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 doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s 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 “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s 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 there’s 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: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.
Refusing to connect to the internet doesn't help. You have to open a Command Prompt (Shift+F10) and typing start ms-cxh:localonly (and pressing enter) during installation when you get to the sign in/create stupid ms account screen
For comprehensive deets, tomshardware explains
Maintain only a local account on your Windows 11 PC.
Unless there's really really specific reasons to subject yourself to windows, please consider installing linux mint instead.
personally i do not prefer when stories engaging with complicated topics attempt to make themselves good educational resources on said complicated topics
and i understand that sometimes it's a very thin line between giving a realistic depiction of a serious topic and ending up in after-school special mode, but i also notice that no one is doing this when a character gets the flu (which kills many people every year) and PERSONALLY i don't love the patterns i'm vaguely sensing about which experiences can be depicted normally and which experiences must always be a learning opportunity
last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops
Also, it's Tumblr. If I try to tell anyone about your knock-off Wish-quality sex toy there’s going to be a horde of Autistic lesbians doing a power point presentation in the notes about safe sex toy material and correct battery storage.
Which I am 100% down for, but it will not get you any sales.
I was trying to figure out if you were someone important on a other platform, because there's no way in hell anyone actually thinks you can be classified as "Influencer" if you have a big Tumblr blog.
And then also think advertising to this mob would be a good idea
There are actually lots of people who sell stuff successfully on here, usually drop ship stuff.
They’re just not disclosing it as ads, which they are supposed to do, and instead it's marketed in a very Tumblr-esque way which can be summed up as “omg guys look how CUTE this is” followed by a different account underneath going “omg found it!!” and it links to a drop ship site with the item(s).
And the link usually has an affiliate tracker in it, which you may or may not be able to spot unless you’re familiar with them, which is also something you are legally supposed to disclose.
I used to get a lot of offers from around 2016-2020 to sell “moon lamps” on here, y’know those orb lights that look like a moon? Yeah. I was offered a higher kickback to make it look like I wasnt posting an add because these sellers know Tumblrites don’t like ads.
They wanted it to look as organic and hyped up as possible and then I’d just so happen to be like “omg you guys it's on sale” and post a link. Which is skeevy as shit and also illegal af in the US.
It’s like the insta/tiktok girlies saying “link in bio” to get around saying “here’s a product I make money on if you buy it” because they want to sound like your friend because people are more likely to impulse buy stuff if a “friend” is recommending something.
They’re also trusting that everyone knows “link in bio” means “affiliate link” which is technically not enough of a disclosure but whatever.
This is why I tag all my own book promos with “affiliate links” because depending on which storefront you buy Hunger Pangs from, I may get a kickback from the vender which I do to help mediate the fees I lose from distribution. It’s not much—literal pennies in some cases—but I’m still legally required to state it.
It’s also why when I do post products I use or like, I make a point of letting people know I’m not an affiliate and not sponsored because despite the legal ramifications these people are flirting with by not disclosing their affiliate status, I want to be fully transparent with my followers when it comes to me trying to sell them things.
Y’all keep my lights on by reading my work and through my ko-fi and patreon. I am not about to risk that trust for the sake of some shitty vibrator sales from a sketch-ass drop shipper who wants me to pretend I’m not selling you things.
So, yeah. People do successfully sell stuff on here. A lot of us small indie creators sell our own work all the time.
But there are also drop-ship sellers on here who get enough of a kick-back from affiliate links to make selling cutesy kitsch stuff worth their time on here. They’re just making sure you don’t know you’re being marketed to.
Throwback to when I openly talked about this and got blocked by several huge “meme” blogs that were actually drop shippers who didn’t like me lifting up the rock and exposing how they hide their ads in plain sight lol
i was in a communal all-gender restroom today and as i was washing my hands a middle-aged man came out of one of the stalls, started to make for the door, clocked me standing at the sinks, and changed course to wash his hands with a real hangdog look on his face
Okej så nu hotas aktivister med utvisning tydligen. Även om de inte ens misstänks för brott.
Enligt artikeln försökte de även få honom att spela in ett samtal med dem utan att ge honom advokat och försökte få honom att tro att han inte behövde det. Sa att han ’inte behövde det om han inte hade någonting att dölja’. När han vägrade ringde de en överordnad och sa till dem (enligt aktivisten) ’han vet att han har rätt till advokat’.
Jag rekommenderar starkt att läsa hela artikeln men här är några delar som jag tyckte var intressanta:
När David undrade vad det handlade om fick han till slut höra att han inte var misstänkt för något brott, men ändå var frihetsberövad, berättar han.
Anledningen till att han fördes bort, fick han veta, var att han skulle tas med till samtal om sin rätt att vistas i Sverige. Polisen ställde frågor om hans vistelse i Sverige, boende, jobb – och hans aktivism. Först efter två timmar släpptes han.
David, 30, har bott i Sverige sedan i januari 2019, då han började på universitetet i Lund som doktorand. Han är tysk och ungersk medborgare, och är därmed EU-medborgare – det ger honom uppehållsrätt så länge som han studerar eller arbetar och kan försörja sig själv. Om man, som han gjort, har bott i Sverige i över fem år så får man permanent uppehållsrätt. Efter doktorsavhandlingen har David blivit anställd som forskningsingenjör, och köpt en bostadsrätt.
– Du är efterlyst, sade polisen till mig, och ringde till kollegor och sa: ”Jag har en som är intressant för er – David, miljökillen”.
– Jag berättar för dem att jag är EU-medborgare och har jobbat i Sverige i över fem år, och att jag därför har permanent uppehållsrätt. Det kommenterade de med att, ”Jo, men den rätten kan ju återkallas”.
Gränspoliserna uppger att han inte är misstänkt för något, enligt David Alcer, men för honom ändå med sig till gränspolisstationen vid Öresundsbron, där han blir inlåst i ett litet rum. Han ber om att få ha sin advokat närvarande, beskriver han, men nekas.
– Det kändes inte rättssäkert att varken ha advokat eller inspelning, dessutom i en situation där jag tagits av polisen utan anledning. Men de nekade även till det.
När han vägrar svara på frågorna utan sin advokat, går en av poliserna ut ur förhörsrummet och ringer till en överordnad, berättar David.
– Jag hör hur hon säger till sin chef: ”Han vet att han har rätt till advokat”. Det var intressant att hon indirekt bekräftade det, trots att hon hävdat motsatsen.
I en ny FN-rapport uppmanas världens stater att skydda människors rätt att försvara mänskliga rättigheter, som starkt hotas av klimatkrisen.
I mars fick Sverige besök av FN:s speciella rapportör för miljöförsvarare under Århuskonventionen, som kritiserar Sverige för en ökad repression mot klimataktivister.
If you really think about it there is SO much the film changed from the book, SO much they also left out, literally most of the film is actually different, yet it WORKS! There's not a single book fan I know of who doesn't love and adore the film, and that is practically unheard of!
I've got to agree. They're like two perfectly complementary pieces. They work well together or apart.
Possibly its that very little in the movie directly contradicts the book? Or at least nothing hugely consequential? So you can kinda slot in the book details into the movie? (I know it took me multiple watches to notice that a bunch of things just weren't in the movie - my mind had filled the gaps for me so well.)
You have to let your black queer friends know its ok to present as masculine.
You have to let the stud know that you don't see her as less of a woman. You have to let the transfem know you won't see her as a threat if she pauses in her performance for a moment. You have to let the transmasc know he won't be a threat in your eyes if he chooses black manhood. You have to let the black masc gay man that his presence is not a danger to everyone else, you have to let him know that he does not stick out, he is not unwelcome.
You have to let them all know, that their masculinity is not a threat to you. That they do not have to twist and warp themselves into a different version of themselves to be acceptably queer. To be 'safe'.
love characters who are like "this is how the world works. this is how it has to be (because if i'm wrong i have to face what i've done // if i'm wrong i have to face whats been done to me) "
stormborns
dailybridgerton
yousharknotpass
andulkaphoto
turnnoffyourmind
romaincrisis
prguitarman
gamechangershow
