Very interesting article!

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    3 months ago

    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?

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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.

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      Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?

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        3 months ago

        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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        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)

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        27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they’re essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they’re not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.

        How far off am I?

        Mind, I’m far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.

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        3 months ago

        I’m 21, but people talk about winamp online all the time so I’m pretty familiar

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      Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge

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        3 months ago

        Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.

        I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.

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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.

  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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    Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.

    I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.

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    3 months ago

    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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    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.

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        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.

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            You live by that and I’ll live by the advice I’ve seen from infosec professionals that recommend as few add-ons as possible due to security concerns. But yes, browsers are getting more secure over time and that’s good.

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                You obviously shouldn’t install closed source or otherwise shady extensions from dodgy authors you don’t know, but on the whole there is very little they can do that you should worry about.

                Sorry if I’m nitpicky or confused here. You just said it’s obvious that you shouldn’t install closed sourced or otherwise shady extensions. Do you think a normie knows and cares if an extension is open source? And how do they know if an extension is “shady”? And what about legit extensions that get bought by shady people and turned into shady ones long after they’ve been installed and the user base trusts it?

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            I mean, couldn’t an addon just read the password you put into a login field, or send in a request, and send it off to their servers?

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                Obviously a simple URL redirector for wikipedia requesting access to this data is absurd and would be an immediate red flag.

                To you, yes it should be. But it does require knowledge about how websites and browsers work that most people don’t have. I’d be very surprised if 50% of people have any idea what those permissions actually do and what would be reasonable for different extensions to have.

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      People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.

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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.

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          The app has offline capabilities and to save articles on a named list. I use it as a reference when forgetting something or to save the list type article as a starting point when researching a software to use. Or just generally a reading material when on the go (yes, I find reading wikipedia articles entertaining)

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          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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              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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                I would assume, and hope, it works really well for such usage. I only tend to end up on Wikipedia a couple of times a week, and 95% of that is on my desktop to have a quick look at something I won’t be getting back to ever again.

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              Time? Pff, no clue. But I look things up all the time and don’t have time to finish articles the first time round, ever (two kids under six).

              So it’s great to have and get back to articles.

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    Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of .avs files

    https://fileinfo.com/extension/avs

    … is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.

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    This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there’s always treasure to be found.