bit of a nihilist when it comes to the meaning of life. If life has no meaning, it's up to us to fill that void with whatever we want, ya know? All that said, if it helps someone sleep at night, I got no huge issue with it.

2023-02-05 08:34:11

Funny how modern tech companies have sold us convenience while making our lives more complicated. I just set up a VCR in under 2 minutes while drunk off my ass and am currently watching decades old TV. If I had been setting up an IoT device, this feat would have required an internet connection, an account with the manufacturer's web service, a credit card, another account with the streaming service I wished to view, and a lot of patience. That's not to say that everything old is better, just that I feel we've very much been ripped off by modern tech. :/

2023-02-05 00:54:50

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Yeah, it's pretty hellish to deal with. Seems like comthing that might be able to be solved client-end though, nostrgram already has some spam prevention features on there.

2023-02-04 16:18:53

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I think it can regain some of its lost relevancy if we can somehow push for retailers to start accepting it. Otherwise, yeah it's kinda a meme at this point. You've got the crypto-bros who will love it no matter what, but there's really nothing to spend it on. As a big fan of cypherpunk thinking though, I have to hold out hope that we'll someday get to a place where it's in common use.

2023-02-04 02:13:50

The worst thing to happen to social media is the attempt to make it more like traditional media via "fact checking" and censorship meant to appease advertisers and governments. It's like inventing the car just to have it dragged along by a horse anyway.

2023-02-02 12:21:40

We take for granted how hard fought a right it was for us to be able to record our televisions. There was significant lobbying by the television and film industry to make illegal the use of VHS tapes. The industry seeked control over the consumption of media for their own gain. I feel like for all our technological progress, we're back in the bad old days, where corporations control what, when, and how you can watch the content you paid for.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Captain_Midnight_HBO.jpg

2023-02-02 09:57:05

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Totally, I think Reddit is one of the most blatant examples of how community over moderation can breed an environment of independent echo chambers. What made Mastodon worse then even reddit I feel is that when one instance unfederated from another, no one from either could interact with the other anymore. It's like if reddit mods were given permission to control what you could and couldn't see on the site, banning you from communities that they weren't even a part of. Like, imagine you wanted to browse r/dankmemes but doing so banned you from accessing r/memes because the mods of dankmemes didn't like them. Why do the mods of one get to desice what you do and don't see? It made finding good instances hell becuae you had to constantly consider what you would and wouldn't have access to. And at that point, is it even solving any problems?

2023-02-02 08:15:38

I feel like Mastodon was cooler in theory, but this is cooler in practice. In theory Mastodon allowed users to curate the social media experience to their liking but the reality was admins ran the whole thing. Ultimately communities fractured and fractured until they were just silent echo chambers, defeating the purpose of federation in the first place. It just ended up being boring, even if you chose free-speech supporting instances. What's the point of free speech if you're only talking to yourself? Here, users hold the power, not the admins.

2023-02-02 06:24:41

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Welcome