Back to my home I dare not go.

A new Evangelion series was just announced directed by Yoko Taro. Can’t wait to see what additional batshit trauma he lumps on the characters this go around.

What’s that logo? Safe bet that it’s an entirely intentional attempt to go viral by getting people sharing it like you are, going “oh my god that looks like goatse”.

They can safely let it spread brand awareness and salience through posts like this, then never actually roll it out, or make some sort of “apology”, but the goal is already accomplished.

That’s one hell of a story, especially with the little I saw scrolling your profile. Anyway, just wanted to say that a bunch of folks have reverse engineered Lego Island into an open source codebase that they can get running on just about anything now.

You can play it in your web browser even, but it’s a little tough to control on a phone.

Website is isle.pizza

This guy has a super deep voice and has voice acted a lot of these “brother, no” memes quite well, including this one

So it’s a unique id “stamped” to your Windows install during setup when you sign into a Microsoft account during the OOB setup experience. It gets stored in the machine’s registry, and is used for uniquely identifying your hardware and tying it to a Microsoft account for licensing purposes.

It does not persist between reinstalls, and it is in a known registry location so therefore viewable and editable now that we know it’s there. We don’t yet know the exact effects of editing it, or how exactly they correlated it in this case with the person’s network activity.

I expect we’ll have some mitigation plan in the next few months. Obviously starting with the recommendations in the article.

Completely pulling this from my ass:

• There should be some ways for researchers to watch what accesses that registry key and when.
• Hypothetically, one could just randomize their GDID.
  • Could target specific known ones to flood the data collected (everyone uses all zeros)
  • Forge evidence against specific targets (collect the GDID off a target’s machine, then set a VM to that and go nuts)
  • or just randomly generate 1000 then activate Windows on all of them using MASgrave and rotate through them. Would probably need to randomly space out the activations, use generic hardware, and randomly shuffle the ones you used. Would also help to have multiple in use at once generating fake cover data to hide the real stuff in.

At this point it’s probably easier to just go off grid than to try and make Windows “private”.

More so that they used the same Windows machine where they were signed in with their real personal Microsoft account as the machine they used for their illicit actions.

VPN only masks your source IP, not any of the other identifiers, of which we now know a new one.

Fucking tease.

The deliveritems clan? How does that work?

You’ve got a job waiting for you with Nanotrasen’s finest doctors aboard the illustrious Space Station 13!

It’s a bunch of slapped together simulation systems in a trench coat, slathered in a layer of spessman slime and clown wigs, and shoved in an ancient diy MMO engine from the mid 2000s solely kept alive by this game.

More importantly, you can strap someone to an operating table in medbay, slice off their butt with a scalpel. You can then wear it as a hat.

Alternatively give it to the chef so he can cook a butt burger, or give it to the roboticist who can slap it on a talking roomba that runs around repeating what people say but switching words with “BUTT” (help changeling in BUTT!). People without butts cannot fart emote, and certain illnesses that would cause them to fart instead deal internal damage until they explode in a shower of blood and viscera.

Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because the therapist pointed out correctly that I never grew up feeling this, which is something I’ve never truly acknowledged.

Like I get it logically, but rarely have actually felt it.

Thanks for the reminder friendo.

Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.

It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.

Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.

Also toddlers:

Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”

Toddler: “Because I needed to.”

Me: “Why did you need to?”

Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”

Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.

The key is that they grew out of it long before 20 freaking 26.

Not the same collection, but there’s https://modarchive.org/ as the largest database/collection of this type of music online in their original file types.

These tracker files tend to be incredibly small, as most are effectively just text files. If you find some of these you like, for instance the OST for Uplink or Deus Ex, they take practically no space. They also serve as little slices of history, as a lot of them have little notes by the original creators in them, often from multiple decades ago.

If you want a player for these file types on Android, it looks like Drake Mod Player is the successor of XMP Player, which no longer works on modern Android.

Edit: Whoops, thought I was editing my comment, not replying to it.

Too late

Best we can get is Internet Archive of previous versions of the page if we’re lucky.

Oh 100%.

Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.

And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.

In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.

Yeah, there should at least be the option for the original tracker files.