Inexhaustible computer naming scheme: generated fursona names.
https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fursona-names.php
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=142185&name=PUA:Win32/Perion&threatid=226948
The description reminded me that the customer I had who swore by it the most constantly brought their PC to me for spyware clean-up. It jogged my memory because I haven't seen or heard from them in 13 years.
But the completely unrelated tech support patient in my care still had copies of the installer in their Downloads directory.
#Windows Defender in #Windows11 now detects IncrediMail's installer packages as a potentially unwanted application (PUA). Microsoft calls it PUA:Win32/Perion.
This is short-term mixed but ultimately very good news, because IncrediMail, a program from the #WinXP days, traps user mail in a proprietary format defying exportability even today, and it uses cutesy features as the bait for that trap.
#OTD 50 years ago, Intel released the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004. For the first time, a computer's entire CPU could be in a single IC package. It had all the computing power of a handheld calculator, but that too was revolutionary at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
DRM has yet again punished paying customers instead of pirates.
"Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires": https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/
cops & politics
Today in "civil asset forfeiture is a hell of a drug" and "cops rob more than robbers":
Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211031/17423147856/institute-justice-survey-shows-how-philadelphias-forfeiture-program-preyed-poor-minorities.shtml
And finally for this thread, I promise: How does Windows 11 shut down?
It still turns off the screen several seconds before turning off the power, but it's only about 1/3 the time of Windows 10 before it actually turns off for real.
The most refreshing thing so far, no pun intended: The leaflet's instructions for the user guide worked! It opened Edge, asked me in a Web page to pick the right-language user guide, and opened a 65-page PDF. Both the Web page and the PDF are file URLs: they were already there, not downloaded!
Microsoft, just what--
"Get Started" -> "This app can't open - A problem with Windows is preventing Get Started from opening. Refreshing your PC might fix it. [Refresh]" - [Copy to clipboard] [Close]
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