Richard, maybe

I mean, VHEMT is a great ideology and ever, but the dude seems to have missed the “voluntary” part.

Welp, I’m into neither stockings nor potato bags. Just plain straight preferably black jeans with deep pockets

I propose renaming him to Ben Chapitau. Much more suitable for a clown.

As always, the answer is “depends”. It shouldn’t hurt unless you’re dual-booting windows (they used it last year as a weapon in their “mess up grub” game), but, Imo, it’s worth the trouble if:

• your data is also encrypted – otherwise one just removes the HDD/SSD and reads what they need;
• you provision your own keys – to not depend on Microsoft signing shims for you;
• you delete the already provisioned keys – Microsoft signed a few vulnerable things, like one kaspersky’s (iirc) live CD with grub not locked down, so one can boot up literally anything anyway;
• you lock down grub or whatever bootloader you’re using – otherwise you become that vulnerable live cd;
• you password lock the uefi – otherwise one can simply disable the secureboot;
• your vendor’s implementation isn’t terribly buggy – iirc, some MSI laptops would just ignore all the discrepancies.

So, a lot of ifs, and a necessity to store the uefi password somewhere safe, as those may be a pita to reset.

As for standalone stuff – idk, it might protect you from malware injecting itself into the bootloader or something, but given there’s likely no chain of trust (I.e. the bootloader doesn’t check what it bootloads), it can move in on some later step.

This, but backtrack 5 (the one just before kali). On a laptop that’d take several eternities to brutforce an md5 🤣

Reminded me one of the vids of f4mi, although that ladiy’s approach is far more beautiful. Basically, she took advantage of ai scrapers relying on subtitles and YouTube allowing for pretty advanced styling of those very subtitles to insert garbage that only bots will see.

To those interested in the details, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8 (selecting a working invidious instance is left as an exercise for the reader)

Quite simple, actually. If you want to do a thing that violates a law, you modify the law to allow the thing.

More like his birth

Any of them. I’d just write a program that interprets a sequence of keypresses as Morse code beforehand 🤷

The hammers look more like those wooden foot thingeys used to make shoes, tho…

GuixSD then /jk

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Yap, not a demon, just a core. You’ll also need an init and a set of coreutils to make one.

I mean, it might be interesting. To be clear, I don’t dislike French, it’s quite fun, just weird at times

At least it’s not as f-d up as French where dudes casually ignore like half of the letters in a sentence.

Sigh. I was hoping for an ARG at least.

a message

Or 6

I mean, scammers aren’t exactly the smartest tools in the shed (but usually the toolest), but this one seems especially weird. Like, wouldn’t they at least notice this whole campaign became a huge meme at this point?

Neither can we, little system. Neither can we.