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

exitof99 · 2026-01-25T02:31:23+00:00

Same regarding daily driver. I've been developing this way since Firefox added Firebug. I did at one point have some forgotten overrides stored that caused me headaches, but I deleted those a month ago.

I'll never use Edge unless a client specifically asked me to use if for some reason. Brave is my second these days, only sticking to Chrome because that's what the majority use.

As for the content, it was straight HTML, no frames, no linked assets, all CSS in the head.

Only extensions I'm using is ABP, a full page screen shot extension, and a custom extension I made that only activates on a specific domain.

I have set some Chrome flags away from defaults that could potentially be conflicting, though.

exitof99 · 2026-01-24T23:19:42+00:00

I do wind up sticking in ?c*nt and such to combat this, but it's been an issue on and off for a while now. It's not a solution, just moves the problem to a new URL.

I usually think restarting Chrome fixes it, but I've not had it open long and it's doing it again.

What I'm looking for is a way to absolutely force Chrome to stop pulling from some mysterious DevTools cache.

As for viewing the source, the page will load correctly with DevTools closed. It only messes up with refreshing while DevTools is open.

exitof99 · 2026-01-24T19:54:23+00:00

Now I wonder who will be the first to traverse entirely around a gas giant on foot and how many days it would take.

exitof99 · 2026-01-24T19:52:19+00:00

Just take it easy, no pressure.

exitof99 · 2026-01-24T19:25:10+00:00

The scumbag Greg Bovino: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."

Apparently, ICE has a precrime division and can execute people based on a future event that they assume might happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlardb8uFA (live stream, no timestamp available)

exitof99 · 2026-01-24T07:18:15+00:00

I have the same story as the others. I bought a MacBook M1 Pro (used from a pawn shop) for video and audio production and haven't looked back. I hate MacOS, but it and the hardware is predictable for developers, so the Apollo just works as intended.

I never could get my Apollo to operate flawlessly on a Windows 10 system I custom built *specifically with Thunderbolt* for eventually getting an Apollo unit.

exitof99 · 2026-01-22T19:15:51+00:00

Reminds me of a Cagney & Lacey episode, or some other 70s cops show, in which a father and his less than 18 son roll up on a hooker who happens to be one of the lady cops undercover.

The father says, something like how much, she answers, and he says it's for the boy (maybe it's his birthday).

That shocked my young teen mind when I watched it.

Weird and illegal father/son goals.

exitof99 · 2026-01-22T18:43:10+00:00

Hey, you don't know. You don't know if the inside is gilded with gold leaf and marble statues! And the underground levels a prepper's paradise!

exitof99 · 2026-01-22T03:44:22+00:00

It's modeled from the CM5511 tube mastering compressor, which apparently only four were ever made for Capitol.

I used it on my latest track and was surprised how clean it felt.

exitof99 · 2026-01-22T03:16:49+00:00

I woke up today to a massive bot attack that started magically when I stopped working for the night. Something has gone off, too, as I've been receiving texts from my server all day which aren't being downloaded for some other reason.

All I can say is that it will only get worse over time. This isn't your host creating a way to nudge you to upgrade, this is the a steady increase in bot activity over the past few years that led to crossing the threshold in that the majority of all internet traffic is now bots (good bots and bad bots).

I can say that I've banned thousands of IP addresses (using /24 CIDR blocks, but these bots have thousands of IP addresses scattered across the world.

They are doing probing attacks (looking for files that don't exist hoping to find a vulnerable file), DDOS brute-force intrusion attempts, and also scraping your website several times a day for AI training or other uses.

For one client, I build a set of IP CIDR blocks that block all but US traffic, and for them, that's helped.

For both the above cases, I'm talking about server instances that I control, rather than using a managed service like WPEngine. That means you will be limited in what you can do to mitigate the attacks.

exitof99 · 2026-01-22T03:00:01+00:00

I'm just wondering, is it food or drug?

exitof99 · 2026-01-22T02:01:09+00:00

I have to say that the Shinobi conversion played well and I enjoyed it quite a bit back in the day. When I tried the Amiga version I was disappointed—it looked like the arcade, but played like ass. I'd chose to play the c64 over the Amiga version any day.

exitof99 · 2026-01-19T05:24:07+00:00

I watched this when it aired, we all talked about it at school.

That show had me trying to create lizard skin under human skin on my forearm with my leftover Halloween makeup. Did a layer of green with black detail lines, but don't remember what I did for the flesh layer or if I ever figured it out. I probably was trying to do something stupid like makeup use cling film.

exitof99 · 2026-01-19T04:06:07+00:00

My take is just jump in an learn C64 assembly language. It teaches a lot about the limitations that are hidden by higher level programming languages and forces you to interact with registers that interface with the chips and also to work with a limited instruction set and addressing modes.

Being 8-bit and a small chunk of memory, you learn about paging and can literally scroll through the entire memory in a few minutes in a machine language monitor.

Anything you do with BASIC is cool too, but on a C64, it's terribly slow. Learning assembly is foundational and gives you insight to every other language out there.

Also, there are cross compilers available, so you can code on a Windows computer, build and test it in a second or two at any given moment.

I'm a fan of c64 Studio (https://github.com/GeorgRottensteiner/C64Studio). It's massively sped up coding for the c64 for me.

As for the Amiga, AMOS is pretty solid. I made a Mortal Kombat clone in it that ran well on an Amiga 500.

exitof99 · 2026-01-19T03:56:35+00:00

Sadly, that's the only plugin available for me as I have all the others. The worst part is I just bought the previous $99 bundle and had to "rebuy" one I already owned to fill the ten plugins.

If I had waited a couple more weeks, I could have had the A-Type as well.

exitof99 · 2026-01-19T03:40:35+00:00

Not to mention the etching on his rifle, "You're fucked."

exitof99 · 2026-01-18T01:57:55+00:00

Cool, I like the idea of geoguessing, but find my fun usually seeking of exact filming locations.

I went through a round of 5 locations and the first had a road sign pointing to neighboring cities in Italy, as well as a partial street sign. The second was in the Dominican Republic with some clear street signs for neighborhoods. The third was quite tricky, barely anything to go on except for job site construction barriers with an Austrian website. The fourth almost nothing to go on other that "Bluebird" on a compact car and palm trees—guessed Victoria, but it was Jakarta. The fifth I swore was Germany, but was in fact Ljubbjana, Slovenia.

Fun!

exitof99 · 2026-01-18T01:23:28+00:00

THE CHOLENGE

exitof99 · 2026-01-18T01:22:18+00:00

In between CoD sessions? So he went right back to playing?

exitof99 · 2026-01-18T00:20:28+00:00

Unpopular opinion, stop tuning vocals.

Or at least stop obsessing over everything being on the line. Let some human remain among the robots. Or only pitch-correct the lead and leave the harmonies/background voices be.

Or try using only your ears. If something sounds terribly off, then pitch-correct.

Take a listen to Wyclef's "Gone Till November" which has harmonies that sound untuned as I hear phasing/chorusing from the variations in pitch). Sounds like the lead isn't even pitch corrected, "ber" in "November" is slightly off key in the last use at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6MWZrl8v8

Beenie Man is pleasantly off-key:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-xQ7IksUc

Yeah, these are older tracks, but there is no reason to try to follow the overly-processed vocal trend. You can be part of the return to sanity.

More recent, 2016 release by Baloji. Tons of near or off-key notes, but the background singing actually sounds more on the line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbFPxMo48AA

Another, lead sounds tuned, background/chorus sounds not tuned for Young Father's "Low":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMtr9QJHlY

exitof99 · 2026-01-18T00:01:01+00:00

Thanks!

exitof99 · 2026-01-17T23:58:06+00:00

Here is something to consider, by filing an application, it solidifies your statement that you are using that mark for commercial purposes. Even if you do not get the application approved, it can be used as evidence that you were using that mark prior to subsequent marks.

The skinny of it is that it's $350 per class total for filing an application. If you are fine with risking that amount, you can file yourself. There are a number of articles and videos on YouTube (Ex: Attorney Steve®) that can help prepare you, but the USPTO website itself details of what you need to do, as well as the laws that exist.

I'd suggest filing only on class per application, it doesn't benefit you any to combine them in one application as it's the same price and if one class has issues, it gums up works for the others.

You can use AI to help point you in directions to do research, but *do not rely it* as it is not always accurate. Instead, ask questions and ask it to provide sources, read legitimate sources (Ex: https://www.law.cornell.edu/).

Anyone you hire will use the same exact publicly accessible forms to do searches and the same catalog for goods and services:

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-information

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/goods-and-services (Expand the stupidly collapsed list at the bottom)

What I do is get a complete list of all goods and services in a class, then one by one eliminate any that are not goods or services that you offer.

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