Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Crowdsourcing a question for security folks who aren’t absolutely underwater right now: do people know of more secure translation apps? I got asked and I don’t know the answer either

FUCKING EMBARRASSING!

🚀 Spout2 works on Linux!!! 🚀 A few bugs left to iron out but it works~!

Your super hardcore technical advice is great and if people can't use it, it's not useful. You have to meet people where they are on the ground

oh temwa bobblehead, we're really in it now

me: :( the package from blackmilk on my porch: me: :)

so what's everyone telling their boss. like hey sorry my work is shit right now but The Horrors

meramec my beloved. wasnt born there but the ozarks have decided I am theirs.

gdq is such a balm to my aggrieved heart

dont make me tap the sign.

start with what it is (not what it isn't) focus on why they're lying (not their lies) make it about them (not her) eat their frame

don't fuck up your magic or it'll make you gay. my bud read the spell backwards and now he's pondering his bro

if this dreadful feeling is new to you, remember to hold this same energy for your non-white neighbors.

Did you honestly not think I would take this opportunity to recreate an entire meme using this single animation!?

man the video is circulating so settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs

guys, please don't directly embed the snuff video into the timeline what the FUCK is wrong with you all

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

please enjoy my cat performing her dancey dance

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

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all this is both foolish and unnecessary

i made this award specifically for you, you've only got 1 day left to claim it

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

they're good fonts, boss

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

after a long time not enjoying the holidays, they are starting to feel boring again, in the best way possible 💜

Anyway give Temwa 1 million dollars thank you for your time

literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable. every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.

good riddance

Diary Comics Vol. 4 Trigger Warning: Tess has been keeping diaries throughout her struggles the past few years, and this comic means a lot to me. I have had my own struggles. It resonates. --Chris You can find more of her work at tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

Benn Jordan, who initially discovered this, made a very good YouTube video about the exposure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

every AI company:

Hey! Hi! Hello! Our Kickstarter is... (drumroll, if you please) LIVE! You can find it riiiiight here: kickstarter.dotmeow.org But what IS .meow? Well! Let us explain... with video!

I will offer only this: Thiel was on the board of Facebook when they enabled the Rohingya genocide.

yes humans will packbond with anything but xiv community is unmatched. we got: - skybear - squapes (with official merch) - the .

someone just rolled up and fucking killed my The .

The . #ffxivart #ffxiv

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

Two days ago:

Don’t miss the opportunity to cast your ballot for Worst Person in Tech! Will Elon Musk and Peter Thiel find themselves facing off again this year, so will another asshole move into the top spot? You will decide.

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

the good that you do persists in this world

if you Change your miiiind ⭐ Steven Universe #fanart

control is a great game for people who identify (sexually or otherwise) as a Service Weapon

i love ben starr #thegameawards

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