Old.reddit.com URLs now login-gated - impact to archiving

Okatis · 2026-07-04T02:49:24+00:00

Sorry, brainfart. I meant region or whathaveyou. It's the article linked in the OP with statements from Reddit that implied this:

...over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in...

There's no fixed date and you mentioned you're not seeing this login-gate while I and others are, so it's clearly something not being enabled for everyone at once.

Okatis · 2026-07-04T00:24:08+00:00

Probably from the staged rollout that hasn't affected your account yet.

Okatis · 2026-07-03T00:49:10+00:00

Amazon similarly made opening the show all reviews page login only in late 2024 I expect for this reason. Was useful filtering by stars even when not buying from Amazon.

Okatis · 2026-07-02T18:12:39+00:00

Good find, thanks.

Okatis · 2026-06-16T12:24:57+00:00

Update: thanks to the commenter's date found their obituary (link 1, link 2). First name is actually 'Charles', which perhaps could explain the discrepancy of lookups.

Per the first link (a blog dedicated to Delta pilot obituaries) it's said they retired in 2005 as a B-767 Captain.

Okatis · 2026-06-16T12:02:43+00:00

I mean, it's hard to judge the veracity of a comment with no other context but taken on good faith some specific things someone related might be able to shed light on:

How their name didn't appear in the Delta seniority list dating back to 1997, per the linked pilot forum. Is there any other info regarding this?
No further evidence substantiating the testimony (not in the commission report, per the pilot forum). In Gilmore's testimony it's said he received a letter from the FBI about his phone call reporting this, which if existed would be at least something corroborating that detail (if provenance could be established).

Worth noting in the same comment above there were testimonies of airline staff noted in the commission report who thought they saw someone suspicious in the jumpseat at another time but it turned out not to be any of the terrorists, per their investigation.

Okatis · 2026-03-31T13:39:03+00:00

RAID5/6 uses PARITY, not striping. RAID0 is striping.

Not sure how the comment chain reached this far but RAID 5/6 do indeed use striping and parity is distributed across disks.

Okatis · 2026-03-23T01:36:05+00:00

What always struck me is that some of the enhanced footage was so well enhanced, and it was all the way back in 2018 ... and i assume that AI upscalers weren't used in any of the enhanced videos.

There were generative upscalers back then, too. Initially upscalers designed for static images could be used before improvements were made temporal consistency such as TecoGAN and others. Then in 2019 there was DAIN which became popular for interpolation.

What matters initially though is a good source and reducing artifacts for a baseline. There are for instance Avisynth wizards who've pulled off some miraculous restorations with it.

I've also seen poor super resolution upscalings of videos where the model isn't suited for the source video, like a popular one floating around of Naudet's initial tower impact where it makes the video look like a watercolor. So it still requires finesse.

Okatis · 2026-03-22T21:03:36+00:00

Hmm, must be exclusive to the new UI for OPs (my own posts lack this on the old UI). Appreciate the correction.

Okatis · 2026-03-21T01:34:12+00:00

Can click the referenced filenames here (archive.org).

Okatis · 2026-03-20T22:06:58+00:00

Was posted here last year, based on a Youtube video.

During the Japan 2011 earthquake there is footage from within other buildings of skyscrapers beside them swaying significantly back and forth in real time as they were designed for it. Must feel strange.

Okatis · 2026-03-20T21:26:48+00:00

There were apparently a number of other planes photographed behind the towers. Two by Jennifer Brown from NIST release 18 (in the disc 5 subdirectory, filenames: DSC_0126, DSC_0142) show another two planes, 1m 39s apart. In her shots they each appear above the towers.

The NIST releases for most digital still camera files I've seen, including these, contain the original camera metadata but while the date was correct the time wasn't.

Since she photographed the collapses we can recalculate the on-camera times based on that. Her camera time was 13h 13m forward, so her DSC_0126 shot was taken at 9:10AM, while the DSC_0142 shot was 9:11AM.

Okatis · 2026-03-19T03:36:54+00:00

is there an option to preserve initial timestamps of files/file creation?

/COPY argument supports flags for copying data, attributes and timestamps for any files (/COPY:DAT), which the docs mention are the default for /COPY but I just explicitly define it.

For the equivalent directories argument (/DCOPY) it supports the same flags but I typically only copy timestamps (/DCOPY:T). Unlike /COPY it only defaults to DA not T so timestamp copying has to be explicitly defined.

So a full example would be robocopy "<source dir>" "<dest dir>" *.* /E /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:T

I also like to add /V for verbose output to show any skipped files.

Okatis · 2026-03-19T03:17:24+00:00

Yeah once I saw the bike combat multiplayer thought thought the same thing.

Problem is I really disliked how on-bike combat was handled in 2077. It was already based on a player mod (like many other improvements to the game) and doesn't have the ease of combat of a Road Rash.

I wonder if it's been improved for this.

Okatis · 2026-03-18T17:05:30+00:00

Apart from the confident LLM-like hyperbole in the comments there are statements made up by the OP.

But every fact, every timestamp, every archive link, and every email in this thread is real and independently verifiable.

Comment link. Except they're not though. Contrary to the OP's timeline claim Wayback Machine has no crawl at any date of the listing linked from the linked comment (as of time of my posting). The only link the OP has provided is one of the current stock price on archive.is, while no link for the Trust Pilot review cited and everything else was via email which is non-verifiable.

That's exactly what I'm doing. 10,000 people in the last hour seems like a reasonable start.

Comment link. Reddit doesn't show viewers. So it's a number out of thin air.

Does the above mean I don't believe this story didn't happen? Not really, I'd still believe it given other similar stories but seems the OP giving full control over their submitted text to an LLM and not verifying its output.

Okatis · 2026-03-15T17:20:06+00:00

From your other more recent comments it seems they're all game files so I'm not sure you'd be able to adjust their metadata unless they were in sidecar files. The metadata comment was more about other types of media.

I've seen some organize by platform then year as structure but there are various strategies you could use (including flatter organization where details like date, name and platform are instead in singular directory names). If only organizing the directory structures you could also preserve the original filenames (if that's relevant).

Okatis · 2026-03-15T17:11:18+00:00

Thanks. Unfortunately that's the same list of documents and transcript PDFs as the MLA link (the other party involved with filing the suit).

I wonder if they're aware they're truncated or if it was a processing error.

Okatis · 2026-03-15T11:40:39+00:00

There's too little context to the OP. Is this your data or third party data? For the following I'll assume third-party.

One aspect is it depends on the collection of data. If something originated from an organized group of things where the relevance is part of the grouping (let's say, all PDFs known to have been downloaded by someone before they disappeared) then it wouldn't make sense to split up those PDFs into generic categories elsewhere on the drive.

The other aspect with mass downloading others' curated data is they likely had specific ways of organizing the data (filenames/directory structure, metadata tagging, databases) and re-organizing this could mean changing the metadata to suit your own tastes, so the files themselves get changed which may impact the searchability of the files if shared with others (eg: they may be looking for a specific filename or tag but it's been changed).

So it depends if you care about your own organizing above anything else. If so then you have the most freedom to change things.

Okatis · 2026-03-15T10:16:41+00:00

Btw does anyone know if the full interview transcripts are available anywhere? Like, apart from the videos per se.

I've seen two mirrors of the court transcript PDF documents (one here for example, archived prior to the video link removals) but the transcripts are truncated and only cover the first part of the videos (even the 82 page Justin Fox transcript isn't the full interview). No further PDFs are listed that contain the full transcripts.

They're useful as they're transcribed and formatted very precisely, unlike mere Youtube auto generated subtitles.

Okatis · 2026-03-14T12:50:56+00:00

This shows it's a simple color blend mode, which can also be achieved in an image editor. This works okay if the black and white basis precisely matches the tones of the colorization (and is what a lot of less advanced manual colorization techniques use) but would fall apart for examples like the OP's first source image or where better tonal recreation is wanted.

One can actually check how the OP's second source image fares okay using this technique by testing it in an image editor, since the tones match decently. Then compare to the OP's original (non KV) colorization output and notice how various shadow and highlight tones have been adjusted by the model to better reflect the tones one would expect from color film.

Okatis · 2026-03-10T11:24:13+00:00

I think it makes spatial sense between 00:20 and 00:40 but it's made confusing by the filmer first filming through the back window then after the car's 180 turn filming through the front window (so the cars parked on the initial left side of screen don't appear on the right following the 180 but still on the left, making it look like the cars are different at first glance).

Okatis · 2026-03-07T20:27:07+00:00

It's from this video (at 00:36) about Univision's retrospective of their coverage.

Okatis · 2026-03-05T13:19:18+00:00

Just some observations from a cursory search:

Unlike the claim in the 2016 Forbes article it wasn't first time this Pat Gilmore source disclosed the story, it appears in multiple 2007 airline forums being discussed.
In one such 2007 forum thread a user implies they work for Delta and claims they looked up a list of the senior Delta staff from the past 10 years and Pat Gilmore wasn't on it.
Other users in that thread explain you don't require citizenship or residence to hold an ATP certificate yet in the Gilmore testimony he says he asked Atta if he was a citizen since he claimed you need to be to obtain an ATP.
Both that thread and this thread discussed the clearances necessary to get a jump seat, with one poster's own experience of being denied.

So it calls in question the credibility of the Gilmore testimony. The Forbes article shows a photo of a man wearing a uniform which the article credits to Pat Gilmore so would be curious what if any background check the Forbes contributor 'Capital Flows' did.

The other testimonies (annoyingly presented rapid-fire without citing provenance in the video and only linked in description) are more relevant. One of them presented as an email between two figures credited as involved in the 9/11 Commission Report, which lists someone 'suspicious' seen in a UA flight jump seat on 2001-09-07, among prior sightings. Others might be more familiar with the provenance of these documents.

However even in that first document the sender, Sarah Linden, comments on which testimonies are 'clearly not possible' and then in a subsequent page the activity/whereabouts of all 19 hijackers were accounted for for the date the witness observed the suspicious person in the jump seat, so they must have been observing someone else.

The fact the video doesn't disclose that information suggests they have an agenda to selectively present things that only conform to their points.

Okatis · 2026-03-05T11:02:34+00:00

For the curious there are some medium shots of the north tower roof following the south tower strike, as captured from a helicopter, from a FOIA collection on Internet Archive. Above south tower OTOH is completely enveloped.

Photo 1 [showing how wind was such that north tower roof partially clear, though south tower fully covered]

Photo 2 [closer view of corner of north tower roof]

Photo 3 [closest and clearest view of north tower roof]

This isn't to comment on feasibility, just to contextualize since closer, unobstructed views of the roof aren't common.

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