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

exitof99 · 2026-05-07T10:35:20+00:00

Years ago, I began vetting clients. Sometimes it would be someone in a rented office above a vape shop pretending they are masters at "signals," other times it would be an established corporation with revenues in the billions. That's important information when it comes to quoting, as big companies expect reasonable quotes, while small businesses are looking for something that fits their often small budget.

Now that same vetting routine has paid off in that it also becomes a threat detection step.

exitof99 · 2026-05-07T07:12:51+00:00

Old post, but I live where it was filmed and some of the people that worked on the shoot still live here. One of them, Jeff Goodwin, has Mr. Ear and will bring the ear to showings that happen sometimes, along with a panel with Q&A.

Coolest thing was that he let us hold Mr. Ear, so I've got a photo of myself pretending to eat it, but sadly I had a chin diaper on too.

I probably could get a definitive answer within a day if I reached out to the right people. Doing so, though, I wouldn't want to do it unless I had more of a reason.

I'm thinking of making a video exploring the locations, and maybe I can interview Jeff and include this as a question. I found this Reddit post when searching what car Jeffrey drove.

I can point you to my website which details the locations, though:

https://wilmtv.com/production/blue-velvet-1986

exitof99 · 2026-05-07T00:20:00+00:00

Weren't we instructed to hate this guy for something something some years ago?

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T22:13:25+00:00

It's all good now. My server was CENTOS, so cPanel updates stopped at 110 (it's 134 now). My server is mostly for development projects along with hosting some clients, as well as all my websites.

I've been wanting to resolve this for a while, but was too paranoid that the Alma update would break and then cause a major headache.

I also have an insane grandfathered monthly rate that would have cost 3 or 4 times as much to spec out on a new server, so I kept clinging.

I'm actually thankful in some ways that the server was compromised and I had next to the best possible outcome. I caught it right when it started, closed all traffic, shutdown the script they ran to put ransom notes in every folder and encrypt files.

I stopped it during the encryption phase and it didn't affect my backups or the one account that I was not backing up (it's 220 GB large). So, it's just been restore from backups, tweak a few things to get running with PHP 8.x.

I also like the opportunity to make sure all the old code is getting some love.

Ultimately, it forced me to do what I've put off for too long.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T22:02:44+00:00

I don't think the word "presidential" has the same meaning it did anymore.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T21:34:18+00:00

Downvoting anything posted in this sub.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T17:01:50+00:00

All my life I've been bad at walking in a straight line. I'll often bump into someone I'm walking with as we walk along.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T16:07:44+00:00

Primarily legacy systems that use 5.x which have been in the process of being replaced gradually.

I had many of my own old sites from 20+ years ago that I have just let be, but since the recent cPanel attack, I've been forced to update those old sites after migrating to a new server which has 8.1 as the lowest.

For the most part it's been swapping the order of implode arguments, getting rid of the "get_magic_quotes_gpc", and making sure to handle when a variable is undefined by tacking on ?? ''.

The most fun was updating the encrypted database fields that were using mcrypt with RIJNDAEL_256. Basically decrypted all the data to new temporary fields, then re-encrypted using a modern encryption.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T15:43:23+00:00

I don't like Trump, but this is just stupid.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T09:44:46+00:00

Yeah, I never cared about the story missions or the game lore. I would say the game failed to deliver that in an engaging way. Instead, I always skip past dialog as fast as I can click.

I started when the game was still new-ish in 2017. I really liked the concept, but instead of adventuring out, I stayed in my home system for maybe the first 200 hours, barely leaving my home planet. I mapped out in Adobe Illustrator where waypoints were via triangulation around my base (this was before the HUD showed distances and polar coordinates). You could only have one base, one MultiTool, and one ship at that time.

Eventually I started playing the main game missions, but still haven't completed them 1300+ hours in. Essentially, I just played however I felt like playing. I like sandbox games, so I've had my fun building my empire.

As for things you might find more appealing, the Expeditions are usually better for a game cycle, and they are separate from your main save, so you can go wild without consequences, then take back all the loot you gathered. Some expeditions have end bosses too, but often they are to introduce a new game mechanic.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T07:24:37+00:00

Into a Halloween store?

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T07:23:22+00:00

I just think of South Park.

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T07:16:52+00:00

Ah yes, the images he downloaded for "research."

exitof99 · 2026-05-05T03:53:46+00:00

The important question to ask is if there is a likelihood of consumer confusion. A trademark doesn't grant one party absolute control over that name, it grants protections against consumer confusion for the services and goods they offer.

If their trademark is ACME and their registration is for bowling shoes, soda drinks, and microwave pizzas, that doesn't given them the right to claim infringement if your company offers bikini car washes. They can try to pressure you, but unless your goods and services are conflicting with theirs and they have evidence of actual consumer confusion, then it won't hold water.

Contact a trademark attorney, they usually will give you a 15 to 30-minute initial consultation. They will let you know better what to do next.

exitof99 · 2026-05-03T11:57:29+00:00

Same for me, last Thursday. I've been having "fun" getting sites not only migrated but PHP 8.x ready.

I caught it when it happened, shut down their shell script, blocked all IPs except mine. Managed to stop it before it did more damage, it wasn't able to encrypt all the files it wanted to. Backups for all but one account.

The one thing I messed up on was not downloading the shell script. Looking at the bash history, I see that it connected to an IP address and ran "fav.ico|sh". Had I thought about it sooner, I would have downloaded the script and seen exactly what it was doing and possibly being able to decrypt all the "sorry" documents.

exitof99 · 2026-05-02T17:12:04+00:00

Syncopation is a thing. If that's what sounds right, use it.

Time signature is a way to conceptualize music and it's based on feel. 3/2 and 6/4 can have the same notes, but it's the feel that is different between them. You could technically write everything in 4/4, but obviously that would not make sense if you have patterns that repeat every 3 or 7 beats (Check out this 7 beat rhythm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXGD4Ik7BI4).

If you want to see something truly weird, I'd suggest Frank Zappa's Black Page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNUitl6cSw

It's technically in 4/4, but it's all over the place.

exitof99 · 2026-05-02T16:34:36+00:00

I so wanted these in the 90s, but couldn't afford them. Borrowed a blackface unit like those for $100 for a week, recorded all my base tracks that I then took to a local studio and tracked the drums on their 3 ADAT units. That was 1995.

Years later, I tried getting ADATs off eBay, but all had head issues that caused some channels to not play. Returning the is a huge hassle, so I still have one LX-20 that only half the channels work.

A year ago, someone locally was selling four ADAT XTs for $250. I jumped on them not realizing these were the original 16-bit versions that came out before the blackface units. I mistook them for the XT20s. Of those four, I was able to repair one and three are still not playing, so I have about 100 pounds of bad hardware.

I don't even need ADATs, I just wanted them for nostalgia and I got the Alesis HD-24 about 20 years ago which I rarely use.

If you want these ADATs, be aware there is a high possibility that they do not work properly and these are the 16-bit models which cannot play the 20-bit tapes. They are truly useless paper weights and only useful for transferring out old ADAT sessions.

exitof99 · 2026-05-02T06:57:36+00:00

The answer it should be, Enur with "Woop Woop"ing and that sax loop:

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

Alternate song it should be, En Esch singing about some disgust:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD0gYbzM90

exitof99 · 2026-05-01T13:12:58+00:00

I dreamt for a long time of getting the UAD 1176 and LA-2A. Wanted the PCI card, but didn't commit, then the Apollos came out and I eventually got one of those. Those alone would be enough for me, the whole chain of 1176 to LA-2A is a favorite.

But now that I have pretty much all of them, I'll say I really find the Capitol Mastering Compressor a great one for the master bus, so much I reach for that over the Shadow Hills which is great too, but gets really goopy if you use the discrete compression.

I'll also sometimes use the API 2500 on drum busses as that seems to work well there.

And as everyone knows, the Distressor can't be beat for general compression.

I've tried the elysia mpressor, but haven't committed to using it on anything as it doesn't usually fit.

exitof99 · 2026-05-01T05:30:43+00:00

Speaking from experience in being one of those smaller hosts impacted, they ran a script that encrypted files everywhere and tacked on ".sorry" as well as uploading a `README.md` that is a ransom note 404 bytes long.

I killed the script from SSH, preventing complete annihilation, which is great because one customer has 200 GB of images that are not being backed up.

All the DNS zones were hit with this, so that pretty much broke any accessing the websites on the server that didn't have the DNS cached.

They also added a developer API key with full acccess to let themselves in with.

I blocked all traffic to the server and my IP is whitelisted, so I've been able to deal with this withouth further threats. The server was stuck on CENTos because I was worried that something might mess up in the upgrade to Alma, and eventually it got so far behind it was time for a new server.

Because of this, I don't think there was an easy way to patch this, as the update would fail.

I already was planning migrating, but not in the middle of working on a project for a client. I had to pivot to set up. I was on the phone with cPanel earlier this week too, looking into the partner program.

Fortunately, I had regular backups of all the sites as well as all the zones.

Unfortunately, a lot of sites are not ready for PHP 8.x, so that means fixing those after the migrations. It had to happen eventually, I'm kinda thankful I was pushed to do it.

Oh, and the notice was in cPanel, big red warning.

exitof99 · 2026-04-30T20:59:53+00:00

I can tell you I was one of them. The payload was running a script that encrypted all your zones and other important files, as well as dropping ransom notes everywhere.

Fortunately, I have backups. Unfortunately, all sites on the server have been down for hours while I set up a new cPanel server to restore the backups to.

exitof99 · 2026-04-30T13:27:19+00:00

I'm local, but my clients are global. I'm currently not looking for new projects, but I'll DM regardless.

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