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It wouldn’t make news, except that this crack head has been allegedly forcing polygraph testing on a ton of established agents as a ‘Loyalty’ test.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/fbis-polygraph-purge-kash-patel-led-us-agency-using-lie-detector-to-test-staff-loyalty-says-report-13905286.html

Still not sure if this is obliviously serious or awesomely ironic. I down voted for solidarity, ma brotha!

Jesus, what IT dept. are you working at, and how do I get there;) around here, the most attractive specimens are those under 35 BMI and practice personal grooming.

Thanks, had some good suggestions, and glad I can still rufus the iso and command line it.(funny, I thought they might have locked the install to a live account from the existing win10)

I need to migrate my partners home work pc to 11. Hopefully, one day I can convince the whole family to try Linux, but until its more prevalent in the nontech work constraints (i.e windows specific medical field needs) then mitigation appears to be the best option.

Slightly off topic from crt nostalgia:

I do miss the older ‘dumb’ flat screens. Feels like all devices, but specially tvs, are spying on us by default. It’s an exhausting privacy arms race with my home network against ads or tracking.

Fuck I feel old. Great article though, thanks made my day:)

Can’t remember the number of hours I put into “the ancient art of war” on my Dad’s Amstrad.

Leonie Mack, who has received a mysterious rating for her latest novel Head Over Wheels (Bedford Square), said: “Just yesterday, I had a one-star rating on a book that’s not out yet, from a brand new account listed in the Russian Federation that has no other reviews than my one-star rating.

Goodreads reviews have long been associated with review bombing, for example in 2021 Time revealed how some authors were [allegedly victims of extortion], facing demands to pay scammers to avoid bad reviews on the website.

God dammit. Goodreads enshittification.

Very, very cool. Is it wrong that I feel a small sense of victory for the imaginative power of of this research team, given the constant AI and quantum computing take over that tech pushes?