hi i just got a message in my inbox from someone with a kkk profile pic but because it takes 100 words to describe why this is hate speech and another 100 words to describe how this violates the hate speech policy (i still do not understand how these are different things? if it's hate speech it violates your hate speech policy, right?) i marked it as spam because tumblr's moderation tools are ass
click on the report button, click on "report something else" then click on the "report hate speech button" and then i have to for some reason still explain what i'm reporting. am i not already reporting something as hate speech? or do i have to describe how it's hate speech? then i have to describe how it violates tumblr's hate speech policy. excuse me? it's hate speech, did i not already describe in the last paragraph how it's hate speech? am i just autistic? does this make sense to other people but not me? i hate this website so fucking much
Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and Stockholm syndrome was also coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.
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.
everybody wanna be a anarchist nobody wants to change ‘diapers’ …everybody wanna be a anarchist nobody wants to go thru their pantry and donate things they know they dont need as much as a stranger etc etc like it’s not like ive never met actual anarchist who do good but 99% of the time they r not on social media and if they are they arent being weird about other leftist actually helping their communities like a lot of u see the label and imagine urself like standing on a flipped car thats on fire waving around a pistol while rock music plays but do u have the guts to wash a disabled person? could u care for another person if they were injured at a protest? do you even know how to do cpr…?
