What a great read. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if a "KOOL" tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).
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Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of
.avsfiles
https://fileinfo.com/extension/avs
.. is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.
I think audacious can load winamp skins (and xmms skins).
Will try at some point.
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That was truly strange, awesome
Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.
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I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.
This takes me back to a simpler time.
A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.
Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?
Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp...something about whipping unsuspecting animals in the ass.
The Jukebox was better because of cataloging from online sources and library features. Don't remember the visuals
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Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.
I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.
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This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.
I can't imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.
Actually, I'd love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn't work and poked into the files to see what was in there.
Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn't work.
Idk maybe it's because I'm not American so we didn't have the latest tech at all times, but I'm in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don't mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.
I'm under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it's some music software from the skins' pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins
(I haven't googled anything yet)
It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.
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*crickets*
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
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This is the Internet I miss!
What? You don't like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???
You don't LOVE that?
Try finding a nice desktop background picture of something specific. It's all just links to subscription based stock image sites.
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing. Just wanted a whale shark photo in 2K..
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Onboarding the general population was such a historic mistake
Please accept the cookie policy before any of that stuff...
Sign it, sign it now!!!?
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Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there's nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.
copy paste for context:
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.
There's a Wikipedia app? I find that baffling.
Try it. It's great.
How much time do you spend on Wikipedia?
My man, I think I have over a hundred tabs and saved wikipedia articles alone that I always refer to when needed. The app works great for me
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Why use an app when there's a web site? In case of Wikipedia I fail to see any functional benefit for an app.
Better reading experience overall. Compartmentalizing all my Wikipedia reading so as not to mix it with my other many open tabs. (Wikipedia app has tabs, too.) Sections are not collapsed by default. Easier to search on the page by default than in the browser.
I can probably go on it I made a more in-depth comparison after using the web version for a bit...
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Yes that works, and you can also use something like URLCheck and just drop that path
General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.
Nah, browsers are sandboxed to absolute shit it is such a pain in the ass to make an extension just to do a phishing attack or to buy the ownership of one to introduce malicious code.
At most an extension with really broad permissions like read/write contents of any page (a fact that is made obvious upon installation) can replace a link to take you to a phishing page to harvest creds, but thanks to SSL and HTTPS it won't even work without fifty some odd warnings
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nice findings!
Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.