Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
My mom and her bestie have this running joke about danger snails right now and so I couldn't resist making some patches based on this little friend for the two of them!!
They were super fun and took less than an hour each, entirely out of the stash so free entertainment!
i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.
the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.
i see a curved penis and i want to fix that shit. it's not that it's gross i just bet an hour in a bench vice would make that shit shoot straight. i wanna comically spin the handle and wrench it tight with the skill of a shop teacher that's been doing this for years. safety goggles on. heavy duty gloves. op! be careful of the clenching back there. that's how Ms. Paradise lost a pinky in college.
I suppose this exposes my ignorance and inexperience. I suggest we normalize the use of the penis vice so that we can curve and straighten cocks to our own unique tastes. They can be 3D printed with an aposable skeleton so that they can be curved. I have included a mockup down below.
op i regret to inform you that the curve is so inherent that it persists even when you flip it inside out, turn it into a vagina, and stick a ramrod straight dilator into it for 30 minutes 4 times per day for several months.
(they don't usually give you an MRI 4 months after bottom surgery, i just happened to need one for unrelated reasons)
girl why is your pussy trying to take me on the road less traveled. fucking that thing i hear google maps say "exit left." trying to hit your spot but your pussy said that's not part of the guided tour. your shit is so twisted the people's joker took it to her doctor saying "like this please." I KNOW she WILL be comin around the mountain when she comes! i always wanted a girl who turned heads, but this is ridiculous!!!
me/cfs awareness day (& month). i am very aware, i have severe ME. id like to make some informative post but i cant. but i can tell you what an average day looks like for me.
when i wake up i take my morning meds, i am in a dark and quiet room. i lie in bed until i feel well enough to get to the bathroom with the help of a mobility aid. i donât turn on the light in there. if i feel well enough i will grab something to eat that doesnât require preparation. i got back to my bed.
if i feel well enough, i can have music playing on low volume, usually meditation music, skyrim ambience or other music im very familiar with. i am laying in bed, in a dark, often quiet room.
i donât eat lunch, it takes too much energy. i lay in bed, in a dark & quiet room. i scroll social media, i have colour filters and other accessibility features on my phone so i can tolerate the screen. i take my mid day meds.
if i feel well enough, i grab something from the kitchen to eat for dinner, something that requires little to no preparation. if im feeling more well than usual i can turn on the tv in the bedroom to play my favourite show; the volume and brightness are very low, but most of the time i still canât look at the screen, but i can listen. the accessibility features arenât as good as on my phone.
i take my night meds, i get to the bathroom if i can. i am scrolling social media if i can. otherwise ill just try to sleep.
sometimes i have good days, and ill overdo it & get PEM. sometimes i dont do anything, and still get PEM.
My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.
being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that âsickness behaviorâ is a well documented part of the bodyâs immune response
feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i donât have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little
You're not weak. You're strong and badass and your body is kicking the shit out of an infection. "Not feeling like doing shit," and "wanting to lie on the couch all day and watch TV" are your body's weapons
there is a hypothesis that some forms of depression are actually caused by something going on in the body causing this response or the body incorrectly flagging something and triggering this sickness behavior. of course depression can be caused by a variety of factors, but this theory is definitely interesting.
So sick of heading into year 7 of the pandemic and still seeing posts that go, "I can't BELIEVE I did [behavior that does nothing to stop the spread of covid] and I still got covid! How is it even still here?!?!"
Covid is the only virus found year round in national wastewater. That means covid is always circulating somewhere, that someone is always carrying the virus wherever they go. Upwards of 50% of all covid transmission happens when someone is asymptomatic or has yet to experience symptoms, so as much as I'd prefer "mask when you're sick and you must go out," it's not a solution to constant covid transmission.
If y'all want covid to actually be gone, we need to take steps to make sure it doesn't spread. That means masking (especially indoors), filtering indoor air, improving ventilation, getting vaccine uptake above the ~18% where it currently sits, providing sick leave for everyone so they stop bringing it into work/school, test/trace/treat to lessen new long covid cases that take years to recover from (if they ever recover), and avoiding indoor dining and face-to-face meetings especially when viral levels are high, and at least rapid testing a couple times before and after meeting people (metrix or pluslife are more accurate, but more expensive/less accessible). (They also make multi-tests that can detect covid, Flu A/B, and RSV, and you shouldn't spread those either.)
Ignoring a persistent threat doesn't make it any less persistent or any less of a threat.
Tonight on My Husband Doesnât Know How to Baby Talk
âMaâam, are you aware that these, right here are your hands? They belong to you. And you get to decide what happens with them. So when you use these hands to pull your binky out of your mouth that is not necessarily a dad problem. Iâll fix it obviously i just want you to acknowledge itâs not my faultâ
Penny Rose: Cooing as twinkle twinkle little star plays
Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.
1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?
1a) If you participated in baby talk with Penny, did she ever do any code switching with you while she was learning to talk (I mean, babyish talk back to you but fully formed adult like you share with us to Lawyer Dad)?
I didn't baby talk with her very much either! I think I squealed at her more than my husband did.
Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up đ
So I'll say "okay penny it's time for bed" and I'll just hear "okay my darling love!" đ
Everyone is always so so kind on this post but I do want to warn you all that this did in fact lead to an insanely verbal child, and if you choose that life you have to commit to that life.
Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she
1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night
2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day
3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together
I pay for limitless data and have 709 Google tabs open on my phone at all times
You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because theyâre human. But if youâre really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And theyâll text you âwhat ant is this [blurry photo]â. And then theyâll ask you how youâve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they donât know what you love theyâll never know what you like
And then when the ant convention is in town theyâll be like dude⌠we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didnât know u loved ants
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