This makes me unreasonably angry. I used to have a Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula and they are super cool and delicate little things who do not want to hurt you (except mine thought my hand was another female spider and would rear up if I reached into her environment).
Anyway, Tarantulas are amazing and this woman is a psycho who should also be charged with animal cruelty.
The district is extremely rural and Republican and the opposition to Boebert were unable to coalesce around any one candidate, thus splitting the slightly less crazy vote. Let’s be clear here though, none of the other candidates were good picks either.
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“We are sorry you noticed, we didn’t think anyone would read all that.” -Adobe, probably
Reliable demographics or voting blocks get preferential treatment over fair-weather voters. If you want to know why even the GOP won’t overtly kill social security or medicare (unless they include a way to keep current recipients on benefits), it’s because old people vote very reliably. Though with the modern day cultists this isn’t as true anymore since MAGAs will happily let the GOP take everything from them if they think it will hurt their perceived political enemies.
This is just useful expenditure of political capital. As a politician you want to stick your neck out for groups that are definitely showing up.
Politicians famously consider the opinions of people who don’t vote. /s
I know it’s WindowsCentral but the article has some pretty naive takes. Given the propensity of threat actors to target Windows due to its market share it’s impossible to not see a system that records user activity as a huge treasure trove for both malware and hackers.
It also doesn’t mention that Microsoft claimed that it would be impossible to exfiltrate Recall data and of course researchers found it not only possible but trivial, with the data lacking even basic protections. Assurances that there are mechanisms to prevent Recall from secretly monitoring you mean nothing when prior assurances about safety have been found to be paper thin at best.
Further it ignores that telemetry gathered by Windows has dramatically increased in the last several years with methods to disable it being eliminated or undone by OS updates. Microsoft is hungry for user data and it would be absurdly naive to think that Recall won’t be a tool they use to gain more of it. If not now, then definitely later.
The author does point out that Recall has been weirdly under wraps, avoiding the usual test bed for new feature rollout. Microsoft has been acting shady about the feature and then the feature itself does shady things (like record PII, credit card data, etc.), of course users are going to think the worst. At this point it’s a survival tactic.
Microsoft doesn’t have trust issues because of bad PR or a few missteps. Microsoft has trust issues because they have violated user trust repeatedly for decades. They have done nothing to make users feel like they care at all about keeping Windows secure and safe and they clearly have no regard for user privacy. This only question is whether this backlash will do anything to make Microsoft reconsider the way it treats its users. I predict they will learn all the wrong lessons from this.
I’m considering moving one of my retired friends to Mint after cleaning 43 threats from her Windows PC. All she does is browse the web and word process. I can set her up with Firefox and uBlock Origin on a Mint install and she likely will never need to worry about malware.
Thanks to the Steamdeck Linux users on Steam now outnumber Mac users. Still a tiny percentage of total Steam users but if developers increase support we will hopefully see that number take off.
I do occasionally need something from 10 or even 15 years ago, needing the exact date I sold a property or started a new project or even just jogging my memory of an old contact I am reaching again. While none of this is strictly necessary, I could make do without it if I had to, it does create inertia.
I really need to check out Proton, Google is just getting worse and worse and the sooner I can get away from their ecosystem the better.
Gmail is probably the hardest one to kick. I’m fine with paying for an email service if it’s functional and doesn’t siphon my personal data, but finding a quality trustworthy provider and then migrating 20 years of data to it seems so overwhelming.
I’m happy to work with and listen to people capable of basic human compassion, but my patience for those who seek only to hurt the less fortunate and the marginalized has reached its limit.
I’ll reserve my pity for those more deserving.
Let’s hope it wasn’t a sharp cheddar.
I use option 121 as part of my work, though I am not an expert on DHCP. This attack does make sense to me and it would be hard to work around given the legitimate uses for that option.
I switched last week. It was pretty easy with only a few small issues.
The risk is low because we have not yet detected a variant with the mutations needed to facilitate human to human spread. If we do it will jump from low to extreme very quickly.
I had a rescue dog that reportedly killed chickens when she was a puppy. She was the sweetest smartest dog i ever had, but very timid. For years if we raised our arms above our waist she would cower, if we raised our voice, she would cower. It was a challenge to discipline her because of her obvious past trauma so we trained her to go into timeout, if she misbehaved we would get out an egg timer and she would have to sit under the dining room table until it went off. This really worked as a deterrent.
When she was older she had some health issues and we did some x-rays for unrelated reasons. We discovered that when she was young (before we got her) someone had broken both her front legs. The vet said the nature of the breaks suggested they were deliberate. It was the first time in my life I felt actual rage.
We know that she believes any being not immediately useful to her is unworthy of life. This is such a core part of her identity that she believes she deserves accolades for it. She didn’t just kill her dog, she did it and then bragged about it because she thinks it makes her look strong.
The only way Biden leaves the race is by his own choice. He can be cajoled to leave but the party isn’t going to force him out. The question would be who would replace him and he would have a lot of say in that matter. I would say Harris and Newsome would be the two most likely picks. Personally, I think Newsome would be the right choice since he is corporate enough to please the neoiberals but forward on enough issues to not totally lose the progressives.