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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.
Guys Chabad is not a good organization/movement. They're extremely pro Israel Zionists. I've yet to come across a chapter that isn't.
Chabad is an extremist right-wing religious org laundering violent Zionism and imperialist hegemony as community outreach.
Some of the stuff said by their prominent figures/"leaders" are so racist and dehumanizing it's unbelievable. Rabbis Shlomo Cunin (Chabad of California), YY Jacobson, Dovber Pinson, Mendel Kessin etc are just some of the figure heads who have said dehumanizing things not only about Palestinians (including children) but basically anyone who isn't a pro-Israel Jew.
Look at this quote by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
Eli Schlanger the Rabbi who was killed at Bondi spent the last few months advocating for Israel to further take over the West Bank. He advocated for the murder of children and considered every Palestinian Hamas.
These are not good people. Let's stop pretending they are
Even Haaretz published an article about how Chabad is turning into a right wing movement and closely aligning itself with people like Ben-Gvir
I feel obligated to point this out. It's alarming and we need to not only address it but make people aware of how these right wing organizations operate.
A reminder that Chabad is an extremist right wing organization. Their entire message in recent years has basically been that a Israel is more important than universal ethics.
They have distorted Judaism to fit their narrative of violence and domination.
"Waah waah but what if I don't like it when my intended-as-apolitical work gets analysed and people start claiming it has reactionary politics" so this can be avoided by developing a better understanding of politics
This is Miss Darcei, she makes a lot of videos testing the range of foundation shades in various brands, and some of her videos have actually pushed some korean brands to expand their shade range!
one of my roommates disability has forced her to take a leave of absence from work, and me and two others had back to back to back vacations. so we're all kinda tight rn for money and could really use a hand.
my entire childhood i was threatened with juvenile detention just for being a weird kid. the kids in my class would lie about me doing bad things, or be doing bad things and then i would get in trouble and my school principal said if i didnt 'show remorse' id end up in juvy. neighbors called the cops on me and my own mother wouldnt take my side. so no, i dont think prison is a valid tool for rehabilitation or justice. jail is a threat the people in power use to control us and get rid of people they dont like. get more prison abolitionist now. get more youthlib now. get more transfeminist NOW
i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.
seeing people say "this trope has been done to death" as if that's ever stopped anyone from eating bread. BREAD HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH FOR LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND WE STILL WANT MORE BREAD. write your chosen one AU. write your coffee shop meet-cute. write your 47th iteration of "there was only one bed" because guess what??? we're still hungry.
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