When I checked my email after getting home from work tonight I found a dozen messages sent to me by the board software at around 4 PM local time. I won't go into detail, but it looks like someone tried to use a buffer overrun exploit to crack into the board. I do not think they succeeded, although my downloaded backup of the board was unusually large, and when I'm done with other tasks I will be looking into its contents to see what made the size jump.
In any case, I was overdue on a MyBB software update, so I decided to do it right freaking now. That was the 15 minute timeout. I threw up a warning in a banner for 10 minutes and even locked the board before I started, but apparently someone still tried to use the forums as I upgraded; sorry about that.
I'm more than moderately peeved that I have to turn off my adblocker to log in to the forums.
I had a long-winded post here detailing the problems I've been having trying to log in and requesting help. As I was typing up the list of things I'd tried, it occurred to me that the one thing I hadn't was turning off adblocking.
"Surely that can't be it," I thought. And surely enough, I was wrong.
reCAPTCHA doesn't work if you're blocking ads. Frankly I'm not sure it works anyway -- I'm still unable to log in, but at least now I get the captcha popup and the message is that I need to wait since I've failed login too many times rather than that I need to solve the nonexistent captcha -- but, progress, I suppose.
Also: the board can't seem to email me, or at least, I haven't received any email (yes, I've checked, the address is correct; no, it's not going to spam). Which makes the "forgot password" link rather useless.
Unless THAT's blocked by adblockers too, which would be silly(-ier).
Edit to add: I'm logged-in right now because my old computer, which the IT dept wants to take away Real Soon Now, has my login cached. On my new computer I can't log in. I don't know how much longer I'll have this one, hence my original reason for posting.
Edit the second: it looks like the reCAPTCHA is just borked. I've waited for the timeout period and now it won't pop at all, and the forgot password bit *also* wants me to prove I'm not a robot (and won't pop the captcha either). I've turned off the adblocker, javascript is enabled, I don't know what else I can do on my end.
At a speech on Tuesday, one of the Presidential seals displayed behind Trump had been modified to have a two-headed Russian eagle holding golf clubs, with "45 is a puppet" in Spanish instead of "E pluribus unum" for the motto.
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If any of you are curious about what the hell is happening in Puerto Rico, here is a quick synopsis of the serious injustice and corruption. A couple of weeks back, details of a group chat between the governor of Puerto Rico (Ricardo Roselló), some of his allies and members of his administration were leaked. Some embarrassing stuff was revealed. A day or so later, the FBI implicated his former Secretary of Education, members of his administration and private contractors in schemes to influence the allocation of federal contracts to politically connected consultants and money laundering among other charges. This is just the beginning, get your popcorn ready
At the end of the week nearly 900 pages of screenshots of the group chat were revealed by the Puerto Rico Center for Investigative Journalism. This chat includes all manner of misogyny, homophobia, jokes about killing political enemies, threatening journalists, sharing confidential state info with lobbyists who were in the chat and stood to possibly benefit. But the most disgusting part of these chats was when the CFO joked about allowing vultures to feed off dead bodies from Hurricane Maria as a way to help with cleanup.
As a point of reference, Maria was a Hurricane Katrina level event that took place on a 100 x 35 mile island so you can’t just get your shit and drive inland to escape the damage. Both were Category 5 storms for which government agencies were ill prepared and handled poorly in their aftermath. Bodies piled up in morgues across the island following Maria, bodies the administration refused to acknowledge. 4,600 people died as a result and alleged leaders were joking about the deaths of our fellow citizens.
Our people deserve better leadership than this.
Across the island, people are protesting and demanding the resignation of the governor. Puerto Ricans have gathered in NYC, DC, Miami, Chicago, Orlando, Madrid, even Austria (I know, right?!?!) insisting that he step down. He doesn’t even have the support of his party anymore. The people are fed up, the group chat was the final straw. It’s time to go, Ricky.
This photo was taken earlier today (day ten of the protests) at Las America’s Avenue which at this point is six lanes wide:
Not sure how many people have both the interest and the requirements but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway.
First off, I must state that I'm relying on a youtube video (link below) and haven't verified anything so don't pay for anything just on my word. I'm assuming the demo is free but the software seems to be $30 in the US.
That said, if anyone has a PS4, a copy of the dreams creator software (something I hadn't even heard of before now) and are interested in a ff7 remake fan demo with remake gameplay but old school graphics then you might want to check it out.
