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“are you sisters?”

*whips out sword with an ornate bramble engraved into the blade*

“indeed. are you one who seeks aid from the Sisters of the Thorn?”

How to Use the Pen Tool in Photoshop

RT Lock (with permission):

Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which.

Unordered list of fun things I learned:

- google has a secret deal with facebook called "Jedi Blue" that they knew was so illegal that it has a whole section describing how they'll cover for each other if anyone finds out
- google appears to have a team called gTrade that is wholly dedicated to ad market manipulation
- Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled garden they called "Not Owned But Operated". A core component of this was the forced logins to the chrome browser you've probably experienced (surprise!)
- Google is willing to do almost everything to prevent people from circumventing their ad exchanges
- This is what AMP is about
- Google habitually insider trades on their ad exchanges in every way you can think of and every way you can't. Too many ways to list here.
- The exchanges are also rigged so that google wins on bids where they aren't the highest bidder.
- A large amount of people inside google are aware of all of this
- If Google ever tells you some change will increase your ad yield, run. In fact anything they tell you is a lie
- Google has worked with Facebook and Microsoft to discourage them from increasing user privacy, lamenting occasions where they prioritized their reputation over their collective business interest

You can read the full unredacted document for yourself here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

When people don't know even the basic theory of how their own computers work, can you really blame them for not knowing the dangers of risky browsing behavior & how to spot them?

Malware authors exploit owner-user ignorance, & anti-malware vendors encourage that ignorance.

Hackers somehow got their rootkit a Microsoft-issued digital signature: https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-somehow-got-their-rootkit-a-microsoft-issued-digital-signature/

"In order to stay safe, we recommend that users only download software from the vendor's website or from trusted resources." ... Um, isn't that why code is signed, victim blamer?

"the US doesn't use the metric system"

*throws away a "16.9 fl oz" (500 ml) bottle in my "13.2 gallon" (50 l) trash can*