switchboard_pete

the tld is .uk in that case

just take the L good lord

Hozier’s Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue) references Trump in the first line

Highly Suspect’s Viper Strike is more or less all about him and his ilk

Hackers acting as if they’re doing a public service by bringing down a free publicly accessible tool is a new level of assbackwardness.

are the zendesk hackers the same as the ones who brought down the website initially?

giving somebody a gift card for a product or service you think they specifically will enjoy is objectively more personal than giving them cash, yes

ask them what happens when a guy walks into a women’s restroom and says they’re a trans-man but is lying and isn’t actually trans?

win + R

copy it into run box

TBH, I haven’t used wordpad since Windows 98

which is why they’re getting rid of it

it would probably be pretty easy to just patch telemetry into it, except nobody uses it because why would you

i can’t source it and it’s tangential but i do remember hearing about some study that looked at people’s reactions to their cancer diagnosis

• some people react with melancholy
• some people react by entering into a strict regime to give themselves that maximum chance of surviving, like heavily controlled diet, exercise, etc.
• some people react with outrage and denial, just refusing to allow the fact that they have cancer alter their lives

and the outcome was that the second groups had better outcomes than the first, but more interestingly, the third group also had better outcomes than the first

if you don’t connect to the internet this feature doesn’t even do anything

You can keep using win10 without security updates

if you want to be part of a botnet in a few years, sure

just be smart about it

being smart about it means not using an unsupported os