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Cake day: August 17th, 2025

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  • Personally I don’t fundamentally despise the concept of advertising. I think it’s acceptable for people and companies to share information about a potentially great product or service that they’re offering, on reasonable terms.

    The main problem for me is: advertising went too far and abandoned most safeguards. Advertising in 2025 is essentially manipulation and brain washing. Most ads don’t give you any information about a product or service whatsoever. Just some celebrity saying it’s great. What is this supposed to accomplish if not manipulating people into mindlessly paying for a thing they know nothing about?


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    17 days ago

    By default, you never have to enter your BitLocker passphrase, since there’s usually no passphrase in the first place. The default configuration unlocks the drive automatically as long as it’s on the same network it was set up with. Otherwise you need the recovery key. You can also manually enable an unlock method, though on modern PCs there’s usually only PIN available.

    On Linux, in theory you can have the exact same setup and nothing’s stopping you. However, depending on the distro it may or may not be easily configured. You can fairly easily set up automatic drive unlock with TPM, which essentially gives you a similar experience to the default BitLocker.


  • I don’t like how writing down passwords on notes has been heavily criminalized. Obviously it’s a security risk, but so is having a simple password that isn’t written down anywhere. In fact, the latter is often more dangerous, depending on the specific environment. Just make sure the note isn’t easily accessible and you’re good.



  • Very good question indeed. Sadly, it doesn’t help that Chomsky keeps avoiding answering this and other related questions.

    As someone so vocal about serious crimes going unpunished, I’d imagine he’d just openly say what’s going on. If he’s so adamant about staying silent, it only adds more doubt and further questions.