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i don't know a fuckin thing my guy

[celestial-fang]

Instead of the new dogshit Odyssey film you should watch Iphigenia (1977). It’s made by actual Greek people and focuses on a mother-daughter relationship to explore how women are sacrificed by powerful men in times of war. Also the main actress has the face of an angel 🙏 the whole movie is available on YT with English subtitles.

[celestial-fang]

Plugging this once again to remind you that my queen Irene Papas is also in it!! It’s unfair just how gorgeous and ethereal everyone looks

[myclutteredbookshelf]

[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!

[saturniandragon]

Tumblr people!! I've figured out a way to delete GDID from your computer!

GDID Removal and Blocking Guide - SaturnianDragon.docx

Removing and Blocking Global Device Identifier (GDID) – A Guide for Better Privacy in Microsoft Windows 10/11 Written by saturniandragon@tum

I also made a PDF version!!

Please do me a favor, reblog for reach!! This went through several days of research and testing!! THANKS

[ryanthedemiguy]

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.

[frenchtugboat]

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

How to Install and Log In to Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account

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.

[whereserpentswalk]

Revlog to protect someone! ^_^

[silima]

it's always funny to me when ppl act like it's somehow incestuous for characters who consider each other found family/chosen family/whatever u wanna call the trope to date each other, and it's funny for many reasons, but most specifically it's funny because irl when you meet a person and get really attached and decide that you want to be family with them, there's a very popular legally recognized way of doing that & it's called marriage

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Marriage promotes incest because then you end up having sex with a family member

[tboy-cock]

i do not understand people who say "dont date your friends." who are you supposed to date then? do you just find someone and try to date them?? and you dont even know them???? alloromantics are perplexing man wtf is this

[thepoisonjackal]

Cuddling into bed with new oc scenerio to imagine before bed is like when your favorite youtuber posts a new hour long video for you to eat dinner with. Good feeling the both of them

[minyard-05]

don't let being born a girl stop you from being the man your father never was

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

basically if you’re a man one of the most classic things you can do is come in your pants

[rush-the-stars]

am always obsessed when someone says to a character “call off your dog” about another character.

[stuckinapril]

you seem avoidant for a girl who’s so hungry to experience the full breadth of human connection

[kosmogrl]

[fox-c-rabbit]

Plural experiences form question ideas

[frostops]

“Normal style” is a great phrase because it is decidedly not normal style to say.

[gender-ihardly-knowher]

also i went to watch the eclipse and i’m super scared my eyes were damaged even though i was really careful and wore specific glasses the whole time. chat am i cooked

[gender-ihardly-knowher]

voiced my displeasure with how common it is to give priority to romantic relationships rather than platonic ones am i gonna be shot in the neck or crucified in the publoc arena

[lakemojave]

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I love being a trans woman and going out for delicious ice cream with my awesome partner who is also trans :)

[gender-ihardly-knowher]

fuming about storage and pc limitations. i want a better pc for my Games #mygames but also in general!!!! i need one that doesn't go "storage saturated" every 5 seconds and has better ram and i can draw digitally without it overheating and 10 seconds delay between each strokes ueueueueueee free me from poverty and ca&pitalism and everything let me be free let me be free let me be freeeeeeee aaarrghrghgghhhhh