I had thought I disabled automatic updates by following a guide online. I was giving a presentation in front of over 100 people on my laptop, which because it is a laptop mostly used in the field is not on my domain. You can guess what happened when I booted up.
Luckily I was able to borrow someone else's laptop and they had Powerpoint installed and I had the presentation on a thumbdrive.

Fuck Microsoft. I complained to them but they said it was my fault for wearing slutty clothes.

Are you just trolling or do you not understand anything about the words you are saying? CMR and SMR are physically different ways of storing the data on the surface. Why doesn't my car have a setting to be an airplane?

I read a fiction so I know this is possible... durrr

And any app that takes advantage of this will be uninstalled instantly.

use 2FA on all your important financial and identity accounts so your password will be insufficient to login in. protect your password manager with a very strong master password and 2FA. that will be the one and only password you have to remember.

It is very important not to reuse the same password on multiple sites. Therefore it is impossible to memorize all of your passwords and you must use a password manager. Once you use a password manager you should go all in on using completely random passwords or passphrases - it doesn't matter which as long as there is enough entropy. So pick 16 character random letters numbers and punctuation or pick 6 word random passphrases from large dictionaries. Since more current websites accept 16 characters than 30+ characters the password choice makes more sense.

There is a security bit in every packet that your browser can check to see if it is being used "for evil". It will be relatively easy to secure WebAssembly, at least compared to Flash and other things that came before it. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc35...

I can't count how many times I've saved my photos on Google Photos and thought, 'If only there were a way to initiate a chat with someone right now to talk about this photo I just uploaded.'. I healed my misery by going into my PDF viewer and making a connection over my PDF viewer's built in social app -- this is not a joke, my PDF viewer has a F*!^@#^ social sharing feature with a separate social media network for sharing PDFs... wtf?

Yeah, I want a copy too for the same good and unsuspicious reasons!

Yup, that's when I dumped Foxit PDF Viewer. All of the sudden my PDFs were attached to some crappy social network nobody uses. Why the hell would I want to share my private PDFs on some social network?! Nobody anywhere ever asked for this feature. Uninstalled.

...but you're right. It's over.

If it runs old 68000 games, it's an Amiga. You can buy one on eBay and have some fun being nostalgic. I totally get that. I still own my 2000. It's fun to relive the early days once in a while.

But these new machines? They're not Amigas. They don't run the old software, and their speed isn't anything like any other new machine you can buy...so why bother?

I just don't see what itch these new Amiga branded boxes are trying to scratch.

...the Streisand effect?

PS: Thanks for the links to those two sites, didn't know about them before. I do now. :)

From TFA:

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said the agency reached settlements with four operations responsible for billions of illegal robocalls

And:

The fines the FTC imposed on the companies and their owners range from $500,000 to over $3 million.

And the translation is: We don't care that you're doing what you're doing, just so long as we get a cut.

Hate the stuff

Robocalls can be stopped, it's just that the phone company doesn't want to stop them.

We can stop a DOS attack, right? How is this any different? One PBX somewhere suddenly starts launching a flood of calls. Disconnect that line upstream. Boom - done.

It's your fucking network - don't tell me you can't fix this.