Posts by Jack Cook7

Looks like AOL is having some major issues managing their mail servers, which landed them right on the blacklists. Basically, before any mail server even touches an incoming message, it checks these lists to see if the sender's server is flagged. If it is, the whole thing gets rejected instantly without even trying to read the mail.
For example: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx , you can go ahead and check the AOL mail server yourself (mail.aol.com). From what I can tell, their server is hosted over in a different domain entirely.

Pinging mail-imap-centrumcz.centrum.cz [46.255.231.42]
Reply from 46.255.231.42: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=53

First off: you can't actually drain a battery to zero. The tech inside your MacBook or whatever you're rocking prevents it—and honestly, thank God it does—because hitting absolute zero would wreck the chemical structure of the electrodes and could literally start a fire.

Second point: yeah, it’s actually a good idea to let the battery run low once in a while. It’s a chemistry thing. If you just leave a battery sitting unused, stuff starts building up on the electrodes, which kills both the capacity and how stable the battery stays. You’ve also got those annoying "dendrites"—basically tiny lithium spikes that naturally migrate through the electrolyte because of electromigration (which happens in basically all electronic gear). Over time, they pierce through and degrade the battery quality until it eventually just gives up the ghost.
https://www.batterypoweronline.com/n...endrites-grow/

Thirdly: there’s one super practical reason why you should use your battery occasionally. Battery behavior changes over time. The smart chips inside your laptop track this behavior to figure out its health and estimate when it’s likely to die. While predicting lifespan is somewhat intuitive, guessing the exact moment of failure? Not so much. So, even if you don't strictly *need* to work on battery power, doing it once in a bit helps with overall longevity and reliability.

It’s pretty embarrassing to show up to a big meeting with your laptop, be right in the middle of taking notes or giving a presentation, and then—BAM—it dies. And then you realize the nearest outlet is like ten feet away from your charger. 🙂

I’ve definitely had times where a laptop battery turned into a total brick after sitting in a drawer for maybe six months to a year (even with a premium brand, if that even matters anymore).

On the flip side, I’ve had an iPhone (different brand, obviously) sit in a drawer for four or five years, plug it in, charge it up, and it works perfectly fine.

Technically, they’re using the same stuff—lithium-ion. But clearly, there's a massive, night-and-day difference in how they actually perform. Honestly, I have no clue what the specific technological secret is that makes the results so wildly different.

I actually thought the movie was great. (At least for superhero stuff).

Has anyone else noticed how those creatures look so incredibly unique? Even the whole "quantum nature" setup and Kang’s "city" feel like a total homage to Moebius’s art style.

Look, if you're trying to restore deleted files using something similar to the Recycle Bin on a network drive, you’re basically going to need some kind of 3rd party app installed on either the server or the client side—it really depends on which specific application you're running (though I'm not 100% sure how the latest versions of Windows Server handle that bit)

Usually, you've got a typical client purge window of about 7 days. That's great because it means you can just grab the file directly from your own PC. But once that window closes? Yeah, you're stuck. You'll have to open a ticket with the file server admin so they can pull the file straight from the server for you. As for the server itself, the purge time is typically around 30 days—kind of like how email servers work—and after that, the file is gone for good. Depending on how the system is set up, it might be wiped securely by overwriting the data, or maybe it gets backed up first before being nuked.

Some apps actually give you versioning too! So, if you're constantly saving over the same file—like if you're working on a document in Microsoft Word and saving different drafts under the same name—the system keeps those versions separate. That way, you can roll back to a specific version whenever you need to.

Look, hardware acceleration isn't some magic trick the browser pulls off—it’s entirely about whether your drivers actually know how to pass those software requests over to the video card properly.

I mean, how does anyone even function without 3D acceleration? You could technically just flip the switch and stick to 2D if you wanted, though honestly, unless you're deep into 3D modeling or something heavy-duty, you barely touch the 3D side of things anyway.

The real fix here? Just find a decent driver. It’s pretty obvious that if a fresh install of the OS runs smoothly for a bit, the original driver isn't the villain—it’s those annoying patches, whether they're for the driver or the OS itself, that mess everything up.

The reason everything "crashes" when you turn on hardware acceleration is because video drivers are built for raw speed. They run in ring0, basically sitting right next to the OS kernel like old-school DOS. Because they're running at that level, if something goes sideways, the OS can't step in to catch the error.

Grab your local Internet Protocol version 4 address where your torrent machine is hanging out (like 192.168.1.2 or whatever yours happens to be).

For the TCP/UDP start/stop field, just plug in 27546.

Basically, you've just taken your internal 192.168.1.x torrent server and exposed it to the wild public internet on port 27546.

Basically, user IP addresses get assigned dynamically through DHCP, so they're constantly shifting around.

The location gets logged during that initial handshake when the IP first hits the line, and it just sticks there—even if the actual physical connection you're hooked up to changes later on.

Ruben just finished the job with a quick yank of the hose and a little smirk.

Such a great movie. It really nails that whole vibe regarding those greedy real estate firms pretending they actually give a damn about your health.

So, was the culprit just the CMOS battery on the motherboard? That little coin cell thing?

It’s possible that if a battery isn't getting any juice for like 6 to 12 months, it could be totally fried, though you don't see that happening all that often these days. Usually, those things last about 3 to 7 years before they give up the ghost.

mistybison said:I don't think it’s actually possible to stay private online, and if you’re just using it for fun—I don't even know how much sense it makes to stress over it too much. 🤷

(Third time it's logged me out today... 😠 )

Look, putting privacy aside, thinking the Internet is *just* a source of entertainment is pretty naive.

It's kind of like how our distant, super cute but totally nameless ancestors used to wander around trying to entertain themselves by tossing useless bones at each other.


And lo and behold, two million years later...

And hey, don't say I didn't warn ya! 🙂

mistybison said:Man, this is gonna be awesome for me! 😂

Having a Google profile is super handy and useful because it pulls everything along with it. If you ever have to factory reset a device or just pick up a new phone—it handles everything automatically. 😍

Let me highlight at least one way Google actually profits from getting access to your passwords.

By analyzing your passwords, they get a statistical sample of how you build them. That makes it way easier for them to crack them, even if you've sent those credentials through other channels.

And why on earth would Google do that?

For the money. Period.

Google has basically forced itself into being the main Directory service, Facebook is totally in bed with them, Apple stays separate but still swaps data. And Twitter just broke away.

What most people see as just social media sites or public services, I see as one giant, unified information-gathering machine.

All your hard work making "strong" passwords is pretty much pointless, no matter how secure your communication channel is. You’ve got random script kiddies on some shady forum running brute force attacks on passwords like "password123" or whatever. Real elite hackers right there.

mistybison said:I keep my passwords saved in documents and scattered across a few different spots, but more importantly, I have them memorized and synced to my main Gmail account. Not for this forum, though—that’s actually one way I try to spend less time hanging out here. This forum is actually on my blocked sites list, so first I have to unblock the site, then hunt down my profile password, and then copy it over... It’s not much, but it stops me from wasting too much time here. 😁

Heh, so you're keeping passwords for other services on Gmail, which by definition and their own "Contract Agreement" gives them the right to dig through your emails and data and hand it off to random third parties without even asking you?
Man, oh man... 🙂

It used to help for a while, but even that hasn't really worked lately... But hey, even better. 🙂 Great way to break the forum habit. 😍

Haha, some people have actually asked me to just uninstall their web browser for them. 😬

That is just so sad. 😢

In that case, the safest move is to request a temporary ban. 🤔 Even if a hacker gets into your profile, they can't do anything except read an email address that doesn't even exist. 😁

(The site already logged me out for the second time today...)

Alright, jokes aside. There are these little tools called password managers that can handle hundreds of passwords. You only need one master password to access everything, and when you click an entry, it logs you right in. I won't get into the whole security deep dive here—this won't fix the security issues with HTTP access on this forum—but it will stop you from having to keep hundreds of passwords scattered all over the place.
Essentially, it's like having your own personal offline Directory service.

silentviper8 said:SQL injection... man, that’s some old-school hacking right there. It’s like a classic move that just refuses to die. Honestly, it still works like a charm on those clunky, outdated web apps out there. I know because, uh, yeah... I've definitely pulled it off myself before. ☕

Yeah, but... let's not get too carried away here.

Man, mobile apps are the new frontier for hackers. It’s wild. They just drop some "free" version of a popular app out there—you know, the kind everyone rushes to download because they want the premium features for zero dollars—and boom, you've got a keylogger running right in your pocket. Or they just find a massive hole in a super famous app that everyone uses daily and use it as a backdoor to scrape all your private data. It's getting crazy out there.

Whatever, man. There are tons of ways to pull it off.

Look, hashes aren't impossible to crack. It’s not like they're some unbreakable magic spell. You just gotta give it enough time. Slow and steady wins the race, right? 🙂

Look, MD4 was cracked ages ago, and MD5? Yeah, that's toast too. It’s just a bit more of a grind to find a collision, but still totally doable. As for SHA1, that one's officially busted as well—you just need some serious hardware to pull off a specific attack. We're talking like, a few thousand processors running at once. Honestly, it’s basically the exact same deal as mining crypto. 🤔

mistybison said:All my passwords look like some massive snake made of twenty random numbers and mixed-up letters, and I can't remember a single one of them. 😁

So why don't you just write it on your monitor? 🤔

Just kidding. Don't actually do that. 🤣

Maybe I'll throw in some special characters next time I update my passwords. 🤔 😁

Man, people just use lyrics from their favorite song that they've got memorized.

By the way, the forum keeps logging me out whenever I try to post a comment. 😁

Been dealing with this for 14 years now, every single day. It’s probably a web server timeout issue.
If you check that "remember me" box during login, the web server or front end caches your password locally. Then it basically tries to auto-retry every time you interact with anything external—it acts like an agent for you without any actual verification, which is honestly pretty sketchy. If you log out, make sure you clear your cache too (at least, that's what I think you should do).

And don't get any bright ideas about security here—the whole HTTP communication with this site is just straight-up plain HTTP. That means your precious password is being sent over as raw ASCII text. In other words, any script kiddie sitting on a device between your PC and the web server could sniff out your super complex password. Like, even that cheap router your ISP gave you, which everyone knows still uses the default password. 🙂

silentviper8 said:Passwords get pulled straight from the SQL database ☕ you could pick the most insane, complex password on the planet and still get hacked

Not exactly, though. Passwords aren't just sitting in the database in plain text; they're hashed using stuff like MD5 or SHA1/128/256/whatever else.

So, even if you somehow get your hands on the password database, you wouldn't be able to log in using those "passwords." That's literally what hashing is for.

I think Tapatalk went down, since basically everyone on the forums uses it. 🐔

George Cook31 said:Honestly, with a password like that, I wouldn't even recognize myself trying to log in. 😵

Check this out:

Dog<>Cat!

Rachel Brooks63 said:Not all of them are ancient history.

So, I actually just nuked a thread and banned an account where the last activity was way back in January '23. 🤷

Most of those accounts are oldies, but not all—some are totally fresh accounts just made for this specific purpose. 🤷

It’s super likely they’re just cycling through random accounts, hitting dozens or even hundreds at once by testing basic "easy" passwords from a dictionary. Since there’s usually a limit on failed login attempts, the script is probably rigged to dodge that by using long timeouts between tries while simultaneously moving on to the next account.

That’s basically how you track down which logins got hit.

mistybison said:Is there any way to protect my profile from getting hacked?

I see in the ban corner that even active members who haven't logged on for a bit are getting their profiles hijacked.

Since I haven't had much time to hang out on the forum lately, I really don't want to show up one day only to find my profile banned and a bunch of garbage posted under my name. 😁

Go with a password that's at least 8 characters long, mix in uppercase and lowercase letters, some numbers, and other stuff like ! , # , = or -

Man, I used to mess around with all those screen protectors and even those weird electrostatic films—you know, the clear plastic sheets you slap over a monitor using static electricity.

Honestly? Total waste of cash. Unless you're working in some dark corner where you don't have glare from a window or overhead office lights hitting your screen, it just doesn't do anything.

Mark Cruz15 said:He’s probably just trying to farm clicks for some quick cash. I recall him shilling some crypto group on Telegram where they supposedly drop investment tips.

So, basically, this guy thinks he can just spam clicks until he gets shut down by the mods? Like, what's the end game there?

Man, why was I born with such a massive brain and an even bigger appetite for clickbait?
Give me some decent teeth and clear vision instead, honestly.

Yo, restless crew!

The guy trying to "brute force" passwords clearly isn't out for blood, since he's actually flagging bad passwords right here on the forum. If you ask me, he’s just messing around with some ancient accounts. We can debate his motives all day if we want.

And yeah, it's just me, Leclerc—not some massive security breach called Jack Cook7.