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  • McMeddon
    Public • September 24, 2026, 7:23 am
    📋 Simple 🕷️ Laws of this household
    - stay in your corner or at your place
    - handle the bugs and flies
    - if you do harm to me i expect to be the next spiderman

    - *!!!DO NOT SUDDENLY VANISH!!!*

    Why you 🕷️ braking the pacts!?!
  • Writer's Group post by yuunbae
    Public • September 23, 2026, 1:15 am
    Currently working on my own book, hopefully to be published in 1-2 years when I'm estimated to be finished!! ;D
    EmollientFirr What sort of book?? :O
    yuunbae • 2026-09-23 02:13:19
    It's a psychological thriller type of genre :]
    EmollientFirr • 2026-09-23 01:49:05
    What sort of book?? :O
  • Writer's Group post by yuunbae
    Public • September 22, 2026, 1:55 am
    Yes, we're doing this again! I know I've been so inactive for so long, but I'm going to try and be more active here and give weekly and monthly challenges and some other fun, writing things to do! Hopefully some people are still active here

    Weekly Challenge: Write a story about the protagonist having to stay in an ancient, unheard-of hotel (for whatever reason) that is hiding its own dark secrets that go along with the mini town's history. (This will be due at the end of this week or the next if I remember).
  • Writer's Group post by yuunbae
    Public • September 22, 2026, 1:23 am
    the girl i'll never be


    She walks in like the morning

    With petals in her hair,

    A garden follows softly

    Whenever she is there.


    She’s the kind of beauty

    The moon would stop to see,

    A magnolia in the sunlight,

    A dream I’ll never be.


    And I am only a shadow

    Beside her golden glow,

    A little forgotten wildflower

    That no one stops to know.


    She laughs and all the roses

    Would look on with envy and fade,

    For nothing born of nature

    Could match the light she made.


    If beauty had a language,

    She’d be every word it knows,

    The sweetest spring confession,

    The first and final rose.


    But I will stand in wonder,

    A quiet soul beneath the trees,

    Because she is the garden—

    And I am just the breeze.
  • McMeddon shared CaraRose's post
    Public • September 21, 2026, 3:01 pm
    Execute Order x86
    CaraRose
    Public • September 21, 2026, 8:51 am
    so... life is great, Fall Festival server is gone...
    I hope I can get it back 😭

    UPD: Windows File Recovery is a piece of crap that recovered 66.5 GB of pure garbage and absolutely nothing from the folder I asked for.
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    AxoBeet • 2026-09-22 05:00:55
    Can I interest you in Bazzite?
    CaraRose • 2026-09-21 16:53:39
    don't throw your penguin of a system right at me like that
    I've been thinking about it for too long, but I'm scared 😭
  • McMeddon shared DreamWanderer's post
    Public • September 20, 2026, 6:45 pm
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    DreamWanderer
    Public • September 19, 2026, 4:27 pm
    Uploaded the first of a Minecraft Let's play (Tried again after my mic was so quiet)
    If this goes well I will see if I should continue uploading/recording
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  • McMeddon
    Public • September 19, 2026, 9:25 am
    Today is the day i learned: PMC has 2 Factor Authentication - GO enable it now!!!! *pretty please*



    I feel like such a fool - i hardened and secured every account i have - heck i even use physical security keys by now - except for one crucial: my PMC Account.
    This couldve gone (/can be) so bad with my reach/presence. My humble apologies for this oversight.

    Please enable 2FA on all your crucial google, apple, proton, microsoft, etc accounts - credential leaks happen basically every week by now.
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 17, 2026, 5:35 pm
    after some mc building today, worked on the website a bit.
    and checked some stats.

    Why is Meta trying to ddos my website lol
    like everyone being "reasonable" and only sending daily 1-500 bot requests / per ai comapny..
    Meta: 16 THOUSAND..

    the site even has only like 5-600 pages. (260 projects + 3d)
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 15, 2026, 2:13 pm
    Idk what it takes for you guys,
    but realizing that your weather app is tracking you, to sell your location data, is certainly a bar i do snap' at.


    Working on more minecraft stuff again today and then spend the afternoon inspecting and yeeting apps of my phone.
    Found this open source attempt at a ios and android weather app, https://ossweather.akylas.fr/ OSS Weather and on Linux i found: "Mousam" which is very nice

    edit: wrong app screenshotted #updated img
    SEfaught • 2026-09-17 14:34:04
    kind of reminds me of those notification you would get when downloading a new app, basically asking if the app has your permission to make phone calls
    McMeddon Metapher: Asking a local person on the street for directions and then both going their own separate ways VS asking for d...
    Kraggle09 • 2026-09-15 15:25:58
    Edit: I see the fixed image now, that’s definitely crossing a line.


    It’s all able to be opted out of, and it’s not being sold. It’s standard product improvement analytics. It’s more like the person going to the mayor and saying “hey this person couldn’t find LOCATION, we should add a sign for it”. Unless I’m missing something in the privacy policy.
    Kraggle09 oh wait, duh it “tracks your location” how else does it tell you the weather?
    McMeddon • 2026-09-15 15:02:46
    Metapher: Asking a local person on the street for directions and then both going their own separate ways VS asking for directions once, and then they follow you, while keeping notes, where you go and what you wear.
    Kraggle09 I mean, that’s only if you have analytics enabled in iOS settings, right? Since Weather is a system app?
    Kraggle09 • 2026-09-15 14:26:37
    oh wait, duh it “tracks your location” how else does it tell you the weather?
    Kraggle09 • 2026-09-15 14:21:10
    I mean, that’s only if you have analytics enabled in iOS settings, right? Since Weather is a system app?
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 15, 2026, 3:52 am
    boop
    FIRESTAR09_10 • 2026-09-15 11:20:01
    beep
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 14, 2026, 8:14 am
    This is like a super lowball and harmless example, but..

    i swear researching for projects and trying to find authentic and real references gets like.. harder and harder every year. When google and co are just flooded with 10 altered versions + ai recreations of a real place. So frustrating, like having to analyse every image if its real or not...


    Awhikax Google offer filtering by date so I guess filtering anything pre-AI era would help. Looking for nature photography cont...
    McMeddon • 2026-09-16 06:50:21
    i just tested that for a sunken ships in swamps AND HOLY HEAVENS IS IT DIFFERENT.
    Awhikax • 2026-09-15 13:56:20
    Google offer filtering by date so I guess filtering anything pre-AI era would help.
    Looking for nature photography contest websites may also be a good way to find "natural" images (often photoshopped though).
    DOOMSTRYKER • 2026-09-14 09:22:20
    I agree with you on this one. I want to see REAL untouched pictures of REAL Earth for my builds! Not something regurgitated by AI. I want to see the true beauty of our world.
  • McMeddon shared RustToaster's post
    Public • September 11, 2026, 5:14 am
    ooOO cand- 💥
    RustToaster
    Public • September 10, 2026, 9:24 pm
    ☠️⠀DANGER⠀☠️

    DO NOT ENTER WALL
    POST COMMENT SECTION

    ⠀⠀LAND MINES IN AREA⠀⠀
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    Dronko fire blaster • 2026-09-11 13:52:16
    Boop
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 10, 2026, 11:58 am
    Testing experimental ways to create more complex and larger caves.



  • McMeddon
    Public • September 9, 2026, 6:24 am
    LG IS SOOO DONE.

    On my recent TV with invasive ACR post.
    Its apparently way worse.

    -They are insecure( with unpatched 0Day & RCE's), botnet enabling, data scrapers, analyzing you, your network, your surroundings, your neighbors. Nothing is save. And neither is the data it captures, because they store it all in LOGS and send off. To a firm LG doesnt even fully control.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
    You can have EVERYTHING denied. And they still profile you. May they crash and burn and get sued to hell.


    This is not LG only - samsung, hisense, tcl, sony, vizio etc do that ship very very like tooI hope this whole add/tech burns to the ground one day.
    CalDoesStuff • 2026-09-11 20:56:38
    reading this on my LG monitor 😔
    McMeddon Oh yea im pissed! Linux: Was 100% Worth it! Let me give you my 7-8 months intro knowledge: GET VENTOY for install! Y...
    Awhikax • 2026-09-09 15:50:11
    ❤️
    Awhikax lmao now you're gonna hate them I should definitely switch to Linux, one day...
    McMeddon • 2026-09-09 12:53:28
    Oh yea im pissed!
    Linux: Was 100% Worth it! Let me give you my 7-8 months intro knowledge:

    GET VENTOY for install! You can try first without even installing (usb), or try it on a secondary pc/laptop or in a VM.
    Debian/Ubuntu (lts), Fedora(mid cycle) or CachyOS (latest) with KDE (win like) or Gnome (mac like) is just 95% you need.
    Do 1 OS per system, dualboot Linux+Win possible, but can be a real hassle especially when something breaks.
    Dont trust google serp results, i bricked my system once or twice.

    Main limits, currently VM's on linux have no native GPU passthrough support, limited support for various proprietary (video/audio-) codecs h265, mpeg or aac. Ms native/locked programs, Mc Bedrock, games with kernel anti cheat, Adobe programs, and niche proprietary programs. Most windows programs are possible to run with bottles/wine or winboat. 80/20 chance.
    McMeddon I am SO aware. And got me laughing when i saw, this on my windows partition Gladly i switched to linux (cachy) earl...
    Awhikax • 2026-09-09 11:58:39
    lmao now you're gonna hate them
    I should definitely switch to Linux, one day...
    Awhikax Wait until you figure out their monitors are installing adwares on your PC...
    McMeddon • 2026-09-09 11:52:25
    I am SO aware. And got me laughing when i saw, this on my windows partition
    Gladly i switched to linux (cachy) earlier this year.
    SuperYosh • 2026-09-09 11:39:07
    fuck lg

    i have an lg tv and i just dont connect it to the internet
    Kraggle09 I like the tech posts
    SuperYosh • 2026-09-09 11:38:49
    same
    Awhikax • 2026-09-09 11:32:37
    Wait until you figure out their monitors are installing adwares on your PC...
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  • McMeddon
    Public • September 8, 2026, 4:37 am
    On the privacy note - tip:
    For you iPhone users check out this research/inspection tool: Loupe
    Showcases how fingerprinting on ordinary data points, can reveal your interests, habits and circumstances.



    Its amazing, got labled gamer, purely on the basis that i had twitch installed KEKW
    But also put me into the Privacy bucket, because i had Signal and Proton apps.

    I figured out that 1/1000 images of mine had a geotag (grrrrr).
    I also learned that my phone has a barometer?!
    int32 so there may be apps stealing your barometric information? creepy! (I have no idea what they could infer from THAT!)
    McMeddon • 2026-09-08 15:07:22
    barometer is like to meassure air pressure. Apparently its for:

    Vertical GPS and floor detection.
    Fittness tracking (the movement changes) + Activity recognition.
    Part of weather analytics, if your local pressure drops it could warn about rain.
    Oh for paragliding apps when you fly in the mountains.
    int32 • 2026-09-08 13:40:35
    so there may be apps stealing your barometric information? creepy!
    (I have no idea what they could infer from THAT!)
    PotatoWolfie • 2026-09-08 06:47:33
    that's bonkers
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 6, 2026, 12:00 pm
    Mc unrelated: Does anyone of you guys have a TV?
    Cute reminder TURN OFF ACR AND OTHER SETTINGS: all your TV's track/monitor/spy on you for advertisement/user-profiling by capturing your screens c:

    Samsung, TCL, LG, Roku, Vizio, Sony.. basically all do ACR, they know when&what you watch, play, or when you do work or shop
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu343KNek

    (On the LG G5, identifiable ACR-related traffic)
    Dronko fire blaster • 2026-09-07 14:30:57
    we do, but its a rear projection crt, though we do have a fire stick on it.
    HyperOctal Oh god, as someone with an LG G5, that makes me very uncomfortable
    McMeddon • 2026-09-07 14:12:06
    check the settings, turn of acr and any marketing settings. It does help.
    HyperOctal • 2026-09-07 14:04:39
    Oh god, as someone with an LG G5, that makes me very uncomfortable
    Papa Enny • 2026-09-06 14:54:34
    Thankfullly I don't have my device connected to internet. I just watch the simpsons, futurama and family and in the evening
    BTW Simpsons run at 18 on Pro7 and 19:20 futurama and family start on Pro7 Max
    int32 • 2026-09-06 14:03:28
    I have a 20 years old russian media player with a USB HDD, and although I doubt it has any trackers, it's disconnected from the network anyway.
    ILIKEOBSIDIAN • 2026-09-06 13:39:05
    **sweats aggressively**
    SuperYosh • 2026-09-06 12:31:17
    We have an LG G4 and we just... don't connect it to the internet. We use our PS4 for streaming, and we also have a blu ray player for physical media.
    MerBatPhan89 • 2026-09-06 12:21:17
    Good thing I don't use any of those streaming services as I prefer physical media, and for YouTube I use Newpipe/Pipepipe which blocks all the annoying ads and prevents my data from being sold to Google.
  • McMeddon
    Public • September 5, 2026, 10:41 am
    New world map before GTA6 lul

    The UN voted for a new map projection to be used - Bye Bye Mercator, hello equal earth c:
    New one comes with better country proportions and doesnt exxagerates the polar regions as much

    also only now I noticed that mercator freacking placed the equator line into Algeria instead of Gabon, DRC, Kenya etc. wth xD

    YourFriend0918 but is it reliable for navigation?
    McMeddon • 2026-09-07 08:09:04
    probably not, but they surely can continue using mercator - sea maps for sea mateys and land maps for the land rats ARRR
    YourFriend0918 • 2026-09-06 19:16:49
    but is it reliable for navigation?
    Dronko fire blaster rip south poll
    McMeddon • 2026-09-06 04:21:38
    now orcas and sealions dont know the way to the penguins anymore - penguin inside job
    Dronko fire blaster • 2026-09-05 14:27:01
    rip south poll
  • McMeddon
    Public • August 30, 2026, 3:24 pm
    webdev stuff i learned today.
    Was kinda confused why there were these random path requests for my site and investigated a bit.
    • There are automated reconnaissance bots casually skimming through the web searching for access points / logins to webservers or backends to attack (knew about that)
    • What i didnt yet know was one way how they do that, supposedly this is a "asset fingerprinting", trying to get a response from hidden web server/pages which usually doesnt respond or straightup blocks that stuff, but regardless of request sends like favicons/logos of the login page and therefor giving like a "positive" response back.

    Kraggle09 I misread "/static/icon/bjch.png" as "/static/icon/bitch.png" and was very confused as to why you'd name a file that XD
    McMeddon • 2026-08-30 15:44:36
    xD
    Kraggle09 • 2026-08-30 15:36:29
    I misread "/static/icon/bjch.png" as "/static/icon/bitch.png" and was very confused as to why you'd name a file that XD
  • McMeddon
    Public • August 29, 2026, 4:25 am
    Hy🅱️nosis 😵‍💫
  • McMeddon
    Public • August 28, 2026, 7:34 pm
    You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round
    Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round

    FrankOrSmth • 2026-08-28 21:31:00
    ooooh, looks very cool
    ZappyGru • 2026-08-28 19:35:59
    Loving the terrain
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