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I think Trump is definitely a Christ-like figure when I remember that Jesus was executed by the state for leading a rogue political movement.

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

They don’t want you to be able to use encryption they can’t control.

They get to abuse public infrastructure to build their stupid little robots tax free, and we get to pay for the repairs with our tax dollars.

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

It delays the problem for six more years, and it also gives me the satisfaction of pirating testing the only decent version of Windows free of Microslop bloat and vibe coded react.

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032 and free to activate.

Can I get a full list of features on the Iran war after all these cryptic posts?

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is maintained until 2032, de-bloated, and free.

I tried this with my Kia Forte and destroyed my priceless Fabergé egg collection. I’m ruined!

It is never good to have a situation where the president can be assassinated or is not in charge of his faculties. He needs to be removed from office legitimately for the good of the country, to avoid fracturing it further.

I think this is likely given that he is such a colossal asshole, simply no one can form a real relationship with him (working or otherwise) because no one stand to be around him for very long. He is only capable of abusive relationships in which both parties use each other.

However, normally narcissists burn through and eventually run out of relationships to use for narcissistic supply. Unfortunately, because we have “elected” this extreme malignant narcissist as president of the most powerful nation on earth (for now at least), he has the entire world to abuse and churn through.

To answer your question, a great many people would mind. Although I think the event would just be used like every other event his rampaging ego has caused - taken advantage of by snakes and opportunists for their own gain and then discarded like so much political baggage. It would also become a springboard for JD Vance and every other fascist that has been flourishing under his administration.

These are great points and are important to consider for mental and sexual health. I also think that the risks accompanying age verification’s mass surveillance and capitalism’s exploitation of America’s institutional sexual repression have a far greater and more harmful impact than porn and masturbation.

Of course, it’s not a bad thing that there is support for people in the form of this app, but I fear that legal policy is expanding to suppress sexuality without consent. For example, data from period tracking apps has already been used to persecute women who seek abortions. If the extreme religious right in America gets their way, could data from anti-masturbation apps or age verification services be used to help prove you accessed “illegal” pornography?

It sounds insane, because it is, but I believe this is where we’re headed in a fascist, sexually repressive America. :/

“Porn addiction,” like “sex addiction,” isn’t recognized by the DSM-5, which classifies mental disorders. While porn-viewing can be compulsive, like other behaviors, research suggests that perceived porn addiction predicted distress over actual porn use itself. Yet, the idea of “porn addiction” persists in the U.S., which lacks comprehensive sex education requirements in many states; only 37 percent of states require sex education to be medically accurate, according to Boston University.

What a perfect example of how sexuality is suppressed, controlled, then monetized in the US, and the harm it causes.

Get ready for age verification data breaches like this, except on a worldwide scale.

If you’re not ready to switch to Linux:

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT is supported until 2032, works great, contains almost no bloat, and is free to download and activate.

You can configure just about anything else you want or need using Chris Titus’ Power Shell Windows Utility.

Rufus is simple and easy to use for extracting the ISO to a USB drive, and has built in options for setting up a local account and automatically disabling telemetry options during installation.

Microslop is rabidly, desperately, sprinting-on-fire towards a closed mobile-style system paradigm, frothing at the mouth and glowing radioactive iridescent green with envy at Apple and Google’s silicon to application device and software ecosystem control. They want you to purchase the edge tensor hardware they need to run and train the LLMs and machine learning algorithms that will be used to analyze everything you do on your computer, perform deep learning recognition on every photo, video, and file on your hard drive, and securely export that model to themselves, advertisers, and the government at a premium, paid for by our tax dollars.

They’re burning down their own company to do it, that’s how bad they want it.

The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require “commercially reasonable” verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.

What even is the point of this then? To make shitty parents feel better?

This man is literally insane.

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Magnetic platter drives still have the highest storage density per dollar and so they are still heavily in use. Theoretically, overwritten data can be recovered from them by analyzing the magnetic fields directly from the platter. However, this is extremely time and money intensive and requires specialized equipment and expertise. Overwriting a partition multiple times severely complicates this process just by performing multiple overwrites.

Realistically, overwriting once with random data is enough, especially if the drive is to be physically destroyed. You can also use a powerful magnet (top end neodymium in direct contact) to scramble the delicate magnetic fields that encode the data on the platter, but at that point you may as well shred the drive anyways.

SSDs are a fundamentally different storage paradigm that make this kind of recovery essentially impossible. Due to the limitations of NAND memory, data can be written to blocks inaccessible except at the hardware level. To make SSDs secure, modern drives usually implement processes (TRIM) that erase blocks marked for deletion. Or, all data written to the drive is encrypted by onboard hardware (SED), and “erasing” the drive simply deletes the encryption keys.

From the article:

Nest cameras, by contrast, can send clips to Google’s servers even without a paid subscription. Google offers a small amount of free cloud storage — older models store clips up to five minutes long for three hours; the latest models store 10-second clips for six hours. That means some footage is uploaded and stored, at least temporarily, whether you pay or not.

According to Nick Barreiro, chief forensic analyst with Principle Forensics, deleting footage from the cloud doesn’t necessarily mean it’s immediately gone. “When you delete something from a server, it doesn’t get overwritten immediately — the file system is just told to ignore this data, and this space is now available to be used. But if no new data is written over it, it’s still going to be there, even though you can’t see it.”

This is more or less how local storage works as well. The creator of BleachBit, a file cleaning tool made famous for being present on Hillary Clinton’s email servers, has some great insights in their documentation about the methods for destroying data on hard drives. As it turns out, data “deletion” is just a series of operations on your hard disk like any other, and retrieval depends on the methods used - de-indexing, metadata and file structure removal, and overwriting to name a few.

Once, I accidentally formatted the wrong drive in Windows and it ended up being my 20TB platter (oops). I was able to recover 99% of the files on the drive with some free recovery software just because I disconnected and stopped using the drive immediately. The only files lost were large ones partially overwritten by the new blank file system created when I formatted the drive. Windows had only deleted the file system indexing the drive, and all of the file data and metadata was intact, waiting to be randomly overwritten. I had to string together four cheap failing 4TB SATA drives I bought used on Amazon, but it worked.

The point is, if I could do this as an amateur, and storage technology operating on the same principals is in use at enterprise scale, what are the lengths that the likes of the FBI and Google are willing to go to recover old data that has been “deleted”? I’m frankly surprised that Google does not overwrite their discarded data, and it’s probably for reasons like this, beyond the additional processing time it would take. Given their vast resources and storage capacity, it could be some time before “deleted” data is at least partially overwritten, if ever.

If you ever have data that you absolutely need destroyed, overwrite the entire drive with random data more than once, then physically shred the drive completely. And never connect your devices to a cloud storage service. It’s the only way to be sure.

Discord is not needed. Quit. Kill it. Watch them BEG to get us back, then say no.

Inversely, it’s also amazing what a lack thereof cannot achieve, for instance, redacting publicized documents.