"If i had a nickle for ever terrorism plot one of my players planned as a distraction, Id have two nickles, which isnt a lot, but Why Are You People Terrorists?!"
My names Lock/ crypti/ Finn, my pronouns are He/They/It, and my adjectives are Awkward and stupid.
Fandoms: Hermitcraft, The Mechanisms, and Stardew Valley mainly, but i dabble in a few others, such as The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Night Vale, Henry Stickman, Homestuck, tf2, and Cookie Run (somehow).
Currently hyperfixated on: my Ocs!
Listening To: RABBITOLOGY
Writer, Artist, and somehow an aspiring game dev. (Emphasis on aspiring)
joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.
literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom whatâs this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on thereâs a word for that âïžđ€Â and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasnât Urgent)
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting.
We stand by our reporting. That's why we're removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don't want you to read, making them free for everyone.
My local animal shelter (BARCS) just got an influx of 369 birds from a shitass pet store, which is a truly terrifying number of parrots to have inside a building. BUT: there's a donation drive going on right now where you can vote for a pet's face to go on a beer can for their annual BARCStoberfest. Every single vote is a dollar towards animal rescue!!!
You can vote for your favorites such as Tylenol, El Eiwi Gordito, and Cheese here on their website!
possibly the greatest thing about gwenpool is that by all accounts and general comic book bullshit (to be reinforced in gwenpool 2025 wow that one was bad) she is set up to be an alternate universe gwen stacy who for whatever reason got strapped into the weapon x project and turned into deadpool. par for the course in the everyone-is-related-to-spider-man and we-have-to-capitalize-on-popular-movies-by-any-means-necessary company. what if deadpool had an alternate universe gwen like imagine the deadpool movie crossed with the spiderverse movie. throw it on a variant cover. generate interest. fuckin sure whatever throw chris hastings on a book. capitalize capitalize capitalize. okay lets check out this book.
her name is gwen poole. no relation to the stacy family. no relation to deadpool. she actually hates deadpool. and she will be subtextually transgender. sometimes things end up all right.
*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st
I think this is so cool and it's awesome they're streaming games for free! I also think it's incredible that this picture is the one they used to advertise the opening day. It's like those videos where someone threatens the camera while their partner shows off their collection of rocks they found.
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.
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!
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