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  1. Joe Biden's POTUS Twitter account to start with zero followers

    No. Reality is... Trump, bored because he can't do the job he conned his way into, lies on Twitter a hundred times a day (inciting violence, willful ignorance, and sedition) just to serve his malignant narcissist personality disorder. Biden will send the kind of normal political information we expect from boring, competent, hard at work political administrations who have more important things to do.
    5 points
  2. Microsoft declares war on Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

    I think it's a bit of a fine distinction. NSO Group creates cyber weapons for the sole purpose of surveillance, that part is not secret and it's not something NSO denies. Windows, on the other hand, is a general-purpose OS, and I personally think it would be a bit unfair to hold Microsoft liable if someone uses Windows for a malicious purpose. I think the intent behind both respective software is important. Of course, NSO hides behind governments, so it does not "intend" to do anything malicious itself, but given that its tools are solely for breaching privacy, I think this is what Microsoft is against. It doesn't believe that "cyber mercenaries of the 21st century" hired by govs should have immunity because there's no knowing or control about what would happen if their tooling gets stolen directly from them or the customer. In the original blog post, Microsoft has also highlighted the example of an NSO competitor who got hacked.
    5 points
  3. The 5 people that care and use chkdsk will worry about this. Awesome! I am one of those five.
    5 points
  4. Joe Biden's POTUS Twitter account to start with zero followers

    It'll be amusing if he surpasses trumps total and never uses it
    4 points
  5. Why does he need a twatter account at all?
    4 points
  6. Steam Winter Sale 2020 ushers in discounts for thousands of games

    They haven't seemed as good as they were ten years ago. Maybe we're just spoiled, now.
    4 points
  7. The 5 people that care and use chkdsk will worry about this. you do know chkdsk can just run during a startup if the OS thinks it needs it and if it finds an error it will do the equivalent of /f on startup
    4 points
  8. Steam Winter Sale 2020 ushers in discounts for thousands of games

    Not spoiled no, back then it was interactive and varied and things changed, now... seems like the exact same deals on the exact same things as the previous summer sale, previous sprin sale, previous winter sale, and actually all sales from last year, and the year before, and the year before that.... Basically never buy anything from steam outside of a discount sale, the discount sales are the real prices, at other times of the year it's just greatly inflated prices. Well maybe a little spoiled; I now have over 100 games in my Epic account and nearly 100 in my GoG account, not one of which I paid a penny for. It's kind of hard to get excited about small discounts when they are throwing free games at you left and right. The sales were definitely more fun in the past too though, with the flash sales, daily deals and the special games and events they used to have.
    3 points
  9. Joe Biden's POTUS Twitter account to start with zero followers

    It has been for "official" and direct communication for some time now. I don't disagree, shouldn't be needed, but...*looks around* here we are.
    3 points
  10. *Checks the month* Nope, not April Fools...would anyone buy this?
    3 points
  11. KFC reveals the KFConsole, a gaming PC that keeps your food warm

    This is the best tech product I've seen this year.
    3 points
  12. Microsoft to continue safety efforts despite new EECC

    Yes, but it is closer to: Lawmakers (in ALL countries) REALLY need to stop consulting bad experts in various fields when they write laws about things they don't understand.
    3 points
  13. WTF Microsoft? I am confused in how we know if chkdsk has been patched or not? I am also not a fan of "silent" updates.
    3 points
  14. Its all part of the "enhanced Windows-10 experience" that MS keeps touting.
    3 points
  15. Joe Biden's POTUS Twitter account to start with zero followers

    zero on day one, 30 million on day 2 lol, 90 mil on day 3 Trump: Fake news * runs to laywers crying *
    2 points
  16. * Trump uses twitter: How he dares. * Biden uses twitter: How cool. 🤷‍♀️
    2 points
  17. Joe Biden's POTUS Twitter account to start with zero followers

    I don't see why not, as a president if you want to directedly community with the world around, it's a simple and really efficient way! Not to mention if he wanted to give official speech for every little thing, it would take more time and resource and what not to write long speech, preparing media, hosting media...
    2 points
  18. Not spoiled no, back then it was interactive and varied and things changed, now... seems like the exact same deals on the exact same things as the previous summer sale, previous sprin sale, previous winter sale, and actually all sales from last year, and the year before, and the year before that.... Basically never buy anything from steam outside of a discount sale, the discount sales are the real prices, at other times of the year it's just greatly inflated prices.
    2 points
  19. Not, if it would use the residual heat from the GPU and CPU.
    2 points
  20. Microsoft declares war on Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

    Yes, cause WhatsApp hacking on Android is a big Microsoft problem. FFS
    2 points
  21. Microsoft declares war on Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

    NSO should be obliterated. They're terrorists, pure and simple. I have no doubt they're funded by the Israeli government and are de facto agents of that government.
    2 points
  22. Microsoft declares war on Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

    Stop crying, and use the billions that you make to make your software/hardware better or to acquire the NSO Group.
    2 points
  23. Microsoft to continue safety efforts despite new EECC

    1. Create a new law a combat TERRORISM or CHILD ABUSE. 2. Silently expand the scope to give more power to the State. 3. Silently increase regulatory requirements for the law. 4. Give best mates government contracts to enforce, monitor or implement the requirements. 5. Get kickbacks from best mates via overpriced “consultancy services”. 6. Label all critics as TERRORISTS or CHILD ABUSERS. 7. PROFIT!!!
    2 points
  24. Microsoft to continue safety efforts despite new EECC

    Yet more laws with good intentions but terrible unintended consequences. Lawmakers (in ALL countries) REALLY need to start consulting experts in various fields when they write laws about things they don't understand.
    2 points
  25. This is a major problem, and they have not adequately provided a means to check if your system has received this new update that resolves it, this is only made worse that their 'fix' instructions, include performing the very action that can result in a non-bootable drive in the first place!
    2 points
  26. Was that sarcasm? Or have you never heard of the term "jailbreak"? Um, jailbreak is used in a different context with the iPhone. (Which is unfortunate due to the conflation/confusion this causes users.) Jailbreaking a device is different from it being root hacked. um, no, it's not. Jailbreaking is literally the epitome of a security exploit, hack. There's not much you can't get to when you jailbreak an iOS device. There's also been some pretty good jail breaks in the past that were zero click, you just went to a URL and voila, you're JB.
    2 points
  27. iPhones of multiple Al Jazeera journalists hit by a zero-click hack

    This article is the poorest rehash of The Guardian's article. From what I read there: 1. An Israeli company called "NSO" has developed a malware called "Pegasus" that takes advantage of a vulnerability called "KISMET". This vulnerability has been plugged in iOS 14. 2. NSO sells this malware to governments only; its clients swear on the grave of their own mothers that they don't use it for any purpose other than anti-terrorism. If they break this oath, some magic spell causes them to become barren for seven generations! 😉 3. Despite the magic-bound oath, Pegasus has been deployed against journalists in Morocco, political dissidents from Rwanda, politicians in Spain, pro-democracy clergy in Togo, a certain journalist in London, Al Jazeera journalists, and a lot of others who think human rights violations are bad. 4. NSO does not name its clients. NSO is sure that they are good people. After all, they've sworn on the grave of their own mothers.
    2 points
  28. Joe Biden's POTUS Twitter account to start with zero followers

    It's not whether you use Twitter, it's what you use it for, what kind of stuff you post, and how professional your language is. Learn nuance before attacking more strawmen.
    1 point
  29. U.S. to fund the removal of Chinese tech in its networks

    I live in a major city in the US with nearly half a million people. There is exactly 1 broadband provider which I (and the majority of the city) am forced to use. They have a monopoly, and so they charge whatever they want - a lot. My rates have also doubled during the pandemic. This is coming from Canada, where I had something like 10 different providers/reseller options in a small city. Not to say Canada is perfect (it's not, many rural communities have no broadband except for satellite which costs a fortune and sucks), but I'm shocked that at least some areas of the US are so bad. The FCC needs to allow companies to resell major providers services or something, if that's not already a thing... we desperately need competition. Of course, none of the money will go towards that, probably because the major providers lobbying / sliding money to corrupt government officials to make sure it never happens so they can continue their monopoly/price gauging.
    1 point
  30. Microsoft declares war on Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

    Microsoft didn't create Windows for Cyber warfare. NSO did create their tool for this specific reason.
    1 point
  31. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Rollin', rollin', rollin'.... (to the pad)
    1 point
  32. Microsoft: 2021 is the year passwords die

    That's not very convenient since it sticks out so much. I have a Kensington on my laptop, and it works great. Fast and unintrusive. I like this solution for laptops since you don't have to open the lid. https://www.kensington.com/p/p...ss-BIOKTjNtrEqhSraBVurr-A/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.kensington.com/p/p...ess-BIOKTjNtrEqhSraBVurr-A/ You can buy ones that don’t stick out as much. From the pictures, that Kensington sticks out a fair bit more than my nano yubikey.
    1 point
  33. Then why when you kill power to a system by holding in the power button, does windows not always run a chkdsk on the next startup? Because NTFS is a journaling file system with transactions to guarantee that the volume structure is not corrupted. Since XP, it also keeps 2 copies of the Master File Table (MFT). If no files were busy being recorded to the transactional record when the improper shutdown occurred, then no "dirty bit" is set, therefore no check is needed. Chkdsk used to run upon an improper shutdown on FAT32 (Windows XP and Windows 2000), like Scandisk did on Windows 9x, but Chkdsk doesn't always on NTFS. That being said, unsaved user data can be lost when then improper shutdown occurred.
    1 point
  34. Video Editing Software - ASAP.

    Ended up using DaVinci Resolve. And then Microsoft had a free video editor in the store That allowed me to edit the frames In the video Properly. So that was nice.
    1 point
  35. Microsoft fixes Windows 10 chkdsk issue that corrupted disks and caused blue screens

    If you want the TL;DR - don't run chkdsk manually if you have doubts.
    1 point
  36. "According to leading Democrats, the low-income program is set to “help millions of students, families and unemployed workers afford the broadband they need during the pandemic”. This is why trump is getting rid of it. He could give a F about students, families and the unemployed.
    1 point
  37. You'd have thought wouldn't you! He's an odd guy with odd - I mean I wanna say questions, but...
    1 point
  38. And yet millions of people are willing to risk their very lives to get here and live.
    1 point
  39. U.S. to fund the removal of Chinese tech in its networks

    I half feel like this makes sense but half feel like there's something super wasteful about just blanket throwing away all tech from some particular brand. Is it really not possible to verify the security of the hardware we're using right now and only replace what can't be 100% checked? Is tech not capable of that yet?
    1 point
  40. You can now buy the ZTE Axon 20 5G with its under-display camera

    Everyone (because the companies PUSH it) is more worried about bezels, stylish colors and other worthless crap. I'd rather have a bit of bezel anyway, to at least maybe help protect the screen from an accidental drop or ding. As for these flashy colors, who the hell doesn't use a case to protect these overpriced things, other than the Hollyweirdo bunch that can buy them any time they want.
    1 point
  41. One thing that always bugged me about the disk checking process is often it happens for unknown reasons i.e. Windows flags the disk as needing to be checked, and I'd like better understanding as to why. What really gets me is, I can't remember the exact wording of the message, but it is something like "Windows found errors n your drive and it needs to be checked". Then I start the checking process, and at least for me, in 95%+ of cases the result is" windows checked the drive and has found no errors". so, it says there's an error, then it says there wasn't any. This seems to be self-contradictory. Also, if there was no error in the first place, why waste the user's time with those prompts and with the checking?
    1 point
  42. U.S. to fund the removal of Chinese tech in its networks

    Mobius - ALL programs like this basically amount to a BGB (Big Giant Bribe) which the paying government (that of the United States in this case) will have to cover somehow - it is a TANSTAAFL situation (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) - it is why I have whacked ALL governments - no exceptions! - that engage in it. The bill will come due - and will you like it when it does? (So far, the answer has invariably been No.) Folks get forgetful about the bribe and DESPISE being reminded about it by the Rush Limbaughs of the planet when reminded of it. It is far from new - remember Whimpy (from the Popeye cartoons) with the "I'll pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."? It was old then!
    1 point
  43. Alien: Isolation is free to claim on the Epic Games Store today

    Nevermind.
    1 point
  44. iPhones of multiple Al Jazeera journalists hit by a zero-click hack

    Was that sarcasm? Or have you never heard of the term "jailbreak"?
    1 point
  45. That is ######ed up! full details: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/...message-zero-click-exploit/
    1 point
  46. Couch / Sofa cushions

    As said, the key is to air dry them flat so they don't get misshapen. I find them easiest way to put them back on is to put the cover inside out, start at the corners furthest from the zip, then roll the cover up the foam. Don't try and cram the foam into the cover, or it'll look rubbish and feel uneven when you park your posterior.
    1 point
  47. wait its usb c for the device, but the keyboard is micro B???!?!?!? what stupidity.
    1 point
  48. Ads, Ads, Ads...

    You didn't fix anything but just covered up the issue. You have spyware on your phone and possible malware. Disable your Adguard temporarily and uninstall any app and addons you installed since the ads have been an issue. Maybe run a anti-virus program like Avast or Malwarebytes and if still no success I would consider a factory reset. The long term solution is getting a phone that is actually still supported since using a device that doesn't get updates is not a good idea.
    1 point
  49. It's almost like you didn't even read the review
    1 point