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I'll take care to not abuse them, including avoiding red kryptonite.

I seem to still have superuser powers, and the ability to edit other people's posts. I did open the editor but didn't try to alter or save anything. If you want to make a test post I'll see if I can change it

Kirk

OT, a couple of my neighbors revived my unsuccessful Florida well jetting techniques ...

More digging, there's a lot of users with names that suggest search engine web crawlers, except some of them show posts with old dates. I sorted the member list by join date to find the recent signups, then clicked on a few with non-zero posts. The posts I looked at don't look spammy but it would be ...

Interestingly it let me disapprove a spam post in Russian. You might have a hole somewhere if they managed to register and post.

Edit: everybody is a site admin, which isn't a good thing.

Kirk

While gearifysoftware.com appears to have gone dark gearify.com is still registered. The developer likes using postmaster for an email address so perhaps he'll respond to postmaster@gearify.com .

Looking through my email history I see he went single payment in 2023, but I missed it. Around that ...

Thanks!

After 10 years it's time to replace the i5-5200u laptop I primarily use for CNC, and got a new core ultra 7 fancier one to replace it. Deciding what software to keep and move over to the new lappie has been a project. I was thinking of copying over all of the Gearotic program and data file, to ...

Impressive, as always, Tweakie!

Slightly OT, but I've done some playing around with Marigold , they've done some updating and split off 3D reliefs into a separate project since I last tried it, links on the page.

My CNC time has been down for a few years and mostly limited to chip v-carving. I'm ...

Thanks, Art!

I never thought of that, but I should have. Back in the early 70s when I worked as a Univac systems programmer, I did a project to punch "paper", really mylar, tapes from an 1106, via a tape reader/punch connected to a 9300, for NASA CNC machines. Putting 5x7 characters on the leader was my favorite ...