as if that's not exactly what we should want. The alternative to an informative "not for minors" always ends up as government id age verification and fuckkkkkk that
Hm. Shitty internet questionnaire says I'm likely to have autistic traits. Don't particularly trust it, since it's just a couple of buttons on a website but yeah...
No clue what to do about it now. I've got an appointment at a neurologist in January next year for my ADHD medication but idk if he can help me with autism at all.
The thing with high-functioning autism is, that it doesn't affect you nor is noticeble until you break under the weight of your mask due to burnout caused by having been unknowingly slightly stressed your whole life.
It's so wild how many systems require you to enter data they clearly already have.
Checking out at an online retailer: "your address does not match the card," okay, well then why have me enter it?
Filing my taxes: "your entered income does not match our records," okay, then why have I set aside two hours to fill out Form 1045-whatever if you already know this?
Taking a Kinsey Scale test at 14: "you and I both know that's a five not a three you should have put down right there," okay, so I'm gay, why are we doing this charade?
I didn't make the original graphic, this is a screenshot of Reddit that was posted to Twitter that I screenshote (or `scrote`, if you will) from Instagram. I don't agree with the placement of the writing applications in the OOP's tier list. I don't know why Scriven and ellipses are so high either and I've never even heard of ddocs.new.
I don't know what's up with the tirade about open source stuff being overforked. maybe a lot of it is, but that's why I like the old school editors. there's flavor packs and customizations and retoolings, but the classics never go out of style. @emacs-unofficial and I have had support from official maintainers and the community since the first newt swam up on shore and sprouted fingers to blog about it. you can use @neovim-official or @helix-editor if you like. that's your freedom. but old Vim? I'm never getting abandoned, I'm here as long as computers have keyboards. Open a pdf and Firefox, you can scroll with j and k. your obsidian has vim mode in it. vim also supports highlighting, completion, debugging, and (command hooks to) running markdown, css, any other kind of software source code, and you can manage it all with git or any other version control system.
I wrote my undergrad project in vim+LaTeX+git and aced it.
linuxposting tends to be frustrating on this site because on one hand I am deeply aware that even among people willing to switch it's enough that one program that they use on daily basis does not work on Linux, it's enough to be a deal breaker, and this results in this mismatch of experiences where for one person switching is extremely maddening endeavour while for others they go "hey it was incredibly simple for me what gives" and for both happens to be true and they both end up talking over each other because for both of them this was their exact lived experience.
there's also another annoyance where you see posts that do point out the material conditions for why adoption of linux on desktop computers is so low (my program doesn't work -> OS is not adopted by users -> people writing programs don't make a linux version because of seemingly too much effort for the number of users) and they're true, but also they attract a certain population of users which treat this as an invitation to rant on the linux community and the obnoxiousness, and how some linux user dared to suggest to switch linux at them. and what now, do I reblog this with the comment of "yes I am one of the good ones" or similar. am I supposed to provide eternal tech support without complaining because if I complain once I will be labelled as the obnoxious linux user and this will reflect on the wider linux community.
anyway if you find linux users annoying, try dealing with windows users.
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.
exciting new innovations in software engineering, they've managed to come up with something worse than 'just paste this random curl command into your terminal'
Using linux is funny. Linux is either a penguin or a transgender fox. My de is a dragon. My wm is an owl holding a candle. My terminal is a kitty. My two file manager is a dolphin and a duck. Until i learn vim my text editor is a bird. My browser is another fucking fox. My drawing app is a robot mouse(?), my image editor is a dog whose name is a slur. I not using a laptop i own a fucking zoo.
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