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What movies can you rewatch often and not get tired of? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Children of Men, The Boondock Saints, I Origins.

Used to be The Matrix as well, but I'm kind of over it now.

How serious are you guys when you talk about punching nazis? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The anarchists cookbook is 99% misinformation, and outdated on top.

In what videogame you're currently stuck and you gave up or drop it for a while? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Agree. I hear that you basically must use controllers, but I HATE those things. So I ditched the game, couldn't even control the spaceship on the very first planet in the training section.

What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I remember now. I've actually watched the movie when I was a fair bit older, but that must have been some 20 years ago now as well. Guess it's really time for a rewatch!

What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, when I was like 8. Was all fun and games until they ripped that slaves heart out and dunked it into the lava, or something to that extent. It's been a while since I last watched it, the details are a bit hazy.

The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

But the company doesn't have the money. Stock value means investor valuation, not company funds.

Once a company goes public for the very first time, it's getting money into its account, but from then on forward, that's just investors speculating and hoping on a nice return when they sell again.

Of course there should be some correlation between the company's profitability and the stock price, so ideally they do have quite some money, but in an investment craze like this, the correlation is far from 1:1. So whether they can still afford to build the data centers remains to be seen.

Ford Patents A Way To Bring Ads Inside Your Car in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

From ugly to useless and ugly. Nice.

Can you draw Vin Diesel from memory (and post the result in the thread)? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's pretty neat, well done!

Going on my first super long haul flight - what can I buy to make it more comfortable? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's what I heard, especially for longer flights that's super annoying. And the 25s can at least still play mono sound even with dead batteries, I heard that the newer models are simply dead.

On my 25s the left speaker died after 5 years, I contacted Amazon and they swapped them out for a new one, no questions asked, way out of warranty. That was pretty awesome, and the ear pads are cheap and easy to swap out.

I'll ride them to the end and then see what happens after...

Going on my first super long haul flight - what can I buy to make it more comfortable? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Noise canceling headphones. I swear by the Bose Quiet Comfort series. Personally I still have the 25 model (with a third party Bluetooth dongle), that way when the battery dies I can simply swap it out, takes simple AAA ones.

Else I'd recommend to bring slippers to wear during the flight. Feet tend to swell up a bit, so wearing shoes is uncomfortable, and walking in socks as many people do is not exactly hygienic, especially in the bathroom (seriously, who does that???).

I'm also freezing easily, so I'll bring a thin scarf to protect my neck from the long exposure to low temperatures.

Lastly, have a set of fresh underwear, t-shirt and wet towels in your hand luggage, along with a toothbrush & paste and deodorant (make sure the volume is hand luggage capable). Then about 1.5h before landing, lock yourself in a bathroom (ideally the ones in the middle, they are a bit more spacious), strip naked, give yourself a through wash, change of clothes etc., and land arrive somewhat refreshed.

PSA: Git exposes timezone metadata in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And that's the reason why I don't use it, I need specific websites that access my local time, and apparently whitelisting is not a thing.

People who gave up on "the dream", do you regret it? How are you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not everyone who smokes gets COPD. Just like not everyone gets lung cancer.

It's just that you don't know beforehand if you'll end up as one of the lucky ones totally unaffected, so why gamble with your life?

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Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen (infosec.pub)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14206569

Hi all,

First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.

With that out of the way, here's my problem:

Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen image.

Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).

I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.

Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.

So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...

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There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.

I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.

What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
20 comments fedilink
 

Hi all,

First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.

With that out of the way, here's my problem:

Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen image.

Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).

I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.

Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.

So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...

Image

There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.

I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.

What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures. (infosec.pub)
 

I don't really use facebook anymore so couldn't care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

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