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I RARELY ACTUALLY USE THIS ACCOUNT, GO TO @mangos-bite https://www.tumblr.com/blog/mangos-bite or @scarab-unmasked https://www.tumblr.com/blog/scarab-unmasked

[pseudomantis]

one if my favorite gifs right now the blankest eyes ive ever seen the lights are on but no ones home. and the other thing like grooming its snout but i don't think its even aware of what its doing. i dont think either of them know anything or know that theyre alive

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

(See also the video here from ITN.)

[dogpuppy]

[xtec]

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection

[go-learn-esperanto]

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.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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.

Thank you @just-call-me-zinnia for finding it!

[dulcesilly]

Time flies when you're immortal!

[perception-filter]

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

[cobaltspartan]

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

[hiptothehodge]

if you tag your conventionally attractive sexy furry goth girl drawing as postfurry or weirdfur im killing half of humanity

[schmilsson]

last day of pride month lets all look at this tweet im im love with again. happy Pride bitchh!

[dogzoi]

TS4 Equine Genetics Overhaul: a project announcement

Hello, my fellow horse girls.

Did Horse Ranch promise you the world, then break your heart with its lacklustre forethought for the horse breeding system?

Did you start a legacy breeding farm save, only for things to get boring really fast when you realized foals are just copies of one of their parents?

Well, hopefully that will be no more! I have officially begun developing an Equine Genetics Overhaul mod that takes the patterns and colors of parent A and mixes them thoroughly with parent B, to create an offspring unlike any you've seen before.

Details under the cut!

EGO: Advanced coat inheritance for TS4 horses

Who are you?

Hi! I'm aali. I'm an electrical engineering major, character artist, and horse enthusiast. Dare I say, an equestrian. Or horse girl. Whatever. Point is, I'm a big horse freak and I've worked with them for a while now. I want to bring equine genetics to The Sims 4 as a personal passion project.

What is the goal of this mod?

In the first public release, EGO will hook onto the birth of a foal and re-roll their coat according to parent genetics, swapping coat colors between the parent horses and passing down patterns.

Is this actually possible?

Yeah, and it's way easier than you think! Horse coats are stored as layers, not one flat image. Mixing genetics is as simple as extracting the color of one pattern and applying it to the foal's inherited pattern. That is the quick and dirty, very simplistic version, though I'd, of course, love to refine the idea further.

Additionally, since this mod can go through a lot of development before adding custom content, it should have a very low risk to your save files! All it does is use in-game variables and resources to re-assign CAS data.

Current development endeavors have successfully proven that horses can have custom coat layer information from two different horses applied in-game. See the example below.

How can I support you?

For now, keep an eye on my blog! Any mod updates I will post here. You can ask me questions and follow me to see what I'm doing. Or not :D

🎯 MOD GOALS

Short-Term

Mix colors from both parents

Initiate re-coating directly after birth(preserving internal game genetics logic, for safety)

Mid-Term

Mix patterns and colors from both parents

Add chance of an unrelated pattern adding or replacing a coat layer

Introduce color mixing/color drift

Handle paint layers differently

Long-Term

Reduce ugliness of game-generated foals(things will no doubt get... weird). Or, maybe I'll embrace it.

Introduce a white marking system that mimics real-life genetics(overo, tobiano, splash, etc)

a separate, full realistic rehaul of the horse genetics system, featuring base coats, dilutions, roan/rabico, pattern genes(like apaloosa), and markings

Tune this mod for dogs/cats (it probably already works for them)

---> consider this to be a FAR in the future possibility, not something I can currently dangle over your head.

Thanks for listening! I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on my progress. That's all for now!

[vaticanspaceprogram]

[fox-on-the-moon]

Actually making your selfinsert overpowered and friends with all your faves and a hybrid of the coolest species and in a relationship with your crush and the long lost sibling of the villain is called having fun and its cool as fuck

[wholesomey-artist]

[deerwife]

i need to put all three of these pictures in a single post. this is significant. this matters. this is why i exist

[esculent-macabre-deactivated201]

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[shirtp]

[protestantcrona]

If I saw someone in this I would walk up to them and begin gently applying studs and safety pins to their shirt like a monkey picking another monkey’s coat for bugs