we need to bring back utopian fiction because most people in 2025 genuinely can’t imagine what a better world would look like

If you want people to switch away from discord you need to invent a platform that is convenient to use and that one-ups discord in some major way that would attract all of discord current users and can act as a drop in replacement and is worth it to the user to decide to switch or use both on their own
You can’t force the user. Campaigning isn’t gonna work. I don’t see discord going away anytime soon

How to set up Windows 11 with a local, offline, non-Microsoft account during installation.

Keep the PC disconnected from the internet. When the installer gets to the network connection screen, do this:

1. Press Shift and F10 keys for command prompt.

2. Type: oobe\bypassnro

3. Press enter.

The PC will reboot and return to setup, but this time you'll see an option to skip network connection by clicking “I don’t have internet" at the bottom right.

Now you can make a local, offline account. ✅

With many people cancelling their streaming services, we want to point out that many of the films in our library stream for free!

They may be on free platforms like Kanopy, or the filmmakers may put them on YouTube or Vimeo. Some filmmakers also offer special free educational licenses or even packages.

The educational game in our collection called "Walden, a game", also offers a free version to educators.

How to find our free films
1. Check out the films in our resource library.
2. Look for viewing details in the "Where to Watch" section of a film's page.
3. If that takes you to a link on JustWatch.com, make sure to adjust the site to your own country settings for local results.

If you have questions about our films and film guides, please ask! We're here to help and we love connecting people with great films and teaching tools. 1/2

https://journeysinfilm.org/resource-library/

#Streaming #Movies #Film #Boycotts #Disney #Parenting #Gaming #Families #Education #Homeschooling #Documentaries

On the Fediverse, the posts on your feed are moderated by dozens or even hundreds of different servers.

Ever wonder how that works out for your personal feed? Find out with https://moderation-explorer.online/

so, I have been having this recurring issue where youtube starts buffering like mad around 10/11pm at night. playing 480p and it was stalled more than it was playing, and I have fibre.

Finally found a fix - Chrome mask. This addon for Firefox changes the browser useragent to impersonate Chrome on a per site basis. Once I did that and reloaded its worked perfectly.

Is Google/Youtube doing some fuckery to deliberately break Firefox?

What the fuck is going on with Ruby? For the moment we have to consider all gems compromised: https://pup-e.com/goodbye-rubygems.pdf

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨

If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal owner* of your domain.

If your registrar has not already informed you of this change, I recommend going into your domain records and removing an organization if you do not have some sort of official ownership of that name just in case there is ever an ownership dispute in the future.

I keep thinking about how much of the liberatory power of the internet came pretty early on in terms of technical capacity. That's not to say nothing new has been worth it, far from, but rather that a lot of good comes right up from with "able to plug a box in somewhere in your house and make hypertext available to others."

Want to do more than delete your Disney account? Delete the tracking profile they have on you.

By phone (877) 466-6669 or online.

Go ask Disney for copies of the data it has about you.

Then ask how Disney shared it.

And then tell Disney to delete it.

(You can’t do this all in one online request - that’d be too easy).

YMMV depending on where you live, but it doesn’t take much time:

https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/current-privacy-policy/data-subject-rights-portal/

#FireBobIger
#JimmyKimmel

hey if any Fedi beings know about Windows #ReverseEngineering I’d love some advice or help!

I’m trying to figure out how the anti-save-scumming system for a game called Teleglitch works. here’s what I’ve figured out so far:

• when you make a save, the game also secretly hides information about the save somewhere (the information seems to only consist of “the next save that the user loads should be for level XYZ” or “there should be no savefile. if there’s a savefile, it’s invalid”. all other edits to the savefile are accepted by the game as correct - including edits that instantly freeze the game)
• when you try to load the save, the game compares the secret information with the information in the savefile. if the information doesn’t match, the savefile is considered invalid and the game refuses to load it
• the savefile is stored in a Steam Cloud directory called C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\«some numbers»\«more numbers»\remote
• the secret information is definitely not stored in this directory (I made the whole thing into a git repo and used that to “rewind time” to make 100% sure)
• the secret information is also not stored in the game’s directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TeleglitchDME) (same thing - I made it into a git repo)
• I’ve checked every registry operation and every file I/O operation using Process Monitor but I’m 90% sure that Process Monitor is missing certain important things that Teleglitch is doing - maybe because it’s delegating tasks to {another process / a subprocess}? but Process Monitor can’t even see Teleglitch write to the Steam Cloud save directory mentioned above
• I tried looking through the executable in Ghidra and the savefile code is definitely in there somewhere, and I’ve been able to kinda make sense of some of it, but I’m not very good with disassembly / decompilation. I’d love some help with this if anyone is interested. it looks like it was probably written in C++ and I’ve found some very good places in the executable to start looking for savefile behavior but I’m baffled by a lot of what I’m seeing - I think a lot of it was automatically added by the C++ compiler

anyway I would love some advice on what to try next. I’ve tried to summarize just the most important parts of what I know about Teleglitch’s behavior, but I can explain more if anyone is interested!

when I call a game “over-juiced” this is the type of shit that I’m talking about

someone should force Blizzard to make WoW free for everyone so that I can play it without supporting Blizzard

(I know private servers exist and I like Tauri but it’s not the same idk)

If you are in the US and have a post-2010 laptop that works* but which you're not using, please DM me with some info about it. There's a trans person in my network who needs a laptop and can do their own linux install.

* Short battery life or some broken USB ports are ok. Major dead components (or no USB at all) are too complicated to sort.

Fedi bots at night