valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

Maybe it is this?
https://github.com/rossem/RedditStorage

So someone else tried to figure out what's up with r/8d555938976fc8b four years ago.
People suggested it was an encryption game similar to something else that was going on at the time. I don't think this is the case. It doesn't look like it's intended to be decrypted. All of the posts have since been deleted and there are no comments, well except for one. I dm'ed the account that left that comment and they claim they have no idea what it was.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4cciq8/what_is_this_encoded_subreddit_about/

The mystery reddit looks like AES encryption. This means I need to figure out the key.

The sub name looks like it's the first few characters of a line in the sub description :
8d555938976fc8bc672f3e316354d5bf4ebdec6e
so if I can figure out how to decode this, perhaps I can find more of these subs.

So the u/thehouseof account posted a ton of what appear to be encrypted messages to the sub r/8d555938976fc8b about two years ago. It looks like they were posting throughout the year 2016. I have no idea if there are more of these encrypted subs.

Also wow look at old reddit

I have a bit of a mystery on my hands
https://web.archive.org/web/20161128070220/https://www.reddit.com/r/8d555938976fc8b/

The company fama.io provides an automated tool for HR that screens a clients social media for "problematic" behavior such as cussing or references to alcohol. It doesn't just include posts by the subject but also any posts they liked as well. They call it a "background check for the 21st century"

The EU recommends that if a member of your family expresses anti-party beliefs you should call the police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2mqlkhi9-Y

If anyone knows why these didn't catch on I would love to know

So this was a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD9v9v7Dbqk

Is there any system to check if a video is modified (i.e. deepfake)? If a video came out of some extremely important thing how would it be verified by the public?

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all, irrevocably." - not George Washington, John Locke, or John Stewart Mills. This is from Star Trek TNG

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/02/27/the-case-for-liberal-nationalism/

"About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers." - Calvin Coolidge

I had to do a captcha earlier where I was asked to select all pictures with cars. One of the pictures was of a train. Do train cars count as cars?

I'm a big fan of the return of the bearded politician. Ted Cruz and Justin Trudeau show that this is a non-partisan, non-ideological issue that we can all get behind. Now I'm looking forward to the modern day Rutherford B Hayes.

Trump's press conference cut into Jeopardy. He's officially gone too far