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You can technically pay Microsoft to continue to get security updates. This is the first time they've offered ESU(Extended Security Updates) to home users, and IIRC it's around $30/year. If it's anything like their business ESU they should offer it for the next three years. As to what it...

It's called trying to get people to buy new computers aka the Surfaces or Copilot PCs that no one wants because their previous computer was "good enough". Microsoft has even started sending people e-mails telling them that if their computer doesn't support 11 they should just throw it out...

So remember that 18th century act that the Trump administration is trying to apply to deport people without due process, even though it requires the US to be at war to actually apply, and has ignored the courts about so far? Apparently internally Trump's lawyers are now looking to interpret it...

Teaser for the next upcoming Ultraman - IIRC rumors/leaks say they will be named Ultraman Omega.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-passenger-railroad-amtrak-ceo-abruptly-steps-down-2025-03-19/

https://www.ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-445e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/uLXoy In other sadder news(for us) Twitter is back up to 44 billion valuation apparently, probably on the back of making all the government agencies use it for notices etc.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/democrats-town-halls-anger-schumer-00239667 Things are certainly going well for them right now.

Where did people get the idea that food goes bad after a week in the fridge? The entire POINT of a fridge is to keep food for longer periods of time. Yes, I mad because someone threw out something I was planning to eat on.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/631651/amazon-alexa-suno-ai-generated-song-copyright-nightmare

Also seeing word that Putin has proposed a 30-day ceasefire, provided any arms-shipments and intel-sharing with Uktraine stops during that period. Seems reasonable at first blush, until you realize that Russia doesn't depend on external arms like Ukraine has been forced to, so this will let them...

Yeah, sounds like someone just trying to self-justify continuing to be in favor of the Musk.

Reminds me of this post I was reading yesterday, which introduced a (supposedly) relatively new term called Competitive Authoritarianism, though tbf he makes it clear also that he did not create the term - it goes back to some stuff written before Trump's inauguration and used Hungary's...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/doge-staffer-violated-treasury-rules-by-emailing-unencrypted-personal-data/

Seems ICE and Border Patrol are starting to ignore the courts in more cases than just the Venezuela stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.1b9y.4ZGvHoyhTvxN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://infosec.exchange/@knightsbridge/114178367320979752

A naga is a snake taur.

https://www.everylibrary.org/statementimls2025

From a news broadcast on Swedish TV: Note how they titled Putin here. Video here: https://hachyderm.io/@anderseknert/114166048146183746