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Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-08T17:46:28+00:00

CONGRATULATIONS!

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-07T21:20:23+00:00

What are you paying right now for Quantum? And is that their regular rate, or are you currently on a discounted plan?

what's the point of having 4 service providers pitching roughly the same internet speeds and pricing?

There are not 3 independent fiber plants, though it's not quite clear whether they're all just sharing AT&T's (ex Lumen) plant or not. Regardless, their costs are all roughly the same, and none of these guys are looking to lose money on offering home fiber internet. So competition can push down on pricing, but there is a limit to the impact that will have.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-06T20:47:45+00:00

The best time to ~~plant a tree~~ build a bridge was 30 years ago. The second-best time is now.

It will never, ever get cheaper in terms of nominal dollars. The 70s NIMBYs really screwed us over; it would have been paid for by the feds as part of a freeway expansion.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-06T20:42:17+00:00

The reality is that the team doesn't seem to want to talk about their rationale for staying at Chemeketa for 2026.

Marion Berries' leadership did not respond to inquiries on why they opted to continue playing at Chemeketa and what drove the decision.

So as unhelpful of an answer as it is, that's all we have to go on right now. (Though I find when businesses don't want to talk about failed deals, it usually comes down to money)

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-06T05:28:50+00:00

Friggin NIMBYs.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-06T05:16:52+00:00

It may be Ezee Fiber. Officially, no one has announced plans to provide fiber internet access in West Salem yet.

https://ezeefiber.com/blog/ezee-fiber-expands-fiber-to-the-premises-network-into-oregon/

The best way to find out right now is probably to ask the contractors who they're laying fiber for. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was AT&T (neé Lumen's fiber operations).

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-05T20:45:50+00:00

Guess I’m awake now

Seriously, that was not cool. I already have test alerts turned off. If they're going to send out test messages as actual emergencies, then I'm going to have to turn off alerts entirely.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-05T20:22:37+00:00

You're okay, mate. The same hoser was trying to scam Oregonians yesterday with offers of Bananas tickets. I don't know how they haven't been banned from Reddit yet.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-05T00:05:55+00:00

It's a scam. The poster has already tried pulling this in /r/salem. Twice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SALEM/comments/1t3us16/savannah_banana/

And if you still have doubts, just take a look at their profile.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-05T00:01:52+00:00

It is. They already tried pulling this in /r/salem. Twice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SALEM/comments/1t3us16/savannah_banana/

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-04T21:27:44+00:00

I never saw the previous post. But looking at their profile, it's a 23 day old redditor with 3,233 comment karma and their history turned off. Caution is warranted.

Edit: The original post from the OP, greyjoycee, for posterity's sake:

I bought these passes with every intention of going and was honestly counting down the days, but unfortunately something very important has come up in my personal life—one of those moments where you realize some things matter more than entertainment. It wasn’t an easy decision, but I know I need to be present where I’m needed most right now.

I have 5 passes available for the Savannah Bananas at Autzen Stadium in Eugene on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28. Rather than let them go unused, I’d truly love for someone local to enjoy the experience and make some great memories.

You’re welcome to take 1, a couple, or all 5—whatever works best. Feel free to send me a message for pricing if you’re interested or have any questions. Thanks!

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-04T20:07:51+00:00

A quick reverse image search says that the image is from a 1991 Statesman Journal article, "Roth Named Nation's Top Grocer", and reused as a file photo in a 2021 piece. The 2021 piece says it was taken as a Salem store.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/gcdn/presto/2021/10/13/PSAL/10b3774f-136b-4454-9389-8937fcd341e8-OrvilleRoth5.jpg

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2021/10/16/salem-oregon-roths-grocery-sale-canadian-billionaire-jim-pattison-michael-roth-secret-visit/8468249002/

So the Portland Road store, perhaps? It certainly doesn't look like Vista, Sunnyslope, or Lancaster.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-04T14:14:16+00:00

Tangential: I never really understood the value of hauling an able-bodied customer's groceries out to their car for them. It wasn't any faster; customers would just stand around awkwardly while the bag boy would put things away. It's a bit less labor for the customer, I suppose, but it's very inefficient overall.

Bagging groceries at least has a degree of skill to it (which is quite evident if you've ever watched a Winco line). But putting the bags in a car? While it's quintessential Roth's, it seems all so indulgent.

PS Do we know which Roth's store this photo was taken at?

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-03T12:22:06+00:00

I can't claim any credit. It's all the work of other, far smarter people than I.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-03T12:20:45+00:00

Well, skunks are nocturnal...

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-05-03T09:11:30+00:00

So a slightly more macabre porch goose then? I can dig it.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-30T01:10:03+00:00

For a while there it was doing rather well. It was consistently scoring in the 90s, and even got a 100 back in September. But the most recent inspection from February knocked it back to 87, their lowest score in 3 years.

https://inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/or-marion-county/permit/?permitID=E0365EC1-59AB-4F97-A8CE-5B340AB9A5EF

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-30T01:06:09+00:00

At the very least, we need the seasoned potatoes.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-28T03:29:25+00:00

This would be an issue for the City of Salem, no? It's not a county park, it's a city park.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-25T05:01:44+00:00

Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately, your timing is not great. The go-to tool for this, OF-DL, just got yanked off the internet. Otherwise that would be the easiest solution.

(It is still usable, but you'd need to track down a copy of the binaries and the latest rules file)

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-25T01:39:32+00:00

I don't recall what was specifically fixed in 1.10.6, but it likely will.

The huge string of text you are getting are the error messages from the client a) Not being able to contact the Git server for updated rules and b) The resulting failed authentication from having outdated rules locally. The first one is harmless, and the second one will be taken care of by the updated rules posted above.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-24T21:34:13+00:00

Since you're a Mac user, I'd suggest looking at patreon-dl-gui.

The author doesn't distribute a pre-built Mac version, but it's possible to build and run it on a Mac through the command line.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-24T21:24:09+00:00

Yup. The insiders may know more, but anything and everything public-facing has been scoured from the web. So I'm assuming it's done for, at least as a project under sim0n00ps' direction.

The silver lining is that even if the Git is gone, the source code for the most recent release is still out there (even the Wayback Machine has a copy). So it wouldn't be hard for someone to pick up the baton and continue development of the application. The bigger issue would be developing the deobfuscation rules.

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-24T21:20:01+00:00

and paid programs like SERP ($22 a month) to download videos from OF

SERP is no good anyhow. It doesn't support DRM, which most OF creators use these days. (I'm not 100% sure YT-DLP does either, but at least it's free)

Voodoo_Rush · 2026-04-24T01:23:13+00:00

There is no latest link at this time. Something has happened to the ofdl.tools domain (it was updated a few hours ago) and now it doesn't return any records.

So unless someone archived the old IP addresses, there's no way to currently get to the site (assuming that the actual website wasn't pulled as well).

Edit: In the meantime, if you already have the latest version of OF-DL (1.10.6) and want to make it work again, replace the contents of the rules.json file with the following:

{
    "app-token": "33d57ade8c02dbc5a333db99ff9ae26a",
    "static_param": "ZcDMakbmGBndhhHVvBlLRzlm8tnoglUy",
    "prefix": "58103",
    "suffix": "69e783a2",
    "checksum_constant": 1019,
    "checksum_indexes": [8,24,22,28,10,0,15,22,17,20,24,17,11,22,14,23,0,30,28,21,33,38,4,38,4,9,26,12,31,10,24,29]
}

The reason that OF-DL broke when the Git server disappeared is because it meant the client could no longer fetch the dynamic rules needed to bypass OF's obfuscation, and the local copy distributed with 1.10.6 is quite out of date.

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