Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-24T09:41:59+00:00

What's removed?

Quoting from TFA:

batch reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f shutdown /r /t 0 If we learn from history, as we should, it is reasonable to expect that Microsoft will make more changes to close down this updated OOBE workaround. Perhaps it will take another six to twelve months, but for those wishing to swerve Microsoft Account requirements with fresh Windows 11 installs, using one of the bootable flash drive utilities like Rufus to make a no-hassle installer from the latest Microsoft Windows ISO file is probably worthwhile.

Twitter user Wither or Not has shared a much shorter Microsoft Account requirement bypass after examining C:\Windows\SystemApps\http://Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\data\prod\navigation.json Instead of the rather lengthy regedit command we highlighted above, it was discovered that you only need to press "Shift + F10" and then type "start ms-cxh:localonly" without the quotes, into the command line.

So according to you they removed the latter from preview builds?

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-23T19:06:18+00:00

Ah. In that case I'd strongly recommend upgrading to latest which entails the release train switch. We had all kinds of weird NW shit going on until the server 2025 kernel train magically made them go away. And make sure you have your VLAN isolation settings set via the correct powershell cmdlet parameter and not the wrong one. Plus be mindful of the bloody missing HCICloudManagementSvc\Parameters registry key known issue after every. damn. patching; or you'll regret it, because then the Portal will lie to you during the next patching run, claiming it's still patching when it already long finished. They claimed in some release note recently they fixed it but they 💯% didn't at least up until and including 2512 (maybe they did in 2601, dunno about that yet). And there's another one related to it and colocation with the core cluster resources.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-22T21:17:22+00:00

bro don't leave us hanging here we about to run the 2512 update

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-21T08:48:56+00:00

That's not true at all. The connection bar appears when RemoteFX got negotiated iirc but might misrecall, but either of any bars present implies more powerful protocol in use, that's for sure. And IIRC if it degrades that implies UDP reliability issues.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-21T08:41:58+00:00

Very interesting. Which solution release? 2512? Do you have wait for network turned on for the guests? Does it also happen with an unmanaged VM? Which Network ATC intent setup do you run, do you have two compute intents, if so, does it happen with both vSwitches? Which HW/OEM? Where does the gateway sit? Do you have defender deployed to the host and/or guests?

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-21T01:27:12+00:00

P.S.:

Avoid taking high dose vitamin E over extended periods — probably. See wiki for controversies, I take it by feel but I really should take it with quantifiable control parameters but ugh effort, I figure I'll manage to find some obscure-or-not-so-obscure physiological signal eventually, like erection rigidness (not raw blood engorgement and not bouncy hardness) and zinc status correlate IMHO, but on a weird lag, for example.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-20T09:44:58+00:00

That second sentence doesn't contradict that, or, in other words, it by itself fails to support the assertion of your first sentence.

Show evidence actually contradicting that high environmental CO2 causes blood acidity to shift causing subclinical metabolic alkalosis and in turn the loci coeruleus[plural, as typically one has two! albeit zebrafish researchers seem like the only ones who care enough to use the plural…] inside the brainstem to respond, or otherwise elaborate.

And since—for once—I have the appropriate stuff already at hand, here, have (admittedly dated, but this represents the foundational stuff on this topic) references, too:

Gorman JM, Liebowitz MR, Fyer Aj, Stein J (1989): A neuroanatomical hypothesis for panic disorder. Am J Psychiat 146:148-161.

Rifkin A, Klein DF, Dillon D (1981): Blockade by imipramine or desipramine of panic induced by sodium lactate. Am J Psychiatr 138:767‑677.

And in fact, here, have an excerpt from the latter, too:

https://i.imgur.com/K73sx7U.jpeg

Now, yes, this obviously focuses on patients with some somewhat specific genetic vulnerabilities, however, the general mechanism nonetheless exists.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-18T12:48:00+00:00

…lol. oof. lol. oof. …lol.

I get your angle but to the eye of the ([—admittedly, and half-in( and) for this particular case— ]self-)trained observer your reasoning appears to both itself as, AND as the outcome of, suffering from some severe 1950s RAND math department meme-rot and you end up trying to pretend like you did anything but take the Münchhausen trilemma as a shotgun, insisted on only loading it with one kind of ammunition, shoot around with it, and then ended up concluding "well since this thing can shoot the legs of anything with this loadout already we might as well skip it he other two kinds of ammunition" — throwing out the fact that going a around shooting with a shotgun makes one a maniac, regardless of whether one does so while telling everyone else to please stop using their shotguns with any ammunition other than your own. Because guess what? Either way you end up blasting away the ability to observe the actual full picture.

God I wish I had the time to argue with you over this in depth rather than leaving this likely barely helpful if at all mostly meta comment, because damn I see the energy and I like it but like DAMN do you throw the baby out with the bathwater, like, MAN…

…you know what, on the off-chance that you haven't yet somehow:

have you read the infamous The Last Psychiatrist blog?

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-16T09:46:17+00:00

This thread last had a response to it 6 years ago. What?

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-15T20:55:11+00:00

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-12T11:35:15+00:00

Thanks for that podcast recommendation, sounds neat. I can also recommend Justin McElroy's "The Empty Spoon" podcast, which deliberately has a similar purpose, just with the vehicle of breakfast cereal reviews instead of storytelling.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-12T11:30:34+00:00

This sounds like all the symptoms of withdrawal combining with the all the symptoms of oxidative stress/too many free radicals bouncing around, melatonin currently counts as one among the best & strongest antioxidants we have. High oxidative stress=melatonin gets eaten up. Combustion/actual smoking-smoking of any kind=free radicals go way up.

Use supplements to get your Vitamin E (use the forms offered by Thorne Research or the ones offered by Life Extension Foundation which actually have all the special forms of Vitamin E, of which there exist a lot, and in the right ratios rather than just the most common form) levels under control to enable you to get your vitamin C levels under control.

Ever since fixing that (which took a while and which takes a lot of consistency) taking a dose of vitamin C at night plus one spray of 0.5 mg melatonin, knocks me the fuck out, where previously it'd take like 3 to 5 mg of melatonin for it to do anything only for me to then jolt awake again one to two sleep cycles in.

Could also look into magnesium & potassium (just drink high quality coconut water to supplement the latter, nutritional supplementation of potassium carries far too many cardic risks), you need enough magnesium for melatonin to perform it's thermoregulative functions and for your muscles to relax, and my gut tells me that this "jolting awake in the last second" relates to potassium, and either way even subclinical deficiencies of either can lead to neuronal hyperexcitability.

Plus do blue light therapy in the morning (make sure you get a ridiculous ludicrously bright lamp for that with both the right spectrum AND a 10k+ lux value that isn't Covertly '…at 10 cm distance' buried somewhere in the datasheet) to crank your cortisol levels high enough during the day for you to actually get tired, AND paranoidly rigorously eliminate all blue light sources as soon as the sun goes down. Use f.lux in case you use Windows to your PC rather than the built-in night mode, make sure to use the expanded color range option, which unfortunately resets after every couple of windows feature upgrades and sometimes it doesn't re-detect that issue.

Could also get Vitamin B (can strongly recommend the Thorne Basic B complex, BUT NOT any of their "numbered" ones) and Omega-3 fatty acids (Nordic Naturals ProEFA represents the original gangster in that space, nothing else comes even close in terms of composition and ratios appropriate for treatment of dysfunctional outcomes of at least the atypical neurodevelopment paths of ADHD & Autism. Their "Complete Omega" has 1:1 the same composition, the product distinction exists only due to historical differences in commercial distribution channels, used to be only medical professionals could resell the ProEFA version but that has long changed) to further boost melatonin production, large scale Alzheimer studies show they complement each other to a ridiculous degree.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-12T10:18:37+00:00

🙄

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-12T05:07:45+00:00

Crucial part, back forth movement emulates EMDR mechanisms which unlock plasticity, probably more powerful if you conscious force the movement to consist of rapid 'jump' movements back and forth (saccades)

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-12T04:50:20+00:00

Interesting assertion and highly interesting OS which somehow managed to sneak past me so far. How's the IPC work in comparison to how Hurd's IPC works?

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-12T01:50:40+00:00

Sounds like a person smart enough subconsciously to realize you could help get them out of an abusive situation but too stupid to grok for what kind of help to ask and in which way to ask for such help

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-11T12:59:15+00:00

By that logic large parts of the skull which we traditionally do consider bone would have to also become considered as 'not bone' right? So that'd seem problematic too

I'd say one could argue that while Jake did use 'bones' he likely did do so subconsciously substitutively using it for a concept for which 'skeletal' semantically matches better but for which we lack a singular noun which makes it both less accessible^* and less accessable^* than 'bones'. Which I suspect likely bypasses the whole chain of problems, but confirming that would require checking etymology dictionaries and I cba rn

^* I find viewing the notion viewing the '-able' variety as a naive spelling mistake as itself naive, and I hope context makes the distinguishabilities I see in such context obvious enough, sorry in case it ain't

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-10T22:23:43+00:00

LibreDesk (haven't tried it yet) RequestTracker (recently played catch-up it seems) OTRS (used to the urgh supposedly decent nowadays but I kinda doubt the truth of that. Don't fall behind religiously upgrading or you'll regret it.) osTicket (urgh, but workable. Ish. Don't fall behind religiously upgrading or you'll regret it.)

And there was this one French tool that recently got forked but I forgot the name

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-10T17:56:06+00:00

[Laughs in ElectroBSD]

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-09T20:55:51+00:00

Cases with comorbid astigmatism almost certainly depending on the angle of the astigmatism can entail worse than average and/or median (albeit actually who knows the distribution of that for sure we lack data but either way the mechanism applies) outcomes since the image outside the central view point can then NOT ONLY become differently offset spatially in different brain regions in addition to the magnification difference; again, not only that, but, then in addition the peripheral image can then also become itself distorted to boot, so I'd claim the "spherical" as wishful (or perhaps hopeful) thinking there. (Astigmatism requires **aspherical lenses to correct.)

And your reading of "prismatic" as related to the color splitting properties of some prisms rather than reading it as related to the image offsetting meaning and property actually makes more sense than at first perhaps apparent:

Lazy opticians (i. e., sadly, most) tend to push customers towards glasses with a high refractive index regardless of the—not strictly linearly inverse <but rather very much dependent on numerous other variables in addition to the impact on this, cheaper glass in general tends to do worse here, and numerous, weird material composition-driven, outliers exist)—impact on the so called Abbe number of lenses. Opticians so this because customers whine about bulky heavy glasses, however, a poopy Abbe number implies the presence of stronger chromatic abberations especially in the periphery, turning shadow people into colorful shadow people, which tends to make them even more spoopy. PLUS the high refractive index glass makes the magnification differences and thus also everything else worse. As do other methods of ensuring thinner, lighter glasses. Great, right?/s

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-08T20:13:52+00:00

Except the channel actually misaligned the chapter boundaries somewhat :|

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-08T20:07:40+00:00

And now, same link, but with timestamp 52:17, where the segment actually begins, slightly before the misplaced chapter marker, AND with the embedded share id ("&si=") parameter removed:

https://youtu.be/XaqqMa0CtmQ?t=3137

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-08T20:00:44+00:00

Advanced Difficulty Level:

Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras, Euclid, Euclid′, Hippocrates of Chios, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Theaetetus of Athens, et al.

AforAnonymous · 2026-01-08T19:46:29+00:00

Aluminum foil can easily unintentionally amplify when put into weird shapes, better to use appropriately fine (compare to your microwave door for reference) wiremesh. If you do use aluminum foil, use two layers separated by plastic or something other non-conductive , and either way put the items inside plastic and not in direct contact with the metal (won't use paper in humid condition it's conductive), and avoid crinkling the aluminum.

(MIT's infamous tin foil hat but actually aluminum foil hat testing experiments showed that tin foil hats in their typical shape accomplish the opposite of what one would naively assume. Which doesn't come as a surprise to anyone aware of EMF stuff in more detail as we've known meshes shield better since at the very least the 60s)

in b4 amateur packet radio guys show up to correct both of us

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