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I used Compuserve only a few times, on someone else’s computer. So I’m not terribly familiar with it. However, it looks like they provided a Web interface to them until they shut down the forums at the end of October 2017.

Archive.org has snapshots of that Web interface.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170920031241/http://member.compuserve.com/forum_center/

They do appear to be readable from that point. You’ll need to wait for a few reloads after clicking on a forum, as there are some HTTP 302 redirects, but it eventually comes up.

I don’t know how long Compuserve retains messages on a forum — if you saw this in, say, the 1990s, and they expired prior to the Web interface and archive.org archiving them, they may not be on archive.org.

But if you can remember where they were, that might get you there. Good luck!

Hah! Glad to hear that that’s another white whale harpooned, then!

I assumed that if you could check it, it’d either have the song or not.

Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn’t find it anywhere online. Back around 2023 — 32 years later — after repeated, sporadic hunts — I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to [email protected]:

https://lemmy.world/post/18353742

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png

I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.

EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.

Probably not it — I’m about 30 years out of date on D&D — but it does sound overpowered and it is associated with Rillifane:

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?448029-Post-Your-Chosen-Templates-Here

It seems that a lot of people come to the FR boards looking for info on Chosen of the various deities. To put it quite simply, the majority of them don’t actually exist. So on the old FR boards, a group of members got together and started making their own homemade Chosen templates.

I have no idea what “the old FR boards” are, but if it was old in 2013, it’s probably getting back towards the time you were looking at.

Could have been taken down due to a copyright complaint if it was using unlicensed commercial music.

Relevant community: [email protected]

I’m not familiar with it, but according to this, the last episode is “The Paradise”.

I assume that this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8K7YCYSic

There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can’t name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven’t, you might give it a shot.

kagis

https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/

https://musikerkennung.com/en/

The teenager was later found “alive and well” on September 26.

“Well” other than the self-inflicted gunshot wound, one imagines.

My impression is that it’s hard to find powerful specs alone on an Android tablet. That seemed counterintuitive to me — I’d think that the extra space would help — but I think what’s going on is that everyone gets a smartphone, and they make that their primary mobile device. Then if they have the funds, they get a tablet, most-often for dedicated movie viewing. The market for that is pretty price-sensitive, so tablets don’t generally cost as much as flagship smartphones. As a result, most tablets tend to have good speakers and a decent display, but unimpressive radios, compute capability, and most other things.

While that’s what people I’ve seen tend to do for convenience — using chest freezers in out of the way places because they already have a combination fridge/freezer in their kitchen, in terms of energy cost of opening the door, it’s the other way around. Opening a chest freezer doesn’t cause as much loss of cold air as a side-opening freezer. The heavier cold air doesn’t spill out the side.

kagis

https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/blog/just-facts-labrats/chest-vs-upright-freezers-which-more-efficient-lab

The way that these freezers open also impacts their energy usage. When the door is opened in an upright freezer, large sums of cold air are let out and heat is let in which draws more energy to re-cool the system. Whereas with a chest freezer, there is less cold air loss when the door is opened, the larger depth of the freezer also helps reduce cold air loss, resulting in less energy being needed to restabilize the cold temperature in the freezer.

If you have room for it in a kitchen, it’d be totally reasonable to use a chest freezer for day-to-day use. I wouldn’t have space for one, myself.

EDIT: To extend the analogy, the upright freezer is more like a small internal solid state drive on a SATA bus that came in a desktop from the OEM — you probably already have one, but it has limited capacity and there is a higher access cost — and the chest freezer is like NVMe.

He has named…the State of Israel… in court documents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_immunity

The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars suits against foreign governments, except in cases where state immunity is waived; in certain admiralty claims; or in claims involving commercial activity, a tort inside the United States involving death, personal injury, or damage to or loss of property (such as a traffic collision), or expropriation of property in violation of international law.

According to the article, he did, but then Trump didn’t release the Epstein files, so now he says that he doesn’t like Trump.

The QAnon shaman would also print a one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion, to pay off the country’s debts.

QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

This is a man with a lot of enthusiasm for $40 trillion.

In the lengthy complaint, Chansley states that he is the “true” American president and that America should only have two laws: the Bill of Rights and the original U.S. Constitution.

In QAnon shaman dude’s defense, if you figure that Trump is in the business of saying outrageous stuff as President to keep people focused on whatever he’s saying rather than actual policy, this guy sounds like he might be better at it.

Yeah, I saw, but it’s an interesting topic.

Is your concern compromise of your data or loss of the server?

My guess is that most burglaries don’t wind up with people trying to make use of the data on computers.

As to loss, I mean, do an off-site backup of stuff that you can’t handle losing and in the unlikely case that it gets stolen, be prepared to replace hardware.

If you just want to keep the hardware out of sight and create a minimal barrier, you can get locking, ventillated racks. I don’t know how cost-effective that is; I’d think that that might cost more than the expected value of the loss from theft. If a computer costs $1000 and you have a 1% chance of it being stolen, you should not spend more than $10 on prevention in terms of reducing cost of hardware loss, even if that method is 100% effective.

Wikipedia: Mantrap (snare)

Mantraps that use deadly force are illegal in the United States, and in notable tort law cases the trespasser has successfully sued the property owner for damages caused by the mantrap. There is also the possibility that such traps could endanger emergency service personnel such as firefighters who must forcefully enter such buildings during emergencies. As noted in the important American court case of Katko v. Briney, “the law has always placed a higher value upon human safety than upon mere rights of property”.[5]

EDIT: I’d add that I don’t know about the “life always takes precedence over property” statement; Texas has pretty permissive use of deadly force in defense of property. However, I don’t think that anywhere in the US permits traps that make use of deadly force.

I don’t know about number one, but a few that I miss.

• freshmeat.net. Announcements of open source software releases and updates.

• newegg.com — computer components retailer — is still around, but it doesn’t hold the spot it once did.

• bash.org. Searchable list of funny, ranked quotes from IRC and similar. There are some archives, like this one.

• A few “hosting” sites that went down with a lot of user-created content. No one thing was amazing, maybe, but it produced a lot of dangling links. Geocities: “At least 38 million pages, most written by users, were displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated.[7] The GeoCities Japan version of the service lasted until March 31, 2019.[8]”. AngelFire. Tripod. Apparently the latter two are still around in some limited form.

• Kaleidoscope.net, a site featuring themes for the eponymous classic MacOS themeing software package. They did a good job of generating theme previews. Fun to browse through.

There are a few people running telnet-connected BBSes on the Internet.

kagis

Ah, someone has a list.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

The Telnet BBS Guide focuses Bulletin Board Systems – the original Social Network, serving the BBS community for over 27 years! We list both Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems all over the world. We currently list 976 BBS and related systems with brief and detailed descriptions and a downloadable text-version listing suitable for listing on your BBS or for as a download for others to view and use.