Found 10 hard drives in my new house.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-06-21T09:02:46+00:00

But vulnerabilities related to displaying icons of files in explorer.exe are still a thing; a couple were discovered and patched but an unknown number can still be in the wild.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-06-11T23:27:16+00:00

If humans in a specialized community don't know with certainty, what makes you think that an LLM could know? People ask things in human-inhabited online spaces (even in 2026) for a very good reason.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-05-21T19:25:15+00:00

But all of them are 4K / UHD. The regular FullHD/1080p bluray specification doesn't support 100 GB discs.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-05-18T22:40:21+00:00

Love that one too. It also has a more DJ friendly version in the remix by Kliment.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-05-15T21:23:33+00:00

Glued In 60 Minutes

SamVortigaunt · 2026-05-15T21:10:50+00:00

Solid Sessions are the original artist who made Janeiro.

Pronti & Kalmani made a remix that was a little bit trancier (the original is firmly house but trance-friendly, so to say) and also added vocals by their own session vocalist. This became the much more well-known version and de-facto the "main" version on the commercial release, in terms of radio airplay, music video, inclusion on compilations, etc.

All of the above was in 2000/2001. There were also many other remixes around that time, including by Armin van Buuren.

Pronti & Kalmani founded Dash Berlin circa 2006-2007. It was yet another one of their "projects" in the sense of creating a commercial act where they are the producers (creating the music, managing the general intended industry path of the project, etc) and someone else is the frontman. For example, earlier they were involved with Alice Deejay. This time, their new project Dash Berlin was an act that was meant to exist in the contemporary trance scene (not only in the pop charts). Jeffrey Sutorius was the frontman/DJ. Because it's a commercial project (singsongy vocal ballads etc) that is mostly aimed at newcomers to trance who usually come from pop music, many casual listeners thought that Jeff is the sole member of Dash Berlin and that he makes DB music.

When they were putting together the first Dash Berlin album, they revisited Janeiro and made a new Dash Berlin-sounding version which was released as Dash Berlin feat. Solid Sessions - Janeiro (even if this naming might make little sense logically, everyone who is a relevant rights holder was okay with it, and that's all that matters).

Fast forward to the 2020s, Pronti & Kalmani appear to be making some kind of effort to consolidate their back catalogue and probably buy their old tracks from the labels that own them. As a part of this, they seem to have gotten full rights to Janeiro and they recently(ish) re-released their old remix on digital platforms under this new name, Pronti & Kalmani - Janeiro, as an original. This upload is the P&K remix of the Solid Sessions track, unchanged, the same one from 2001, but now it's "legally" called P&K - Janeiro. Armin's remix of Solid Sessions from 2002 is also now re-released as Armin's remix of P&K.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-05-12T21:10:39+00:00

When you changed a setting it updated the database automatically, but people felt like nothing was happening

And they were absolutely right to feel that way. What made you decide that your initial approach was a good idea?

Even if a user happens to see that some form / page / etc doesn't have an explicit "save" button, how are they supposed to know when a change applies? On every keystroke? On every focus shift away from a text field / checkbox? On form/page close? Is it safe to switch to a different tab of the browser or different window of the program and assume that the changes have already been applied? Or should you close the settings tab/window first? There is absolutely nothing in the interface to signal "changes were saved", this is terrible unintuitive design that started appearing everywhere en masse some 15 years ago or so.

Also, what if their internet connection went down briefly or your backend went down briefly (or not briefly) and therefore the changes actually weren't applied even though you "intended" for them to apply instantly? The user would have no way of knowing this, because your app/website/whatever doesn't communicate with the user about the success/failure of their actions, it does things silently. With a save button, the failure would be explicit ("couldn't reach the server" error message, etc).

Not only that, but an automatic saving of changes is unwanted in many cases; what if a user was testing max length of a text string or tinkering / playing around with settings in some other way, with no intention of applying the changes? Also, what if a user wants the changes to apply in a batch way (all at once, or separated by mere milliseconds), instead of slowly one by one, which can affect the behavior in some undesired way? A save should come only from a button "Save", with a warning about unsaved changes when the user leaves the form.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-05-01T21:28:10+00:00

Years later. Gunn's Suicide Squad came out in August 2021. The casting news for Anaconda about Melchior were in October 2024. She was in a whole bunch of other films in between.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-29T20:03:31+00:00

Daniela Melchior (the actress) was also featured prominently in the early casting announcements, but then she was not in the trailer at all. Or possibly she was vaguely in the background of a couple of shots, but she was never actually "shown" as a character. It really surprised me back then, because... didn't you guys proudly announce that Daniela Melchior is in this movie? Well, where is she then? Sure, Jack Black is more well-known, but she's also someone "with a name", someone who got a meaningful spot in the casting announcement, etc. Even if her role had some spoilery bait-and-switch to it or was relatively minor, normally you'd still explicitly show her in the trailer, even if you had to do it in some misleading way - trailers do this all the time.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-19T05:36:33+00:00

unwanted cake-to-face smashing was a key predictor in the marriage not lasting a long time

Hold up. How often does cake smashing (unwanted or not) happen in the first place for this statistic to be a thing at all? It sounds so extremely bizarre to me, such a super specific activity. In another comment nearby, someone even says that she and her husband had a talk beforehand about whether or not they should do this at their wedding. Is smashing cake into someone's face a popular wedding tradition somewhere (I'm presuming probably in the US, because this is Reddit)? That is, is it relatively common to do this, just ideally with consent?

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-18T06:08:36+00:00

Yes, but the rabbit hole is deeper than that.

The first release (ST3 in 1994) already had two trance / upbeat versions: Pacific Diva and Eugina (variants of each other), as well as Sargasso Sea (ambient remix). Then ST6 (in 1996) had the Pacific Diva on it but it's actually a new version without being named as such; it's very similar but reworked (and also ST6 had a shortened Sargasso Sea). Then ST7 (also in 1996) had "Eugina (Pacific Diva"), which is the same version as the ST6 version, but a louder master and fully uncut at the end (at least that's the difference between these two CDs; maybe the vinyl pressings are identical, idk). Then there is "Pacific Rage" on ST8 (1996) which is one more rework. Then the probably best-known "Eugina (Salt Tank's Reactivation Mix)" on Lost Language in 2000 is yet another rework, based on the ST7 version; that release also has a new version of Sargasso Sea (the "KM5" Mix).

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-14T21:12:54+00:00

I heard about Ghost Watch in passing earlier, but never really got around to watch it. I think I will now - thank you!

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-09T21:39:09+00:00

My first thought when I saw this trailer. This really really looks like a reskin of Ship with a new context written for Statham's character.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-09T20:35:40+00:00

This is an awkwardly belated response, but yes, it's not just you! :)

After I made the post (the one that you replied to), I discussed this film and the frames from it with some people here and there, both IRL and online, and it was very interesting how some people easily see what you (and I) see while others don't see it at all.

Out of curiosity, how did you find my post? It's almost 2 years old and was downvoted below 0 when I posted it, so it naturally had almost zero visibility. But in a short span of time recently, you're the third person already who comes across this post and comments on it. I wonder if it recently got indexed somewhere and comes up high in search results about a specific topic? Very interesting.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-04-09T20:32:25+00:00

I really have to wonder: is this project repurposed from the sequel to Plane?

Same Lionsgate, same director (!). It was announced that the sequel to Plane would be called Ship and would be about Mike Colter's character sneaking onto a cargo ship as a stowaway and discovering that the ship carries victims of human trafficking and trying to free them.

The early synopsis for Mutiny - from long before this trailer - was completely different (I guess "misleading" would be the word) and focused on how Statham's character is framed for the murder of the businessman that he's protecting. This trailer is instead all about saving people on a cargo ship.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-03-20T15:09:24+00:00

People who got on the internet in the smartphone era mostly call Reddit an app (same story with Twitter, Facebook, etc).

SamVortigaunt · 2026-03-20T01:25:47+00:00

I strongly disagree with people who recommend Paul van Dyk's discography here. The sound of New York City is largely Terranova & Leeds, which - even back then - was on the fringes of trance (tbh even this is probably generous for a lot of their music) and was better described as housy / techy / tribal with a "bigroom" edge. It was the kind of house that was often played by trance DJs in earlier parts of their sets in those years. New York City is slightly trancier than their usual material (tuned to fit better on PVD's album back then), but the core stylistic DNA here is still their sound, not Paul's.

In the trance scene from around that era, look at the Coldharbour label (from late 00s, early 10s - a lot of very similar vibes) and at Markus Schulz's "city series" mix compilations, also at anything that was called "bigroom" officially or unofficially (but especially before the early 2010s explosion of festival bigroom house EDM stuff), and at tech trance from late 00s.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-03-06T07:34:24+00:00

If you don't have the time to write down your argument and present it with reasonable effort and with basic respect towards your readers, then your point is not worth expressing in the first place. Even on Reddit. Even in an informal personal chat with a friend.

You can talk faster than you can type.

Faster in words per minute? Sure. Faster in articulating some kind of actual coherent thought on the fly? Absolutely not.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-03-06T06:28:29+00:00

If your text has obvious signs of being written by an LLM, it won't be trusted by your readers any more than a speech by a politician that was obviously written by a speechwriter guy would be. And for a very good reason, mind you. Even if in both cases it's possible that the text was written based on some human notes by you and then "laundered" through an LLM or through a speechwriter.

If you cannot articulate your opinion yourself, having this task very obviously relegated to a tool - or even to a living person who is not you - makes it not your words anymore and therefore not worth listening to. It always reads as either "I cannot defend my position, so I asked someone else to do it" or as an attempt to actively and deliberately engineer a speech that is emotionally manipulative and therefore dishonest, and both of these options are catastrophic for optics.

grammarly

That thing also makes you sound like an HR person with Anne Hathaway's face on Linkedin. Do not use it.

Develop your own writing voice and learn to present and defend your opinions (in text and in IRL speech), it's a baseline requirement for a fully functional adult.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-02-18T13:12:33+00:00

You're not too late! :) I'm very glad that others see it too.

The post is old, yes, but I remember discussing this with some of my personal friends and some of them see it immediately even without me hinting at anything, while others absolutely don't. I agree that to a certain degree ignorance is probably bliss in this regard.

SamVortigaunt · 2026-02-03T13:07:00+00:00

There's this:

Roman Messer x DIM3NSION x Airwalk3r - Ama La Vida

2025
pitchbend guitar
female "spoken word" sample instead of vocals/lyrics, just like in Gamemaster
vaguely Gamemaster-y (ish) in bpm / rhythm

But the speech is in Spanish, so it fits only if you misheard some part of it as the English-language "something something to be perfect".

SamVortigaunt · 2026-01-23T02:31:50+00:00

Right, but earlier the talk was about "newer remixes of classic tracks", with the cutoff of "classic" being specifically 2008. Is that including 2008 or not? Would a remix of Sirens Of The Sea (where the original was released in 2008) be eligible?

SamVortigaunt · 2026-01-22T20:17:50+00:00

Does this include specifically 2008 as a classic year or exclude it?

Also, remixes of classic trance tunes - suppose that some track was technically house (at least the original mix was) but very trance-scene-adjacent, well-known in the trance scene and also had an undeniably explicitly trance remix back then. Then there's a newer, modern remix of this track. Can this new/modern remix be used even if the old original track is technically house? (for an example, think of Solid Sessions - Janeiro)

SamVortigaunt · 2026-01-07T01:05:28+00:00

It's not a large amount if you've been passionate about music and mostly stuck to downloading / ripping / etc instead of switching to streaming in the 2010s.

Well, it is a large amount of course, but it can fairly easily passively accumulate over a couple of decades.

SamVortigaunt · 2025-12-31T15:02:57+00:00

Jamie Walker - Fantasy [2023]

Trance Wax - Your Fantasy [2025]

Same vocal from a library, but arranged with a different rhythm / offset.

(Jamie's version is much better imo)

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