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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.
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.
If you weren't raised in a dangerously abusive house navigating around a deranged and violent relative, well, now is your chance to learn how to do that.
In general it's to get away as much as you can, don't confront them, and slowly but surely cut them out of your life.
May I suggest an article you wrote back in 2013?
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It took a few Scottish sci-fi authors to point this out, but it is the most obvious fact about the concept. Money is a technology for triaging scarcity. It is something you only need when you have to…Quinn Norton (Notes from a Strange World)
Those of us who believed in america need a period of mourning whilst figuring this out
mine was some years ago, not many
when mourning recedes is time to figure out where go next
cant go back to america, it was never real & the hairball will not be untangled
all the way back to turtle island, or forward to
... turtle island?
i know not where else
(but not mars)
Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE
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For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hani al-Dali explains to Al Mayadeen how the Palestinian Resistance's actions and conditions are shaping ceasefire talks and challenging "Israel's" plans in Gaza.Al Mayadeen English (Resistance's resilience shapes talks with 'Israel': Exclusive)
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.
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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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"I use trade for a lot of things," Trump added. "But it's great for settling wars."AAMER MADHANI Associated Press (Sentinel Colorado)
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
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Israeli opposition leader says the ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah could become a concentration camp for Palestinians.Edna Mohamed (Al Jazeera)
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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!
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In the June update, we're making progress with JMAP for iOS, previewing drawer improvements for Android, and providing numerous updates!Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
APOD: 2025 July 14 – NGC 2685: The Helix Galaxy
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Our raspberries are the perfect ripeness right now. Amazingly tasty.
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
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
China, Russia to elevate SCO to higher stage of development as the Foreign Ministers meet in Beijing on Sunday.News Desk (The Daily Cpec)
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Elon Musk’s AI firm announces contract with Defense Department - The Washington Post
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What could possibly go wrong.
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…
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It's time for me to start looking.
I'm looking for a senior / staff engineer position. My career has been focused on backend - web services, distributed systems and database.
I'd like to find a technical role in a non-tech company.
Remote only, please. I'm in the United States.
Thanks!
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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’
Y'all know that this weapons grift deal is just a distraction from Epstein, right?
Puppyfucker still likes to rape little girls.
Aмериканський президент, иди нахуй!
#AmericanPresidentGoFuckYourself
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.
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Many African leaders mourned the death of former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari in a London clinic at age 82, after suffering a long illness.teleSURenglish
Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively: not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest... he who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means.
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Copper traders look to Chinese buyers in post Trump-tariff world. 😆
Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
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The illegal data sharing started soon after Oakland's cameras went live in August 2024.Tomoki Chien (The San Francisco Standard)
Suspect in Kentucky church shooting had a domestic violence hearing the next day
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Follow-up to Dr Bhakdi’s urgent warning. From Singapore, stats on dramatic death increases and live birth declines. Projected: 50% pop drop within 10 years.Elsa (Truth Summit)
Yup, the hard part isn’t writing code.
I’m always a bit cautious of the argument that the barriers are a good thing. That easily slips into harmful gatekeeping if we aren’t careful. It’s not good when programming is inaccessible or unwelcoming.
What •is• good is that writing code slows you down and (if you’re good) makes you •think• about what the heck you’re doing — the work @saraislet is talking about — with a depth and detail that no amount of chin-stroking and up-front design work can match. Skipping that work, however you skip it, is a false gain.
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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 invest…Infosec Exchange
Where that understanding goes wrong is that humans have perception and experience and common sense. And yes, people are foolish and fallible — but ultimately humans are the adaptable element of complex systems[1], and when we design processes involving humans, we always, always lean on that adaptability.
If we say “walk out the door,” humans generally will not just walk face first into the wall just because the door is behind it.
Code will — unless you tell it not to.
[1] how.complexsystems.fail/#12
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So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what •does• happen when the developer runs their own code, but what •could• happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.
That’s really, really hard. It’s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.
And it’s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code •means• — both to the computers and to the humans.
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A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
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This AI vibe coding (“kids should not go into coding as a career”) era reminds me of that guidance counsellor in high school (circa 1995) warning us to stay away from the computer industry at large b/c he read an article about Moorse’s law (I assume) and figured they can only make these darn computers run so fast and then that’s it… this was before any true adoption of the Internet.
Hands on coding experience as you’re describing would dispense all the theory.
Ref: I’m still gainfully employed fixing mainframe code 🙃
I remember a similar brief panic about offshore outsourcing. All the programming jobs were going to disappear to other countries…until they didn’t. Prediction is hard, especially of the future.
That’s not necessarily the only way to use machine learning to assist coding. It is, however, one of the “magic diet pills” promises at the heart of the current hype bubble.
Whatever the dev tools of the future look like, until we have Lieutenant-Commander Data, difficult human thought will be at the heart of writing code.
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In a saner environment, we’d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.
Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)
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Außenpolitische Sprecherin Disoski wünscht sich Konsequenzen für Israels Regierung wegen Lage in Gaza und kritisiert Meinl-Reisingers Begriff "Schreibtischtätertum". Diese will auf Dialog setzen und sieht sich falsch interpretiertDER STANDARD
Free tip:
Don't bundle a linter command in with your dev build, make them separate commands.
You'll get over it.
You'll thank me later.
The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force have conducted flight tests of the Astra missile. This is an air-to-air missile.novosti2 (Военное обозрение)
The murder of paradise; the murder of building heaven on earth.
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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
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🇵🇸Ministeri de Salut Palestí - Gaza 🇵🇸
Comunicat de Premsa
⭕️El personal mèdic presoner en els centres de detenció de l'ocupació experimenta condicions tràgiques i difícils.
⭕️L'ocupació israeliana imposa estrictes restriccions als presos en general i al personal mèdic en particular.
⭕️L'advocat del pres, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, descriu el seu delicat estat de salut i la denegació deliberada de tractament.
⭕️L'advocada del Dr. Abu Safiya, basant-se en la seua última visita, descriu la brutalitat a la qual és sotmés durant els interrogatoris i les constants pallisses.
⭕️El Dr. Abu Safiya, detingut des del 27 de desembre de l'any passat, ha perdut 40 kg i patix hipertensió i debilitat cardíaca.
⭕️ 360 professionals sanitaris han sigut arrestats des de l'inici de la guerra genocida en la Franja de Gaza.
⭕️ Entre els detinguts es troben metges amb experiència i especialitats importants, accés que se'ls ha negat a pacients i ferits.
⭕️ El Ministeri de Salut insta les autoritats competents a intervindre urgentment per a criminalitzar les pràctiques de l'ocupació contra el personal sanitari detingut i pressionar-los perquè siguen alliberats.
Ministeri de Salut
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revealed that Rep.Jordan Conradson (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Gironde – CRA de Mérignac : De malhonnêtes gens ciblent les sièges des boîtes complices
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Troyes : « Mort aux nazis »
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More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?
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Russian drones strike Sumy, Kharkiv oblasts killing 1 person, injuring at least 21
Russian troops launched drone attacks on Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts on July 14, killing one person and injuring at least 21, local authorities reported.
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Greek theatre teacher Efi Lazou wrote and directed a theater play as a private individual, with the title "Anne Frank speaks to the children of Palestine".
The shows were done in a private space with zero involvement of her school.
Yet, the Administration for Primary Education (under the Ministry of Education) has launched an investigation against her, trying to fire her due to that play.
#Greece #EU is complicit in the #genocide in #Gaza #Palestine.
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This fucker.. I hope he goes down with Trump
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Which Way Western Man by William Gayley Simpson
Throughout his long lifetime, William Gayley Simpson was a widely traveled and careful observer of Western civilization and its relations with the non-White peoples of the world, especially the Negro and the Jew. An exceptionally deep thinker, he traced the sickness that has overtaken the White man's world in the 20th century to its roots in Jewish world conspiracy and its coordinated aggressive moves against us. Simpson reveals the deception inherent in our money system, which isn't based on real wealth at all, but on debt and fantasy, and it cannot do other than cause trouble for the people condemned to use it as their medium of exchange.
The author also shows why Feminism is not the liberation of woman, but the enslaving of them to Jewish interests. Simpson reveals the fundamental incompatibility between Capitalism, which he calls "The Machine," and the human psyche. He goes into great detail about the physiological basis of . . . colchestercollection.com/title…
The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.
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Saquon Barkley is selected as top running back by the AP after a record-setting season
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UK’s industrial sites to face power constraints without urgent grid upgrades.
A group of major British businesses has warned that without further investment, the UK’s electricity network will become significantly constrained from 2030 as the economy electrifies.
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in reply to Paul • • •I have also found out how to disable device encryption, which Xubuntu thinks is Bitlocker but Windows thinks is separate but related.
I did this using Copilot as it amused me to ask a Microsoft tool to get rid of a Microsoft product.
I am now wiping the disk and installing Xubuntu.
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