A part of the problem this thread has is that people do actually move across town, the county or even the planet...  ... and ensuring you have a specific wallet addresses PrivKeys five, ten twenty years into the future in case someone decides they doubt who you are and demand you sign from an old wallet address ... are some of you saying you've NEVER lost a wallet through an upgrade or system crash?

It's a very vague "He said" / "She said" kind of a FUD thread - why didn't the OP just report the (apparent) plagiarism?

Nice to see my suggestion of checksums and duplicate files is starting to gain traction. 

In any event, it looks like option #2 is remaining out in front.  Its not the best option and other users suggestions are probably going to fall on deaf ears until IMGUR pulls the plug then this will start again.  As a couple of users have pointed out, none of this will make a difference to users who are not logged into the Forum and will just see a whole lot of broken links.

I forgot to mention the Panthers had three disallowed tries in the last fifteen minutes of the first half via the video referee.

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St George/Illawarra Dragons - Sydney Roosters 19 May 2023 18:00 Money Line Sydney Roosters @ 1.44 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.144 mBTC
South Sydney Rabbitohs - Parramatta Eels 19 May 2023 20:00 Money Line South Sydney Rabbitohs @ 1.34 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.134 mBTC
Cronulla Sharks - Newcastle Knights 20 May 2023 15:00 Money Line Cronulla Sharks @ 1.34 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.134 mBTC
Wests Tigers - North Queensland Cowboys 20 May 2023 17:30 Money Line North Queensland Cowboys @ 1.63 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.163 mBTC
Redcliffe - Melbourne Storm 20 May 2023 19:35 Money Line Redcliffe @ 2.73 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.273 mBTC
Canterbury Bulldogs - Gold Coast Titans 21 May 2023 14:00 Money Line Gold Coast Titans @ 1.75 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.175 mBTC
Canberra Raiders - Manly Sea Eagles 21 May 2023 16:05 Money Line Canberra Raiders @ 1.50 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.15 mBTC

Parlay 19 May 2023 10:38 Ticket ID: 31168072 St George/Illawarra Dragons - Sydney Roosters 19 May 2023 18:00 Money Line Sydney Roosters @ 1.44 South Sydney Rabbitohs - Parramatta Eels 19 May 2023 20:00 Money Line South Sydney Rabbitohs @ 1.34 Cronulla Sharks - Newcastle Knights 20 May 2023 15:00 Money Line Cronulla Sharks @ 1.34 Redcliffe - Melbourne Storm 20 May 2023 19:35 Money Line Redcliffe @ 2.73 Canterbury Bulldogs - Gold Coast Titans 21 May 2023 14:00 Money Line Gold Coast Titans @ 1.75 Wests Tigers - North Queensland Cowboys 20 May 2023 17:30 Money Line North Queensland Cowboys @ 1.63 Canberra  Raiders - Manly Sea Eagles 21 May 2023 16:05  Money Line Canberra Raiders @ 1.50 Taken Amount: 0.10 mBTC Possible Payout: 3.02 mBTC

Except for the Dolphins game, all of my remaining wagers this round are on the favourites to win.

I've ended up voting "do nothing" as the third and fourth suggestions are impractical as they don't address the long term problem of any third party service either pulling the plug, or going dark without warning.

Why stick a band-aid on a problem when an amputation is required and a brand new prosthetic inserted in its place?

Option two "might" work as long as the plug isn't pulled by said third party provider. How can you be sure in the medium to long term?

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Joker's talkimg.com is the solution and ninja's code is the painfree method of porting all legacy images.

Collateral?

There are threads you can report plagerism to.

Great minds think alike. I've also put a small wager on the Panthers for tonight's game.  If the Broncos are going to falter it's right about now.

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I saw the first half of tonight's game on TV - very tough and thrilling, nevertheless the Panthers led at half time and Nathan Cleary kicked a one point field goal at full time to win 15 - 4 😁

Get your life in order before you end up hurting yourself or others.

You can start with any of the threads that were started against me with my user profile name in the title and see which of the DT joined in the free for all that ensued.

As I've said time and time (and time and time) again - You're welcome to sift through all of my trust feed-backs - good, bad or indifferent and either support my findings, or show me where I am wrong (if at all) and I'll make corrections.

There's a couple of alts that DT distrust me which should shouldn't be allowed to occur but does.

Not saying they are alts, however, there is a clear pattern going on here:

the only other UID's with "coco" in their names all have "23" in their profile name:


Then we have dbc23 which also has "23" in the name

Alisha-k was registered on the 23^rd...

I've used the original script and the latest script as well as changing the API key to my own.

I get the same error messages after a half dozen pages:


I jump to the next page and start again and another half dozen or so pages, I get the same error message.

I'm sloooowly going through my pages (am up to 25% of the way through) but it is teedious to have to sit with the script and restart it every few minutes.

With the urgency by not just joker_josue and TryNinja to port legacy images off of third party servers before they are removed, others such as @LoyceV are also downloading en-masse the entire archive of legacy images either to talkimg.com or other unspecified backup sites.

The question then is how do they propose to update the links to those images they have spent the last ten or so days methodically downloading to make available for others?  Scripts can only have so much reach - especially if the images are removed by the host site.

From recollection, posts can be edited in the back end via the SQL databases without there being any indication on a thread page.  The same is true for the handful of trust-feedbacks that have been removed through intervention that I am aware of where e.g. DOXing has occurred, so it is not beyond the realm of possibility that an admin/mod could intervene via unlock, edit, lock.

My thoughts above would be more along the lines of a request is made to have a relevant but locked thread's image's links updated to talkimg.com - more than likely they would unlock the thread, run the code and then re-lock the thread.  In my model, even without the thread being unlocked *anyone* with the code could run it on a locked thread with the "report" being sent to a bot-UID that would upon receipt of the relevant information (perhaps an accompanying token to ensure no malicious intervention were occurring) run it's own code to then unlock, update the links and then re-lock the thread.

Locked threads from (in my own case, the Known Alts threads) to the Pumpkin Carving competitions are viewed by others - some threads are locked, some aren't.  But, you're not going to get each and every person coming back online years later to update their threads.  Hopefully my suggestion gets some traction and is acted upon.

Uploads are paused.  Try again later.

The script I ran was able to port about 35 images before it crashed ^{(I'm sorry to say I didn't see your notification earlier)} - I've had a look and the images are now working!  I've also noticed that the images are being ported from most recent backwards through time.  Was this a conscious decision, or it just happened that way?

Kudos for all your work, the both of you.

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Can the script be slowed down to one page (i.e. 20 posts) per minute?

There are also some similarly named third party sites whose images are not there.  Not sure if its the actual images or the websites (or both) are gone, but it might pay to look at porting all legacy images and temp fixing broken links of these other sites at some point soon.

This is an abstract kind of question so I am directing it in a separate thread so that it doesn't distract from the mammoth task @joker_josue and @TryNinja are undertaking to preserve legacy images that had been uploaded to third party websites and used on the Forum.

If I've missed any threads, please let me know.

TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk
[Script] Imgur to TalkImg - automatically fix your broken images
[Script] Fix broken Imgur images forum-wide (client only)

Known alts of anyone: User generated (Mk I - 2015 to 2016)
[User Generated] - Known alts of anyone  (Mk II - 2016 - 2017)
Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2017 - 2022)
Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List ^{Mk IV} (2022 - ongoing)

[BPIP] Bitcointalk Public Information Project [Back in Action]

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A week ago, joker_josue created a thread to announce their TALKimg.com website - the aim of which is to enable users to upload images that will be still viewed many years/permanently into the future.

Inspired by their work, TryNinja has created a script to port legacy images hosted by third party websites onto the TALKimg.com website thus preserving them.

I've had a look through my own threads that I have created (~60 in all) and found at least a dozen were locked that contained images that I would like preserved and so I have unlocked them whilst I am in the process of porting the images from one hosting site to another.  I've unlocked all of my threads whilst I am carrying this out and will then re-lock them once I am done.

This got me to thinking.  In the case of the other contributors to the Known Alts threads that I *can't* unlock?

The BPIP.org website offers a script which in part enables users to copy text that is contained within locked threads:


If a dummy UID were created by @theymos , posts from any locked threads could be quoted, posted to a thread in an obscure part of the forum (e.g. "archive" so as to avoid anyone seeing the post and replying), the images are ported and the post "edited" (or not) then the post is deleted thereby not skewering anyone's posts counts.  Once the locked thread's legacy images have been ported to the talkimg.com hosting site, a PM is generated requesting the links be changed to the updated links which I imagine could also be done automatically via a dedicated UID that receives the notification and has admin privileges to unlock, modify, then lock the threads again.

I'm sure there are other threads whose images need preserving, so this would enable those threads to be freshened up but still remain locked.

Admins already have the ability to merge (or split) posts of others, so it is not like a bot couldn't just sweep said threads (or indeed the entire forum) in the background.

Thanks for reading / replying.

We really appreciate your time and effort - this is a Hurculean task with a sence of urgency, so hang in there - it's greatly appreciated.

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Is there any way to slow down the fetching?  I've shut down the page the code was running on ("stop" didn't seem to work) as I was getting these errors:

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Yes, I did the same thing - I'm not a coder, so I never even looked at the code.  I just assumed being logged in was enough, but when I changed it to 131361 - IT WORKED!!

This is just like a few years ago when various UID's created threads that I had left them *neutral* trust feedback and they ran with it encouraged by a minority of DT Trolls who rinse and repeat to bang their thin skinned drums and wiggle their bonny fingers.  It will pass and as we've seen here, the OP is just one of many alts that are quickly exposed by many.

Next week they will find someone else to Troll and their throw away farmed account will be yesterday's news.

Three or four Signature campaigns have just opened up spaces, so dbc23 was probably angling to join one of them this week to either clear their debts, or just double dip payments from campaign managers.