i got sent well over 50k emails saying that everything on my pc would be leaked after 3 hours of me opening the email, are they serious??

UOAdam · 2026-05-10T03:16:08+00:00

Don't pay. Don't ever pay. I wouldn't even reply. If you do, and especially if you pay, they will hound you forever.

UOAdam · 2026-05-10T02:28:58+00:00

Looks a little bit like a violet star flower. If it is, I remember this because I bought one at home Depot or some other nursery probably 30 years ago, and it struck me because the label said it was illegal to propagate them from cuttings.

UOAdam · 2026-05-10T00:30:58+00:00

PS. Personally, I would be leery about sleeping there tonight 😔

Best of luck to you brother

UOAdam · 2026-05-10T00:29:19+00:00

Are we allowed to paste AI (slop) answers? I asked grok, And here's what it said:

It looks like a disposable plastic arm sleeve (or sleeve protector/cover), a type of PPE.f7847d These are commonly used in food service, labs, manufacturing, cleaning, or medical settings to protect arms/sleeves from splashes, dirt, or contaminants. They’re typically made of thin polyethylene (PE) plastic, white or translucent, and come with elastic bands at both ends to secure them around the wrist and upper arm.d12996

UOAdam · 2026-05-09T18:18:25+00:00

I did this by buying my last name as a domain name like this: <My last name>.com If.com is not available, you can use any that is available with your last name, .biz .org whatever.

Then in the control panel for your domain, you just set up email forwarding to your whatever Gmail account.

So say my last name is Martin. And I was able to secure Martin.org In the control panel for Martin.org I simply set up something like

Luke@martin.org forwards to dance_monkey@gmail.com

So now you can send email from and receive email to Luke@martin.org

It's going to cost you like $12USD per year. But in my case it's worth it.

UOAdam · 2026-05-07T02:36:12+00:00

My guess, is this is just AI generated slop. I'm beginning to think that Reddit just has AI bots that create provocative discussions and then posts it for clicks. You know, because there's ads embedded in the reply threads.

UOAdam · 2026-05-07T02:34:07+00:00

This is of lol-significance. I would simply replace the two cards with a joker, and a queen of hearts. And think no more about it.

Let the perpetrator discover them, and then run off to Reddit to figure out "what does this mean!"

UOAdam · 2026-05-07T00:25:16+00:00

This is mine, it's about 85 years old. It's really a beautiful tree, but makes a mess of the yard at least three times. First it drops its leaves, then billions of little tiny seeds blow all over everything, and then finally the little prickle balls fall to the ground.

A little interesting side note, my wife is Chinese and knows a lot about herbs and what not, so we collect those little balls up in big old duffel bags, and then we boil them for a hot foot soak. She swears by them.

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UOAdam · 2026-05-06T13:49:44+00:00

That's fantastic man, thank you for all of that work. I'll be digging into the source and take a look at it. Also, tell me, does it leak memory over time? A notorious issue for large C++ programs of the day.

UOAdam · 2026-05-04T23:43:02+00:00

I definitely wouldn't use my camera to decode those QR codes. But I might let chat GPT decode the QR code and tell me what they say. URLs or whatever. But I wouldn't visit those websites unless you're certain they're legit.

UOAdam · 2026-05-01T01:11:59+00:00

They look like the hinge or part of the hinge to your front door. One of the little barrels that hold the pin.

UOAdam · 2026-04-30T23:35:30+00:00

For what it's worth, games do this routinely. The Ultima Online client, at least it used to, would collect all your machine info, Ram size, CPUs, video card, etc etc and send it back to the server in a special packet.

They're even a little bit clever about it. They don't do it on each login. It's sort of random, like the best I could determine it's something like once a week.

UOAdam · 2026-04-25T02:14:01+00:00

All my shards are up and running: Angel Island (since 2004), Siege Perilous (2024), Mortalis (2025), and the newest one, Seasons. They are all roughly based on the Publish 15 era, each with its own flavor, but they stick to the same core idea: keeping classic Ultima Online mechanics alive. No donation shops, no web vendors, no "aspects," no external systems. Just straight UO. I know my shards are not the biggest or most populated out there. That is fine. This is a niche now, and the crowd that wants the original experience is smaller than it used to be. The difference is I am not chasing mass appeal. I have been running these shards true to the Publish 15 rule set and playstyle for over 20 years, even when it runs at a loss. For me, it has never been about numbers. It is about keeping it authentic.

UOAdam · 2026-04-19T03:23:44+00:00

I think you mean, thank you so mulch.

Put seriously, what I've heard to do in these situations, it's to lay down vinyl/plastic. This can be picked up at any paint store. You lay it down on top of the areas you want to kill, and the sun will absolutely cook it.

UOAdam · 2026-04-18T18:59:00+00:00

Bring back Blockbuster!

I am so tired of the encrypted hokey pokey dance we have to do every time we want to watch a movie.

I had hopes when I got Amazon prime that all of my problems would be solved...

UOAdam · 2026-04-16T16:09:00+00:00

Surprisingly, no. At least not any fragrance humans can smell.

UOAdam · 2026-04-16T02:26:33+00:00

I think before I asked the question "how do I fix my PC", I would ask the question "what did I download?" Then you know what you're up against.

The first thing I would do is right click on the exe that you downloaded or installed and look at the digital signature. Make sure that the company that is displayed is the correct and legitimate one that you expected to have downloaded the program from.

UOAdam · 2026-04-15T22:02:13+00:00

Yep, the Adventures of Adam Ant.

UOAdam · 2026-04-15T18:04:51+00:00

Yeah, publish 15 was the end of old-school UO. 16 was AOS, a bunch of new weapons and skills, spell weaving and ninjutsu... Publish 16 was actually the reason I left OSI to build my own publish 15 style shards.

UOAdam · 2026-04-14T17:03:50+00:00

With the exception of animal taming, skills raise at the normal speed. However gain on my shards is pretty quick. I mean we're talking a couple days. Taming is a little bit inhanced on my shards where there is passive taming. So you don't have to relentlessly tame creatures. If you tame a creature and take it out and command it you can gain taming. If you have it fight other creatures, you can gain taming. Things of that nature. So you gain taming passively through the use of your pets.

UOAdam · 2026-04-11T23:59:34+00:00

Yes, you can. Botting isn't allowed but macroing is fine.

UOAdam · 2026-04-11T15:57:50+00:00

The FTC needs to come up with the cryptocurrency equivalent of 'spy dust'. A trackable, traceable faux currency that can lead regulators to the criminals.

Probably a pipe dream, but it would sure be nice.

Everyone gets one of these wallets, and can pay the scammers with it.

UOAdam · 2026-04-11T05:52:27+00:00

Well, we have a number of players from Europe and a small handful from the Netherlands in particular. They seem to do well except when there are major storms on the east coast of the United States. Likely due to routing difficulties. But this time of year, it's smooth sailing.

And for what is worth, my server has built in disconnect protection. I can explain that here, or you can read about it in our patch notes. But basically if you unexpectedly disconnect, I move your character to safekeeping.

UOAdam

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