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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Windows 11 -> Windows Update -> Error encountered: We could not complete the install because an update service was shutting down.

Ain't that a mood.

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It has been 0️⃣​days since a website served me a completely blank page because it uses JavaScript to reinvent bog standard HTML poorly.

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re: Windows11 wat 

The PC in pieces was a laptop with broken hinges & a touch screen surface so thoroughly cracked that it sensed 10-20 fingers touching & swiping the screen in different spots constantly, rendering it unusable without teardowns more expensive than just yanking the HDD & borrowing a USB enclosure to do an "archive everything now, extract the required bits later" recovery.

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#Windows11 wat 

I'm restoring files from a customer's PC-in-pieces to a new PC, extracting 15 GB of files from a 7z archive on the same SSD as the destination directory.

The built-in File Explorer treats the 7z archive like it does ZIP archives: fancier directories. But using File Explorer to extract gave a duration estimate of "More than 1 day", spun up the fan to top speed, & genuinely took longer than a whole day do reach 1%.

I installed 7-Zip, used it instead, & was done in mere minutes.

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Riley

This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.

Source: twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status

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Bennie

Hold on... let me get the tech manual out for Vore day.

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Jessamyn

The local Blues Brother cover band absolutely understood the assignment. #vermont

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Eepy Lukas 🏳️‍🌈

Heh

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kaia

finally we are talking :aismug:

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Em :official_verified:

If you are the tech-savvy person within your family or friends group :blobcatcool: :

Never ever shame someone for coming to you for advice after being the victim of a scam, malware, or for using an unsecured product.

If you do this,
they might never come back to you later. They might just feel so ashamed they will just stay alone with their tech problems.

Instead, always tell them:

1. It was a good idea to come to you with this. Be empathetic with them 💚

2. Give them advice on how to minimize the damage now. Actionable advice 🚑

3. Help them harden their security for now and for the future. Recommend better products to them. But be careful not to overwhelm them with advice. One step at the time 🔒

4. Talk to them with respect and empathy. Tell them how the people who abused their trust are horrible and anyone can fall for the right scam. Remind them there are things to do to reduce the risks of being victimized again in the future, and help them slowly implementing these 💪

5. Be thankful they trusted you with this. It means they think highly of you 🥰

#Security #Privacy

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/cuDm4Y
Credit: John

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Get Firefox dotcom.

Download, install, & run.

Menu -> Add-ons and themes -> Extensions -> Find more add-ons: "ublock origin" -> uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill -> Add to Firefox

Why?

Because now that Chrome has dethroned Internet Explorer, one dark lord has been replaced by another:
bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog

Is Firefox the best Web browser? No, far from it! But it's the *least* bad choice of browser that works with the modern excuses for websites you use.

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David Gerard

Switch to Firefox if you want ad blocking to work. Also available mobile on Android. bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog

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How do you enable auto-save while writing in ed(1)? 

Muscle memory. Every time you reach for your drink, type period, enter, "w", enter, "a", enter.

... You *are* remembering to hydrate, right?

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What about the ed(1) command prompt? It doesn't have one! 

There are only two modes: command & entry. If you're ever less than totally sure about which mode you're in. just type a period (".") on a line by itself.

If you were in entry mode, nothing will happen, and you're now in command mode.

If you were in command mode, the current line is printed, and you're still in command mode.

Either way, you're now in command mode & your next command will act on the line you think it will.

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What was the hardest thing about switching to ed(1) for text editing? 

Understanding that the atom of data in ed is not the character of text, as it is with WYSIWYG text editors & word processors. The atom of data in ed is the *line* of text. Every ed command does things with or to a line. Even "s".

This was also the case in the ed-inspired microcomputer editors MS-DOS Edlin & (mostly) CP/M Ed.

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Tofu Golem

#AI
This whole AI tech bubble really reminds me of the time when game developer executives were getting really excited about putting NFTs in games, while zero gamers were excited about it.

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Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

#GenderConcealParty #gender #genderschmender #genderoutlaw #enby

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Benno

"My project is GNU-Free. Not free as in beer, nor free as in speech, but free as in not containing any."

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Screw the patriarchy, we need witchy music 

A cover of "Your Own Personal Jesus" but gender-flipped.

"Your Own Personal Goddess"

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