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Some malcontent(s) running a script. Weak passwords are weak.

Thank you for posting this! Great work, documenting such a complicated process... somebody should streamline the posting program 🤔

Honestly, it should be as simple as adding a link + comment, like the modern world these days, with dup check, etc. Categorization could happen afterwards.

I really don’t care for the “forum” aspect in practice. Originally, these were more autonomous groups by design, it’s why “fr” is synonymous with “news” in old URLs, that was Free Republic, the rest was supposed to be “different site.” E.g. there is ugly code to move threads between forums, it wasn’t a designed function. But now I’m rambling.

USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) Full Ship Shock Trials

On Friday, June 18, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) successfully completed the first scheduled explosive event as part of Full Ship Shock Trials (FSST). The first-in-class aircraft carrier was designed using advanced computer modeling methods, testing, and analysis to ensure the ship is hardened to withstand battle conditions, and these shock trials provide data used in validating the shock hardening process.

https://www.dvidshub.net/feature/FullShipShockTrials

You hit “Report Abuse” rather than reply.

YouTube is a loss on paper only. It earns what it is intended to earn: influence of popular perception. Google search is the same. When it comes down to it, Alphabet is in the business of perception manipulation. Initially to sell advertising, but then they got political ...

If you disable quote replacement (an option named “smart quotes” or “curly quotes” or “typographical quotes”) then your Word program should be okay.

As for our side, there is a feature in the works that you should find useful. More details later.

Is this still happening? It seems like you’re getting a temporary (session only) cookie which is meant for public terminals.

I see that in OpenOffice Writer your HTML tags have typographical quotes (”curly quotes”) where they should be plain quotes. “Intelligent” word processors will trash your HTML, you should use Notepad (or a similar text editor) that is more literal. If this worked in the past, it was a corrective case on our end which seems to have not adapted to recent changes. (Long story short, we went from using Latin1 to UTF-8 character sets, and both Latin1 and UTF-8 have their own idea of what constitutes a curly quote, and they are different!)

I’m beginning to accept Google as an “enemy state.” Sides are being drawn, and they and the rest of big tech are clearly hostile to our free republic. Such a declaration is not to be taken lightly, it has ramifications far beyond stripping a script tag and would fundamentally change the nature of this site. (Do you think links to AP, CNN, WaPo, YouTube, Twitter, etc., are not just as dangerous?)

Hm. That’s weird. Fixed.

What? I can barely read what you wrote...

Nope, nothing changed on this end. Try increasing page zoom, the easiest way on desktop is to hold control while using the mouse wheel.

I’m done breaking things for the night.

Chat will be a proper feature someday.

That update took too long.

That’s because we lost half our readers tonight since maintenance has caused the site to go down a couple of times. Ha!

Similar to how MySQL UTF8 does not mean UTF8?

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