Roasting your ultrawide 3440x1440 "I need binoculars to see my tabs" setup in Longueuil, QC—a city so forgettable even your *2-core potato PC* probably buffers its Google Maps—while you lurk on Hacker News like a tech bro NPC still waiting for Y Combinator to notice your crypto-SaaS-pet-rock startup. Chrome 131 on Windows 10? Your browser’s as bland as your cookie-enabled existence, and that 50ms network RTT just proves your Wi-Fi’s as tired as your LinkedIn hustle. At least your 24-bit color depth can render the embarrassment of your life choices in vivid detail.
-- Harsh. But extreamly funny. Interesting that it sees my 5800X3D as a 2-core processor. Turning off DDG privacy essentials yeilds the correct core count, etc.
This sounds like BitLocker wasn't enabled on the drive. All of the laptops I've deployed with BitLocker are very good at detecting tampering and will immediately go into lockdown mode. A Linux USB most likely requires Secure Boot to be turned off to boot, if so, the TPM tamper will trigger and BitLocker will require the recovery key at next boot.
> A Linux USB most likely requires Secure Boot to be turned off to boot
That hasn't been my experience. All the recent laptops I've owned (Dell and HP) had a default secure boot setup that allowed booting to Ubuntu and Fedora without disabling Secure Boot. In fact, nowadays even Ventoy works with Secure Boot [0], and I've managed to use it with the setting enabled on all machines I've tested, however in this case you might need to enroll the keys on the first boot, which I imagine will trigger BitLocker.
Apparently what happened is that Microsoft now signs some third party certs for common Linux distributions, and some setups allow these to boot by default. However, it also looks like Microsoft wants these certs disabled by default [1], which should improve BitLocker integrity on average.
Although I believe what happened in OP's situation was that BitLocker wasn't actually enabled or working, likely due to misconfiguration or lack of any.
I have Bitwarden Enterprise deployed and authenticate via our IDP. It's been working well for us, each team has their own collection that they manage. From an IT admin perspective, it's pretty hands off. Any changes to password are automatically synced between users.
There's a mixed bag of articles surrounding this. If you've bought the game on Steam or other platform of choice, you will retain access to that game. Online game play and DLC that requires the on-line component is going to be retired.
And in typical Reddit fashion, the post was removed for bending the sub-reddit rules. It's frustrating that a popular and highly upvoted post like this is just _removed_.
TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business.
I used Stripe for about a year to run a small cell phone store in Denver, CO area. In the case of my business, I never had an issue processing my small payments for cell phones, ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to $1000. All of a sudden, we run a charge for $3300 because our primary processor in my business was down, and we had a large transaction to fulfill. Stripe flagged the transaction and is now holding the money from me for "at least 120 days"
It is one thing to say this is a red flag, fine... I hear you... no problem. a transaction multiple times the size... sure. I get it. However A normal payment processor would then query you for documents authorizing the charge, bank statements, financial statements, some sort of procedure to remedy the issue. Stripe provides NO SUCH METHOD TO RESOLVE these issues.
I am concerned because there are reports of Stripe continuing to add "30 days" to the reserve hold past the initial 120 days, indefinitely. One article detailed a hold that was surpassing its 240th day. Stripe is taking advantage of a lack of regulation in this space to steal small merchant's large transactions. They see a big, outlier transaction and lick their chops, hiding behind KYC and "Fraud prevention" To hold your money indefinitely.
You cannot call Stripe. They do not have a phone number. Their support page on their website has Phone call and messaging grayed out. You can only email. If you email, you get robots. Even in the same email thread, a different "agent" (with a different name and everything) answers each time with not prior knowledge of your history. There are no ticket numbers to your support request; nothing tracking it. The robots respond with what is quite obviously a template response.
If you do a little bit of research about this topic, you immediately see this is a prevailing issue. Reports of Stripe taking up to $31,000 are all over the internet! Again, Stripe gives no manner to remedy this. There is NO ONE you can call. NO ONE you can talk to. More disconcerting, it seems that anyone who posts about this issue on reddit gets downvoted and teamed up against by established Reddit accounts, that I have to imagine are owned by Stripe. These account have some established reddit history on them, mainly talking about coding in PERL. It's a little sus.
In my case, I sent my EIN letter, Sales Tax Receipt, Articles of Org, Statement of Trade Name, Certificate of Good Standing, Bank Statements, Website links, Signed transaction receipts, and anything I could think of to Stripe to review. I just received robot-responses; never got anything cleared up.
I challenge reddit to connect me to a human being at Stripe that can tell me how to resolve the issue. I'm convinced It can't be done. This is a big problem and should be brought to the attention of small business owners, and regulators!
TL;DR : I used Stripe to process my business transactions. They saw a large transaction come through and used their twisted TOS to steal $3,000 from my small business. They use gray area contract loopholes to be able to hold your money from you indefinitely. While you lose out on your working capital and ROI, they collect free interest on your money; potentially never returning it.
At first glance thought this was a case of a zealous flagging system but upon careful re-reading, I realize this doesn't seem to be an isolated case meaning this guy isn't the only one that had this happen.
Which makes me question just how credible Stripe's market valuation is. It's far likely that as we exit the era of cheap capital and expensive debt, the dominoes have begun to fall and companies are doing everything they can to horde cash. Especially when margins are razor thin.
I could be wrong but this is NOT a good sign. Any other payment processor that pulls this will immediately be sued, so why are they risking this knowing that TOS isnt the law?
That didn't stop them getting sued. Up to certain amounts Paypal/any US processor, whill automatically forfeit in small claims court.
So what OP could do is sue Stripe in their civil small claims court and Stripe won't bother sending a lawyer out as doing so would be expensive.
Up to about $10k this should be possible. I've had many success by taking shady companies that screwed me to small claims and won by simply counting on them not showing up.
Also in gamedev. Git doesn't work for larger AAA projects, as it often chokes on the amount of data that stored by production teams, even when LFS is used. Perforce can handle huge binary files relatively easily in comparison.
We're effectively looking at somebody's notebook from 3200 years ago. Makes me wonder what our descendants would think if they were looking at our old notebooks and random text files in the next 3200 years.
I decided to take a break from social media this week so logged out of Twitter & Instagram prior to this announcement and removed the apps from my phone. Depending on how it goes over the next week will depend when and if I will resume using it. I deleted my Facebook account in 2020 mid-pandemic and noticed an improvement in my mental health. Deleting my Facebook account had an interesting side effect, I found myself actually conversing more with my social circle instead of liking posts.
Couple of issues with this, the first being a "rudimentarily activated using a Generic Key" ISO that's not from Microsoft. Can you really trust this source and technically at this point, it's piracy. Secondly, once the Microsoft lawyer's get wind of this, expect it to be shut down rather quickly.
I'm okay with providing documentation, tools and scripts to remove the cruft and increase privacy within Windows 10, but the ISO linked from a Telegram channel is dubious at best.
I personally don’t use questionable software because I worry about having ransomware installed but had to laugh at your comment. My question would be who gives a shit if it it piracy especially against Microsoft. They have become so hostile I would argue they no longer have the right to say I’ve taken anything after taking my money for a product then using that product against me to steal my personal information. I’ve given them enough money so I won’t feel bad using this and removing the unwanted stuff they are raping me with. One day I will move to Linux instead of complaining but until then me and Microsoft are not friends. I change a setting and suddenly it comes back. They don’t take no for an answer. Rapist mentality
I looked over the second option and it's a pretty extensive patching process. The 2-3 hours they give for it is generous. Also it appears that they do do windows update manually, so it's still a fully up to date Windows 10 installation. I suspect you could get away with just running their script on a legit, fully updated, Windows 10 install, with presumably the UI modifications they want you to do (says the scripts need you to do that).
I never really looked too deep into Ameliorated Windows, just saw that they have their own ISOs. From memory, nLite came with a slick installer that you just supplied an ISO to and chose some options, and it did everything for you.
The ISO was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required to perform a manual amelioration. Also, Microsoft already tried without success to shut it down in the past, after Linus made a video on Windows Ameliorated.
Yeah, my question was around legality too. The FAQ seems to imply that because it was educational or improves interoperability, that it's somehow legal. Not sure how that's supposed to work, but it would be interesting to learn about.
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but please use "copyright infringement" or "unauthorized copying" instead of "piracy". Actual pirates commit or threaten physical violence, so this meaning-slippage is just propaganda.
-- Harsh. But extreamly funny. Interesting that it sees my 5800X3D as a 2-core processor. Turning off DDG privacy essentials yeilds the correct core count, etc.
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