Hah, I have defeated the Windows 11 requirement to use a Microsoft account by pressing shift+F10 to get a command prompt and then running:

start ms-cxh:localonly

I did this later in the process with no requirement to disconnect from the network.

You can't use the bypass account (no@thankyou.com) and you can't make up an email address because the installer sends a code to it.

#Microsoft #Windows11

‼️ La Justicia gallega prohíbe a la Xunta habilitar nuevas macrogranjas en la comarca de A Limia

Así lo ordena el TS de Justicia de Galicia en la sentencia –a la que ha tenido acceso 'Climática'– que condena al Gobierno regional por la contaminación del embalse de As Conchas, en A Limia. Tampoco podrán ampliarse las explotaciones existentes. “Es una medida que no tiene ningún precedente y de enorme calado”, celebra uno de los abogados de los vecinos damnificados.

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in reply to Quinn Norton

It's broken, we're broken, we're breaking the world. If you refuse to acknowledge the situation, you can't cope with it. The king is mad, and Olympus is fallen, the the fortress is breached, whatever metaphor works for you.

What doesn't work is pretending things are normal, or that you can deal with America like it's a normal nation. It's a nuclear super power gone mad.

in reply to Quinn Norton

May I suggest an article you wrote back in 2013?

medium.com/quinn-norton/the-va…

in reply to Quinn Norton

I’ve been thinking about this , too- and I agree with you. It’s not coming back.
But we need to be thinking about where we want to go in the aftermath of this. There were endemic problems in the US prior to this- and we should aim to solve for those moving forward.
I mean, it’s going to be bad for sure. But “getting it back” I think inadvertently implies “back” is someplace we should want to get to again. And given it led to where we are now, I’m not so sure.

Top church leaders in the Holy Land asserted Monday that Israeli authorities “facilitate and enable” the presence of Israeli settlers who have intensified attacks in recent weeks on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank.

Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III and Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa denounced an incident last week when settlers set fires near the community’s church.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

The UK-wide protests on Saturday 12 July against the proscription of Palestine Action have exposed a stark divide in the policing response across different forces.

Raids and repression to different degrees across the country are indicative of the chaos the government has unleashed with its order that permits police to treat protestors holding cardboard signs as if they were terrorists.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE

Link: eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Watch Charlie Kirk confess he's joining the Epstein cover up. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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Resistance's resilience shapes talks with 'Israel': Exclusive english.almayadeen.net/news/po…



C. #Johnstone

The #US has imposed sanctions on #UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca #Albanese for using her position to oppose the most thoroughly documented #genocide in #history.

At the same time, the US has removed #Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise #HTS from its list of designated terrorist organizations, because its leader successfully carried out the regime change in Damascus that the western empire had been chasing for years.

At the same time, the #UK has added nonviolent anti-genocide activism group #PalestineAction to its list of banned terrorist organizations for opposing the #Gaza holocaust.

At the same time, the Israeli prime minister who is carrying out that holocaust has nominated the American president who is helping him perpetrate genocidal atrocities for a Nobel Peace Prize.

At the same time, Israel has continued its ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza, while also arresting the Israeli journalist who helped expose the #IDF officials who cooked up fake atrocity propaganda about burnt babies on# October7.

At the same time, the #Trump administration has enraged its MAGA base by concluding that Jeffrey #Epstein had no client list for any kind of sexual blackmail operation and definitely committed suicide.

The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes.

They do everything they can to make us stupid via #propaganda, Silicon Valley information control, and indoctrination schooling systems, and then they treat us like we’re morons for the rest of our lives.

The empire depends on ignorance. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out. Now here we are watching a live-streamed genocide unfold right in front of our eyes for nearly two years while being tube fed a daily diet of the most ridiculous lies imaginable.

As Aaron Bushnell said, this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

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The company I work at (a plumbing and heating merchant) is having a massive push on renewables - heat pumps, solar, full works. Great! Much sustainable, many aura points.

In the background, I've been informed last week that marketing copy for the products we sell is now going to be generated by AI, and one of my responsibilities going forwards is going to be checking it for accuracy. This is on top of having Gemini thrust upon me and every meeting watching everyone using that god-forsaken "summary" tool* instead of just taking notes with a pen like a normal fucking human being.

Like, ffs, guys, the environmental impact of AI is hardly unknown here.

*as a rational human being, this has incentivised me to up my previously natural *mild but non-zero* usage of cockney rhyming slang to the max.

Fuck you, I will have Google thinking we're a butchers shop based in Barnet selling loaves of bread and pork pies to Scooby-Doo and Pete Tong by the end of August.

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Estamos aquí viendo con horror como cada vez se juntan más nazis en Torre Pacheco pero os voy a decir una cosa: si miráis los canales de Telegram donde se mueven los votantes de extrema derecha (no hablo de los nazis que se van allí a pegar palos a inmigrantes, hablo de votantes) como el canal de Alvise, por ejemplo, tienen montada tremenda máquina de realidad alternativa donde son los inmigrantes quienes se organizan y básicamente van matando por la calle con machetes a todos los españoles con los que se cruzan.

Ponen imágenes que no se corresponden con los sucesos, de otros países, de otros momentos, incluso de casos donde pintan a víctimas de agresiones homófobas por parte de la extrema derecha de víctimas de los malvados comandos magrebíes. Sin vergüenza ninguna.

¿Y sabéis qué? Da igual que les digas que esas imágenes no se corresponden con los sucesos, esas personas han elegido vivir en esa realidad alternativa y en eses canales están pidiendo: SANGRE.

Literalmente.

in reply to Shine McShine 🐌

el capitalismo tiene los mismos problemas que ha tenido siempre y otra vez, como los mismos problemas de hace siglos, la pobreza, el desempleo, la enorme desigualdad y más
es siempre más fácil buscar un chivo expiatorio, que ponerse a dar una clase de historia, antropología o sociología
la gente piensa es culpa de fulanito, porque el sistema es intocable y listo
cuando reducis la compleja realidad social a un nosotros contra ellos, el fascismo avanza

Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and boosts US weapons for Ukraine

'I use trade for a lot of things,” Trump added. “But it’s great for settling wars'

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#UkraineRussiaWar #TrumpTariffs #Putin

LIVE: Deadly Israeli attacks kill more Palestinians near Gaza aid centre | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- Israeli military kills Palestinian in occupied West Bank
- Trump says could have Gaza update ‘fairly soon’
- Hamas: Netanyahu’s ‘absolute victory’ vow is a ‘major illusion’
- Gaza death toll rises, 120 killed in 24 hours
- UN warns lifelines in Gaza will ‘vanish’ without fuel

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

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The latest Thunderbird mobile update is out! We're getting closer to sharable iOS screenshots while sharing a sneak peak at the new Android account drawer and folders. And check out all the improvements from our team and community!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

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Hello Fedi friends!

Happy #BastilleDay to those who celebrate it.

TIL that the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille was called the "Fête de la Fédération" (festival of the federation).

A fascinating read:
🔗 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fête_de_la_Fédération

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One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)

The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something

Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl, is not writing the original tool but rather maintaining it over time, it's important to make good choices from the beginning, and at every major version change

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in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥

I think it's an immature attitude borne out of people resigned to working within languages and frameworks that force a lot of 'boilerplate' on them, who haven't had a chance to develop the understanding that there are better approaches (more expressive *durable* abstractions, etc)

Proponents of the tool seem to extrapolate from the relative increase in ability of these tools in the past 6 months (mostly due to more cleverly wiring them up to the ability to use external tools and edit files) that in another 6 months they'll solve significant issues of design ... and I'm not seeing evidence of it

cute anime girl learning C programming

C 1
rust 0

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If you missed it, I had a brand new short story come out last week!

After much discussion, it’s been firmly agreed you should go in knowing nothing about it, so as to not be spoiled for…well…

uncannymagazine.com/article/wh…

I just read in the Wall Street Journal that certain areas of San Francisco remain a ‘no go zone’, despite the best and most valiant efforts of our amazing ‘only good mayor in a while’, the billionaire whose mama paid for his campaign.

The no go zone, supposedly, includes the place I live in; where in the same article the same mayor says ‘it also has the highest number of children’

#SanFrancisco

in reply to Dj33p

let me take out my crystal ball called pattern recognition to see what will happen.
i see... bickering back and forth, legal suits that go no where, congressional hearings maybe... that result in nothing... fauci dies of old age and ultra rich... years later it is announced that the crimes are chargeable and fauci is indicted. since he's dead he can't appear in court and the case is closed. the public wins! (nothing of course but yeah! we did it... or something)

And so the reality of running a council & the views of ReformUK have (without much delay) collided, as Kent Country Council discover the sending migrant workers home might have a major impact on the ability of the council to deliver social care..... oh dear, reality has bit them in the bum.

#ReformUK #politics #migrants #workers

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As an inveterate list-maker with failing health and spoons, something I find genuinely really helpful from the 2010's "productivity porn" explosion is David Allen's approach to job-lists (of "Getting Things Done" fame)

Essentially, my interpretation of it is this: you have a list, which can be as long as it needs to be, of stuff that needs/wants to be done, but unless it's "100%-absolutely-no fucking about" time-sensitive, it doesn't go on your daily tasks lists. If it can wait until tomorrow, it DOES NOT go on today's list.

I have stuff that *absolutely* needs to be done today - empty the dishwasher, clean the kitchen before tonight's dinner, empty the bins because it's bin day tomorrow and so on.

At the moment, because I'm on a low-energy day, they're the ONLY things on my "today" list.

Once they're done, if and only if I have spoons, I might refer to my longer "to do" list, and decide that I can, actually, put some stakes in my tomato plant pots and prop them up. Or maybe do a little bit of cooking to set me up better for this coming week.

But neither of those things are *urgent* in the same way as needing a clean kitchen is, so they don't go on the list whilst I'm twitchy on energy levels, because the mental impact of "shit, I didn't manage my list" is genuinely really bad for me.

in reply to NeonSnake

I have a long list - I use Remember The Milk, which I basically use to capture literally everything I want to do.

Once a week, I consciously sit down and review it. At the moment, it's got 41 items on it. That's about normal for me.

Of those 41, only 1 of those currently HAS to be done today (empty the bins, I've already done some others of the HAVE TO variety). These are priority 1 (in this particular app, they're highlighted red)

I've then got a few which are not MUST DO TODAY but are a little time-sensitive. Staking my tomato plants is one of them - I clearly can't just keep ignoring it, because at some point they'll grow too big and fall over. These are priority 2, and so I will do those if I have energy to spare.

I then have priority 3 - these are things I'd really *like* to do, but are not time-crucial. I've a bunch of recipes to write-up and share, for instance, but the world won't stop turning if it takes me another 3 weeks to do this. I want to experiment more with growing lettuce and cabbage in milk bottles using hydroponics, but this is something that will please me, but is not time-sensitive.

Priority 4 is for things I'd "sort of" like to do, but am not massively or immediately passionate about. For instance, I'd like to find a decent alternative to google drive for hosting my recipes. My world won't end if I never do this; I'd like to, but it's at the lowest point on my priorities. I quite often delete stuff from here, if it's no longer important or relevant.

I also have a "someday/maybe" list, separate, where I keep stuff I'm only vaguely interested in - as an example, I have "learn how to sew" on this. This is basically a dumping ground for stuff I find interesting. I check it once a week, and delete or add as appropriate.

(I had a lot of camping-related stuff on here through 2020/2021, which I've since deleted as it became clear that I'm not well enough anymore, but at the time, it made all sorts of sense given that I wasn't comfortable with flying, but still wanted to holiday)

The point is to keep track of everything that you might want, and to be VERY comfortable with deleting stuff when it's no longer relevant to you.

❤️

in reply to NeonSnake

What I also find helpful:

Once you've done the "must be done today", is the old "put something on your list and immediately tick it off"

I did just manage to stake my tomato plants; I've also managed to make cold brew for tomorrow.

This isn't *only* for the feelz-good, it's also to be able to look back on tomorrow if needed, and say "ah, maybe that might have been a bit much, now that I think about it?"

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Neofeud is a #cyberpunk adventure game where a cyborg social worker for sentient robots & his transhuman allies fight a cabal of trillionaires in floating palaces. Grab Neofeud 1 & help me finish the sequel!
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"I cried when i finished this game actually. it'll be living rent free in my head 24/7, 365." One of the highest complements I've received for Neofeud. Makes 3 years of blood, sweat, & tears as a solo-dev worth it! store.steampowered.com/app/673… #indiedev #indiegames #SteamDeck

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