They’re keeping their punctuation marks private.

Slight correction:

Soap, ballot, jury, (you are here) ammo.

Di[v]es

Tired of being better, congratulations!

“Asperger’s” is not a thing anymore. It’s all Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) now. And Hans Asperger was “a bit of a Nazi.”

That gun does not fit in that book. Also, choose a semi-auto over a revolver; revolvers are slow and clumsy to reload.

9x was not secure. User credentials were only used to load a user profile, but there was no functionality to deny access to anything, and you did not need to log on with credentials.

NT and 2000 forward have been secure®, with actual permissions (file/folder, registry, services, etc) applied to user accounts.

Much of the crying about windows not being secure stems from people using admin-level accounts to do day-to-day things, and then getting tricked into clicking things they shouldn’t. Microsoft kind of mitigated this with UAC prompts, but the everyday user is “annoyed” by those, so people figure out how to turn UAC off, or just blindly click through the warnings. Hell, remember when the first UAC prompts out of Vista were “so annoying” that Microsoft had to scale back their frequency, because people didn’t like it?

This particular security situation is not any of the above. It stems from an actual code exploit. Which, by my reading, has been fixed?

Anyway - a vast majority of the “Windows is not secure” is a direct result of users running as root. Which you can do on any operating system.

Cut down all the rest of the shrubbery.

I can’t tell if “Look Outside” is the name of a real game, or a sarcastic-not-sarcastic commentary on current events.

Spend the money unless you want to be responsible for Cat Jesus.

Because, of course, screenshots are not journalism.

I kill you now

Very recently, some people started receiving images that allegedly show a grisly murder. (I have not seen such an image myself. I can’t speak to whether the image(s) are “real.”) Bad enough that the main Nicole comm got locked down, and people are wondering whether law enforcement should be involved.

It would probably be something that fediverse instance admins ought to put in place, considering the dark turn that the Nicole thing has taken. Dual purpose: prevent spam/scam/bot accounts, offset hosting and administration costs for a platform that should remain otherwise unmonetizable.

I’d pay it.

SA charges $10, and their forums are notoriously “human.” A barrier to entry that is small enough for a single real human to leap, but very costly for a bot army to avoid, is not a bad thing on its face.

This dosn’t mean that I think this Digg reboot is good, just that the $5 part isn’t bad.

Because I was high when I was watching it.

You weren’t high when you were watching it, were you?

https://youtu.be/_mUvG6x53VM

This isn’t that. This isn’t “let us collect data on you so we can aggregate it and monetize it, it’s buried in the EULA.”

This is state-sponsored actual malware being used to identify, target, track specific individuals.

Next up, Washington DC Metro will produce a new map.

Same as the old map, except all the lines are white.