aka @h-dgp It's not an eagle, open to zoom in. what if we just started responding to each other's posts in our native languages? blog for escaping US politics and more personal stuff and Russian history, mainly XVII. pfp by @addictivities
You know what? You should stop forcing Western classifications on non-western things. Putin and/or Navalny are not left or right wing. The left vs right and their traits developed in Western Europe and North America among native French and English speakers and they have nothing to do with the political discourse of other regions at least unless we are not talking about movements borrowed from the said Western discourse
question of the day: is it grooming when you both meet in your late teens (i'm slightly older), you become best friends for years, and then get married
feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is âweird girl literatureâ and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Harry Potter fans have forced a new multimillion-pound power cable between the UK and Ireland to be relocated after complaining it would desecrate the âgraveâ of Dobby, a fictional elf.
The character was laid to rest on Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading âHere Lies Dobbyâ despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.
The ÂŁ430m Greenlink interconnector, which links the National Grid to Ireland, was initially going to pass through the site of the âgraveâ, the project manager Simon Ludlam told the Energy Revolution podcast.
Fans became aware of the plans after Ludlam pointed out where the 125-mile (200km) cable to County Wexford would go underground at Freshwater West during a BBC interview. âWe did the shot, we finished, I went back to London, and they then aired it a couple of weeks later. And we got hundreds of calls, I mean, hundreds of calls.â
Ludlam said he did not know who Dobby was, and became confused by the calls the company received, saying a colleague told him: âApparently weâre going to go straight through Dobbyâs graveâ.
âI said: âDobby, whoâs Dobby? I donât know Dobby?â I said: âHeâs a fictitious character in a fictitious book, the whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?ââ
He said the colleague told him: âNo itâs very, very serious.â
The firm then enlisted planners to find a new route that avoided the supposed grave. âA lot of people were very happy about that, and the project is now going [ahead] and Dobbyâs happy.â
In the end, he said, âwe went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobbyâs graveâ.
The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial.
"radqueer" and its a bunch of ppl literally defending everything from pedophilia to necrophilia to beastiality. fantastic. queer theory wasnt enough of a pleague on its own to gay ppl we also needed this to really seal the deal
There was a sci fi story about how they made a "teleportation machine" that actually was a cloning machine that killed you after scanning. Sometimes the thing lagged and the tech had to go in and kill the guy
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.
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.
there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well
and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it
the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother
The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad.
What do you know about psychedelic toads? đ¸
Youâre probably wrong.
Sit down and buckle up for our excerpt of Kimon de Greefâs new book, The Ego Trip, released today from @doubledaybooks.
But over the next two decades, something remarkable happened: A misleading narrative about psychedelic toads took hold, involving not only the wrong molecule but the wrong species entirely. Although 5-MeO-DMT can produce experiences of overwhelming intensity, often interpreted as encounters with ultimate truth, the history of toad smoking is riddled with false leads and misinformation
Read part of chapter two, âMagical Mystery Toads,â on Longreads now. đď¸
I found out that a married guy with a cat and a dog, a devout "Z" marxist who says shit like "they deserved it", tried to edit his harry potter fanfic with gpt
torn between my feelings that people's fashion has very little to do with their ability to work and that the social pressure to look a certain way enforces regressive ideas...
...and my feelings that the person wearing a bright pink short-skirt and bunny slippers to work in an office space is absolutely tasteless
I think these statements do not contradict. I think people should be able to go to (especially backstage) work in their elaborate costumes, ethnic or goth or whatever, but something actively, alarmingly tasteless (as opposed to just pulling whichever clothes fell out of the wardrobe first on yourself), which a hot pink short dress is in the vast majority of cases, does signal of subpar intellectual capacities
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