malware.

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *Microsoft.YourPhone* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers
they actually have the audacity to grey out the uninstall button as if they think they get to make decisions about what executes on my computer.

chrome canary (the alpha channel) has now implemented vertical tabs
this is very exciting to me because vertical tabs are a must have for me and the only browser that currently supports it properly is brave

the channelblocker extension hasnt been updated since the beginning of this year. certain features slowly stopped working and it appears that its now finally dead. i had stuff like "reacts" and "situation is" blocked so i would not see video noscripts with those words in my feed but they are now appearing
cue taps on a horn

update: we are so back
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ytblock-block-any-content/nedcanggplmbbgmlpcjiafgjcpdimpea
this one works even better tbh

not sure if ive told this story here but a couple years back i went out to best buy to buy a tv. every single was was some kind of internet connected "smart" tv. amazon fire. android, roku, whatever. i dont want any of that. i want a large, decent looking display that connects to a small computer running linux that will play videos from plex/jellyfin and youtube without ads.
i cant find such a device. after a few minutes of looking around, probably with a look on my face that says "Kaczynski was right" an employee approached me to ask if i was finding everything alright. i was not.
"do you have a tv that doesnt spy on me?"
"im not sure what you mean?"
"i want a tv that does not have a bunch of extra garbage. i want just a tv."
"oh, well as you can see we have Amazon (TM) Alexa (R) powered Fire (R) TVs, Roku (TM) powered TVs... this one over here is compatible with Apple (TM) Siri (R)."
"All of those spy on me."
"Well some of them have microphones in the remotes for easy searching for content instead of using the remote to try to text search but this Fire (R) TV does not."
"i don't think you understand. i just want a tv. Only a tv."
"you can play movies and watch tv on all of these, sir."
"do you have a tv that does not connect to the internet?"
"if you don't connect it to the internet you would not be able to use any of the services"
"i dont want to use the services."
"oh just dont connect it to the internet then."
"that's not what want. i want a tv without the 'smart' garbage."

the guy genuinely could not understand. i felt like i was in a ray bradburry book.

https://github.com/bumptop/BumpTop
the oldest file i have on my computer is an ancient winxp 32 bit binary of bumptop from before it was opensourced
i still cherish it.
it was so unoptimized lmao it sucked but it was cool

when sending business emails (because im a business man who does business) i've had to stop using dashes in my writing out of fear that someone will confuse it with an em—dash and think my email was written by ai

do people actually go on youtube and just ask how they should feel about things?

computer illiterate people call everything an app now. I should confuse them by calling everything a website instead.
"call of duty is my favorite website"
"adobe is an awful company. their billing is terrible and their websites are too expensive"
"i wish microsoft would remove all the ai slop from the windows website"

https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
The US performed a bgp cyber attack against ISPs in caracas, venezuela an hour or so prior to invading
The attack allowed them to intercept traffic related to critical infrastructure in the area.

this speaks to something that i have grown increasingly frustrated about. employees not only dont care about cyber security, they dont care about the ramifications of an intrusion.
a couple weeks ago I had to handle two separate investigations in the same day where users got phished and their email was compromised. Both users ended up sending about a thousand phishing emails each. one of them sent many of the emails internally, causing two other email accounts to also become compromised.
I spoke with both users during my post intrusion investigation and BOTH OF THEM KNEW THEY HAD BEEN HACKED AND DIDNT CARE.
both users had attempted to access a document in a phishing mail, given up their password, and after contacting the sender were told "sorry dude i got hacked that was a malicious email sent from my account."
they didnt notify me or anyone else of the issue. they didnt care. when i told them their actions caused a thousand or so malicious emails to be sent out the response was "huh, wow". when i told them that the TA also got access to the companies onedrive/sharepoint files the response was "okay"
i understand the temptation to read this and say "lol based anti-wagie employee" but the problem is that if you let people like this fester in a company they become a serious liability that can lead to a massive breach such as ransomware and if youre not properly backing up and protecting your files you can literally cause the entire company go under and now no one is getting income to pay for their homes. also i dont want scammers to get money they dont deserve.

if you are a business owner, you seriously need to start punishing employees for getting owned. im not saying you should fire people for failing a phishing test, but you should be telling them "you have to do mandatory remedial training and this will go on your employee record."

*inhales*
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