Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Has it joined a botnet, despite the only apps on it that I didn't personally vet being the unremovable factory-installed apps? Time to do the closest thing it has to a nuke and pave, I guess?

IT'S STILL GOING AND SOAKING UP MY TESTING CONNECTION WITH NO NOTIFICATIONS ANYWHERE OF WHAT OR WHY
(Android, if anyone cares.)

How do y'all do Internet site survey speed tests without upping automatic fuckdates spontaneously running in the background and corrupting every single test result?

If I could use a minimalist Unix or Linux tablet in the field, this wouldn't happen. But Windows, Mac, Android, or Eyephone, it's a stupidly inescapable case of our field computer playing russian roulette alone.

Dear webdevs:

Please stop banning Lynx and Links from your websites as bots.

They are Web browsers, not bots.

Sincerely,

A webdev, programmer, & shellscript writer who needs to look stuff up online on the #DayWithoutX

P.S.

I shouldn't have to extend my laptop's boot time with a GUI & extend my wait time getting answers with a bloated Web browser. Trust me, not even SSD & NVMe drives make either of those tasks as fast as not having them installed at all.

i'm serious
former desky: fluffyscream
current desky: swiftpaw
current lappy: braveplumes
computer hostnames still available: lifetimes' worth

Inexhaustible computer naming scheme: generated fursona names.
https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fursona-names.php

*hacker voice*: "I'm out."

My home Internet connection is so bad, it took 584 and a half billion years just to update Debian's repo. :V

$ uptime
6:50AM up 50y 0:20, 1 user, load averages: aches, lines, sleepiness.
$ _

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.

Oh, how I forgot how easily people are tricked into installing driver updater & cleaner snake oils on their PCs.

The 50th anniversary of my own release into an unsuspecting world is only six days away.

#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/

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

For 26 years, from August 1995 through October 2021, the #Windows taskbar could be on any screen edge you wanted. No more. With #Win11, the taskbar is on the bottom and that's that.