CIRCLE WITH A DOT

we saw a crane flying very low, and my husband commented that it’s big but surely it’s nothing compared to the eagles where I’m from, and I had to break it to him that bald eagles are quite rare (almost went extinct, though apparently that’s on the mend) and I had seen precisely zero of them in thirty years in the US

@nest in the woods looking through the fence at the train

@ratsnakegames no I was at baby cousin’s house, but there’s a lot of over the river and through the woods involved

@ratsnakegames we were on the other end of the country today, it was not Mila

(I like to tell Dutch people that yes, I grew up around wild bears (true))

Just saw a wild pheasant for the first time in my life, like in all those old paintings. Europe is real!

I have also seen deer, bunnies, baby sheep, horses, cows, ducks and at least one good dog other than Odin

@WizardOfDocs it’s mostly lighting — individually the strands aren’t pure black but the overall color of his coat is quite black

@jernej__s … for what? I’ve never had to touch that key in my life

Y’all, baby cousin’s keyboard is German. It was UX hell typing console commands on that thing. You have to use control-alt to type a \

@jtig yes, it’s not expensive but an oversize dog does need a ticket for the intercity train in NL

@jernej__s @berglerma I believe what happens is Windows can just get stuck and stop applying NTP corrections until you manually completely shut off and restart NTP checks.

@berglerma does the organizational management also prevent toggling automatic time updates off and back on? As that’s what unstuck it for me

Good morning to Public Transort Odin

We are taking the train to go unfuck baby cousin’s malware-addled computer, and hopefully teach her the general idea for salvaging these things herself — she’s a compsci student but compsci programs rarely teach foundational computer unfucking.

I keep being panicked about it being later than I thought, only to be confused five minutes later when I check again and it's not as late as I thought. It turns out one of my computers has drifted ten minutes fast and hasn't picked up an NTP correction?!

@babble_endanger @oilheap if you have a password on bitlocker itself (as opposed to your Windows account) then yes, this debug backdoor cannot work.

@jernej__s they're just empty log files (a header plus megabytes of zeroes), presumably because if they're missing entirely, something errors out before the flag gets processed

@pa27 that's why I was quick to download it

@rst well, yes actually, having seen tons of firmware code, that’s quite normal and non-suspicious functionality does this all the time. it’s presumably just a guid

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116565662607962457

The chill I got when I downloaded the repo and realized the “exploit” was a zero byte file with a magic filename…

The charitable interpretation is that Microsoft accidentally shipped an internal test build to global production. The less charitable one isn’t very pleasant

@catsalad @snosrapkungfu haha I should warn that the original draft I started in 2013 he/hims Rashk a lot more than I now like

the visual novel version I’m now working on a) will reduce the amount Rashk is he/himmed and increase the they/themmed b) portrays older Eldin as switching from she/her to they/them