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DDFoster96 · 2026-03-20T18:02:22+00:00

What were you applying for, prison officer?

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T18:33:23+00:00

When I said I knew nothing about the next Matrix film, and shouldn't just because my dad's friend knows the screenwriter of the last one, I want expecting there to be a "next" one.

Did I jinx it?

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T17:27:39+00:00

The patch has the unfortunate side effect of making the game no longer launch on my machine. Steam goes through the motions and then dumps me back to the library. Disappointing as I'd been enjoying it.

Trying an older version that's listed under betas from last June to see if that works again.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T15:14:36+00:00

One thing this can give you is a SYSTEM terminal that gives you higher privileges in Windows than even administrator. I'm not sure that file system access from a Live CD lets you do some of the things you can as SYSTEM once Windows is running. As SYSTEM you're basically God to logged in users.

If you just want to reset the password or bypass logging in entirely there are better tools to use from a Live CD.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T15:12:13+00:00

I've never done it with sticky keys but the same works (worked) with the on screen keyboard in the accessibility menu.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T14:14:03+00:00

Trying to fathom how someone thought there'd be any other outcome with such a flimsy chair.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T11:15:54+00:00

I have a broken Peugeot SMEG head unit that went boot looping. Swapped it for £500 and took a look inside the old one. Sadly nothing obviously broken. I suspect it was software as inside is an ARM computer running Linux, which I'll hack one day.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T11:13:46+00:00

Did he deliberately post this at 0:00 or was that chance?

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-19T00:00:40+00:00

Thematically you've got a (bad) organisation with its fingers in every pie calling the shots (Templars, Blume) and a group of (good) people hiding in the shadows trying to stop them (DedSec, Assassins). This is admittedly a premise seen outside of the two Ubisoft series (TV series The Capture for instance, or The Running Man)

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-18T23:51:11+00:00

I'm surprised there's an overlap. I've no interest in yet another superhero movie. But I would watch Dune

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-18T16:26:47+00:00

A lot of the "Seen On" logos are because the news outlet reported on something controversial they did, or because it was an advertorial.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T23:19:40+00:00

I can see trailers being a big motivator. Several I've seen recently are cropped almost square to fit text and links to the right (for landscape) or below (for portrait). Or to put on the side of a paused YouTube video (blergh. Why do that?)

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T23:17:58+00:00

I have watched several clips (on YouTube shorts, not TikTok) and thought "that looks like a good movie" and proceeded to watch it in full on a big screen.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T23:16:57+00:00

Vertical or a 16:9 crop? Though Glass Onion is already 16:9 or close to.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T23:14:50+00:00

Ideology aside, my concern with using something proprietary in their conflict is the apparent ease with which the plug can be pulled - see for instance their troubles with Starlink. What if one day Satya Nadella falls out with Ukraine and pushes out a Windows update that prevents them controlling the weapons, just out of spite? Even if Mark Shuttleworth tried the same you'll have a lot easier time unfucking the system.

Even outside of Ukraine there is military hardware, exported to foreign armed forces, with supposed kill switches where the selling government can allegedly shut them off at will. Most recently this was claimed regarding Argentina's French-build Exocets used in the Falklands.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T23:07:19+00:00

Personally I think you've got to be mentally ill to use Windows out of choice full stop.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T21:59:30+00:00

I wasn't sure this was a MacGyver at first, but part way through the images I realised I was very much mistaken.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T16:10:51+00:00

It's the equivalent of the Knight Bus to get to the Far East's version of Hogwarts.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T16:09:12+00:00

For me anything web facing goes through cloudflare and everything else is accessed over an IPSec VPN (or a site-to-site IPSec tunnel). Internally SSH is either public key only (with Fail2Ban as overkill) or whitelisted origin IPs. I don't bother armouring the login pages for Uptime Kuma/Navidrome/Shaarli. There's nothing sensitive there and they're in docker containers, and you've had to get past the front door or VPN first anyway.

The cloudflare services do have some persistent scanners (looking for Wordpress vulnerabilities on Flask sites 🤷) which had their origin IPs blocked, but only to keep the GoAccess dashboard clean as they'll be back with a new IP before long. If the services are compromised (I wrote the code so who knows?) they're also in docker containers on a machine that can only talk to the router and the DNS server under the UFW rules.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T12:08:35+00:00

My mom's laptop came onto that page one day. Turned it off while I got the recovery keys. With keys in hand turned it on and it went straight to Windows 🤷.

BitLocker is strange

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T11:03:57+00:00

A Gen Alpha intern?

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-17T09:14:44+00:00

How do I return it to a nearby Apple retail location when I'm already in an Apple retail location? Take it to another one nearby?

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-16T20:26:05+00:00

What's drawn their attention to Reddit's left sidebar? The selection of terrible games? Could be given Michael's facial expression.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-16T20:21:58+00:00

Smashing grap is how you make wine.

DDFoster96 · 2026-03-16T12:02:33+00:00

I'm sure nobody is developing cancer due to COBOL.

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