Caya

Life would be boring without obsessions, wouldn’t it? Welcome Sophie, make yourself right at home and don’t hesitate to reopen old threads, that we haven’t done so for years doesn’t mean we’re not happy to dive into a fresh new round of „Mary - redeemed or reviled?“

As promised, from the beginning of The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger:

Elsewhere; I'll find some examples once I find the time. I remember for instance, at the beginning of one of the short stories, that he mentioned, as a warning to all interested parties, that if the meddling didn't stop the story with [a couple of specific items] would go to the presses.

Watson mentioned, at times, that he didn't react well to pressure and that continuing to pester him would lead to the opposite effect, namely him publishing details. Maybe the king didn't get the hint.

Maybe the five people who still get those mails didn't fall for the first one because they spelled out the "paid plans" bit, so they tried to be more subtle, for a rather generous definition of subtle.

Hi Dahonk (do you speak German btw?) and welcome to the forum! Afaik (some of our members better versed in canon if false please correct me if I'm wrong) his name is never mentioned.

Both, actually. Sometimes it's a hooded cloak, sometimes just a cap, occasionally some kind of headscarf. (google "Rotkäppchen" and you'll see for yourself). Maybe it did start out as a hooded cloak and then morphed, just like the word did.

The complete traditional title is Rotkäppchen und der böse Wolf, Little Red Cap and the Wicked Wolf.

Rotkäppchen, Little Red Cap (-chen is generally a diminutive, like Kind -> Kindchen, little child).

At this point I kinda wonder if some guy bought what was left of the company for a lark (and like a dollar) and now every now and then, when he gets bored, sends out those mails, figuring he might as well try to get a couple bucks outta his purchase.

Artist puts pictures out on the internet. AI trainers use pictures without asking. Artist is pissed. Poisons his pictures so that the next one who uses them without permission will only get garbage data. They still look the same to humans but not on a math level. Sorta like people ordering glitter traps to be taken by porch parcel thieves, only digitally.

No idea where else to put this and not sure if anyone is even interested, but this explanation how Nightshade (as in, the image data poisoning algorithm) works is the first one that made sense to me: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-nightshade-works-b1ae14ae76c3

I wonder which services that could be … Seriously, thank you for doing all that research.

I have to admit that this is the first I‘ve heard of Quinn (an app for audio stories I think) but Andrew Scott is going to read for them: ( https://twitter.com/tryquinn_/status/1790098863656939881 ) Moderator Comment: See next post for important additional info.

Being a psychopath definitely doesn’t mean you have to be or become evil, though it probably helps a great deal. But for a counter example, I‘m sure I’ve linked to James Fallon here before but just in case: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814/ .

My apologies to everyone who already knew this one, but ... it's Mordor on the dancefloor:

There are plugins who automatically turn down all advertising cookies and such for you, though; besides, in the new Firefox, you don't even need those anymore, select two checkmarks in the preferences' Privacy tab and those popups shouldn't appear anymore. Worked for me, I wasn't even sure at first what you meant with "join" because that never showed up when I tried that site.

Just stumbled over a site named https://www.justwatch.com/ that seems to offer a similar service, only internationally (iirc you were looking for something like it back then). Does this one work for you?

I‘m sorry to hear that. There seems to be a little life left in https://www.reddit.com/r/walkingdead/ , or some corner of tumblr maybe?