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@MadamSavvy There is the possibility X Money negotiated a contract that mandates that there are no restrictions to payments involving them. Then contractual obligations and penalties > internal policy.

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@IntCyberDigest If it’s the same as I’m used to, the sequence is a driver Extension (installed by WU if it finds you have a matching HWID) and then a driver SoftwareComponent that attaches to that. This can be arbitrary software, though Microsoft is in a position to deny it.

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@SAP127001 @IntCyberDigest @Microsoft The thing is, that hardware is then forever tied to criminal activity. If you turn it on 5 years later for even a moment, having long forgotten about it and the vpn service doesn’t even exist anymore, it’s game over.
A vm is definitely a better way to go about it.

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@pipiTradeGuild @deku_meowdoriya Regarding unjamming, I know HP printer user manuals always have a lengthy section with diagrams on how to self-resolve various problems, with the last step being 'contact a service center'. That means every activity described in there is explicitly authorized by the mfg.

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@pipiTradeGuild @deku_meowdoriya “refused to service it” under warranty? that should result in a full refund then…
Also sellers might offer an extended warranty option… might be useful as extra leverage in annoying situations like you described.
You shouldn’t be expected to eat the cost of defective products.

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@pipiTradeGuild These things tend to have diagnostic codes (either direct or via lights) and lengthy technician service manuals to deal with all sorts of issues. Could start with opening a support request under warranty and see where that goes.

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@vxunderground May I offer a simple outbound firewall in these hard times? windows fw with outbound filtering + WFC security log observer, or a driver-based product?
Does malware nowadays bother with bypassing network restrictions by adding rules or sneaking data out via whitelisted commands?

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@KirscheVerstahl Huh, 1968, that sounds familiar. Could it be that the (unconstitutional) law was one of the many 'us versus them' communist subversion strategies, with the added bonus of disarming a segment of the population?

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@MattCatagas Actually if you hover over the graph it just tells you.
#1 started 10th aug 2025 at ~14:10 UTC. (4h)
#2 started 11th aug 2025 at ~18:10 UTC. (3h40m)
#3 started 12th aug 2025 at ~16:00 UTC. (4h50m)
#4 started 26th aug 2025 at ~21:30 UTC. (3h50m)
etc. PH is +8 so add 1 day to each.

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@MattCatagas You can just get twitchtracker to filter by game. It rebases its dates to your pc by default, and you need to take Deme's timezone into account to compare against other sources. They were multi-day subathon streams so you also need to do some math on segment start times.

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@Manager_JoJo Morons want it to be real so badly that they point out things that aren't there or misrepresent them, make malicious edits, and spout false facts that are trivially verifiable with basic arithmetic.
I wonder if these are a counter-op to drown out any real stuff on the timeline.

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@MahjongSoul_EN She's in a single tile dead wait (neither is aware yet)

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@Mitchell90 Well, EA is for 500+ employee companies, but grok did mention Open Value and Subscription as alternatives to plain perpetual retail, but that has to be chosen in advance. With Microsoft declaring products EOL faster than before, it might make sense.

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@Mitchell90 @IntCyberDigest Well, “moving on” for windows means a free upgrade to win11. For Server, it means throwing all the OS, cpu, user and rdp licenses into the trash (usually together with the hardware) as there is no license upgrade path. Might be possible to resell, idk how the market looks like.

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@IntCyberDigest I read the article, the main problem isn’t that the localhost-only pgsql instance is open, it seems to me that their web application presents an unsecured public http endpoint for database maintenance tasks controlled by user-provided parameters.

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@vxunderground I wonder if grok can cross-check you rehab strat against published research studies. I imagine now that the population is addicted, med grad students are farming it for test groups for studies, so there might be lots of useful data to harvest for recovery statistics.

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@luwudco You could query the airline. I recall MentourPilot showcasing some past cases where the upset was caused by gross pilot error but didn’t exceed specs so it wasn’t logged as a critical event, and the pilot hoped it would slip past inspection. Passengers reporting it was key.

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@KirscheVerstahl That is a level of nested stupidity I have not seen.
Paid game
Free version but with ads
Reward to make them watch ads
Choke free stuff to the point that daily ads become a key f2p task.
Choke it so much that even paying players use it.
Paid option to skip the ads (you are here)

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@ShitpostRock2 I woke from a nap yesterday after seeing that news, and a flash of insight hit me: if eventually everyone will have one of these, ... hostile malware AI, with enough compute to do anything. New malware campaigns will just ship an AI with a prompt and let it figure out what to do.