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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by Lord Dave on March 26, 2024, 12:09:54 AM »
But Tom, he was on the forbes 500 already.  Are you saying he lied before?

Also, isn't his networth increase due to Truth Social going public and the initial expected stock surge which will likely drop like a stone to its true worth soon after?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by Tom Bishop on March 25, 2024, 08:05:47 PM »
Trump's bond was reduced to $175 Million, and there is still a question whether he will even end up paying anything.

Trump's networth also recently increased to $6.4 Billion making him, for the first time, one of the world's 500 richest people.

Looks like he is winning to me.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by Action80 on March 25, 2024, 05:25:21 PM »
So much winning!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68600093
The bond was reduced.

Next up - The appeals court throws out the whole case because it was fucking bogus to begin with.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« Last post by honk on March 25, 2024, 01:31:38 AM »
The Arkham games have always struggled the most of any series in trying to balance their high-stakes plots with their open-world formats. It's not helped by how inane and convoluted their plots end up being. It's so unnecessary. The main draw of these games has always been playing as Batman and fighting his famous villains. There was no need to pair that up with an apocalyptic plot with a breakneck pace in which everything happens over the course of a single night. My big takeaway when I first played through the series was that the games would be so much better if they loosened up and took a more episodic approach, just letting you play as Batman as he encounters and faces off against his villains as he goes about his business.

It's a shame that you didn't like Dragon's Dogma, Crudblud. I'm enjoying its new sequel so far, though.
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« Last post by Pete Svarrior on March 24, 2024, 07:13:08 PM »
I didn't see any obviously suspicious changes when I diffed a vanilla MediaWiki with our current code, but that didn't cover all the extensions we've added, so there's a chance there's something somewhere in there.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything obvious, either. I have no access to access logs for the wiki (or, well, any access logs really) - if you don't mind granting me those I'd be keen to snoop around.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« Last post by Rushy on March 24, 2024, 04:17:04 PM »
I am annoyed that to fight the Riddler in Arkham Knight you have to do ALL TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE of his stupid riddles on the map. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« Last post by xasop on March 24, 2024, 03:16:00 PM »
Makes sense. If both Tom and I ended up in a similar scenario (noticed vandalism, made edits, and those edits turned into more vandalism), it almost makes me wonder if someone made changes to our MediaWiki code. I'll poke around a little this evening.
I didn't see any obviously suspicious changes when I diffed a vanilla MediaWiki with our current code, but that didn't cover all the extensions we've added, so there's a chance there's something somewhere in there.
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« Last post by Pete Svarrior on March 24, 2024, 03:12:23 PM »
When I looked at the change your account made, the diff just changed the vandalism to different vandalism.
Ooh, that is very interesting. It definitely didn't look that way when I made the edit, but I only checked it once while still logged in.

The Southern Hemisphere page wasn't listed in Tom's original list of vandalised pages, so it's not at all clear whether there was any original vandalism to persist in the cache.
Makes sense. If both Tom and I ended up in a similar scenario (noticed vandalism, made edits, and those edits turned into more vandalism), it almost makes me wonder if someone made changes to our MediaWiki code. I'll poke around a little this evening.

I found our theme calls deprecated functions and I don't know to what extent it's been customised.
Last time the theme broke, we "temporarily" grabbed another one from the shelf and made a few changes to the CSS to tweak it to our brand; and then it stayed like that for years. I suspect we'll want to do that again, rather than try and fix the current ancient hodgepodge.
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« Last post by xasop on March 24, 2024, 02:20:15 PM »
I tried upgrading MediaWiki to 1.41.0, and after manually cleaning up a bunch of duplicate database records and upgrading some extensions, I found our theme calls deprecated functions and I don't know to what extent it's been customised. I've already given up half my afternoon that I was supposed to spend studying and I'm unlikely to have any more time to waste on this until sometime in mid-April. For now it's back on the old version with edits still disabled.
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« Last post by xasop on March 24, 2024, 01:24:05 PM »
Are you certain about that? I manually reverted the vandalism, but I saw no evidence of my account making any malicious edits.
When I looked at the change your account made, the diff just changed the vandalism to different vandalism. It's now gone, of course, since I restored an old backup.

Also, it's worth keeping in mind that just reverting the database is likely not to be very effective on MediaWiki. It seems more likely to me that some of the vandalism persisted in its cache, and that making an edit restored it.
The Southern Hemisphere page wasn't listed in Tom's original list of vandalised pages, so it's not at all clear whether there was any original vandalism to persist in the cache. To be on the safe side, I've restarted memcached (I already restarted php when I restored the database before), so now there is no cache from before the database restore.