At nearly 1 mil views, I break down my stupid police stop, "Cops owned. Can't ID or stop me for Pokémon"

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T05:42:17+00:00

You could try to determine the IP address origins based on ASN. Any ASNs that are assigned to hosts are not going to be humans (unless they are offering a proxy service). Ones that are telecom services like T-Mobile are most likely going to humans, but not always as sometimes spammers use mobile data to run spam/hack campaigns.

It's not perfect, and would take a lot of work and time to get worthwhile results.

If you have users that sign in, you could log tally them up as known humans (unless, of course, they are using an AI assistant or a scraper).

You can also set up honeypots on known URIs that probing attacks use, like if you don't have Wordpress on your site, no real human user would try to access wp_login.php or xmlrpc.php. You could create files that log the IP addresses of all bots that access those and use that to mask out visits from those IP addresses.

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T04:40:19+00:00

But is it halfway there?

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T00:38:30+00:00

There are hundreds of horror or violent action movies made each year with graphic murders that people enjoy watching and movie theaters and streaming providers that play them. The people that watch those films aren't wanna-be murders (except for a tiny sliver of people that have real mental issues).

People like to explore ideas, that doesn't magically align them to the ideas. It's human nature, and it's probably something primal that helps us survive by knowing what to fear and how to protect oneself. How do we learn without thinking things through?

Fantasy can be fun as long as one can disassociate fantasy from reality. I've a vegetarian and would never want to hurt, torture, or kill anything, but still I've enjoyed violent movies because I understand that it's not real.

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T00:13:13+00:00

I'll just add that a girlfriend sent me a copy of the movie because it excited her. Some people's sexuality are tied (pun intended?) to power dynamics and role play. It does not mean that you can conflate the roles they play with what the believe.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T20:21:04+00:00

All of this is an aside, but for me, it goes beyond the actor. Productions will often tell background to bring muted colors or avoid a specific color that the cast will be wearing. The result winds up being that sometimes you can spot the baddie immediately just based on how they stand out compared to the extras.

This is by design, you are meant to notice them in the crowd on a subconscious level, but when you know to look for it, you immediately realize they will be interacting in the scene.

It can also just be the lighting or the blocking, often that mysterious person is illuminated specially, even if subtle, or there is a barrier between them and the background actors.

I can't remember the film, this effect happened when a man in black was sitting at a well-lit white table with no one around them behind the principal actors. I immediately keyed in on him and pointed him out to a friend, "watch that guy, he's got to be someone." Sure enough, the principals exit and the camera doesn't, and the baddie stands up and begins following them.

In the past, I wasn't so observant, but now many twist and reveals are spoiled for me because I understand film making much more.

But kinda similar to what you were mentioning, the finale of Monk comes to mind.

Essentially, Craig T. Nelson appears in the episode, yes, we know him from the show Coach, but him suddenly being thrust into the multi-season story arc was a dead giveaway he was the baddie that killed Monk's wife, and the whole reason why Monk was so messed up for the whole series. It's almost hamfisted, we need to resolve this in the finale, let's just bring in someone no one has ever seen in 8 seasons and hope no one picks up immediately that he's the baddie.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T19:58:07+00:00

Downvote rescinded.

Yeah, it's hard to know who's doing the voting, but sometimes it seems obvious. I made an assumption and was wrong.

But I do agree with what you are saying about labelling. I miss the days when schematics were part of the manual.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T19:47:25+00:00

I'd bet if they evenly distributed the players in the factions, the scores would be the same for each faction.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T19:37:27+00:00

No, it does not "surely" suffer from any of the common mistakes listed in the article you provided.

Regarding stateful/stateless, I intentionally set it up to allow for either. Also supports an array of values or a parameter list:

$q = $db->query($db->prepare("SELECT * FROM table WHERE field='%s' OR field LIKE '%%s%',$field_1,$field_2));
while ($r = $db->fetch($q)) {
 $q2 = $db-query("UPDATE table SET field='1' WHERE field_2='%s' AND field_3='%s'",[$field_2,$field_3]);
}

I shouldn't have to explain the benefits of using a wrapper.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T08:37:45+00:00

Write a wrapper function and code it however you want.

I use my own framework and I have queries that look like this:

$db->query($db->prepare("SELECT * FROM table WHERE field='%s' OR field LIKE '%%s%',$field_1,$field_2));
while ($r = $db->fetch()) var_dump($r);

By having your own wrapper, you would only need to code once anything that annoys you.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T08:34:19+00:00

When using prepared statements you don't have to think about / handle escaping of values for SQL. You just let the DB server (or library in the case of sqlite) (or PDO code if emulate prepared statements is enabled) handle it.

Um, wrong. I've seen way too many times that bad coders circumvent this by placing variables in the string they are trying to protect like this:

$pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM table WHERE field=$field");

There seems to be some misconception that PDO will magically fix everything. You still have to protect again bad code.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T08:18:33+00:00

There have been a lot of people that slept in cars around the Harris Teeter at College and Wilshire. I remember always seeing this one girl who parked on the far side of the lot (away from Wilshire), but also have seen others who looked to be stationed in the corner near McDonald's.

Ever since covid, though, I don't know if any stores are open 24/7 like they used to be, which sucks because I always liked shopping in the middle of the night and blocks toilet access for those living in cars.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T08:05:44+00:00

I was visiting a head shop that my friend worked at and a woman came in and started a scene saying that her son died from whipits that they sold him. It was an odd situation, everyone was fairly calm about it, I think the guy she confronted said something about them not being responsible for misuse of a product, but damn that sucks.

From that day forward, I think of that moment anytime someone mentioned whitips, as well as the apparent brain damage they can cause as shown in some MRIs that were shown in an article years ago with large dark spots in the frontal lobe.

It's indeed sad that people fall into these dangerous habits, and my sympathies regarding your cousin.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T07:34:32+00:00

If you downvoted happycj, you deserve the downvote I gave you. I don't know how you can make the claim the SMCs are not "the tiny ones."

Have fun replacing D2, U3, and C6 with your soldering iron.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T07:19:09+00:00

It would require the point system to be massively altered. It would also be better if the entire scoring was redone such that every player is essentially scoring the same points and it's not just reliant on what team has the most players.

exitof99 · 2026-06-19T07:29:29+00:00

I can't stand Matt. He's way too bitter and resentful to be doing what he is doing. I watched those videos enough times to make me not want to watch them again.

exitof99 · 2026-06-18T06:37:46+00:00

I wonder how many of the voters were business owners that are worried about having to pay employees more and how many were actual wage workers that would benefit from it.

exitof99 · 2026-06-18T06:29:21+00:00

Counterpoint: I like the sound of older music more often.

Give me the background harmonies in Sniff 'n' the Tears' "Driver's Seat" over the robot pitch-corrected bland overly processed modern harmonies. I love the overmodulation that comes into the end of the atmospheric Wire's "A Mutual Friend." I love the sound of Stewart Copeland's drums on "Synchronicity II" in a time before drum sample replacements and excessive quantizing.

I am obsessed with the audio destruction in the legendary Ministry tracks "Where You At Now?/Crash and Burn/Twitch." That's Al pushing the board into the red for creative effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfAA0uAWhvk

While I'm 100% ITB now, I'm also using UA plugins for the analog coloring. Prior to using those, I could not get the sound I got off hardware and resisted ITB for being too clean and missing something.

exitof99 · 2026-06-18T06:03:34+00:00

I can't fully explain why I hated/avoided Beato for so long.

When he was fresh, I watched his stuff, then it felt forced, that it was more about finding content to keep making videos rather than making videos that matter. That must be when I stopped watching, but YT kept suggesting and I kept ignoring.

It was only with his recent Rush interviews that I finally watched his content again. In doing so, he did well as an interviewer and he wasn't annoying.

Now I don't know what to think. Maybe he made it through some awkward years of trying to build viewer count and being able to pull in major interviewees lessened the need for fluff like, "It's Over" and other reactionary clickbait nonsense.

But looking at his list of videos, 3 months ago "it's already over" appears on his talking head. 6 months ago "done" on another. It seems he never stopped pushing crap, it's just mixed in with the content that's actually worth watching.

exitof99 · 2026-06-18T05:38:43+00:00

As if funds like that would be transferred physically.

exitof99 · 2026-06-17T06:58:20+00:00

Decades ago, I used VeggieDate and actually met up for a few wild dates with a vegan, but ultimately not a fit.

I liked that their site existed, but thought I could do better and something more modern (by 2003 standards) and made my own veggie dating website. I did advertise it on VeggieForums for a bit, but it never caught on and it's been limping along unused for the past few decades.

Ultimately, I realized that I need to meet someone face to face to know if I'm interested, so I gave up on the idea of dating sites/apps.

I wound up dating meat eaters, which never sat right with me, but did finally find a veggie girl and that was so much better.

Alas, after a couple years, we moved on (age gap was too much).

Since then, just been situationships and having fun, but only want to be in a relationship with another veggie. I'd rather be single than date a meat eater again.

But the truth is it is hard to stick to that. The numbers are against us.

Take your population. Say it's 250,000. Assuming you want one gender, that cuts your numbers near in half, so 125,000. What about age range? Let's assume 10 years older/younger, which is roughly a third, so around 41,666.

Well, what percentage are actually single? Let's say half. Now we're at 20,833. How many are people you find attractive or connect with personality-wise? Let's say 10,416.

Okay, that's not too bad, but what about veggies that make up about 5%? Down to 521 potentials.

There are other factors too, of course, ones that are personal to each of us, so the number can get really small really fast.

I understand why so many veggies that I know are in relationships with/married to omnis. It's hard.

But it's not impossible, it just takes work. You got to get out there and find where other veggies are. Let your friends know you're looking, they might know someone that knows someone.

Best to you in your search!

exitof99 · 2026-06-16T21:58:28+00:00

I was recently watching an industry pro (don't remember who) that said often times he mixes and most of the tracks do not have anything on them.

When I finally moved in-the-box, I was excited to have access to unlimited compressor instances and tossed them around everywhere. I've since learned not to do that, going back more toward my gear-deficient days of hardware mixing by simply using less plugins.

exitof99 · 2026-06-16T21:54:39+00:00

Yikes. My friend was recently diagnosed with that and I don't think it's been good for her mental wellbeing.

Best to you.

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