There is a streamer named RockyNoHands[0]
He plays Warzone entirely with his mouth. His controller has tubes that he blows and sucks to control the character.
It is really impressive watching him live on such a competitive game.
I had been drinking almost every evening for the past year. It was only a few bottles of beer or a bottle of wine but it was enough to make me groggy in the morning.
I found it real hard going to a supermarket without going down the alcohol aisle - there are always deals going on.
Just recently, I realized I was gaining weight, so started watching what I eat. As alcohol always made me binge eat I 'simply' did not go down the alcohol aisle on the next shopping trip.
I put simply in quotes because it took me real effort to avoid it.
Without alcohol in the house, the choice to drink has been taken away from me.
I have basically gone cold turkey and drink tea/water instead.
Honestly, I thought I would have had a more difficult time but it hasn't fazed me in the slightest.
I only played on unofficial servers but I had many hours of entertainment.
My greatest achivement is that I wrote a Macro program called UO-Mcro in VB6. It was a stepped based Macro program that didn't require coding to use. It had popular actions such has
LeftClick x
Wait x seconds
Set Variable
If / Loop
Each action was designed using VBScript, so it was possible to extend to more advanced actions.
It has long since gone but the website is available on the wayback machine
People still use antivirus in 2022?? I think it's well-understood that antivirus has somehow managed to be worse than not having it, as antivirus programs themselves often have vulnerabilities that make full system compromise easier.
Note that your antivirus is also performing worse than even the average antivirus, which is already pretty bad. The EICAR test file is only meant to be detected if the file size is less than or equal to 128 bytes long.
I personally do not, but my company issued laptop does.
I would not disagree that it makes the computer worse, there was a significant performance decrease when the latest version was installed earlier this year but this is off topic.
What I found interesting was that I didn't know about EICAR until today.
I do not mind logging into a Microsoft account however the most bizarre situation happened to me very recently.
I will occasionally log into my personal Microsoft account when accessing a Microsoft website when I am on Lunch to work on some personal projects.
At work last week, I was upgraded to Office 365 and as a result I started downloading the latest versions and trying it out in various ways. One of these was upgrading my old OneNote into the latest version (2013 -> 365)
Saturday morning, I booted up my own different PC at home and notice in the "Recommended" section on the Windows 11 start menu "Work 365". This is the name of the OneNote I created at work when I upgraded the document. I do not even have Office on my own PC.
Hovering over it would show that it was located in my Works One Drive folder.
I must have been logged into my personal account on OneNote and it somehow meta-data? links it between the work and personal accounts.
I am now in process of removing all traces of my personal account from Windows on my work laptop as the very last thing I want to happen is to see personal files appearing in the Recommended section of my works laptop!
Wow that is CREEPY AF and very very scary. This is an instant reason to never use Windows because I'd be so scared that I'd leak personal/private data to other people's computers. The really fucking scary thing is that even we both as power users who understand computers, the internet and how things work are even extremely vulnerable to those hostile dark patterns in Windows that less tech savvy family members would be absolute prey to those Microsoft hyenas. There is NO WAY that anyone in my family will ever use a Windows or Microsoft device. It will be iPhones and Macs for them for the rest of their lives.
I had my young son with me at the time so I didn't investigate it further.
What would have I seen if I clicked the More > button in the Start Menu - would there have been more leakage?
Have I logged into my work account on my personal PC at some point?
Why did it only show the OneNote file but not any others?
What happened if I actually clicked it and tried to open it?
Did I simply make a mistake when using multiple accounts in one OS?
There are numerous questions I am asking myself that I don't have an answer for yet.
As far as I can see, I have removed all traces of my personal account off my work laptop now but I am hoping (not sure this is the correct wording in this context) that I can see still the file in my Recommended Section when I get home.
I really would like to know exactly how it can happen.
If you take info sec seriously that should be immediate reason to ban one note, IMHO. Because if you are not trying to, MS will just spill company data to your private accounts for you!
It’s not just OneNote. They are absolutely confused, as an organisation, about accounts, data privacy and data security.
I can’t, in theory, access my work’s OneDrive from my personal machines, due to a required SSO on top of Microsoft’s, and a VPN requirement. But somehow there are some of my personal files in my work’s OneDrive.
I don’t know how this happened. I can’t log into our VPN as it’s machine-locked (it checks before allowing you on) and therefore OneDrive is supposed to stop me accessing it.
I keep getting emails from Microsoft about an Azure Enterprise agreement that they have decided I have power over, along with a group of people from a random company that I’m not related to in any way. Someone did a typo and included me by accident? Not likely as I have an email address that’s difficult to accidentally use via typo.
Microsoft are taking people’s responses to the group as authorised instructions as to what to do with their enterprise agreement. I’ve responded several times and said I am not related but they keep emailing about it. I know a lot about that company’s people, structure and agreements with Microsoft now!
Frustrating for the tech user.
Very frustrating for the none tech user.
Probably intentional, as when someone does not understand something, there is a good chance it will be ignored.
I'm all for having the ability to make fine-tuned changes to settings, but these need to be under some kind of advanced dialog in my opinion.
This UI change shows no indication (for example) what a .svg file is, or what a .shtml file is.
How on earth can a none tech user know what these mean when by default file extensions are hidden on Windows.
I work with many people who simply do not know what file extensions are.
"This photo is made up of 62 individual images which were stitched together once they were sent back to Earth."
I do not know how the operations work at NASA but I would like to think that some lucky individual stitched these together manually using whatever software they use at NASA.
In some NASA TV show around Perseverance were some shots of someone using their pano stitching software. Apparently none of the existing tools were good enough so they wrote their own and the users love it. I'll share a link if I can find it.
For sure most of the work was automatic (the technique for automatically stitching together pictures into a big one has been around for a long time, remember seeing it in Photoshop CS2 (~2005) the first time I think, but probably existed before that too) and then manually touched up to fix anything weird. This is also how taking panorama pictures work on your phone, it takes bunch of photos while you move the camera, then automatically stitch them together based on similarity in the edges (and probably gyro/accelerator data today too).
PanoTools[0] has been around since 1998 and I doubt that was the first implementation of the idea ;)
Unlike your phone, I'd imagine NASA knows the position and orientaion of the camera for each picture and has precisely measured and calibrated their lens parameters even before launch, so hopefully there is not much manual work to do. Hopefully they can also rotate the camera around its focal point. On the other hand, phones have a continous stream of pictures which can make things easier.
Naive question. How does one know this is malicious before installing it?
I think this would fool me if it wasn't for this thread. The only thing that seems off to me is the lack of information, and hovering over the contact developer shows a gmail address.
I wouldn't have looked at the comments in the reviews as I know what the Microsoft Authenticator does, as I use it constantly on my mobile device. So in this instance, I could have seen myself finding this link, clicking Add to Chrome without much thought.
I can surely see how an average user would fall for this and it's frightening.
It is really impressive watching him live on such a competitive game.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockyNoHands