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The Internet Archive is a fabulous resource. They have hundreds of thousands of things like that. Want the complete works of HP Lovecraft? In your choice of ebook format? They’ve got it - completely free.

Old sci-fi magazines, novels, millions of non-fiction books.

Loads of old movies.

I love it.

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Yes i saw some of these running dots. What i wanted to say is this part of the screen is about “UPLINK APP ACTIVITY” so what myriad (and us now) can do with https://uplink.satcom-70.com/
We know that some nodes are identified as epic, lengendary etc…, the red one is for “connection” so its possible that what we can see is only connections, nodes opening etc… That’s probably scripted and we can’t interact with it.

Each time a do appears, there is a kind of “level” of something which grows up (a red bar in the left). Maybe something like a bandwidth using ?

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Yes, I’ve noticed. @BrianC made some good observations about them too. I think I’ll put it all together with some pictures, so people can see what we’ve found. Maybe get some more comments, or insight,

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I think the dots (that I’m unable to see on my mobile, by the way) is-

Red: connection status

Then yesterday as I was discovering different things on the app the bar colors changed. Here’s a screen shot with both blue and purple bars:

Overall, I think the colored dots are associated with the differed file names.

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Yes, @kerdorin has suggested the same, so I must agree. But what does it mean, and what are we supposed to do with it?

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Thanks Polyphemus for the heads up, tried to find these mags but didn’t realise the internet archives do print media as well. Wonderful.

However, “Murder from Mars” is on page 24. I think the correct story is on page 66 i.e. 24+42, which is “The Callistan Menace” by Isaac Asimov.

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Yes, that was my conclusion. So the answer was Isaac Asimov’s “The Callistan Menace”.

Since (as far as I know) all the nodes have been solved, I’m not sure what we do with this now. I imagine something like “Asimov” or “Callistan” was the password. But maybe it hasn’t been used yet? I don’t know - a lot of this discussion was happening on Reddit and Discord, and I avoid those places.

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Reddit gives me hives… Never been in to discord, shall probably stay that way inclined too.

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Hokay, I have a password protected ZIP file, containing a PDF document that I can’t open, because I don’t have the password.

Incidentally, folks, you may need 7Zip to open this - Windows doesn’t even ask for the password - it just refuses to open it.

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Do you have the zip file handy? I may try smashing the password off it… Or is that deemed as cheating? :smiley:

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You download it from the post before my last.

Oh!
My bad.

Edit: I’ll go read that story, too! :hugs:

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According to twitter, the password is ‘Centralized’

Haven’t verified, likely bogus

EDIT: “Centralized” is bogus

We’ll know in about 2 minutes.

Doesn’t work for me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Tried both with all lower case as well as upper case or just capitalised.

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Yup. Bogus.

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If you use it with the supplied string it decodes to azerty

Since that website might as well be written in Albanian, if you know what the password is, why not tell us?

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Haha, yeah I’ve used this website in the past, it’s far from ideal. lol

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