Now Panic and Freak Out

Short 26 year old known as Hannah, T1 Diabetic from England and my life has been 'ruined' by television.

[nativenews]

[transhuman-priestess]

every day i wish ronald reagan had died in childbirth

[abalidoth]

giving birth to what?

[abalidoth]

mpreagan

[draintheblood]

i love sports animes because the villain is always just some highschooler who is good at sports. but hes from ANOTHER HIGHSCHOOL. no he doesn't cheat or do anything unethical. hes just really good. treated with the same gravity and theatrical introduction as anime villains who want to like blow up the world

[jaubaius]

Husky getting nervous at his first swimming lesson

[bigdogdabeast]

I like this WAY more then I should

[chapdietostie-deactivated202406]

BIG BABY <3

[404-later]

[flakmaniak]

So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.

But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!

This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).

Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!

If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!

Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.

[hotvampireadjacent]

#someone in the notes mentioned shut up windows 10.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 

i haven’t used this myself but i’ll be looking into it

[self-critical-automaton]

Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.

[leylin3]

the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is "Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing" it's at the very bottom under misc.

[hunter-rodrigez]

There are 2 programs that will turn Windows 10 from an advertising riddled, bloated mess into a useful tool.

10AppsManager

With one click, this will remove ALL THE BLOATWARE Windows comes with. Seriously, you need NONE OF THESE apps, and if you do, you can just uninstall all the ones you don't need individually.

Winaero Tweaker

This program will give you almost complete control over Windows 10's behavior. Disabling the web search in the start menu, op rightfully complained about, is just one of the many things this thing can do

For example, with a single setting you can turn off any ads from microsoft, system-wide

It is a powerful tool, but it can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily every single setting comes with an explanation about what it actually does, and most settings can be easily reversed.

[manga-and-stuff]

Tech tip from my personal blog

[nehirose]

reblogged in the hope that i'll eventually both remember AND have the executive function (AT THE SAME TIME) to actually sit down and deal with this. win10 really is terrible.

[akaluan]

Also, if you’re like me and utterly unable to handle the weird tile-style menu and just want to go back to the days of lists that make sense, check out OpenShell https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

It’s a very simple program, and it turns the tile menu on win10 into something much more logical like this

Which i will never be able to live without, so it goes on every win10 machine I have to use regularly.

[beesmygod]

everyone in this post goes directly to heaven

[polishkurapika]

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

Continue reading article here

[sapphic-haymaker]

sustainable.

[weirdmageddon]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

innovation under capitalism

[nitramaraho]

Enshittification is the term (coined by Cory Doctorow)

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:

HES SEVENTEEN

He hasn’t been civilised in 4 years, his entire teenage experience consists of living on a boat and sleeping rough. The most stable bed he has was probably in Ba Sing Se he probably will just nap anywhere.

He has customer service experience which means he probably uses his customer service voice on his minsters.

Additionally he probably just wanders into to kitchen to get his own snacks and tea because he forgets what servants do.

He probably has no idea why he can’t just chase after an assassin he used to hunt the avatar for Agnis sake why is the captain of the guard demanding he stay in his room he’ll find the guy first (he’s probably right)

Katara probably has a free pass on Eco terrorism because what’s he going to do challenge her, she’ll beat his ass.

If he saw a minster doing something shady he will either invite lady Beifong to detect their BS or commit B&E and look for evidence himself.

He somehow found a baby dragon and raises it.

He will be far to willing to give Kyoshi island anything they want cause he feels bad and Suki scares him.

He randomly insisted on giving some earth kingdom village 100 ostrich horses.

The Avatar will just show up call him Hotman and demand the go on adventures and the Firelord will just dip because he’s been confined to long and has the Zoomies.

He takes far to much advice from Sokka and will genuinely believe if someone doesn’t get Sokkas plans they must be an idiot because Sokka is 16.

Sokka and Zuko also get into a lot of teenage rebellion phases by accident.

Toph just walks in breaks a wall of his palace and demands a field trip that always involves the Firelord having to explain himself to the cops.

He somehow knows every dangerous teen in the world and they all come for tea uninvited.

He has broken into both the NWT and Ba Sing Se.

He has a really well documented facial scar and official portraits but still disappears to be Lee the tea guy like no one knows.

HES SEVENTEEN.

[neuronary]

‘redditors need to know this’, ‘twitterinas need to know that’… no. you need to know one thing and that is that you are not allowed to complain about werewolf fuckers. this is the werewolf fucking website. grow up and go fuck a werewolf.

[once-a-polecat]

[were--ralph]

What does this gif have to do with werewolves?

[flizaa]

if you have to ask you’re not ready

[were--ralph]

can you explain? i don’t get it

[thefirstanomally]

This is like someone just informed the newcomers about the devils sacrament taking place every full moon and the devil itself popped up asking “what sacrament?” with a cheshire grin.

[viejospellejos]

[bogleech]

Somewhere in the world is just a single inoccuous escalator that does this to people

[sunshinesteves]

boiling rock is amazing for like 17 different reasons but i just love that it’s mostly non-benders kicking serious ass ft. zuko smack in the middle of his gay awakening. stellar television

[bisexuallsokka]

me: and also! zuko’s daughter is named ‘izumi’. what does that mean? well, izumi is japanese for “spring of water”. WATER. now let’s walk through this together. why would the FIRE lord. of the FIRE nation. give his own daughter a name that means WATER. why would he do that UNLESS it means izumi’s other parent, the spouse of fire lord zuko if you will, is none other than SOKKA of the WATER tribe

random girl at the bar: i think i see my friends

[lizardlicks]

so see here the thing about naming conventions in- well, several Asian countries, but for this purpose specifically Japan- is that the name itself doesn't have the meaning so much as which characters you pick to make the sound? So with that in mind please consider

[littlegayteaboy]

[image id: written in a calligraphic font, the kanji characters '泉南', which is a way of writing 'izumi'. underneath, it explains that '泉' means 'fountain' and '南' means 'south'. end id]

[wormsermonizer]

[hungwy]

Worst part of living with animals is the night time sloppy licking cleaning noises I'm sorry but I cannot sleep . Please fhcking stop please please olease

[icariancarrrion]

[nativenews]

[arabian-knight]

Really thought the activists just drove a fucking SUV into Trudeau based on the accompanying picture

[generalissimo-kneedeepincynide]

If we work together we can make it happen

[michellepsychologist]

Keanu Reeves appreciation post ♥️

[dancing-coyote]

I love this man. He’s a wonderful example of a decent, moral wealthy person.

[ironbite4]

…….WHY DOES HE DO THIS!?  MY GOD THIS MAN IS JUST FUCKING PERFECT!

[lkeke35]

I remember in one interview he said he had more money than he could ever spend in a single lifetime, so he just gives the money away. Outside of random strangers, he also gives most of it to various charities, and only grants himself a small stipend to live on, pay rent, buy food, etc.

[crystallinemuun]

Socialist king