Swanky Angles

https://www.brownobservablephenomena.info BUY A SHIRT, also #ART, DJ_CYBERDAD, labor issues, DIY synths. Mostly unsolicited advice.🇵🇸

[pankendev]

(snaps out of it) OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING!! HOLY JESUS CHRIST FUCK WHY DID NOBODY TRY TO STOP ME (eases back into it) ahhhh. yeah this feels right

[sarkos]

[flipchild]

im spanish.. without the s

[swankyangles]

You're Spanih?

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Public Domain SID / REV.1-5 (PDsid)

[omegachainoboy]

@.@

[swankyangles]

Is this an Undertalkie?

[swankyangles]

The single best compliment I have ever received on my cooking.

[soulakuarian]

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[swankyangles]

Audio stemming this for days, by the way

[swankyangles]

Link

[crabussy]

I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS

[swankyangles]

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[doglike]

[swankyangles]

I have to find out who the fuck this is

Ugh. It's boring and expected as fuck, they're pro storm chasers. I mean it's still a really hella rad thing and picture though

[40ouncesandamule]

[slowavesloth]

[kosmogrl]

learning not to return to places where I miss the past but see no future

[swankyangles]

[syd-bawlz]

I can’t be the only one who sees it