Weird Coincidence?

Yesterday I was so disgusted with the same-old offerings of romcoms and docus on Netflix that I decided to watch Doctor Sleep, the film adaption of Stephen King's novel. The novel is a sequel to The Shining, and years ago I wrote a review/critique of it. Naturally, since I deleted my old blog I don't have it ~ I kept the poetry from that blog, but not much more. So, I thought, why not let that stupid Wayback Machine site help me for once? I hate that site and wish it didn't exist because it preserves stuff you think you deleted (not everything, just random pages), and a while back I wrote to them and asked them to delete all my blog pages they crawled, but the process is so complicated I decided to forget it. Last night, in an obsessive frenzy, I clicked on every page they had of mine to find my Doctor Sleep review. Of course, I did not find it.

But that's not what I came here to tell you about. Around 3AM I received a weird email as follows:

It's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach 2 weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets.

As demonstrated by this message, this includes a Zendesk token with perms to access 800K+ support tickets sent to info@archive.org since 2018.

Whether you were trying to ask a general question, or requesting the removal of your site from the Wayback Machine—your data is now in the hands of some random guy. If not me, it'd be someone else.

Here's hoping that they'll get their shit together now.

Did this hacker guy somehow know I had been accessing the site again and decided to make me aware of this breach, or did these emails automatically go out to everyone whose address was in the system, and it simply was a coincidence that I had just been poking around on my old blog pages? I mean, the only info they have on me is the email address I used when I asked them to take down my pages ~ I never gave them more info because it was too complicated and annoying. I guess my laziness worked in my favor? Whatever.

Welp, I might as well talk about Doctor Sleep now that I'm here. First, neither the novel nor the movie can hold a candle to The Shining. Second, I actually think the Doctor Sleep movie was better than the book basically because it cut out so much stuff, and a lot of that bloat was problematic to me. I don't remember my entire critique, but I do know that I said it was ridiculous for the bad guys to suddenly be vulnerable to the diseases their victims had, since they'd been doing this for centuries. Only now they're catching measles or whatever from the "steam" of the people they murder? How convenient for the plot. There was a bunch of other bloat about the baddies in the book that was unnecessary to the story. King does that a lot, and sometimes it makes for a more interesting book, while other times it just makes the book really long for no reason. Third, I find it odd that the least silly little sentimental thing in a movie can flip me over the edge into tears, but I can watch this gross horror film without a flicker of emotion.

Speaking of horror, I tried to watch Woman of the Hour last week and turned it off during The Dating Game scene. I would like to say it's because I was too horrified by the killer's actions to continue, but that wasn't it. I mean, it all was horrible, but we knew that going in. What offended me more was Anna Kendrick's shitty acting. I guess she's another one-character actor, which worked out great for A Simple Favor, but she was like the exact same Stephanie character here as there. The movie also did the time flips I despise. Just tell the fucking story from start to finish. It's so infuriating!

 So, that's that. I am going painting with friends today, woohoo!