Originally I was going to just comment flippantly, two meme songs:

• Scrub scrub scrub (not finding the original, this one has redone animation I guess) helped me find some of my closest friends that I’ve had for almost 20 years now. Can and do go years without talking due to life “lifing”, and pick back up like no time has passed. Wonderful people who are altogether more than I deserve.
• Knee deep in the Doot helped me find the joy of playing OG Doom and Doom 2, that in a very round about way eventually gave me the kick in the pants to get my life moving again after a depressive period.

They did change my life, but I remembered some serious ones too:

• Pendulum - The Tempest: This song, and the amount of catharsis I felt with the line “I know I can help you, I just don’t fucking want to and the feeling’s getting stronger by the day” was the first early sign that my first serious relationship wasn’t OK. It took a few more years for it to all come crumbling down, when a police investigation knocked enough sense into my head to realize that she hadn’t just for no reason had friend group after friend group turn on her in increasingly malevolent ways, but instead that she had been stealing from literally whoever she thought she could, those “boo hoo everyone is always so mean to me” things all been cover stories, and it had finally come to bite her in the ass with inarguable evidence. Also helped me get over childhood trauma of being the child mediator between my parents’ fights. I still try to help people more than I probably should, but I no longer feel bad cutting it off so I can care for my own problems. Secure you own mask first and all that.
• fun. - Take Your Time (Coming Home) (Live at Fingerprints): Not sure if this is the specific acoustic version from the Live at Fingerprints album, or just a acoustic version, but this song has carried me through a lot of hard times and big moments of change in my life. I take it to be about not rushing to find your place and to be confident in the choices you’ve made, even if you’re terrified. It tends to surface from my shuffle at big moments in my life, but I’m sure it’s confirmation bias. Either way, it’s helped me a lot. The specific “Live at Fingerprints” version makes me teary. I’ve not taken as many big leaps and risks as some, but this helps to see me through it. Peter Gabriel’s - Solsbury Hill is a good companion to it.
• The Longest Johns - Hard Times Come Again No More: this is a more recent one, and helps me get the sadness out over the big rough things in life that hit you when you least expect them and you can’t do any damn thing about. Elderly family members declining, fertility issues, people dying that you had told yourself you’d have an opportunity to reconnect with but were just too busy too do right now. The deep hurts that can only heal over time. The song helps me in the shorter term.

It’s a manga at least. Densha De D, I believe. Mashup of Densha De Go (train thing) with Initial D.

Yeah, that looks like the terribly burnt in nearly decade old screens at my local bar. I don’t know how anyone could possibly stand that as a main screen in their own home.

More importantly, to link multiple device fingerprints to a single identity.

Yeah, like what is this even about? You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker with pause/play, volume, and sometimes even forward and back skip buttons for pretty cheap.

What the actual fuck

Oooooh no! Tut tut good sir, I only eat pea-nut-but-ter-and-preserrrrve sandwiches! What do you take me for, some sort of street urchin, a ruffian, or a cad? Shame upon your family sir! Good day!

I can only assume there’s a different backdoor for 10 that just hasn’t been published. Even if there isn’t, Windows defaults to backing the key up to the attached Microsoft account. You think they’d ever tell intelligence agencies to come back with a warrant for that?

Just use Veracrypt folks.

Not since the accident

Please review the last 100 years of technological development and educate us all on when, exactly, improvements in productivity have resulted in a reduction of the working hours required for subsistence. Extra credit for when it also did not involve threats of bodily or existential harm to the ruling class.

Perhaps, just maybe, people are less concerned with perpetuating the wheels of the machine “at all costs” and more concerned with what happens between now and then. With who will get crushed before they’re stopped, if they ever do, long after our own lifetimes end.

Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.

I’m fully in support of the idea of UBI by the way, I just don’t see the hypothetical distant possibility as a reason to discount issues actively occurring in the existent present. Similar arguments are used to defend the acceleration of pollution in pursuit of an AI super intelligence that will supposedly “fix” all the issues we make during the pursuit of it. It’s foolhardy, dangerous, and reckless to leave the problems being built today to be solved by a purely hypothetical future.

Wait, has anyone ever seen Nigel Thornberry and Princess Diana in the same room?

Why that minion got bedroom eyes?

Fuck, I have one from 2024 that’s been sitting in a box until I had the time to get into 3d printing (like yours, it was a gift). Guess I need to buy a fire fighting ball thing for it when I finally get it set up.

Works with toddlers too.

How else are people going to know how to navigate them?

There’s a bunch of people who work as consultants for the rich, and in the past decade they have been talking about how many rich people were getting into disaster prep. Some of them have done interviews with various news organizations. In an article I remember they said a common question was how these rich bastards could ensure their bunker staff wouldn’t revolt and take over.

They at least used to be toggle-able along with all the ideologically driven features. But the fact they’re in the codebase at all is concerning.

The base Lemmy software is made by the people who run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, but individual instances are run by all sorts of people.

That plus the ever growing push for device linked personal ID on personally owned device feels like the real end goal. Governments can already snoop all web traffic. Now they want to close the gap on device level surveillance by pushing more and more people towards renting virtual devices with traceable payment methods. For people who don’t, device link to personal ID means they no longer have any of that mess of having to prove ownership or who took the action.

Removing the tinfoil hat though, I really hope this causes cloud resource cost to drop through the floor.

You should have a look at some of the official PowerShell scripts they’ve made to assist with managing, installing, and decommissioning Exchange Servers.

One had the word group misspelled consistently the entire way through it. Another had a wonderful comment noting that an internal function (to manage something with AD permissions or deep internals of the Exchange Server) that looked misspelled was in fact spelled correctly, because the command had a typo in the real name of it.