I used Compuserve only a few times, on someone else’s computer. So I’m not terribly familiar with it. However, it looks like they provided a Web interface to them until they shut down the forums at the end of October 2017.

Archive.org has snapshots of that Web interface.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170920031241/http://member.compuserve.com/forum_center/

They do appear to be readable from that point. You’ll need to wait for a few reloads after clicking on a forum, as there are some HTTP 302 redirects, but it eventually comes up.

I don’t know how long Compuserve retains messages on a forum — if you saw this in, say, the 1990s, and they expired prior to the Web interface and archive.org archiving them, they may not be on archive.org.

But if you can remember where they were, that might get you there. Good luck!

Hah! Glad to hear that that’s another white whale harpooned, then!

I assumed that if you could check it, it’d either have the song or not.

Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn’t find it anywhere online. Back around 2023 — 32 years later — after repeated, sporadic hunts — I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to !gameart@sopuli.xyz:

https://lemmy.world/post/18353742

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png

I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.

EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.

Probably not it — I’m about 30 years out of date on D&D — but it does sound overpowered and it is associated with Rillifane:

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?448029-Post-Your-Chosen-Templates-Here

It seems that a lot of people come to the FR boards looking for info on Chosen of the various deities. To put it quite simply, the majority of them don’t actually exist. So on the old FR boards, a group of members got together and started making their own homemade Chosen templates.

I have no idea what “the old FR boards” are, but if it was old in 2013, it’s probably getting back towards the time you were looking at.

Could have been taken down due to a copyright complaint if it was using unlicensed commercial music.

Relevant community: !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world

I’m not familiar with it, but according to this, the last episode is “The Paradise”.

I assume that this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8K7YCYSic

There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can’t name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven’t, you might give it a shot.

kagis

https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/

https://musikerkennung.com/en/

Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlfriendInCanada

Girlfriend in Canada

A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they’re either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her because she lives in Canada. She doesn’t visit very often, but when she does they just spend all day in bed. Look, here’s her entry in his phone’s contact list. No, you can’t see a picture.

The idea is that since “she” lives in a different country, and presumably would have to get a passport and go through all that hassle in order to visit her “boyfriend”, it’s particularly tempting to make her Canadian as a way of discouraging others from asking too many questions.

The tactic could be scaled up.

Hmm.

So for some software, you can just increase the price.

But…I wonder what that will do to the cost of video games. Typically, those are closer to one-off releases, not packages where new releases exist and are regularly purchased or subscriptions are in place.

I’d expect this to increase the cost of maintenance, if there are legal obligations on publishers to monitor, notify, and deploy security fixes for their software and upstream. You’d think that it might encourage vendors to EOL software sooner; pull it off Steam or the like, mark as no longer supported.

Maybe there are some exemptions somewhere that affect those.

It’s not the first intervention in Haiti.

The reason that both a lot of Haitians and a lot of countries didn’t want another international intervention was because the prior ones tended to wind up with everyone unhappy and complaining about the situation. The most recent one was UN aid after the earthquake. The UN force that was sent included some soldiers out of some country that had cholera, which started a cholera outbreak, which wound up with angry Haitians who calling for reparations and countries who felt unappreciated for what they were doing.

kagis

Looks like it was some soldiers from Nepal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_Haiti_cholera_outbreak

What’s the big deal with POSIX? Why are ppl constantly discussing what is and isn’t posix compliant?

The short version: it’s a least-common-denominator standard that spans multiple Unix and Unix-like systems, so if you write to it, your software can fairly-trivially run on various systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

Windows has some level of Microsoft-provided Posix support, which is what the post is alluding to. I am fairly confident that it doesn’t have full Posix compliance. Cygwin, a separate, non-Microsoft, open-source effort, might qualify.

kagis

Okay, apparently it does confirm to a portion of the Posix standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

The subsystem only implements the POSIX.1 standard – also known as IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 or ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 – primarily covering the kernel and C library programming interfaces which allowed a program written for other POSIX.1-compliant operating systems to be compiled and run under Windows NT. The Windows NT POSIX subsystem did not provide the interactive user environment parts of POSIX, originally standardized as POSIX.2. That is, Windows NT did not provide a POSIX shell nor any Unix commands out of the box, except for pax. The NT POSIX subsystem also did not provide any of the POSIX extensions that postdated the creation of Windows NT 3.1, such as those for POSIX Threads or POSIX IPC.

The teenager was later found “alive and well” on September 26.

“Well” other than the self-inflicted gunshot wound, one imagines.

My impression is that it’s hard to find powerful specs alone on an Android tablet. That seemed counterintuitive to me — I’d think that the extra space would help — but I think what’s going on is that everyone gets a smartphone, and they make that their primary mobile device. Then if they have the funds, they get a tablet, most-often for dedicated movie viewing. The market for that is pretty price-sensitive, so tablets don’t generally cost as much as flagship smartphones. As a result, most tablets tend to have good speakers and a decent display, but unimpressive radios, compute capability, and most other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillette

In September 2025, he called for Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal to be executed for encouraging anti-Trump protests, claiming that she supported the “overthrow of the American government”.[8][9] Gillette had previously expressed support for people arrested as a result of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, calling them “political prisoners”.[9][10] Earlier that month, he had also made social media posts that reject the concept of Islamophobia while calling Muslims “savages” and “terrorists”.[11]

He doesn’t sound like a very nice person.

EDIT: Honestly, most of his Twitter stuff is yelling, too.

https://x.com/AzRepGillette

e.g. to pick a random item:

Senator Mark Kelly:

This Pride Month, we honor the courage and contributions of LGBTQ+ Americans who’ve fought—and continue to fight—for equality in Arizona and across the country. Our country is better because of you.

Representative John Gillette:

What about D-Day… always your pathetic pandering. Our country is free because from D-Day - Aug 17 th, 33K Americans died defeating tyranny. We remember that, not groomer awareness month.

I suppose that people not liking NSFW questions is why Reddit had both /r/tipofmytongue and /r/tipofmypenis, to separate the two sets of questions.

I would note that, to pick two examples:

ExpressVPN appears to have California-based exit nodes:

https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-server/us-vpn/san-francisco-vpn

NordVPN appears to have California-based exit nodes:

https://nordvpn.com/servers/usa/sanfrancisco/

You can effectively choose the state law under which you want to access the Internet.

looks at Ohio meaningfully

I’m guessing that this case could go either way, if appealed.

If you’re a citizen, there are some strong restrictions on what the government can do.

But there have been examples where the Executive Branch is accorded a great deal of leeway in being able to determine whether non-citizens may enter the country, including using criteria that would not be permissible if applied to citizens. IIRC from past reading, there is unresolved territory in case law.

kagis for an example

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/753/

Kleindienst v. Mandel

This action was brought to compel the Attorney General to grant a temporary nonimmigrant visa to a Belgian journalist and Marxian theoretician whom the American plaintiff appellees had invited to participate in academic conferences and discussions in this country. The alien had been found ineligible for admission under §§ 212(a)(28)(D) and (G)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, barring those who advocate or publish “the economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world communism.” The Attorney General had declined to waive ineligibility as he has the power to do under § 212(d) of the Act, basing his decision on unscheduled activities engaged in by the alien on a previous visit to the United States, when a waiver was granted. A three-judge District Court, although holding that the alien had no personal entry right, concluded that citizens of this country had a First Amendment right to have him enter and to hear him, and enjoined enforcement of § 212 as to this alien.

Held: In the exercise of Congress’ plenary power to exclude aliens or prescribe the conditions for their entry into this country, Congress in § 212(a)(28) of the Act has delegated conditional exercise of this power to the Executive Branch. When, as in this case, the Attorney General decides for a legitimate and bona fide reason not to waive the statutory exclusion of an alien, courts will not look behind his decision or weigh it against the First Amendment interests of those who would personally communicate with the alien. Pp. 408 U. S. 761-770.

So, in that case, the guy was barred from entry to the US because he had been an advocate of world communism. However, the government could not create laws against citizens doing so, because that would violate their First Amendment rights.

kagis

Ah, but this says that while the government does have a lot of leeway as to permitting entry, courts have, in the past, found a distinction between permitting entry initially and whether-or-not a non-citizen resident may be deported:

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/aliens/

Supreme Court precedents hold that aliens are entitled to lesser First Amendment protections while seeking to enter the United States, because an alien has no right to enter the country, as per United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy (1950).

During the McCarthy Era, in Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580 (1952), the U.S. allowed the deportation of a legal resident alien who was a member of the Communist Party, but Justice William O. Douglas persuasively argued in dissent that “An alien, who is assimilated in our society, is treated as a citizen so far as his property and his liberty are concerned.”

In matters involving alien exclusion and naturalization, Congress has historically been permitted broad regulatory powers, so the government has been able to use the political viewpoints of aliens against them where content-based distinctions against citizens would be impermissible. Some examples:

• Exclusion of a British anarchist was at issue in Turner v. Williams (1904);
• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952), cited above, concerned deportation of communists; and
• Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972) examined denial of a travel visa to a Marxist.

Legal aliens enjoy First Amendment rights

Once situated lawfully in the United States, aliens enjoy First Amendment rights.

As Justice Francis W. Murphy described the law in his concurrence in Bridges v. Wixon (1945), “the Bill of Rights is a futile authority for the alien seeking admission for the first time to these shores. But once an alien lawfully enters and resides in this country he becomes invested with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders.”

In that case, the Court reversed the deportation of labor activist Harry Bridges, an Australian, because of statements he had made that prosecutors charged indicated “affiliation” with the Communist Party. Writing for the Court, Justice William O. Douglas concluded that “freedom of speech and of the press is accorded aliens residing in this country. . . . [T]he literature published by Harry Bridges, the utterances made by him were entitled to that protection.”

Developments during Trump Administration

The Trump Administration has sought both to restrict U.S. entry of non-citizens who oppose U.S. policies and to expel those within the country who have participated in political protests that the administration disfavors.

In 2025, the administration sought to revoke the student visa and green card of Mahmoud Khalil for his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.

It did so under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which authorizes the Secretary of State to deport any individual who is “adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America.” After his arrest, Khalil was moved to a detention center in Louisiana and the government made additional arguments that Khalil obtained his green card without mentioning his employment by the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut. He is now scheduled for a hearing before an immigration judge in New Jersey.

In the meantime, the government has arrested a Tufts University Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, whom it has also transported to Louisiana, apparently on the basis that she coauthored an article criticizing the university’s response to the Palestinian crisis. The government has also deported Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who was working at Brown University, on the basis that she had attended the funeral of a Hezbollah leader in Lebanon. In addition, the government has arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national researcher at Georgetown University, alleging that Suri was supporting Hamas propaganda and antisemitism. Suri has challenged this detention in court and is awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge in Texas. Yet another foreign student at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, which was a site of pro-Palestinian protests, has been arrested.

In resolving these cases, courts will likely clarify the scope of existing legislation, whether the power asserted by the Secretary of State violates due process, and the degree to which resident aliens who are legally residing within the United States are protected by the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees.

Ah, gotcha. Just for the record — though it doesn’t really matter as regards your point, because I was incorrectly assuming that you were using it as an example of with something with Firewire onboard — there are apparently two different products:

The 1010 has a PCI card, but it talks to an external box:

The 1010LT has a PCI card alone, no external box, and then a ton of cables that fan out directly from the card:

Neither appears to have a Firewire interface. IIRC, the 1010LT was less expensive, was the one I was using.