More than 15 years ago I ended up with one of those in a C++ program.

I’m sure the real ssue was somewhere else in the code, but if I removed one specific comment (or maybe it was a print to console, it was forever ago) it would segfault, otherwise it ran fine.

Awesome, turn it all into one giant morass of shit. Maybe it’ll all go bankrupt faster.

Part of the issue, admittedly, is that there’s a bunch. Many have outdated info as well.

NAACP guide seems written for a more peaceful era, but is a good place to start.

Rescue our Democracy similarly has some oversights when it comes to tech safety, but at least mentions wearing a mask.

I’m not finding the better guides right now.

The big things as far as reducing identification that I’m not seeing is that beyond face coverings and the like to prevent facial recognition, don’t bring your real phone and if you do keep it powered off in a faraday bag.

Phones are still traceable when in airplane mode, and while powered off, through bluetooth low power mode. This is what many countries used for covid exposure tracking. The only defense agaist this tracking is having your phone in a faraday bag that it doesn’t leave until you are out of the protest area, or simply not bringing it.

There are a few ways to get burner phones not tied to your identity. If you wanted to go that route, you’d want to do the opposite. Keep the burner in the faraday bag at home and only use it out at protest locations, alongside the advice from those two guides as far as disabling biometrics, etc.

I’ll try and find some better guides later today.

The protest safety guides need to be more widespread.

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Just enulation? Ducktales 1 got a remake/remaster. Kind of sad not to include that.

It’s only a thing if you leave smartscreen on. Think it might also only apply to stuff downloaded through Edge, but don’t quote me on that.

Everything in the world of these people needs an overdrawn explanation and story of creation and meaning and it makes me want to projectile vomit on or near them.

If you haven’t seen the Pepsi logo redesign doc from 2008 or 2009… well I hope you haven’t eaten anything recently.

It starts off doing some weird stuff with circles, the golden ratio, and old pepsi logos, slowly building to a frankly cultish crescendo of absurd marketing wankery.

As others have said, is Gooey, is friend.

Lorewise he’s made up of the same stuff as Dark Matter one of the big villians, but the power of friendship means he’s friend.

Mechanics wise, he’s player 2. If you don’t have a real player 2, he’ll be controlled by a basic CPU that mostly copies what you do.

I’ve heard there’s also some cheese you can do by spawning him when you only have one health (negating the one health cost to spawn him) and then eating him to restore up to two health, but imo Dreamland 3 is better without cheesing it.

Unasked for advice: In Dreamland 3, the game that screenshot is from, every level (except boss fights) have some sort of puzzle in the level you can complete to get a “heartstar” from whatever character is standing on the last screen of the level. You unlock the true final boss by collecting all the heartstars and beating each worlds boss while you have all of them for that world.

As is Kirby tradition, the true final boss is horrifying.

Depends on the program. I’ve got a handful of that old on CDs that still install fine. Checked when I was backing them up to ISO. There’s little bits of weirdness and unintended behavior while running them now, but they still install and run to a fairly acceptable degree.

That experience varies wildly though. Wine tends to handle things better and more consistently.

If you’re not active on the comms on awful.systems, I think you’d like it. Most users are aware of Yarvin etc.

!techtakes@awful.systems

ELITE? Really, of all the things to name it?

Well I guess they know who they’re marketing to.

I would hope so, they have to go somewhere

“Made a hobo CEO? You won’t believe what happens next!”

there is then zero switching cost outside

Tell me again how you’ve never supported an email service migration. I’m delighted that you haven’t, but it’s obvious.

Also, I love when people pull a “draw the rest of the owl” with tech they’ve never been up in the guts of.

Emails also come in standardized formats that can be downloaded and transferred to a new provider, too.

Oh, you sweet sweet thing. I remember when I believed that technical specs were reliable and things were interoperable because documentation said they were.

I can still see their tears.

Maybe it truly is that easy with other providers to switch from one to another, but Outlook, and especially the Exchange backend underneath (both the effectively discontinued self-hosted server version and the Azure-managed Exchange Online) are a special kind of jank.

There isn’t a special layer or kind of hell for whoever designed it. There isn’t even a specific hell in and of itself.

Whatever exists after death for the designers of Outlook and Exchange is something so much worse than hell that it’s categorically different from anything able to be conceptualized by humans. We don’t have words to even begin to describe the gulf between comprehendable human thought and what awaits for them.

Just run the Windows device using wired internet on a different (and isolated) subnet from everything else of yours and turn off wifi and bluetooth on it. Use a wired headset or a dedicated dongle like Jabra has for their headsets. That would prevent it from identifying other devices nearby.

Beyond that, just don’t do any personal shit on your work device. If you’re providing your own Windows work device, then do it in a VM as already said.

If your workplace allows WSL, then the main benefit is you could use more familiar software/tools through it. Your workplace is likely to be doing a hell of a lot more data collection than Microsoft anyway.

Go ask the magic productivity fairy to magic you up some free productivity. Come on. All the business magazines swear the magic productivity fairy just hands out free productivity, so you must be doing something wrong.

Did you remember to add a drop of your blood to the milk saucer so you could bind it to your will? What about making a salt circle so it couldn’t run away? Did you do your chant in transliterated fae or in enochian?

How about “it’s entirely possible to automatically delay updates by a month and have the computer give you a one week warning before they install where you can push things back by up to a week every time it pops up indefinitely, so you have the time to set whatever settings you need to not get the suck?”

It’s not ideal, but the reality of a properly configured Windows system is significantly less harrowing than everyone online would have you believe.

Come on, you know the big businesses wouldn’t put up with this shit, so just look up how Windows and these things are managed in Enterprise environments.

Windows sucks. It’s a corporate product made by people with incentives to make it suck. But they also have incentives to give businesses ways around the suck so they don’t lose their market position. So use those tools. If you can manage Linux you absolutely can manage Group Policy and a few lines of PowerShell.

Then use Pro or Enterprise edition and GPO to disable those features, like every business environment should be doing.

If you can navigate Linux you can handle Group Policy, I promise.

There are definitely shops online that sell recreations of those stickers, and very convincing recreations of the old Made for Windows 95/98/ME etc stickers.

If my workplace hadn’t explicitly told us not to put stickers on our laptops in a way that I can’t pretend I missed, I’d absolutely have one on my work laptop.