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Clean it up hiro….
Former infosec worker here, my 2 cents on this:
>4chan was running on an EXTREMELY OLD version of php so it was vulnerable as fuck
>hacker found vulnerability back on 2021 and played the long game so they could take down the entire site
>alongside admin info, entire source code leaked
>site used deprecated connections to MySQL server, insecure as shit
>site had a file with whitelisted countries that could post freely while others needed to wait for 900 SECONDS TO GET THE CAPTCHA.
>whole code base needs to be updated in order to get the server running up again, which could take a long long time, and could be deemed not worthy by Hiro, so this may actually be the end of 4chan
Remember kids, update and patch vulnerabilities if you don't want to get nuked out of the face of the earth by the hacker known as 4chan
FIFTEEN MINUTE CAPTCHA WALL to keep out whole countries from the website??
I drew Finn because he makes all things better
I finally drew an individual piece of Inkeri! This was all done on stream ^^ I wanna use a microphone in the future.
The idea for the picture frame and sun catcher were from a consultant. :P
no no, I know what you're thinking but it's actually amazingly great, keep watching.
Oh wow did not see that coming
The kind of public service announcements humans SHOULD be watching.
Happy disability pride month
Submerged Roman Villa Emerges in Lake Fusaro
The remains of a Roman village complex have started to emerge from the waters of Lake Fusaro due to a process of geological uplift known as bradysism.
Lake Fusaro is located in the comune of Bacoli in the Italian province of Naples. The lake and surrounding area are situated in the Phlegraean Fields, an active and volatile volcanic region of bradyseismic activity.
Bradyseism refers to the slow rise (positive bradyseism) or fall (negative bradyseism) of a section of the Earth’s surface, driven by the movement of magma or hydrothermal fluids beneath the ground.
The Phlegraean Fields sits within a collapsed caldera, namely a volcanic area formed by several volcanic edifices, which includes the Solfatara volcano, well known for its fumaroles (vents from which hot volcanic gases and vapours are emitted).
Adjacent to the lake are the partially submerged remains of the Roman town of Baiae, a popular resort in antiquity that gained a reputation for a “hedonistic lifestyle”. According to Sextus Propertius, a poet of the Augustan age during the 1st century BC, Baiae was a “vortex of luxury” and a “harbour of vice”.
On the opposite side of the Gulf of Naples are the remains of Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, both major population centuries in antiquity that were buried under thick layers of ash and pumice during the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
According to a study by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the area of Lake Fusaro has been rising since 2005, having rised in elevation by approximately 138 centimetres, 20 centimetres of which were recorded in 2024 alone.
This rapid acceleration has caused the seabed to rise and the shoreline to retreat, causing damage and difficult access to some ports and marinas along the coast.
An unexpected result of the bradyseismic activity is the emergence of a Roman villa visible in aerial photography. Josi Gerardo Della Ragione, the Mayor of Bacoli, explained that the villa likely had thermal baths, which will now be studied by the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Naples.
I prefer to have a source for these article but after searching for it I understand why the OP copied to text. The website is riddled with ads I had to hide to make it readable. The screenshots are from The Jerusalem Post which presumably used the original Italian article (paywalled) for its information and is more or less the above article.
bugs is…. shrimp????
I love when there's characters that are pair bonded and you know that wherever one of them is the other is also gonna be there.
Not necessarily romantic (either in the text or through a shipping lense). Yeah this is my guy don't split us up. No particular reason.
EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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for context, scientists have know about these mfs for like a HUNDRED YEARS but only now have they actually seen one ALIVE !!
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More details from Wikipedia because it’s interesting and I did think it looked small. These squids can get 14m long and 600+kg heavy- Apparently they’re the largest invertebrates on Earth
ALTNgl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.
in which I watch other hobbies learn about the problem of getting consistent dye lots
what you have to understand is lamy dark lilac (2016, the real lamy dark lilac) still gets sold for hundreds of dollars per bottle by resellers when it originally sold for $10. and people bought it because they loved that limited edition ink so much. LDL is one of the grail inks for fountain pen ink collectors, and one of the most common reasons to mix fountain pen ink is to try to imitate it.
but the dyes used in the original lamy dark lilac are no longer even available, and it took several lamy representatives promising it was the exact same ink before anyone told the truth. and remember: THE DYES WERE NEVER AVAILABLE FROM THE START OF PRODUCTION. this is not a matter of inconsistency between batches, lamy knew that the ink would have to be completely different and they called it dark lilac anyway while several of their representatives communicated that it was the exact same ink.
people were fighting and fighting and fighting because it was obviously a different formula, it looked different, but lamy said it was the same, so the person doing the swab of the color must have been wrong, because lamy would never lie. and then when lamy admitted it was a completely different ink, there was fighting about whether or not it is wrong to call a product a re-release of the something while it is completely different. some lamy fans refuse to admit lamy can ever do anything wrong, when they do a ton of shit wrong.
there was no reason to call this ink a re-release of dark lilac other than as a cash grab for any sucker who had the gall to believe that when lamy calls something a re-release of one of the most beloved fountain pen inks of all time, that it would actually be the same ink.
I personally think that if you claim to be re-releasing one of the most famous inks in the world, it should actually be the same ink, or name it something different. lamy deep lilac. lamy new lilac. lamy green lilac because of the green sheen instead of the gold sheen lamy dark lilac became famous for. fucking, anything else
lamy is a piece of work, their quality control has been shit for years, and they make a ton of money by enshittifying their products for people who miss when they were less trash.
damn good thing the entire company just got bought out by mitsubishi pencil company.
Ok, but y'all.
On *high quality* paper? The color isn't even CLOSE to the original. Like, the photo that the WSJ is using doesn't even show it off at its best. If you look at a pen retailer's review, like Goulet Pens, here, there's a really good set of photos on different paper types (because with fountain pens that makes a heck of a difference, trust me).
To pull one image from the review I linked:
ALTLike. Can you look at that and tell me they look even CLOSE to each other? (For folk not into fountain pens, Tomoe River paper - such as this - is considered the best paper you can use)
So yeah. There's RAGE at Lamy for daring to do this to us, even though it's a function of the original pigments no longer being available.
TIL that there is such a thing as "beloved fountain pen inks" and I don't know why I'm even surprised. I am, in addition, delighted.
I'm surprised this thread only touched on dye lot drama within the fountain pen community. There's a whole 'nother rabbit hole to dive into, when you consider how vintage and vintage-adjacent hobbies draw in fashy people. See: Noodlers.