This was the context I never knew I needed, thank you.

If you have privileges from corporate IT and it doesn’t get reverted, or overridden to push more AI.

Super simplistic view: Malware detection is kinda like having a motion sensor in your house. Doesn’t do much to prevent but can help you catch something. If it notices right away it might prevent something being stolen.

Firewall is like having locks on your windows and doors. It helps keep out the curious and respectful, but not the dedicated.

Security updates aren’t necessarily for either of those things. It might be that someone discovered a way to steal your keys, or cut open a window bypassing a lock, or sneak into your basement, or crawl through the pet door. Patches “fix” those vulnerabilities. The longer software (Windows in this case) goes unmaintained the more of those are discovered, revealed, and generally accessible for people to use and exploit your system.

Highly recommend trying a live Linux USB just to poke around and see if it’s as much of a hassle as it seems at the time.

Funny meme but also inflation is bad

Too bad we don’t have one from 1985 so we can definitively confirm they fucked up the recipe.

Good article, but the bit about airline customers being only slightly less likely to use the airline they hate is hardly something you can blame on customers.

If the alternatives either don’t exist (e.g., United is the only feasible route between city A and City B), or they are both shitty (Delta is just as shitty as United, so the fact that United breaks guitars doesn’t mean I’m more likely to pick Delta), then poor customer service is just the cost of existing.

Same situation as price gouging, or Apple vs Google, Ford vs Chevy, or Samsung vs LG. Yeah, you have options, but none of them respect you. So you can not travel, not communicate, and not be entertained, or you can “voluntarily” participate in what society has become.

From that perspective, any thoughts on Ho Chi Minh?

Of all the leaders good, bad, and, ugly over the last century, he doesn’t seem to be brought up as much by propaganda machines.

That’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make.

10 GP probably isn’t a bad idea

Excellent, I hope this endorsement helps bring more awareness to Mamdani as a candidate!

His presence on the national stage at this point has been cemented.

Honestly, I’m pretty tired of establishment telling us who we’ll vote for.

Not very long ago America was never going to vote for a black man.

Bernie could never beat Trump… for some reason.

I just don’t want progressives to do the work of conservatives.

Interesting, I guess this will be a good opportunity for analysis.

Yeah, I agreed with “now isn’t the time” when there was a chance to prevent agent orange redux, but now… Very much the time.

Oh, didn’t realize, that is hopeful then

And absolutely agreed in the ranked choice voting. I commented somewhere else that Ohio is a perfect example of the Democrat party going all in to defeat it. Now if it’s going to have a chance it’ll be an overwhelming referendum and the party on control already has a history of ignoring those without repercussion.

I feel like I just need to watch someone use it… and then will still wonder what the point is and why an interior platform has so much more traffic.

We need to Spend BILLIONS Preventing this!

I’m concerned that now that it looks like they have a chance, it’ll be lots of money on character assassination and “now’s not the time” messaging. Including from AIPAC.

Alternative timeline headline:

ICE Agent murdered by “sanctuary church” staff protecting illegals

with Brad Lander and Michael Blake taking advantage of the ranked-choice voting system in the primary and cross-endorsing Mamdani’s campaign

This is why shitheads in the Ohio State legislature just worked together to ban ranked choice voting. Almost universally bipartisan. The Democrat comments in support were extra nauseating.

When did selling a product instead of a subscription become a bad business model?

Edit: I have a lot of trouble believing that a product that could theoretically have value to every person on the planet for current and every future generations, that can’t be passed along used or resold, couldn’t develop a successful sustainable business model.

I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.

Also, parasites 😬