#computer end log

[askcosplaysenpai]

It’s time for us to face the fact that in the story of Julian Bashir’s life, Garak fills the role of Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

[midydoof]

My boss and I have moved computers out of the way between our desks so we can lean to the side and stare at each other whenever we hear something completely unhinged from the customers at the self-service printing area like:

it happens almost daily.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

I’ve been playing Star Wars: Outlaws this weekend and I genuinely don’t understand the bad reviews I read about it. Like, it’s basically if Assassin’s Creed was a Star Wars game so it’s right up my alley so far.

[balkanlila]

i cried SO MUCH and i am still crying, but i was in irl house's office today 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[dabideserveslove]

For anyone who didn't see it... I finally updated The Light at the End of the Night and uh, shit is goin' down.

I'm already working on chapter 11 and here's a lil tidbit that I've written if anyone is interested - I'm putting it under the cut because you'll be very confused if you haven't read Ch. 10 yet!

“Don’t do anything weird to him,” Dabi glared at Ujiko as the doctor approached, “Patch him up and see if you can’t salvage his wings. Just don’t run any of your crazy-ass experiments on him.” “Oh but what if I must run a ‘crazy-ass’ experiment in order to salvage his precious wings?” Ujiko questioned as he knelt down and started to examine the damage. “Which is looking very likely with the state he’s in. Say, Dabi, this is your work, isn’t it?” he questioned, gesturing to the deep burns on Hawks’ back. “Yeah, which means you know how to treat it, right?” Dabi shot back, trying to shove down the guilt that bubbled up despite the fact that Hawks had asked him to do it. “For a price,” Ujiko said, voice low so only Dabi could hear as he rummaged in his bag and pulled out a jar that had some sort of burn salve in it. Anger swelled inside Dabi, blood running hot and fingers itching to blast the bastard with flames but he knew that wouldn’t help anything. “You have the League’s loyalty, isn’t that good enough?” he gritted out. “Yes, yes. Typically, that is, but Dabi - my dear - you’re asking me to treat the number two pro hero here,” Ujiko laughed.

[mechahero]

//Ngl guys, my brain is fried.

[paulgadzikowski]

Image description from the notes by @summery-captain:

"A post by James L. Cook, reading: "I was watching an interview with Noam Chompsky and he was asked about AI software, specifically Chat GPT and its impact on education. He replied that Chat GPT isn't about learning, it's about avoiding learning.

And then the light went on.

Recently I was in discussion with a peer group about an article written by James Marriot for the Times. He's basically an art school drop out that never spent any real time developing his skill to become an artist. And now he's bitter that he's not successful and that artists with real skill are 'gatekeepers' to his success.

To be honest it was a very entitled rant that demonized people who have worked very hard to hone their craft as elitists and prestige squatters. In his article he welcomes AI generators because he thinks it levels the playing field between his mediocre efforts and those snobby, gatekeeping artists.

And that's where the connection hit... (channels Chompsky) AI image generating isn't about making art. It is about AVOIDING making art. Let the computer do it. I'm too lazy to log the long emotionally wearing hours. I'm too impatient to listen to masters. I'm too self-absorbed to spend my time laboring over a work that requires me to use sophisticated critical thinking. Let the machine do it.

AI imagine generation isn't about making art. It's about AVOIDING MAKING art." End of imagine description

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Cybercriminals are abusing Google’s infrastructure, creating emails that appear to come from Google in order to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials. This attack, first flagged by Nick Johnson, the lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a blockchain equivalent of the popular internet naming convention known as the Domain Name System (DNS). Nick received a very official looking security alert about a subpoena allegedly issued to Google by law enforcement to information contained in Nick’s Google account. A URL in the email pointed Nick to a sites.google.com page that looked like an exact copy of the official Google support portal.

As a computer savvy person, Nick spotted that the official site should have been hosted on accounts.google.com and not sites.google.com. The difference is that anyone with a Google account can create a website on sites.google.com. And that is exactly what the cybercriminals did. Attackers increasingly use Google Sites to host phishing pages because the domain appears trustworthy to most users and can bypass many security filters. One of those filters is DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), an email authentication protocol that allows the sending server to attach a digital signature to an email. If the target clicked either “Upload additional documents” or “View case”, they were redirected to an exact copy of the Google sign-in page designed to steal their login credentials. Your Google credentials are coveted prey, because they give access to core Google services like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Maps, Google Play, and YouTube, but also any third-party apps and services you have chosen to log in with your Google account. The signs to recognize this scam are the pages hosted at sites.google.com which should have been support.google.com and accounts.google.com and the sender address in the email header. Although it was signed by accounts.google.com, it was emailed by another address. If a person had all these accounts compromised in one go, this could easily lead to identity theft.

How to avoid scams like this

Don’t follow links in unsolicited emails or on unexpected websites.

Carefully look at the email headers when you receive an unexpected mail.

Verify the legitimacy of such emails through another, independent method.

Don’t use your Google account (or Facebook for that matter) to log in at other sites and services. Instead create an account on the service itself.

Technical details Analyzing the URL used in the attack on Nick, (https://sites.google.com[/]u/17918456/d/1W4M_jFajsC8YKeRJn6tt_b1Ja9Puh6_v/edit) where /u/17918456/ is a user or account identifier and /d/1W4M_jFajsC8YKeRJn6tt_b1Ja9Puh6_v/ identifies the exact page, the /edit part stands out like a sore thumb. DKIM-signed messages keep the signature during replays as long as the body remains unchanged. So if a malicious actor gets access to a previously legitimate DKIM-signed email, they can resend that exact message at any time, and it will still pass authentication. So, what the cybercriminals did was: Set up a Gmail account starting with me@ so the visible email would look as if it was addressed to “me.” Register an OAuth app and set the app name to match the phishing link Grant the OAuth app access to their Google account which triggers a legitimate security warning from no-reply@accounts.google.com This alert has a valid DKIM signature, with the content of the phishing email embedded in the body as the app name. Forward the message untouched which keeps the DKIM signature valid. Creating the application containing the entire text of the phishing message for its name, and preparing the landing page and fake login site may seem a lot of work. But once the criminals have completed the initial work, the procedure is easy enough to repeat once a page gets reported, which is not easy on sites.google.com. Nick submitted a bug report to Google about this. Google originally closed the report as ‘Working as Intended,’ but later Google got back to him and said it had reconsidered the matter and it will fix the OAuth bug.

[blue-drink]

El susto que me acaba de dar el Linux.

Como referencia; si la interfaz gráfica de Linux os va rara, id al terminal de comandos con Ctrl + Alt + F3 o F4 o F5 y ejecutad el comando: sudo service gdm3 restart

Sudo es privilegio de root (tengo entendido) temporal (el comando actual)

Service es servicio

gdm3 es el servicio de intrefaz gráfica

Restart es reiniciar

Todo junto es: usando privilegios de root para este comando, reinicia el servicio de interfaz gráfica.

No os fies porque sí. Buscadlo por si acaso. Nadie quiere repetir lo del paquete frances.

[Translation]

The scare Linux just gave me.

As reference; if Linux's graphic interface is being weird, go to the command terminal with Ctrl + Alt + F3 o F4 o F5 and use the command: sudo service gdm3 restart

Sudo is temporal (this command) root priviliges (from what I understand)

Service gdm3 is the graphic interface service

Restart just restarts the service

All together: using root priviligies for this command, restart the graphic interface service.

Do not believe just because. Look it up just in case. Nobody wants to repeat the french packet.

[fazcinatingblog]

Gonna be training a new girl on Monday and she's got Monday to Wednesday as "work experience" (unpaid) so idk she'll just be observing me while I run around like a headless chook amid piles of papers on fire and answering calls from Sophia every two seconds and

[sunsetcdiscs]

Tommy said on his recent alt stream that he always wished he couldve done a different ending for ctommy, and when jack went live on the smp he realized he could..

(timestamp- 49:00)

"I logged on Jack's stream, did that, stood in my cupboard, and was like, ‘Fuck, man. I just wish I could've ended it differently-’ and I was like- ‘OH I can! Right now !!’ And then I legged it back to my computer, wrote a few notes, and was like, ‘Okay, c'mon Tom, fuckin' lock in, man.’ ... Yeah, I was really happy with that."

"... It didn't even really make that much canonical sense to go to Techno's house, I just needed Jack to know without me saying anything that I was, fuckin', being really serious in-character."

"... Yeah, it was nice, I was really happy. I always had that ending in my head, like imagining that the alt ending was that he had a little cottage. So I liked it- I was like, ‘Yeah! This is fuckin' canon, man.’ ... It meant a lot to me- It really meant a lot to me! You ever like, be clearing through your bedroom and you find a toy that you forgot, fuckin' meant the world to you, then you're holding it and you're like, ‘Oh, shit. This is so important, right now I've remembered about this.’ That's what it was like doing the cottage- I was like- I got to be a tiny bit c!tommy and I was like, ‘This is fuckin' important to me, lets fuckin' finish-! This is the most important thing right now!’"

[expvrgction]

(a little update to keep ya'll up to speed: i'm on a road trip rn to visit relatives w/my family for a public holiday

still no monitor replacement for my pc until i head home and arrange a purchase with one of my younger sisters, so i'll be using this turtle-speed of a 2gb ram phone for a while longer)

[fionnaskyborn]

every day (overstatement) i come up with increasingly more ridiculous ideas on how to approach fighting games

[not-yossarian]

I hate software I hate people who make software I hate computers. For a small stipend, I could make some of the software on some of the computers slightly less broken. I couldn't possibly be any worse at this than the people who do it now. But nobody will let me, because of the economy

[mareastrorum]

Reposting this post in the CR tags since I'm sure quite a few critters bought digital copies of the CR comics. This affects all digital copies of Critical Role comics accessible through the official publisher, Dark Horse Digital.

If you bought the official digital copies, you will lose access to all Critical Role comics later this year.

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Effective February 24th, 2025, we have closed Dark Horse Digital. Sales are no longer offered on the DHD website. But, you can still log in and read the comics in your bookshelf. Support for the Dark Horse Comics and Plants vs. Zombies Comics apps for iOS will end March 31st, 2025. We encourage app users to download the books in their bookshelves by March 30th, 2025. The ability to download to your device cannot be guaranteed after that date. For access through the website, users without DHD accounts should create one and sync it to the app by March 30th, 2025. We appreciate our fans and regret the inconvenience and disappointment caused by this news. We know you have questions so please go to our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information. -- The Dark Horse Digital Team

[source] [link to FAQ]

Some further info from the FAQ (there is more in the FAQ, the below are just some quoted portions of it):

"Users can continue to log in to the website and read the comics in their bookshelves. We plan for online access to the DHD website to be available at least through summer, 2025." "Q. Did I lose access to my comics collection? A. You can continue to log in to the DHD website and read the comics in your bookshelf. We plan for online access to be available at least through summer, 2025. When the website is eventually retired, online access will end." "Q. Do I own the comics in my bookshelf? A. Technically, you do not. As with Kindle, Nook, and other e-book companies, you license the right to read the book on supported and authorized devices." "Q. Can I download comics from the website? Can you send me PDFs? A. Unfortunately, we are unable to allow downloads to your computer or provide PDFs." "Q. Can I get a refund? A. We are able to offer refunds for 2025 transactions made on the website. The deadline to request a refund is April 30, 2025."

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[felassan]

Image from Dark Horse. Text in image reads:

"Effective February 24th, 2025, we have closed Dark Horse Digital. Sales are no longer offered on the DHD website. But, you can still log in and read the comics in your bookshelf. Support for the Dark Horse Comics and Plants vs. Zombies Comics apps for iOS will end March 31st, 2025. We encourage app users to download the books in their bookshelves by March 30th, 2025. The ability to download to your device cannot be guaranteed after that date. For access through the website, users without DHD accounts should create one and sync it to the app by March 30th, 2025. We appreciate our fans and regret the inconvenience and disappointment caused by this news. We know you have questions so please go to our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information. -- The Dark Horse Digital Team"

[source] [link to FAQ]

Some further info from the FAQ (there is more in the FAQ, the below are just some quoted portions of it):

"Users can continue to log in to the website and read the comics in their bookshelves. We plan for online access to the DHD website to be available at least through summer, 2025." --- "Q. Did I lose access to my comics collection? A. You can continue to log in to the DHD website and read the comics in your bookshelf. We plan for online access to be available at least through summer, 2025. When the website is eventually retired, online access will end." --- "Q. Do I own the comics in my bookshelf? A. Technically, you do not. As with Kindle, Nook, and other e-book companies, you license the right to read the book on supported and authorized devices." --- "Q. Can I download comics from the website? Can you send me PDFs? A. Unfortunately, we are unable to allow downloads to your computer or provide PDFs." --- "Q. Can I get a refund? A. We are able to offer refunds for 2025 transactions made on the website. The deadline to request a refund is April 30, 2025." --- "If you don’t’ have a DHD account, you can create one using this LINK. Note: The ability to create a new DHD account will end on March 31, 2025."

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