Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.

Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.

Annoying edge cases: non-binary person who identifies as binary.
Not as a binary gender, but as having the gender "binary". Like the gender options are "man", "woman", and "binary".

0 uses 0/1 neopronouns, of course. 0 says 1s never been happier with this gender and pronoun choice, it really works for 1.

Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

Windows 10 is by far the most-used version of Windows, and support ends soon.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/lots-of-pcs-are-poised-to-fall-off-the-windows-10-update-cliff-one-year-from-today/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

So apropos of nothing in particular https://chaosfem.tw/@rooster/113283640352363325

If you hang around around Internet Trans people you've probably heard the "You can just be a girl" / "You can just be a boy" line, and that's a super good point!, but

There's actually an even simpler line, which is you can just stop being cis. If that's what you'd prefer. You don't have to change your pronouns, presentation, or even particularly your gender identity itself. You can just stop feeling like you're cis. That's an option.

My daughter is trying to convince me that the phrase "social butterfly" implies the existence of a "social caterpiller", which justifies her wrapping herself in a quilt, her "social cocoon", and refusing to get up today.

I have to admit it's a pretty good argument. Solid wordplay, reasonable-sounding if ridiculous conclusions, ticks all the boxes. Kinda dad-proud right now, gotta say.

I say again: friends don't let friends use password "systems".

All I have to do is find one of them in plaintext or in an infostealer dump ... and then I can get most of the others.

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:

go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

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