Oh, it’s true. Even without any unlawful computer access, the amount of personal info your average IT furry can access is pretty astounding. There’s furries quietly keeping things running in the background across tech, finance, industry, science, and just about everywhere.

Our Bacon numbers are tiny, too. It might be six degrees for any two random humans, but in the furry community you rarely have to go farther than friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend.

So; if you’ve got a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… A Furry.

At some point you have to ask yourself if it would be less hassle to switch now or to try and tough it out until Windows becomes unbearable.

Not much I can do about that, but I can at least keep them off my network so that info isn’t associated with my IP address and sold off to whoever wants it.

why?

For the same reason that one might block ads or cookies, of course. I don’t want a third party corporation profiling the bluetooth devices in my house and selling data about me to advertizers.

what does their device locator service have to do with your home network?

Apple’s device locator service uses the internet to report device IDs and GPS coords to Apple.

I’m genuinely curious, because nothing from that service has anything to do with anything that might happen on your network

Ideally, that would be true. But device locators necessarily report their snooping using an internet connection, and if they’re on my home network when they do it then they’d associate my IP address with my location. That’s way more of my personal information than I want Apple to have.

Shit like that is why Apple devices are banned from our home network.

There’s no hiding secrets from the future.

So they can implement their own backdoor

I’m still waiting for the furries to switch to Matrix.

People who use “dude” as a gender neutral term should tell me how many dudes they’ve kissed.

One doesn’t have to go looking, there’s lots of assholes who think it’s “apolitical” to assume that everyone working in software is a dude.

Now?

I recall a project that had rat brain cells controlling a turtlebot years ago.

You’re so close~

Voting is a placebo, but every election is stolen before it’s even held. Party members decide who gets to run in the primaries and draw the congressional districts to ensure no third parties could ever hope to win. Actual competition between the parties is limited to battleground states, electors elsewhere have no influence on the outcome.

So, you’re right, but not in the way you think. The political establishment pushes an illusion of choice to keep the population from exercising its power.

Poe’s Law and its corrolaries are the bane of my existence. XD

It’s hard to laugh at absurdity when a not-insignificant percentage of the population genuinely believes it to be truth.

Where’s the /s?

I’m not kidding, I can’t tell if you’re being sincere or sarcastic. XD

I have to go back over and stitch in the edges on all my iron-on patches, might have to look into that if they’ll do a better job.

knockoffs like Brave

Good, get it all offline so the LLM Assholes can’t use it.

Dunno! I haven’t been to Twitter since Elon bought it and activated our scorched-earth protocols. Twitter hasn’t been accessible on any device in our network since then.

If it’s the user’s responsibility to secure the operating systems they use then isn’t it both illogical and immoral for Microsoft to keep the source code secret?

You’ve got that backwards.

They’ve been convicted in the court of public opinion. This reversal doesn’t make them innocent of their crimes, but it does justify reducing the sentence to parole.

The black mark stays on their record, but they have the opportunity to start rebuilding trust. If they want good reviews on future titles they need to avoid squandering the chance to prove they deserve them.