Today, I found out that 987-6543210 is a perfectly valid Windows 95 product key.

Gigazine, "The product key of Windows 95 was implemented with an ultra-simple algorithm that can break through '111-1111111' and '000-0000000'", 2023-03-04: gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230

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Using "supply chain" to describe open source software you picked up off the side of the road for free and jammed into your commercial product is like a restaurant calling roadkill "locally sourced ingredients".

Did you know Windows 95 didn't just come on CDs? It also came in a pouch of floppy disks!

Raymond Chen, "The Old New Thing," "How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on?", Microsoft Dev Blogs, 2005-08-19: devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt

My win95 lappy didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so agreeing to the license by opening the misshapen pouch it was printed on was the only way I could install it.

thinking about how maybe shoveling our entire world through one chokepoint that also MITMs our TLS was a bad idea

"But that's not precise! They'll flag people doing nothing wrong! Skilled operators won't get noticed either!"

That doesn't matter.

Are you afraid - perhaps of being wrongly targeted?

If you're afraid it's working perfectly.

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Here's how #surveillance works:

Watch what is normal to learn what is not normal.

"But my life is boring! I've nothing to hide!"

If someone sees enough of your boring days, they can easily tell when your day isn't boring to you. Perhaps because you're up to something?

If someone can learn what a boring day looks like for the typical person, they can easily spot the person not having a boring day. Perhaps that person is up to something?

What program would need such extreme witchcraft!? 

Internet Explorer 4, according to WinWorld, and I'm inclined to agree.

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You know you're getting high quality software when the installation instructions say, "First, draw a pentagram on the floor..."

If you lock an iPhone, then blast it with as many attempts as possible to unlock it unsuccessfully because you're sure it's the right code, then Apple will basically brick that iPhone, leaving you with no choice but to either get a desktop PC or go to an Apple store, nuke and pave the iPhone, and pray you didn't keep anything off of the someone-else's-computer called iCloud.

Ask me how I know.

My favorite joke to tell people who are debugging JavaScript code: "Which this is this this?"

I love how Windows 8 and 8.1 are both historical footnotes so quickly and easily forgotten that even Microsoft itself pretends they never happened.

honest to god itd be funny as shit if we abandoned win10 and 11 en masse and just went back to win7 as an F U to ms lmao

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if you can't sleep it's prolly cos you missed one of the sheep in the dream captcha

Algorithms were invented in 825 AD by scientist Mohammed Algorithm

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