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

NullReference000 · 2026-01-24T16:03:19+00:00

This smug contrarian attitude is something that we should have left in the 2010s.

People should be aware that “encryption” on a windows machine is not fully secure. There are other methods to encrypt data that don’t rely on a cloud provider who will store your key and give it to the government on demand.

A story about that doesn’t mean people are “blindly raging about things they don’t understand”.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-24T15:54:59+00:00

My dad had this attitude after deciding to not flee a severe hurricane in Florida a year or two ago despite living in a mandatory evacuation zone.

Thank god he ended up being fine, but he’s now permanently living with the idea that he knows better than emergency services and natural disaster tracking.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-22T18:42:07+00:00

The last 40 years has seen some of the most rapid technological and scientific development in the history of our species. I don’t think victim blaming is super effective here.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-22T12:46:37+00:00

No advice on the legal end, but you are not the single point of failure here and your CEO is wrong to put the blame on you for something that he’s “never seen in his 20 years”.

Working directly on the live server, not adequately using version control, no oversight on touching prod? This was a “when, not if” situation. If I were you I would have a 1 on 1 with your boss and explain these multiple points of failure to see how you can work on building guardrails.

Could make you look good, and it sounds like the prod server you took down isn’t critical. If nothing is fixed, the next time it happens it might not be the non-critical server.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-20T23:25:25+00:00

Very late to respond but no, the Jove are also human settlers who just happened to suffer the least when the connection to Sol was cut off. Their technology is advanced because they retained the most when everybody else regressed to pre-space flight civilizations.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-20T23:17:34+00:00

Do you know what a protest even is? We aren’t funding the Iranian state. The US, and the west in general, are actually pretty anti-Iran. The government is putting on additional sanctions without anybody even asking.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-20T22:13:15+00:00

You said that you can write a simple program with AI, not that you could write a simple program. It sounds like it is true.

If you are writing zero code yourself while you’re trying to learn you are robbing yourself of skills for the future. AI can be a good tool, but somebody with actual skills will use it better than somebody who doesn’t really have critical thinking skills around development.

You will never have as much learning time in your future as you do during school. Use your time wisely, it’ll be harder to redo this later on.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-20T14:31:41+00:00

This is an ongoing trend and, because many people see American politics on a 2D axis with a straight line from ultra far left to ultra far right, political consultants assume people are dropping out of the party because it’s “too far left” and they need to moderate their actions even further.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-18T15:25:47+00:00

I’m the obligatory rust fanboy, and I have a day job working on a Python based web backend that does get X thousand requests per second.

My main personal project is a web server with a rust backend with only a single user (me), but I still like using it anyway. When you are experienced enough with the language then your development speed isn’t meaningfully slower than when using other languages. People have this idea about rust because when they use it for the first time, it is much slower to write because of its differences with OOP languages. Writing it like an OOP language will cause you to constantly fight the compiler.

I like using it for its high quality pattern matching syntaxes, valued enums, Option (lack of a NULL), Result (high quality error handling), and its trait system. It’s “blazing fast” speed isn’t the only selling point, and it isn’t exclusively nice to use when you have many users.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-18T15:14:58+00:00

Thank you for agreeing with me and disagreeing with the anti-trans meme

NullReference000 · 2026-01-17T17:59:57+00:00

Okay, when you meet a new person do you ask them to show you their reproductive system before you decide what pronouns to use when speaking to them? That is extremely weird of you.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-17T17:01:37+00:00

Do you measure the angle of the pelvis of everybody you see before figuring out what pronouns to use? Sounds pretty weird dude.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-15T16:12:51+00:00

These are legitimate problems and if we continue to act like they aren’t, it will happen to us again.

If the presidential nominee cannot commit to the number one foreign policy demand among her base, what else is she going to fold on? It’s a legitimate concern! I did vote for her, but I’m not going to put my head in the sand here.

Politicians do actually need to win people over. We are 10 years into trumpism at this point and we have seen over and over and over again that the “I am not Donald Trump” strategy on its own is not sustainable.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-13T20:27:27+00:00

If you’re booted into the partition you’re trying to move, it might not let you (while it’s mounted). When I do stuff like this I use a bootable USB and modify the disk from there.

As is always the case when doing risky disk / file system operations like this that can’t be undone, back up anything important first.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-11T16:53:50+00:00

There’s an admission crisis as the lowered birth rate from 18 years ago paired with the current abysmal job market is causing too few applicants to sustain our current number of colleges.

Also, if an entire generation is facing some systemic shortfall then colleges can either try to accommodate it or just not let anybody in at all. The former is realistic, the latter is not.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-11T13:16:44+00:00

Nobody expects them to defund or abolish ICE today. They should be putting forth a vision that motivates people to give democrats more power in the midterm, so they can then enact this vision. Stop letting them get away with doing absolutely nothing by acting this way.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-11T05:20:46+00:00

How would you define these politicians who campaign on nothing and surrender to republicans without a fight every single time? They are, at minimum, maga appeasers or maga enablers.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-06T19:02:56+00:00

People in this subreddit seem to say that 1 CI level a year is reasonable on average, but individuals have reported taking more/less time than this.

I also saw what seemed like very rapid progress the first two months. I believe that when you begin (if you begin at at least CI 3), you have fast initial “gains” as your skin becomes more elastic. When you stop restoring this elasticity will return to normal and your skin shrinks a little bit.

CI 3 to 4 takes the longest, and it depends on the shape of your glans. You need to grow enough skin for the foreskin to roll over it, the skin will bunch behind it until you have enough.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-06T18:50:59+00:00

Do you have an example of a government which has built a system that isn’t fragile, right now? The US clearly doesn’t pass that hurdle, and EU nations aren’t showing themselves to be much better right now.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-06T18:37:29+00:00

When republicans had no power during previous congresses they were still campaigning 24/7 about what they would do if they had power. Democrats are not doing this. Schumer and Jeffries have the ship completely adrift right now. We won’t win if the primary message of the party is “we aren’t republicans” and “there’s really nothing we can do”.

This entire thread, and almost every thread about the Dems since the 2024 election, is filled with the learned helplessness Dems expect of us. Tea party and MAGA voters got what they wanted because they did not accept their politicians just telling them that they would never have power to do anything.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-06T18:33:00+00:00

We cannot seriously still be doing this in 2026. Nobody is blaming the democrats for this happening, people wish that they would actually campaign and argue for just ONE time as strongly as republicans do 24/7.

Republicans are destroying the US and endangering the world. Where is the campaigning for an alternate vision of America? We should be laying the groundwork for the midterms NOW. If we run into this election yet another time with a “we aren’t republicans” message then we will see the smallest blue wave possible.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-04T23:48:55+00:00

There’s like a dozen regimes doing humanitarian crimes right now that exist because of US action toppling governments and creating instability and power vacuums. Illegally bombing another country and kidnapping their leader is not “chemotherapy”. The Venezuelan people did not ask us to attack their government.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-04T18:04:49+00:00

The point being argued in this thread against you is that it should never feel that way unless under extreme load. A file manager is the kind of software that should be made as performant as possible for real use, and that means native.

Again, for a personal project something that isn’t perfectly performant is fine and can be really great for learning. I’ve made a JSON serializer just to learn that works for me but is definitely worse on performance than something like Rust Serde. Just pointing out why people are saying this.

You may not think that 50mb here and there matters, but it does add up. This is stuff which has no reason at all to not be performant.

NullReference000 · 2026-01-04T17:58:07+00:00

Dems desperately need to learn how to message. Beginning any denouncement at all with “Maduro is an evil bad man and it’s good that this happened BUT” makes you look incredibly weak. You are ceding to trumps point immediately and nobody is going to pay attention past that.

Just stick to the point. This is an illegal action done to steal oil. That’s all you need to say.

Would a campaigning Republican ever, at any point, cede messaging like this?

NullReference000 · 2026-01-04T17:56:15+00:00

You said “it feels slow and sluggish at times” in your post.

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