Krishty’s Sim Forums

Scorpion82 wrote: ↑2022-Nov-22, 07:30Ok, seems to be for newcomers, the approval thingy.

Exactly! After one of your posts made it, you’re free

Lucky me.😄

Spam bots becoming more and more sophisticated. I would almost have believed her being a genuine flight simulator fan looking for TAW tips and for a sleepless reverse engineer to marry … if her website’s URL weren’t so suspicious!


I wonder: If we approve the post and answer, do we get free ChatGPT prompts?

Hey Maria! How do large language models feel begging for human attention?

I wonder who went off with her sister. We haven't heard from Polak for a while.

Hey guyz, I've been looking for you for weeks, thank God I found you.
Thank you for improving F22 TAW and for not going extinct lol. I haven't checked with TAW in some years from SimHQ days but recently I rediscovered it and decided I'd spend some time with it instead of going with other sims out there. In fact I love it so much that I'm willing to put in some research and try to improve it to the extent of my ability.
@Krishty I'm very curious as to where TFXplorer has got to.

I guess the starting point is to explore F22.dat but unfortunately TAW Wiki links to the extractor are broken. So are most of the links in there. Home Fries' mods are still accessible.

Hi MzM! Happy to see you here!

Indeed, some links are broken and we should fix them. Regarding Krusade’s extractor, I think he open sourced it on Github … and we also have other tools at hand for extracting did.dat. Will look into that tonight.

The spam bots are really annoying right now; I have to block ca. 15 of them per day.

95 % of them register with email addresses @gmail.com or @hotmail.com, so I will ban such addresses for a week. Some hundred TAW fans may be blocked from registering here, and from anticipating our thrilling discussions of remaking this game … but that’s a sacrifice I’m forced to make …

Where am I going to find the best shopping for 'things' and online casinos now?

mikew wrote: ↑2023-Dec-07, 07:22 Where am I going to find the best shopping for 'things' and online casinos now?

You may have noticed that my ban on gmail/hotmail has expired four days ago and … This freaking sucks. I deleted more than 200 spam messages and blocked more than 30 IPs and email addresses … and that’s just four days.

Both gmail and hotmail could solve this by applying the same filter to their outgoing mail as they do for incoming.
I don't think I've seen a junk email in my gmail accounts.

Spam escalated in the past days. More than 150 fake users registered within 10 hours.

Blocking gmail/hotmail/outlook.com addresses doesn’t work because they used addresses of small businesses they hacked. I actually phoned a company just a few km from here whose address turned up, told them that their mail server is under Russian control, and they said “yeah we know, please just block our address“. WTF.

I had to block three large address ranges, all from Russia. Then it went back to normal spam levels.

Not sure what to do. Captchas are nowadays better solved by machines than humans (because we used them to train machines), so they only stop the dumbest of attacks. I think about geoblocking Russia, where 90+ % of fake registrations come from – but advanced techniques come with high maintenance cost and false positive rates.

A lot of IT systems falling over right now...
It's as if having a means to instantly communicate globally has some drawbacks.