to be announced

Sever all ties/EraseTheProcedure/Pledge Abstinence/Fuck at your leisure/ Breathe in then out, but not out then in/Cause over function- Restart again

[utopicwork]

Firefox Zero-Day Under Attack: Update Your Browser Immediately

Mozilla urges users to update Firefox after critical CVE-2024-9680 vulnerability is actively exploited.

10/10/24

[wonszu]

I've checked it and the info is true. Luckily it was immediately addressed by Mozilla and the update with fix is available. The issue was described in following versions:

Firefox 131.0.2

Firefox ESR 128.3.1

Firefox ESR 115.16.1.

If you are not sure how to check if your version is updated on PC then go to Help -> About Firefox and check if your browser says "Firefox is up to date". If it's not there should be a button to update your browser to fixed version! This is how it should look like after update:

Stay safe!

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Here it is, the sexiest thing I could think of dressing up as for Halloween.

[sanityisonliamatterofperception]

Where is the male version of this

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION

[falloutnewvegastransedmygender]

WTF do you mean jailbreaking my "smart" TV to install Linux in order to run adblock on my TV would be "Felony Contempt of Buisiness Model" That sounds like a crime made up by The Board in Outer Worlds.

[foxgirlmigraine]

Felony Contempt of Business Model: Lexmark's Anti-Competitive Legacy

In 2002, Lexmark was one of the leading printer companies in the world. A division of IBM—the original tech giant—Lexmark was also a pioneer

[russiawave]

Alla Ilyinichna Levushkina (May 5, 1927 - January 23, 2020) was a Soviet and Russian proctologist surgeon. She was the oldest practicing surgeon in Russia, finishing her work at the hospital in 2018 at the age of 91 with 67 years of medical experience. During her work, she performed more than 10,000 successful operations.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Suzuki Twin My Style Concept, 2003. Presented at the 37th Tokyo Motor Show, a version of Suzuki's kei car developed by a project team made up of female Suzuki employees, under the concept "the Twin? The one we want." Thus it was custom-made for young women with extra storage and a trunk-shaped carrier called a "Treasure Box", that was detachable to take with you (alas not pictured). The seating was more luxurious than a normal Twin and there was a larger vanity mirror. The was powered by Suzuki's 3 cylinder DOHC 12 valve engine, common to many of Suzuki's kei products

[ms-demeanor]

I am a glorified office administrator who understands server hardware why am I the only person in this company who gets what social engineering is?

[ms-demeanor]

Total stranger on the phone who we’ve never spoken to before: I have power of attorney over the CEO of this corporation and we are a customer of yours. Please change the administrator password on the server to XXXXX

My boss, putting on white grease paint and a red wig: Oh, of course! Let’s do it quickly so that you’ll want to keep working with us since you’re going to be making business decisions!

Me: I would sell you to satan for one corn chip and I’m allergic to corn but before you do this maybe you should call someone who is actually on our contact list for our customer and see if they’ve ever heard of this stranger.

My boss, looking through a selection of shoes that honk when you walk: Oh, but she said that it was very important that none of the employees know what was happening because they’re making staffing changes.

Me: As your lawyer I recommend that you just call a single one of our contacts and see if they’ve ever heard of her name.

My boss, shoving all of our technicians into a VW beetle: You’re not my lawyer.

Me: HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW? I COULD BE! YOU SHOULD MAYBE CHECK ON THAT.

[yoursjupiter]

TIL everyone’s employee ID at my company is the last five of their SSN.

Boss: On the bright side, it’s only the last five

Me: YOU CAN COMMIT FRAUD WITH FOUR

[zevveli]

Security firms that are hired to check the security of banks will often use the following tactic: They will walk up to the teller in a suit with their ID badge and a clipboard and go:

“Hello I am [name] from [security firm] we’ve been hired to verify the security of the facility I need to see your computers.”

“Erm…I’ll have to verify that with my managers.”

“Congratulations, you have just passed the security verification.” [Scribbles on clipboard] “But in all seriousness I do need to verify your security so I need to see your computers.”

“Oh okay.” AND LETS THEM IN.

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

“Social engineering” is a way too fancy word for what it is. I know a guy (not personally) who broke several people out of prison by essentially writing “Greetings, please release this person, signed, whoever the judge is” on a piece of paper and faxing it there. Because no one would have a fax machine in their own house I guess.

[closet-keys]

not to derail, but holy shit that praxis

[dradelcra]

Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers

[see-arcane]

oh god

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Series: Everything to Know about This Upcoming Special Project on Netflix

Learn everything about the upcoming Netflix adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It's real

[linguisticparadox]

Oscar Wilde did not do TWO YEARS HARD LABOR for y'all to call Basil "Dorian's artist friend" and make them BROTHERS

[ikenoklasm]

[shiftythrifting]

[badhum]

[spooniestrong]

A Weird Trick to Get Doctors to Listen to You — Pain News Network

By Crystal Lindell, PNN Columnist There’s a lot of advice out there on how to get a doctor to take you seriously. Most of it is wrong. Lu

This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.

[genderqueerpond]

This article was super long-winded so I screenshat the important part

[bitchesgetriches]

How to Pay Hospital Bills When You’re Flat Broke

[pandemic-info]

Possibly useful into for folx with Long COVID and related health concerns.

[pandemic-info]

News on Fall Boosters

(I focus on Novavax for reasons previously discussed on this blog, searchable via its tag.)

June 14, 2024 - Novavax Submits Application to U.S. FDA for Updated Protein-based 2024-2025 Formula COVID-19 Vaccine

Novavax's JN.1 vaccine has demonstrated broad cross-neutralizing antibodies against multiple variant strains, including KP.2 and KP.3, indicating the potential to protect against forward drift variants.

June 27, 2024 - U.S. CDC & ACIP Recommend Use of Authorized and Approved 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines

Today the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously in favor of a universal recommendation for the use of 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines ... Novavax intends to provide doses of our 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine at the start of the vaccination season and upon EUA by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Aug. 14, 2024 - COVID is surging again. Here’s the latest on new variants, updated vaccines, and masking

Novavax, an American biotechnology company, had already developed a JN.1-targeted vaccine and the company said it wouldn’t have time to change the formulation before the fall. Novavax’s vaccine is the only protein-based COVID-19 vaccine

[I disagree with Mark Sawyer, MD's quote in the article that “It’s important to have Novavax as an option because some people are still concerned about mRNA”. I in particular have no issue with "mRNA tech", have taken it, and am familiar with it due to having worked on some of the earliest science-journalistic reporting about it. Many choose Novavax for other reasons, again, discussed previously / elswhere, and will continue to as long as it confers equal or better protection vs mRNA options.]

Is it time to wear a mask again? ... Sawyer also recommends masking while traveling or in high-risk situations.“ If you’re in a community where the virus is surging, as so many people are, it is smart to wear a mask if you’re in indoor, crowded conditions,” he says.

[*For some of us it isn't "again"; we didn't stop in any situation where it was "smart" to.]

Despite COVID not being a seasonal illness, new vaccines are still being offered on a seasonal schedule. Updated boosters are again expected in September.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Alien Gargoyle, Paisley Abbey, Scotland

[relatabletoaster]

[alastaircarstairsdefenselawyer]

if anyone's wondering what this is about, a woman died from an allergic reaction at a restaurant in a Disney park after repeatedly confirming that the food was allergen-free, and Disney is claiming that because her husband signed up for a free trial of Disney+ a few years ago, he waived all rights to sue them for any reason. i wish i was joking.

[gunsandfireandshit]

Same reason McDonald's wants everyone to get their damn app, signing up for it waives your right to sue them if they say, make you sick or mutilate your genitals with scalding coffee

[donnahinkleystaceytroy]

What if there was Broadway for dogs?

[fartserver]

Barkway

[gulyas069]

incredible

[determinate-negation]

imperialist american soldiers are so used to drone bombing unarmed peasants they forgot war actually involves getting shot at

[thequintessentialqueer]

Okay, be for fucking real for a second. If we take Neil Gaiman's version of events at face value, he initiated a sexual relationship with his 6-year-old child's 21-year-old nanny within hours of meeting her, as a 61-year-old man who is also rich, famous, and influential.

He lived her lifetime two times over before she was even born. He was her employer. She was dependent on him and his wife for her housing. And he pursued a relationship with her despite all of those facts. And that's someone you think is a good person being unfairly accused of abusing his power?

If we go by Neil's account of the situation, the power dynamics are still so utterly skewed, and the situation is still so utterly creepy that I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that the relationship was "consensual." Powerful old men should not be sleeping with their young employees.

Quite frankly, any man who would engage in such a relationship and consider it consensual has too warped an understanding of consent to be trusted in his assessment of whether there was consent.

A man who isn't predatory and abusive would never have sought out this "relationship" to begin with. Much less coerced the girl in question into signing an NDA after the fact in exchange for paying her rent while she was struggling and even hospitalized with suicidal urges in the aftermath of their "relationship."

Neil's behaviour with Scarlett, even if we take his account as the truth, was utterly unacceptable. A 61-year-old man with enormous influence and resources should not be seeking reassurance and support about HIS mental health from a 21-year-old who was IN THE HOSPITAL ON SUICIDE WATCH.

Listening to his audio messages tells you everything you need to know: that he was manipulative, inappropriate, and careful. He guilts her into reassuring him repeatedly that she consented, that he did nothing wrong. He presents himself as suicidal because of the idea that she is "planning to 'MeToo' him." He makes her care for HIM and reassure HIM as if he is the vulnerable party. His messages to her show a man preoccupied with self-image. They show a man with awful boundaries. They show a predator who is very invested in his (self-)image as a "good guy."

Be for fucking real. What's more likely: that a famous and powerful man abused his power and crossed boundaries with young, vulnerable women, who he ADMITS TO ENGAGING IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH, or that these two women on separate continents with 20 years separating their experiences are engaged in a conspiracy to smear the name of a man with whom they had loving, consensual relationships? What's more likely? That a powerful man crafted a wholesome public persona while behaving reprehensibly behind closed doors, or that journalists conspired against him to destroy his image because he happens to support trans rights? BE FOR FUCKING REAL.

[drchucktingle]

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN