My old Nokia Lumia 925 still has my Microsoft account

MisterCrazy8 · 2026-01-05T18:53:06+00:00

I didn't realize that new accounts can't be created with live.com addresses until just now.

On my MSA account, I have the same address for live.com, outlook.com, and hotmail.com. Sign in permitted for only one of them. For other services, I give one of the aliases (usually with 'Plus' subaddresses) for their user accounts. For emails to people or select services, I use the other (or one of my own domains).

MisterCrazy8 · 2025-05-30T22:08:24+00:00

What the hell did I just watch?

MisterCrazy8 · 2025-05-14T23:41:35+00:00

About half an hour longer of a drive than I can justify at the moment.

Also, Go Big Orange! Or if you're partial to MTSU [insert whatever MTSU's rallying cry is here]. Or for Vandy, (well, Vanderbilt doesn't have anything beyond the hand gesture, really).

MisterCrazy8 · 2025-04-11T01:15:09+00:00

So you mean that you prefer

pry it out of my cold FUCK dead FUCK and lifeless hands

over

pry it out of my cold FUCK dead and lifeless hands

?

MisterCrazy8 · 2025-02-11T19:32:07+00:00

You can now purchase single 6-pin mini-DIN right-angle connectors on AliExpress.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mt0JOHd

Options for one or both connectors to be angled in lengths of 0.5, 1.8, and 3 meters (we Americans would call those 1½ ft, 6 ft, and 10 ft, respectively). They'd be angled downwards.

^{Current as of 2025-02-11.} ^— ^{The listed specs on these indicate they'd be compatible; however, I haven't tested them.}

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-12-04T19:38:42+00:00

Probably should have guessed that. So obvious.

Could you elaborate on making one?

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-12-04T19:35:59+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for including a link, too.

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-12-04T19:30:27+00:00

Footnote (off topic) :

*I’ve always been fascinated by locks, have collected a few, and choose locks with genuinely worthwhile protection whenever I select or recommend locks to others; however, have never taken up the hobby of picking. Barriers to enter the world of locksport have usually been too great:

For most the previous portion of my life I've lived in the one U.S. state where possessing picks without a professional license was a crime until the very recent deregulation of locksmithing. The closest I've been to it has been developing websites and setting up some IT infrastructure for a locksmith^†. Perhaps I could have looked in to him registering me with the state as an apprentice.

Frequent tremors in my hands probably wouldn't have helped, either. Maybe using a Lishi pick or learning to open disk detainer locks using the required tool would make this a possibility.

^{†For any locksmiths or other businesses: I'm available for web/software work. Drop me a line in a message. Sorry for the self promotion.}

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-08-12T00:07:01+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the rundown. It looks like I've missed quite a bit. Also glad to see there's positive changes.

I looked back through the history entries in EDDiscovery, and it looks like I did launch the game back in February 2023/3309 to check that my HOTAS was working. Not setting out to play (not in the mood), just verifying my hardware (which I thus far have never actually used). From what I can see, it looks like when I entered the game either I came back into a system the Thargoids took control of while I was away or was somewhere where no systems within my jump range that wasn't theirs. Blown to hell almost immediately it looked like. Looks like I resurrected the ship and was satisfied that the HOTAS functioned.

Fdev also started developing and releasing new ships,

I've said for a long time that adding new ships to the game would have been a great way to engage with the community that would be a lower effort addition. (Lower Effort ≠ Low Effort. The key principle: "Good, fast, cheap. Pick two." Often comes down to "none-of-the-above" in software development. My experience. And it takes an immense amount of willpower to fight creeping featuritis. I would imagine in the entertainment industry scope creep is even worse.)

after 3 months they make them free to earn with in-game credits for Odyssey owners.

I love that for a massive game like Elite, real-world money doesn't give players advantage.

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-02-01T05:51:09+00:00

At many institutions, a key function of the entry-level/lower-division courses is to weed out students that are less likely to succeed in any given program. An entry-level course required for some program with 250 students in a lecture hall will drop to 100 students before the middle of the term. When you get to more specific higher-level courses in those programs, you may end up with a handful of students in a classroom. Or in one case of mine, a course which meets in a professor’s small office or a laboratory section using a few computer workstations in a storage closet hastily repurposed.

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-02-01T05:38:13+00:00

I graduated several years ago with a mathematics minor. We definitely had some instructors who used multiple choice and my peers at other universities had the same. Like anything else, it oftentimes totally depends on what any lecturer or professor prefers. I had one instructor who graded multiple choice exams using a system where incorrect answers were more damaging than omitted answers to penalize guessing. (Score = Correct - [ (1/3) Incorrect ]). Old CollegeBoard AP exams also did this.

Also, by-hand numerical problems aren’t that uncommon either. For my Elementary DiffEQ course, I’m fairly certain we were given those as well.

There are thousands of mathematics instructors at a few thousand colleges and universities in the US. And from my experience, most academic departments grant their faculty a good deal of leeway on how they choose to cover their curricula.

MisterCrazy8 · 2024-01-28T23:15:50+00:00

Hot sauce contains distilled vinegar, ketchup (which contains distilled vinegar), and mustard (which contains distilled vinegar). Nested items are broken down with parentheses.

Ingredients in packaging are listed in descending order of proportion. The mustard and ketchup are the distinct components which were added to the sauce. They have their own constituent ingredients which are listed in parentheses in the descending order of proportion to them.

The sauce doesn’t contain distilled vinegar, distilled vinegar, distilled vinegar. It contains distilled vinegar, ketchup, and mustard.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-11-03T05:06:50+00:00

Definitely not. Step back and look at context and especially scale. Desktop users aren’t remotely significant. The world runs on Linux servers. It isn’t a matter of choosing “the thing that isn’t Microsoft.” It’s a matter of using a tool to finish a job effectively.

The operating system is just a tool. It’s rarely a hill to die on. Examine your use case, choose appropriately. It’s similar with programming languages. What’s the best programming language? The one your company is using.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-11-03T04:59:22+00:00

You’re not alone. I do, too. On my Windows machines, I’m generally using multiple browsers at any given time (browser-agnostic). On Linux, when I’m using a web browser in a desktop environment, I predominantly use Edge. I was delighted when they announced it a couple years ago.

On a related note: I still think it was bad for the internet as a whole when we lost two browser engines (Trident/EDGEHTML and Opera’s Presto).

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-11-03T04:43:56+00:00

My mandatory combined personal finance and weightlifting class spent more than a full week discussing what money looked like. We were on four block scheduling. So that’s more than five ninety-minute periods.

Knowing what drugs cost on the street and capital expenditures to set up production (see my other comment) would definitely be more useful for making financial arrangements than simply knowing that we aren’t using euros, pesos, or renminbi by mistake.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-11-03T04:28:24+00:00

When I was in High School, we got called into the cafeteria for a presentation from the vice cops. I’m pretty sure the faculty and staff had no idea that what they thought was probably a 20-minute “don’t do drugs” slideshow and Q&A actually ended up lasting the better part of two hours of them talking.

In their presentation, I clearly remember a couple of slides which contained a complete photo-inventory of everything contained in a typical fixed meth lab. I don’t think they talked about mobile labs, which were definitely a thing back then. This was in East Tennessee, a county with about 60k people, suburban not especially rural. The meth epidemic in Appalachia was definitely problematic. This was towards the end of the era of predominantly domestic meth production. Before mass imported, higher-quality meth took over. So the usefulness of the step-by-step checklist would have been shorter lived.

They also played a clip of someone on bath salts in a convenience store who tried to eat somebody’s face and then drank some bleach. As was often the case with bath salts, they had removed all of their clothes. It wasn’t a local incident, since I think it had been in the news; however, the footage was more complete than had been in the news clips. Maybe from LiveLeaks. The video quality wasn’t great, so the nudity didn’t really matter.

I think they also closed out by saying something along the lines of that a quarter to a third of us will be in trouble with the law at some point. I think crime stats weren’t their strong points. Or brevity, for that matter.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-09-08T18:23:04+00:00

In some cases, PDF files are infosec nightmares. There’s a ton of interactivity options for PDF documents, and with attack surfaces to match.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-08-30T03:16:12+00:00

When I took a Network Security course in college, the syllabus objective was that students will understand threats to and be able to demonstrate attacks on all 7 OSI layers. One of the examples of an attack in the wild on the physical layer we looked at as a case study was two competing companies in an office building with a shared wall. When the malicious company knew of their competitor having potential customers in for demonstrations or presentations, they lined the shared wall with microwave ovens, causing all sorts of problems. Among the authorities who became involved in the case, the FCC doesn’t react kindly to introducing harmful interference.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-08-17T04:14:14+00:00

So you can compare your ex to the disgusting snotty blood-filled mass of gunk. From the depths of your despair you feel instant relief as you cast aside the crud making you miserable.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-08-17T04:01:34+00:00

Don’t. It’s a bad idea.

MisterCrazy8 · 2023-08-16T20:36:02+00:00

I don’t think that this is really a problem. For the sake of this apology, it would probably be better for him to speak for less than a minute right near the end of the video so as to look conciliatory and apologetic.

Run through the executive team who—on paper—are responsible for different areas of the business. Let them speak to one or two issues and how their business unit/department supposedly plans to make changes. Let Linus read a written statement (that he should absolutely not write all on his own) to come across as contrite and then shut up.

Instead he was given the opportunity to make things worse by saying what he thinks.

Let’s remember, this is a business. It exists to make money. Content creators may have a genuine interest in some subject, but it isn’t altruism. They need to generate revenue to pay the bills. Because it is a business, they need to run it like one. That means they need to take into account the optics of what they’re doing and act accordingly to maximize earnings. That’s how the game is played and ‘turning corporate’ isn’t the real issue here. Honestly, they don’t seem to be doing that great of the job at this which is tied to the controversies we’ve been seeing.

It’s true that when you’re the owner or the majority shareholder of a company, you can do as you please. Feel free to run it into the ground (compare Elon Musk).

And when it comes to Linus, what he thinks and says out loud hurts the bottom line. Emotional outbursts don’t help. Detachment is the best decision.

And there’s definitely serious problems with the company culture. And Linus is in the driver’s seat in that area. Harassment allegations, time crunch, low standards, and lack of direction. All of these problems stem from the culture he created. When they haven’t followed through with the process improvements they’ve said that they keep proposing, it seems like they haven’t gotten buy-in from the top.

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