Microsoft has control over distribution of the copyrighted Windows operating system. It has used this control to dictate whether or not makers of devices that include Windows are allowed to let users load their own custom keys. For example, Microsoft required makers of devices that come with Windows RT (the port of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to ARM architecture) to block end users from turning off Secure Boot and block end users from loading their own custom keys, as conditions for a license under copyright to distribute Windows RT on those devices.

It's not difficult - Iran must be balkanized if Israel is going to conquer the Middle East and expand its proper borders to "those promised by God". They will demand a regional empire beyond their borders as a "buffer zone".

The Eschatological Christian Zionists want them tp destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple so Jesus can come back. Much of the Senior Brass at DoD (or Department of War Crimes) believes in this.

Is it all absurd and crazy? Doesn't matter, it's what motivates the people with nukes.

That and Trump being blackmailed with Epstein Tapes. The news says it's specifically an audio tape of a phone call between those two.

This is what the people who want peace in the world are up against. We can't counter what we deny.

> when your investigative toolkit is journalism

Exactly. The English Majors went where other investigators have previously gone and ruled out.

The stack of blockchain, Merkle Trees, halvings, etc. show a level of insight a quantum above Hashcash.

There's noting wrong with being "quite good" but "engineering genius" is something different.

Besides, Satoshi would never have stood for not funding mining with txn fees. The BTC chain is in danger of being unmineable very soon.

I bought some paper books from Amazon in 1998 and they still work like the day I bough them.

Excellent support after 28 years.

Because an independent encryption program makes Bitlocker look bad.

Add to it that Microsoft don't want anyone to use something more secure than Bitlocker.

"Why doesn't Microsoft want an independent encryption program running? "

Mr. Dillinger I'm so very disappointed in you. I can't afford to have an independent program monitoring me.

Years ago I upgraded the storage on my old MSI laptop. I made a video of it:

https://battlepenguin.video/w/...

It worked great for years after that. Very different situation from more recently when I tried to fix my Dell, gave up and replaced it with a Framework:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

The intelligence agencies are so strong that they can tell everyone how evil they are intentionally and nothing happens. Jeffrey Epstein is a perfect example. Snowden is another. The outrage people feel at domestic spying and even kiddy diddlers isn't enough for anyone to really do anything so long as they get three meals a day and all the entertainment they can stream into their eyeballs.

War is about actual conspiracies that are carried out. That's literally all it is. The term "conspiracy theorist" was intentionally used as a demonization by the CIA in the 1960s to prevent people from questioning anything the government puts out.

I'm talking about THE FIRST F-15 that was originally shot down. Why send in a real human when we've been using drones effectively all this time. That's the real question no on is answering.

And as far as Conspiracy Realities that have been verified as true: Operation Paperclip, Operation Ajax (relevant to Iran today), Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, MK Ultra (where the US psychologically tortured Americans and Canadians), the Tuskegee Experiments ... all real. Oh but 9/11 is exactly like they said! Don't trust the "conspiracy theorist" even when it's been proven the OSS/CIA has done such things over and over and over again. But no, this time you're a stupid conspiracy theorist for suggesting it.

I'm talking about the first F-15 that was downed.

I'm sorry you're too retarded to understand basic reading comprehension and immediately resort to insults and post anonymously like a coward.

I HATE HATE HATE top tabs! I don't understand why editors still insist on them. Eclipse and IntelliJ have vertical tabs. Hell, even Visual Studio has vertical tabs (although they looked like shit until VS2026). It's one of the reason I cannot stand VSCode, Zed and Sublime. The first two have had open issues for vertical tabs for years with very little to no progress. Tabs belong on the side. It's easy to see and sort all of them there. Putting them on top just gets cluttered and shitty. Fuck horizontal tabs.

Firefox could implement vertical tabs LOOOOOONG before 2025 using the TreeStyleTabs extension.

Vivaldi is a Chrome based browser that's also had vertical tabs for years.

Google Chrome itself literally has zero support in the plugin system to even begin implementing something like this without forking the whole project, and they've actually made their extension system worse to try to kill ad blockers.

Fuck Chrome ... and Mozilla. Use Librewolf (privacy fork of Firefox) until Ladybird gets good enough to crush them all.

I just run a Linux distro and setup iptables rules directly. I've been doing that since the very early 2000s.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

I did the SBC router thing for a while too:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

and now I use Void Linux which I installed on this industrial appliance

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

The vast majority of people out there aren't going to know how to do that, or even care about learning it. I remember the first time I set up masquerading (NAT) and just how difficult it was, and now it's really easy and makes total sense. I have to remind myself that this stuff really isn't that easy.

I agree, same with the "Dirty Bomb." In Adam Curtis's documentary The Power of Nightmare, he claims a "dirty bomb," isn't even really feasible; that if you just detonated a bunch of fissile material, it would pretty quickly dissipate without really poisoning anyone unless they stood on the detonation spot for a few days.