#COMPUTERS

[digitalismmm]

Change of scenery

[scipunk]

Latency (2024)

[kiralamouse]

I'll tell you my trick for "change every 90 days": [securepassword][date of change]. ("Date of change" is an approximation like month or quarter, so I don't have to remember exactly. But yeah.)

Still a bloody headache, but at least I only have to futz around with remembering a few date possibilities instead of the entire password changing.

I fully endorse removing mandatory changes, though. I have a system for memorizing my passwords that really isn't a fair thing to ask most people to remember. Let's just keep it usable.

Me 5 seconds after my corpo mandated password change: Hey did you know mandated periodic password changes aren't considered good cybersecurity practice and in fact actually weaken password security? Just a funny little fact I thought you should know.

[madame-helen]

[capesandshapes]

As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

[prokopetz]

Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

[ailurinae]

Caps Lock? You mean the third ctrl key?

Capslock_to_ctrl.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]

"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

Linux:

/etc/default/keyboard

XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"

or options in GUI in both KDE and Gnome I think.

Mac can do it in settings.

[meret118]

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

[albert-trager]

yay puters ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

[feyosha]

Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

[somequeeralien]

Remembered that I once visited museum of old tech, I know many of you would really enjoy those💙

[retrogamingblog2]

Unown Pokemon Key Caps made by RoyalKeycaps

[rainyjays]

Nobody understands her like I do

[olliemnjones]

Saturday night

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