#technology hack

[scipunk]

Rotary Un-Smartphone

[disk28]

[mrmanbat]

Brother- I keep on seeing people who think Jason can’t use technology bc he died.

Bro was trained by Batman and is a current vigilante?? He definitely has a better understanding of engineering and technology than most average people.

What I can see is him having no clue what’s going on on social media. Bro doesn’t have the free time and the gap he has in current events is def discouraging him.

Jason has the MySpace account he created pre-crowbar and he still thinks vine exists.

[sir-adamus]

watching sorta stupid's vol 7 reaction and remembering how much Ironwood gassed up the new Atlesian Knight models in volume 2 and then we see them be nothing but completely ineffective as a defense force and so fucking fragile they can be wrecked in a single hit by a civilian with a metal pipe

are they making those fucking things out of paper

[disease]

LIST: iOS SHORTCUTS

• Spotify to MP3 | "Download Spotify tracks to MP3." • All Media Downloader | "This shortcut helps you download content from social media apps." • Web Services | "Customise the internet for you." • Better GIF Maker | "Convert videos and live photos to GIFs at highest quality using ffmpeg" • Water Eject | "Powerful water ejection system." • Paywall and Cookie Bypass | "Bypass website paywalls and cookies." • iUtilities | "The only shortcut you’ll need" • Reverse Image Search | "Search by image instead of keywords" • Google Translate | "Quickly translate using the Google Translate API" • iTweak Final Version | "A Jailbreak Alternative With Multiple Features!"

...WHAT ARE SHORTCUTS?

for those unaware: the pre-installed Shortcuts app on iOS/macOS/iPadOS can potentially be a life-changing application in regards to digital productivity.

it's utilized as a hub for your collection of shortcuts and automations. shortcuts allow for just a single click—which many times is conveniently incorporated onto your "share" sheet option panel—to execute one or multiple actions; automations are chosen commands that run at specific/relative times of day without prompt.

people tend to overlook the Shortcuts app due to its available "gallery" of shortcuts being rather limited... with the only other option provided being to build these desired actions yourself, which requires the skill of digital coding. however! that's where RoutineHub comes in: it's a website allowing users to share their own complex shortcuts, free of charge, and has a large selection to choose from.

RoutineHub: Shortcuts {by Popularity}

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster

[brekitten]

The Therapist

There's a new therapist at school.

Normally this wouldn't really bother Peter at all, since he's never gone to see a shrink in his life and doesn't ever plan on it, but there's something... off about this woman.

She seems unassuming enough at first glance. Red hair, green eyes, bright red lipstick. But there is something in her eyes, something that Peter can only describe as a predator looking at its next prey, when she looks around the school at all of the teenagers milling about. Heck, even the way she walks makes her seem as if she is a predator stalking her prey.

It could always be some kind of power move, Peter reasons. He's met people like that before, who try to intimidate everyone around them into thinking that they are superior, that they are the apex predator and anyone who dares to cross them would pay for it dearly.

But his Spidey Sense went crazy around her.

He tries to brush it off as paranoia. He'd pulled an all-nighter last night in the lab with Tony because neither of them had been able to sleep, and he hadn't been sleeping well even before that. (Funny, how it had all started the night after he first bumped into the new therapist in the halls.) So his Spidey Sense is probably out of wack because he's tired. Simple as that.

But it seems like everyone in the school is depressed. Even Ned, who can't even muster up the energy and enthusiasm to talk about Legos or Star Wars or even the weather. It worries Peter.

Because it all started when that therapist came to the school.

He can't ignore it forever, he knows that. There is only so long his Spidey Sense can tell him that she is danger danger danger before he finally listens. He has to do something to help everyone.

So he researches.

And he falls into the rabbit hole of ghosts and ectoplasm and secret government organizations and the little, unassuming town of Amity Park, Illinois.

He doesn't sleep that night.

When he comes to school the next morning, Dr. Penelope Spectra looks him dead in the eyes, and smiles.

[ohnoitsz1m]

Postcanon alyx yayyy

She doesn't like the civilian clothes or what's left of the CP uniforms. Her hoodie and jacket are way better. And she's probably the last person on earth to own low rise jeans like this. Not that she doesn't have other clothes this is just objectively superior

[pippintruman]

yes, even you!

[67i203]

[change_the_channel]

[of-fear-and-love]

Computers from The Net (1995)

[disk28]

[sixth-light]

https://x.com/csoandy/status/1814252032884146636

good commentary on the crowdstrike incident

Yes, this is good technical commentary. It's noticeable that different companies have had very different levels of difficulty managing the incident and preparation will certainly have played a role, along with the timing and the number and distribution of systems.

For the less technical (because I've noticed some confused reblogs): Crowdstrike is an enterprise-level, i.e. for large organisations managing many computer systems, set of antivirus tools. It is very good - this is why many, many large organisations with high security needs (such as banks and airlines) use it. Since it defends against malware and viruses, its tools are constantly receiving automatic updates.

About eighteen hours ago, one of those automatic updates accidentally blue-screened Windows machines and servers worldwide that had one particular Crowdstrike tool installed. This was quickly deemed to be fixable without too much hassle, except for one really major issue: individual systems need someone with technical expertise to start them up *directly, in person* in order to be fixed. Imagine you're an airline with computers at every airport. A bank with ATMs nationwide. A retail chain with computers in every store...

Anyway, this is going to take some organisations a while to fix. It is extremely, extremely fixable! But it's gonna take a minute. And some of the orgs not directly affected are reliant on other ones which are. So yeah, soz to IT teams everywhere about their weekend.

[1000-life-hacks]

[relaxedstyles]

[mythsec]

TW post

We live in a world built on corruption, greed, envy, oppression, and a fuck ton more. The more our group discusses these things with our neighboring friends overseas and across the pond, we note that they're fighting too but they're watching us grow as a unit. We're fighting to stay sane, to band together, to fight finally for our own rights whether you're red or blue there's no side. There's only understanding. All it takes is time to want to learn. When you find out that people can see eye to eye, that's when we can make forward motion. A well oiled machine. We defend it as a unit for Luigi Mangione. He took the life of a criminal. Someone invested in stealing from others, denying healthcare and covering up spending. When this man was killed the city took all their research to find one man when they can't do that for missing children, endangered women, men that have been r*ped and the person is still at large. There lies their priorities. There lies the issue. They don't care. They've never cared, they only want to line their pockets and keep us silent. Well no more. We take the streets and show them how we riot. How we protest. How we show them we're fed up. We've given you doxxes, we've been informing you on how to stay safe online and use a VPN and how to mask your emails. We've shown you end-to-end encrypted messaging apps to stay connected. We're here on Tumblr in case Tiktok goes down permanently. To inform the masses of when to organize and how to stay safe.

We will get through this. Georgia is fighting, the UK is fighting, all the nations are fighting. You may feel overwhelmed or in a ball, but even you can make a difference whether it's sharing news, liking posts to gain traction, making videos, making posts to keep people informed, going out and posting flyers with qr codes or getting people to wake up, whether you protest and stay a day or a week or longer, whatever you do matters and makes a difference. It's going to be a long fight but we can do this. You got this.