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@briankrebs Y'know, if fewer web services actively blocked older browsers, people might not be nearly as well trained to fall for things like this.

The Fake Browser Update Scam Gets a Big Makeover

One of the oldest malware tricks in the book — hacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months. New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain.

krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/th

"I pulled George out of the bay at Noumea. The Ship's photographer made up a liberty card for him. George lived with me in the Lighting Shop for over a year and went over the hill when we reached Seattle."

In 1944 some Navy men rescued a kitten and filled out all the forms for him like this.

Source:battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com

As seen on tumblr: tumblr.com/jsup/73147625425826

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

How much can I get on trade-in of my old, run-down, always crappy pronoun at the used pronoun dealership?

linux comes with a thing where i click on an image and it shows me the image. but if i want to know when xbox controllers are on sale i'm out of luck, so, mixed bag

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me: hello windows. i would like to see this image
windows: great! i can do that. that's a totally normal thing to do. here's an image kind of like yours
me:
windows: xbox controllers on sale now

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spouse telling me that the default app for previewing images in windows 10 will just arbitrarily change the colors (to make your photos pop!) and you can't turn that off. this is fucking unreal

to view this website correctly please:
- connect over `http://` not `https://`
- disable your adblocker
- disable any vpn or proxy
- turn off your firewall
- allow all cockies
- allow super cookies and local storage
- enable javascript
- enable flash player
- enable webgl
- disable your antivirus software
- forward all ports on your router
- allow root ssh login
- deecyrpt your storage device
- enable wake on lan
thank you
also do be sure to read are noprivacy policy and cookie policy

ukpol, Stonewall, possible + 

"LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall has appointed a new chair who wants to 'get the UK back on track as the world leader for LGBTQ+ equality'.

On Tuesday (17 October), the charity announced that Cat Dixon – Stonewall’s longest serving trustee and formerly vice chair – had been unanimously elected as chair by the board of trustees."

thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/sto

Obviously, there's only so much one organisation can do, especially when the ruling party is overtly fascist, and the "opposition" can barely distinguish itself from them, but if Cat Dixon can follow through and taking genuinely wholehearted stances against the UK government's ongoing "war on woke", perhaps we can begin to see all these timid MPs begin to muster the "courage" to embrace equality, and make the UK a welcoming place for queer folk of all stripes.

Sister ship Voyager 1 is 22h 26m 17s of light travel time from Earth, or 24,216,000,000 km / 15,047,000,000 miles / 161.88 AU (2023:290:120000:1L)

I am currently 18h 40m 35s of light-travel time from Earth, or 20,157,000,000 km / 12,525,000,000 miles / 134.74 AU (2023:290:000000:2L)

To protect your privacy and shield yourself against 0-days and malicious advertisers, an adblocker is an important part of your security stance.

The FBI, NSA, CISA, and UK National Cyber Security Centre all recommend adblocking as a protective measure.

You'd never disable your firewall or antivirus because a site asked you to. NEVER DO THIS WITH YOUR ADBLOCKER.

That's the only pertinent point here. Everything else is noise.

#adblock

STAND AND DELIVER

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR

[disable adblock] [[pay until next highway robbery]]

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I wish more journalists covering YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers told the blunt truth about what it really is & why blocking ads is so prevalent:

It's a simple money grab by a corporation that already has too much money (Google).

Google is going after ad blockers because enough people have figured out that ad networks are genuinely as unsafe for their own computers as LimeWire ever was.

Keep .

The year is 2030.

Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.

All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.

Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.

Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.

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