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Weekly Digest: Windows 10 21H2, end of SMB1, tech tips

Weekly Digest: Windows 10 21H2, end of SMB1, tech tips

This week on Pureinfotech, Microsoft announced that it plans to disable the no longer secure SMB1 client protocol from Windows 11 Home and remove the binaries in future releases of the OS. Windows 11 21H2 is expected to introduce new shortcuts to navigate and perform actions in the new Task Manager. The software giant also quietly announced that it is making the Windows 10 21H2 fully available,…

[setokaibapetty]

5 + 1 Fic Friday Roundup: Uplifting Women

Some fics revolving around women (and one man in a woman’s body) who lift their family/community/world up. May is the month of Mental Health Awareness after all - though I went for tech uplift instead of creating an uplifting atmosphere via emotional labor (though there is some of that in some of these as well).

1. Down the Rabbit Hole to Westeros (AO3)  -  A SI into Selyse Florent, later Selyse Baratheon. Refusing this time around to be vexed by a mustache, lack of indoor plumbing, and no more guacamole in favor of keeping her eyes on the prize: Surviving the upcoming Long Night and not letting Melisandre go Full Melisandre.

2. Compass of thy Soul (FF / AO3) -  Being reborn into the Uchiha clan during the Warring Clans Era is surprisingly idyllic, so long as you don't mind hard work and are too young to know any of the people who are actually dying. But innocence never lasts, and trying to help family stay alive is a road strewn with a surprising number of pitfalls and last-minute diversions. [SI-OC. Fluff, politics, fix-it. No Aliens.]

3. Sanitize (FF / AO3) -  Basic medicine and sanitation are simple. During the Warring Clans era, they become revolutionary. [OC-Insert]

4. Cold Winds Blowing (SB) -  Maia, a young woman without much direction in life, awakes in the snows of the True North beyond the Wall in the year 295 After Conquest. Equipped with a power she barely understands, the Celestial Forge and the endless potential it represents, she struggles to find her own path on the foreign world of Planetos. Will she be wrapped up in the schemes of the great players? Can the best of intentions truly bear out good results, or are they a mere hindrance to true power?

5. Taylor on the Edge of Forever (SB) -  A Worm AU/Star Trek AU where Taylor Hebert has alt powers related to having been in the Star Trek future before being returned to her teenage self in Brockton Bay.

Bonus: Coin and Conformity (SB / AO3) - A man wakes up one day to find that he isn't in his apartment, isn't in his own body, and isn't even on Earth anymore. The language, the geography, the culture, the stars, and even the technology level are all different. Even worse, in this backwards medieval society he had found himself in, he woke up in the body of a woman. A woman who had just given birth to her first child, a son.

[euteh]

Tech news roundup: Cisco Live, Samsung A-series, and Salesforce acquires Tableau

Tech news roundup: Cisco Live, Samsung A-series, and Salesforce acquires Tableau

This week’s TechRepublic and ZDNet news stories include a look at the current state of 5G deployment, the severity of fake emails, and Cisco’s quest for multi-cloud connectivity.

Tech news roundup: Cisco Live, Samsung A-series, and Salesforce acquires Tableau This week’s TechRepublic and ZDNet news stories include a look at the current state of 5G…

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As Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) winds down, we take a look at some of the announcements from the event that will have an impact on technology in Singapore.

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Mortgage tech news roundup: Sept. 2

Mortgage tech news roundup: Sept. 2

Mortgage lender American Financial Resources and Tavant linked up to improve the digital mortgage experience. AFR is a lender that operates in the wholesale, correspondent and retail origination channels. Tavant is a maker of digital lending technology. AFR will be using Tavant’s Touchless Lending platform, giving its correspondent lenders, mortgage brokers, loan originators and consumers the…

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News roundup: Allies, liars, backtracking, screwing over women, and fixing tech

News roundup: Allies, liars, backtracking, screwing over women, and fixing tech

Today in the news: Calls coming to get our allies from Afghanistan out as soon as possible. Republicans and their media allies can’t stop lying about vaccines. Toyota finally reversed its despicable decision to donate money to elected insurrectionists. Texas restricted abortion … and then some. President Biden continues to take actions to help American workers.  Some of the things you may have…

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Weekly Digest: Windows 10 new features and tech tips

Weekly Digest: Windows 10 new features and tech tips

This week on Pureinfotech: Microsoft released the first Windows 10 preview (build 21286) of 2021, in the Dev Channel with a news widget that brings quick access to trending news and weather information to the taskbar. This flight also introduces the modernized Storage Spaces settings in the Settings app. You will also find improvements for time zones changes, DiskUsage command-line tool, and a…

[handwrittenhello]

FAQ/PLMM ROUNDUP

Will you do another poll with [x]?

Maybe? I totally understand the desire for an unofficial do-over without Vriska, which is the most likely to happen out of all possible options. Please don't ask me to run one just for two characters you want to see go head-to-head, though. Contrary to popular belief, I do use this blog for stuff other than ridiculous polls 😂

I've also been asked to run polls with other themes, like blorbos/

If I do end up running something, it won't be until next week.

I'm really mad that there was suspected botting/interference with Vriska's polls!

Me too, bud. Without being able to see exactly who voted what and when, though, there's no way to prove without a doubt that there was. I believe there was, other people believe there was, some people don't believe there was. That's all fine.

Just don't let this color your enjoyment of the competition or other fans/fandoms. Don't let the minority ruin the reputation of the whole.

How do you know the results/it was a tie/it says the final round was 50/50?

Tumblr doesn't show exact percentages or exact vote counts. Supposedly there's a way with API to show it, but I'm not that tech savvy. The way I made decisions was based off of Tumblr highlighting the winner green after the poll ended.

Various messages of support, saying you had fun, saying you're sorry about botting, etc.:

Thank you! I hope you all had fun as well. And thank you for making this silly contest as popular as you did; I didn't expect this to become SO popular and contentious! To everyone who created fanart/shitposts/meta/etc. about the contest, you're great! I and your meow meow thank you for your service.

If you want to unfollow me now that the PLMM contest is over, bye! Hope you enjoyed :) If you want to stay, I'm mostly a fandom blog, some shitposts here and there. I write and make art too.

Under the cut: the full stats spreadsheet, with some notes.

Fun facts: Harry du Bois ended up with 103,156 total votes across all five rounds, the most out of any character. In second place is Vriska Serket, followed by Howl Jenkins.

The hottest race was the final round. The second-hottest was Harry du Bois vs. Howl Jenkins, and the third-hottest was Prince Zuko vs. Vriska Serket.

I'd have loved to have created a graph plotting the contestants' rise and fall, but frankly, that's way too much work lol. If you happen to do so, tag me!

[daphnedauphinoise]

Article Roundup

The 7 types of rest you need to actually feel recharged

England’s 17th century was a ferment of ideas and revolution

Gnosticism in Modernity, or Why History Refuses to End

Believe it or not, we are not going to be sick forever

What Monks Can Teach Us About Paying Attention

Hot Teen Werewolves? In This Economy?

The Case for Sleepovers

Death and dying: how different cultures deal with grief and mourning

Can cosmology untangle the universe’s most elusive mysteries?

Could Fashion Have An Animal-Free Future? 

Why so many tech companies are laying off?

Does the Doomsday Clock actually mean anything?

Meet Caterina Sforza and Other Warrior Queens History Forgot

[cheaphousespending]

Mortgage tech news roundup: July 29

Mortgage tech news roundup: July 29

LiveOak Venture Partners led the round. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Capital Factory, 7BC Venture Capital, Sweater Ventures, LFG Ventures, Badra Capital and Stonks Fund also participated. The company is centered around making real estate wealth accessible to everyone through its investing, banking and finance platform. “Homeowners cannot access home equity without being burdened with…

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Webcomic Chapter 143 Review

Fetch yourself a cup of tea or beverage of choice: this is a long one.

Story Summary

In brief, we are staying with the scenes of the last chapter, and have moved our viewpoint to take in the responses of various heroes from the two organisations as they try to deal with the influx of killer robots as the latter scythe down civilians and pulverise buildings.

Straight away, we see very different fates play out. Lightning Max cautiously sizes up a single robot and tries to work out who best to tackle one that shrugs off his blows nonchalantly, but soon a sea of robots approach, driving before them a wave of panicked civilians. Max's feet are shot out from under him and he is surely at the end as a robot takes aim at him, but...

No lie, when I first saw these panels I felt so ill I had to stop reading for a few minutes

... the shot is absorbed by an armoured figure and Mumen Rider -- no Neo Mumen now -- protects him. He carries Max off to safety.

Around the various locals, it is a similar story of pro-heroes struggling to make headway against the robots, only to find Neo Heroes sweep in to make short work of them. Even former pro-heroes (we met this lot suffering in chapter 138) who've taken up with the Neo Heroes are finding it easy.

Who needs courage or skill when you've got tech?

The situation reaches its apogee with Tank Top Master. He finds it easy enough to destroy the robots, but is prevented from ploughing through them by needing to defend his comrades who were felled after mistaking approaching figures for escaping civilians. He's desperate to fight back but moving means abandoning his comrades to die.

what a bind!

Relief arrives in the form of the Neo Hero Hunter group, but with it comes real ugliness. The Hunters start mincing up the robots and are hailed as the true heroes of the day by the present civilians. Fair enough, however, when Tank Top Master asks for help moving his comrades to safety so he can join the offence, only to be so rudely rebuffed the man is left stunned into silence.

Tank Top Master is really too nice

The chapter closes with Axel's thoughts as he and his team destroy the robots. He sees this as the start of a society kept safe from monsters by universally-worn power armour from the Neo Heroes. If the world has changed, then so must mankind.

And he will permit no one to stand in the way of this vision.

Oh. Dear.

Much more below the cut!

Meta: Roundup Ready

A: So this is how you kill an organisation

Unless something big and wonderful happens, today is the day the Hero Association dies. Its destruction has been as systematic as watching a once well-unionised trade be dismantled.

The Neo-Heroes didn't do it all on their own. They've been aided by a press that has highlighted every scandal and flow of the Hero Association (ably aided by data breaches -- cough McCoy cough) while fawning uncritically over the Neo Heroes. The government has been persuaded to dilute the Hero Association's position by giving the Neo Heroes the same rights once only entrusted to the HA.

They have then stolen away sponsors and enticed away pro-heroes with lavish salaries, equipment, free housing, and even clothing and food. They've run a slick public relations campaign the HA can't hope to match and have stolen public approbation from the HA.

And then they've gone a lot further. At some plausible remove, someone has been systematically unleashing cybernetically-enhanced monsters (and now robots) onto the populace. These threats have been marked by their ferocity and destructiveness when faced by pro-heroes, and their willingness to lie down and die when confronted by Neo Heroes, making even inexperienced fighters feel powerful and leaving an impression on the public. [1]

RoundUp Ready is the Monsanto trademark for its patented line of genetically modified crop seeds that are resistant to its glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup. By deploying a cybernetically-enhanced campaign of terror, pro-heroes are being culled like weeds [2].

It is no accident at all that the three S-Class heroes who succeeded in defeating the dragon-level threats sent simultaneously to several cities, Tatsumaki, Flashy Flash, and Genos, are precisely the heroes sent on special missions when they are most needed on the front lines.

In Genos's case, he's been sent on the sort of mission designed to finish off whatever lingering credibility the Hero Association has. At the very best, deadly infighting is a foul look on any organization. At the worst, his destroying Metal Knight's arsenal (and maybe Bofoi too) will remove the only source of systematic mass defense the Hero Association has. No matter how things turn out between Genos and Metal Knight, only the Organization wins.

This is how the bad guys win. There are more ways to defeat a hero than engaging them in head-on combat. [3] The bad guys don't care in the slightest about the value of the human lives they've destroyed to achieve this. For Tumblr readers, I've spoken about it here.

B: Brave New Techno World

On the one level, a conflict like the one between the Hero Association and the Neo Heroes was always going to come. We've learned that monsters have long been part of the Earth, and so long as humans aren't being excessive, they're happy not to attack humanity.

In a world where monster attacks were sporadic, the Hero Association, with its emphasis on finding and supporting exceptional individuals to be heroes, was a brilliant innovation. In a world where monster attacks have become endemic, there was always going to be pressure to move away from dedicated amateurs to a more standardized, professional response.

However, as we've seen, the magnitude of the threat has been artificially worsened. Also, as we've noticed, the ultimate goal of the founder of the Neo Heroes, Mr Fuzzy, is control.

World Dominion: an oldie but goodie. And damn is he being clever about it.

Once the actual heroes are gone, with the politicians and businesses bought, there's little preventing the Neo Heroes (or more precisely, the powers behind them) from becoming an oppressive force keeping the populace in line.

Any protests from within can be silenced by cyborgization. Any protests from without... Ah, remember when Raiden tried to take in Puri Puri and his men for forcible thought correction? Remember the stupid people cheering the prospect?

This is the note-perfect way to introduce unjust laws: inflict them first on those society does not respect, not thinking that laws apply to *everyone*, not just the ones we don't like. There will be no wrong thought in this brave new world.

All the bits are in place: the satellite surveillance, the instruments of terror, the legal right to act with impunity, the conspiracy of other powerful organisations working in the shadows.

It'll be a brave new world all right. You may be alive and tech-savvy, but you won't be free. And you'll like it.

Or else.

The only question is: How is our titular hero going to deal with this? Against an evil that seemingly has no form? I guess we'll have to pray ONE is minded to give us more soon!

Asides

[1] We see what happens when the Neo Heroes face non-nobbled opposition. It often doesn't go well, not even against regular monsters:

[2] This development puts a much more sinister cast on the delegation that sought Mumen Rider to press on him a specially-modified Neo suit. It's as if they knew the cull was coming.

[3] Yes, there are wildcards such as Saitama, Garou, and even Sonic, but the enemy knows something that the Hero Association understands well: without credibility, a hero is just a weirdo ranting in the street no matter how strong they are. A discredited hero is no threat.

[quirkwizard]

It's so satisfying to see La Brava return to the story. Aside from my personal feelings on it, like my enjoyment of La Brava as a character and the fact that I got another prediction right, this was a good spot to reintroduce her with Skepetic hacking. It's a good usage of her main talent and is believable enough given her similar feats with much worse equipment. What makes it better is that this is probably the funniest point that this could have happened. Skeptic barely got to succeed for two panels before getting immediately outplayed by La Brava. The head of a nation-wide tech company just got outclassed by a high school dropout that acts like a middle schooler and who looks like she should be in elementary. Considering how badly he took getting bested by Double, the dude is probably going to have a conniption before the arc is done.

On a more serious note, I do like La Brava coming back into the fold. I prefer to think of this as Izuku's kindness coming back to help him. Without him stopping Gentle and vouching for his story, it's likely that La Brava would have ended up in a much worse place and wouldn't have been here to stop Skeptic. That being said, I do wonder what's going to happen with this going forward. I'm not asking for a full villain roundup return, but Gentle seems pretty likely. Though La Brava said she was doing this for Gentle's sake, so he may still be in prison at this point. Though if he isn't and he'd play a part, it'd be fun if he could get a second chance at being a real hero somehow. Maybe he could help Izuku somehow, like catching him before he falls off UA to reflect what happened with the window washer. If I wanted to go in an extreme direction, he could put up air barriers to keep Tomura contained or even keep UA from falling with some elastic air.

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Weekly Digest: Windows 10 2004, Surface Duo, tech tips This week on Pureinfotech: Ahead of its release, video appears showing off the Microsoft Surface Duo…

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Here’s a roundup of major Canadian 2020 Boxing Week tech deals

Here’s a roundup of major Canadian 2020 Boxing Week tech deals

While this year has been quite different than most, there’s at least one thing you can count on for the holidays: Boxing Week. Altogether, a variety of Canadian retailers are offering discounts on all kinds of tech products. With that in mind, we’ve decided to roundup the biggest retailers and their deals. That said, with widespread pandemic-related lockdowns, stores might not be open and online…

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Can you IPO sneakers? Also, this is the last Exchange roundup of the year – TechCrunch

Can you IPO sneakers? Also, this is the last Exchange roundup of the year – TechCrunch

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Subscribe here.  Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Sweet dreams are made of IPOs, so merry f****** Christmas We’re all very tired but there’s…

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this is the last roundup of fics i've read for the stardust reblog challenge! i had a bit of a slow month in november so i decided to just add the fics from that month to december's list. (as always, heed creator tags & warnings, and if you do check any of them out, please show the writers some love with an rb or a comment!)

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star wars

poe dameron ✨

frozen hands, warm in mine by @userpoe

You’d napped in his room plenty of times before, but it was the first time you’d slept overnight at his quarters. The heating was out in your quarters, and the tech team wouldn’t be able to send someone over until morning, so Poe had humbly offered you stay with him. | gn!reader, only one bed/cuddling for warmth, fluff, friends to lovers, 1.3k words

always warm (in your arms) by @userpoe

It’s winter on D’Qar and there’s a conversation to be had about a certain kiss. (Sequel to Frozen Hands) | gn!reader, flirting, fluff, friends to lovers, 2.1k words

moon knight

steven grant 🌖

dream a little dream of me by @redahlia-writes

He thought it’d be awkward. He thought the lie would be too much and that he wouldn’t be able to keep up, that perhaps his shyness would get the best of him, and though he wanted desperately to try for you, he was terrified he’d somehow mess it all up. But he finds himself at ease, a sense of home he’s not sure he’s ever felt before. | f!reader, fluff, fake dating, friends to lovers, 3.0k words

marc spector/layla el-faouly 🌗

subsumption by @psithurista

Marc Spector leaves Egypt with red on his hands and a ghost on his back. (Set pre-series.) | angst, canon-typical violence, heavy themes (mental health, depression, ptsd, etc.), smut, 9.6k words

triple frontier

santiago garcia 🥃

did you think i had forgotten? by @wyn-n-tonic

Santiago comes home to bury an old friend while hoping to resurrect an old love. | f!reader, smut, angst, hurt-comfort, exes to lovers, 2.6k words

misc.

javier peña 🚬 (narcos)

poema xiv by @redahlia-writes

You hadn’t thought it’d end like this. You hadn’t planned it. But how could you ever be parted from Javier? | f!reader, smut, angst, hurt-comfort, exes to lovers, 6.6k words