Took almost 30 years for George Miller to create this masterpiece. And in a few months we get to experience the world of Mad Max again with "Furiosa". Can't wait for that!
"In 1969, the same summer as Woodstock another festival took place, it was filmed but never seen. Until now."
This is an excellent documentary with amazing music and live performances, including fascinating interviews. Worth the rental! With music from: Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & The family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King and The 5th Dimension.
Summer Of Soul is available with subscription on Hulu and Disney+. For $3.99 on YouTube and Apple TV.
I just went to the grocery store for coffee and toilet paper, and when I came out someone had ran into my car! The rear driver's side's bumper is scratched and some of the brake light's cover is broken! What the entire hell?
Years ago, I had bought a brand new car. I picked it up from the dealer on Tuesday and on Saturday went grocery shopping. I purposely parked it at the empty end of the parking lot. When I got back to it, a shopping cart had hit the driver's door and left a big scratch on it. I realized I had matured because my reaction was "Meh, it was going to get scratched sooner or later."
The scratch was still there 20 years later when the car was totaled by being hit by a truck while I was stopped at a red light.
I once was driving my (now) husband's car and started getting distracted by the temp tag on the car in front of me to figure out when they got it (it was that day). Ran right into it, causing very little damage, but still, they literally were driving it home from the dealership. I of course paid for the damages to their car and they even sent me a Christmas card saying that I was very nice.
In a weird coincidence, I thought that I was breaking out in hives that day because I was scared to tell my husband about the accident (which caused a bit of damage to his car) but I actually had shingles, so he wasn't allowed to be too mad.
It was, sis--there was nobody else around, and no cameras. I wasn't there but car crashes (even in shows) freak me out and I'm shaking. No body damage/dents, but just the scrape and the break of the light covering.
It's an old, beater, 14 year old car, but I still feel dinged!
Especially the ones that come out of nowhere--the one in No Country for Old Men freaks me out every time.
I hate driving, and I hate being in cars, and one time I was telling my accupuncturist about that (I was still stressed out from a long car trip) and she was like "maybe in a past life you died in a horrible car crash".
I have never gone back to her--not a woo person, but Jeez--not helping!
The day before I graduated from law school, I parked in the parking lot of a place where I got a massage, and when I came out there was a giant dent in my car--I went to the dude in the booth who collected payments for parking there and asked who backed into my car and he was like, "lady, I just take money--I'm not paid to watch" which okay, but I'd think you'd notice if someone slammed into another car.
I asked the store if they have cameras, but they don't.
Nikki Haley has no clue what Trump is being indicted for, and has no idea how many cases he has won, or lost. LULZ! Sure, totally believable. Let me help you out here Nikki - he's won ZERO cases, and he's been found guilty of fraud and sexual abuse.
"We'll never give up! We'll fight this injustice to the end of time! What's that? Under NY law, in order to appeal we have to actually pay the court that $83.3 million or find a bank that's willing to loan Mister Twump money? Uhhhh...we'll get back to you."
This is outrageous. The Post-Dispatch has a paywall, so I copied the article to my Substack in case you want to read about it.
𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁. 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀
"For six years, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been sitting on a secret: A unit created to investigate police shootings did such shoddy work that its reports were often late, missing key information or not filed at all. The failures were detailed in a 2018 audit of the Force Investigative Unit, describing delays, errors and incomplete police work. The city has been fighting to keep the audit out of public view ever since it was finished."
Police internal investigations should ALWAYS be conducted by a civilian agency, but they almost never are. At the very least there should be a civilian oversight group that reviews the internal police investigation, but this almost never happens either. You don't ask the rats to police themselves.
Twenty previously unknown works that were likely written by the prolific 19th century author Louisa May Alcott have been rediscovered thanks to some sleuthing by a sort of literary detective: Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University.
She wrote under several pseudonyms. I have a couple of books that have her "blue" stories in them. The public wanted the children's stories but she got tired of writing them.
They aren't really "blue" to our standards but they are a LOT about women taking control of their own bodies. (along with showing some ankle 😆) I guess its pretty obvious that I'm a fan of her's.
Senator John Kennedy (Fake dRawl) said that a man living under a bridge in a box would have a better idea of what's in the border deal than he would. That's probably a true statement, but I'd say that's also an evergreen statement in regards to John Kennedy.
He's actually a very smart person, he pretends he's stupid to appeal to his base of slack jawed yokels. I can't imagine going to a speech therapist to learn how to sound DUMBER, and more southern, but he did.
Good point! That's what was actually making me laugh, because he's an Ivy League grad, but has no clue what's in a bill that's being debated in Congress. He's kind of shooting himself in the foot, but his base doesn't give a crap, so it's all fine.
I read somewhere that he went to a speech counselor to learn how to sound MORE like a hick.
Remember that time that Nancy Pelosi wrote the ACA in TOTAL secrecy, with zero debate, and NOBODY knew what was in it? Yeah, this immigration bill is JUST like that.
My mother repeated that line to me, and I said "you know, she meant that the people who would be RECEIVING the benefits would have to wait to see what was in it." Probably the most repeated out of context line the GQP repeated ad nauseum.
Good morning, or whatever hour of the day it may be where you improve the ambiance with your charming presence. I'm enjoying a second cup of coffee after spending entirely too long entering the wrong passwords in an effort to sign in so that it would function.
I'm a lazy bint who'd had Windows7 for years and didn't have to sign on every bleedin' time I sat down in front of the PC. After not sleeping again last night I had to sieve through the ridiculous number of sign in codes my brain has amassed before moving the keyboard and finding a note where paul had written down for me.
I hate the fact that computers with Windows 11 pre-installed tries to force one to create an online account. I value my privacy as I'm sure most of us do so fortunately there's a way to bypass the Microsoft account setup using the command line. Unfortunately, you have to be a bit savvy using the command line. Fortunately, there's tutorials on how to do it and I'm very computer savvy.
I had to root around on the internet to find the method to bypass that part of the setup. I believe the bypass was created for businesses and corporations to eliminate that nonsense on their networks. Big businesses use scripts to deploy Windows operating systems over their networks and don't want to deal with security issues that crap creates.
I keep an encrypted and password-protected Word file on my computer that lists all my logins and passwords for EVERYTHING, otherwise I would never remember them all. As long as I don't forget the secret password to open that document, I'm fine. :-)
I understand your appreciation of cloud storage, but I refuse to use it because I am a Super Security Freak. I only access personal websites on my desktop computer, so I only have one device to worry about, and it gets backed up to two separate local network NAS every day. I only use my cell phone to make phone calls, and I only use my tablet to read e-books or look up something on Wikipedia related to a TV program I am watching. Yes, I'm a Luddite.
Yes, I have many passwords, for personal banking sites, streaming sites, email accounts, and media sites such as Wonkette and several newspapers, and others. I would never use Firefox's password manager, or even a built-in Windows password manager (there is no such thing), because I don't trust Firefox or Microsoft or Google or anyone, really, with my passwords, except myself. I don't even log into Windows without a password. If I go out of town I set a boot password on my PC so that if someone steals it while I am gone, they can't even boot into Windows. Like I said, I'm a Super Security Freak, which is why I don't access the Internet on my cell phone, because it's too easy to loose a cell phone or have it stolen, and I don't want to risk anyone accessing any email or personal apps on it. My router has a very obscure password, and the WiFi password is not only obscure, but I also use MAC address access control.
I worked in IT for 25 years ... I know how easy it is for someone to hack your passwords and your online accounts, which is why I don't pay any bills online or through AutoPay.
I have my little snap-shut notebook but intend to pester paul about downloading a password manager again. I tried to talk him into it when he was still in the Army because I thought it would make so much of the work he had to do at home easier, but he wasn't interested.
I have a small notebook where I keep all my passwords. It's alphabetical like an address book, every time I get a new password I write it in the book. So glad I have it, such a super simple and basic way of saving them.
Please use a real password manager program. Please. It's a lot easier than the notebook. Why? Because when you need to enter a password, the manager pops up in the user name/password fields and auto-fills.
If you're on a Mac and/or use an iPad or iPhone, the built-in password manager works well. Passwords are stored in iCloud and sync to all devices. Latest versions of macOS and iOS allow you to share passwords with people in your family (part of iCloud family sharing).
1Password is also excellent and I use that, too. In addition to storing passwords, it is a vault that lets you store other information, such as secure notes, and it's great for keeping track of software licenses and whatnot. And like the manager in macOS/iOS, it stores the passwords in the cloud so it is accessible across devices.
One more thing: both of these passwords support the creation and storage of random passwords. Random passwords are a LOT more secure than something you think up, because what you think up is inevitably based on a real word or words. After all, if you have to remember it, you'll base it on something you can remember. Truly random passwords are the way to go, and the password manager stores them and remembers them so you do not have to.
I am going to pester paul about that again. He poo-pooed the idea a few years ago when he was still in the military. I thought a password manager would help him keep all of the not inconsiderable number of passcodes he had to remember straight, but he didn't want to use it.
I could see not using a commercial password manager for military things. I would not want to have to report to my CO that the someone got the nuclear launch codes because LassPass got hacked.
I do use a password manager but not a cloud based one. The passwords are kept on my machine although even that is not perfect.
All day we vacillated between "I think 'broken' suggests a technical issue," and, "Why hasn't someone told us she's OK?" So that was our Saturday without you :)
By the time this keyboard was functional I was pretty wiped out and in a very poor humor so I went dark for the night. There's some nastiness with the bigots going on in our town and it's really starting to piss me off.
It's hella embarrassing, but I do not cope well with technical difficulties online, and it gets a bit tense because I don't do everything online exactly the way paul does, thus there was a bit of conflict.
But it all got worked out and I have a functioning keyboard once again.
In about an hour I’m going to start an almost 5-hour trip home from Buffalo to the Hudson valley. I’m expecting to see gray weather phenomena the whole way: rain, smoke in the hills and on the Mohawk and snow as I approach Albany lasting the rest of the trip. We would have left earlier except Ms. AIB brought the granddaughters to see Disney Princesses on Ice. Ha ha.
It has been grey and gloomy and rainy-misty for a week now in my area, and I'm really sick of it. For 60+ years I've wanted to live in England, but whenever we have a long patch of rainy weather it suddenly occurs to me that I might not like it there as much as I think I would.
I had the same experience on several occasions. I usually visit England and Ireland in September, and it was mostly sunny every day, with only brief periods of rain. Everybody commented on the sunny photographs I came home with.
For some reason my brain believes the only appropriate time to light candles is when it's gray and gloomy outside. Not nighttime, gray time. If you've got any around, might be nice to light them.
Tritto! The snow here in Delaware County is sticking; yesterday was (relatively) warm so it didn't at first. I just looked at Meccalopolis's phone and it's 54º F in Manhattan, where we'll be driving to later. We're both back at work tomorrow.
I had the same "water smoke" in South Carolina the other day. It was very pretty, but probably is the result of an 80 degree day in January. I did enjoy looking at it as I drove over the bridge.
If these fascist fuckers pull a sick and twisted stunt anything like January 7 again they had ALL should get an individual, extended "visit" inside of a jail cell.
I LOVED that I watched Nikki Haley blabber for 10 minutes about how she was going to "fix" the economy if she becomes POTUS. Riiiiight, she's going to "fix" it in the same manner that GWB "fixed" Clinton's economy. I guess the unemployment level is just too low for her tastes, and the stock market is too high.
JFC, Kristin Welker, ask her WHAT is wrong with this terrible economy that she is going to "fix."
Hey, Kristin Welker, why don't you ask her about all those green energy jobs that Biden has created? My own dumb hick state is benefitting to the tune of $10 BILLION dollars worth of new investment.
Is there anyone who doesn't like vanilla? I used to ask the same question about chocolate, but I discovered that yes, there actually are some people who don't like chocolate, believe it or not, so it's probably the same with vanilla. When I was a toddler I must have mis-heard my mother saying "vanilla" and I thought she said "Manilla", just as I thought she said "Cimmanon" instead of "Cinnamon", and everyone in the family started saying Manilla and Cimmanon as an inside joke. My sister and I still do this and drive everyone else crazy.
I was once at an ice cream stand, and heard a guy say he didn't like chocolate. I turned around, looked at him and his wife, and said "who doesn't like chocolate"? His wife said "I know, right"? The guy said "I just don't like it." I can't imagine it, since I LIVE for chocolate.
There are so many different kinds of chocolate. I wonder if that guy had tried all of them. For example, the chocolate in Mexico is radically different from the waxy milk chocolate so popular in the USA, and really good European chocolate is altogether different as well.
Today's FA Cup match between West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton was stopped for 38 minutes due to "fan disorder" requiring police intervention. West Brom and the Wolves are local rivals. Once order was restored, the Wolves finished their victory to move on to the next round.
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day - celebrated on the anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. However, none of my local media sites mentioned this yesterday, they only reported on it today as "something that happened yesterday." I always find this belated reporting slightly annoying, but at least they DID cover the story of various remembrance events around the world.
That's awesome. My local newspapers did not say a word about it, and as far as I know there was no public event planned. Even the local synagogue's website does not mention it.
I wonder if they (and other media) think that if they acknowledge Holocaust Remembrance Day, they will be taking a "side" in the war. Nauseating, but you know that's how people think.
Ever since I was in jail I've been telling people that the only difference between our modern jails and Auschwitz is that modern jails are solidly built out of concrete, have indoor plumbing (often defective), and usually heat. Other than that, there isn't much difference.
Our Sheriff and local Chief of Police were both at the front of the BLM marches we had in the summer of 2020.
Both are republicans and we’re in a pretty red county.
But they put the well-being of the protesters over their personal feelings about the BLM movement, and we had zero problems during the protests.
I voted for the incumbent sheriff in 2022 because a Republican was going to win, and the other candidates were all MAGA loony tunes types. The incumbent won.
This guy is very proactive. He was the one who came right out and told the local neoNazis trying to start shit to get fucked, it's not happening here. He was very cooperative with Occupy when he was Chief of Police of Daytona Beach.
He's a Republican who voted for TFG twice, denounced him after 1/6, but has been supportive of DeSatan. I don't get how this all goes together, but there it is. He's been excellent for this county.
From NPR: Apparently some guy stole one of the pairs of ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz and thought he could fence the rubies on the slippers. He gave up the scheme when he realized they were just costume sequins, and the slippers were recovered.
Yeah, it was an older story. I guess the guy is getting sentenced now and he’s old and in hospice so his lawyer is saying just let it be, he’s just an old crook who hasn’t done criming for years.
I remember going to see a friend backstage at San Francisco Opera, and, even though I knew all the “gems” were paste, I was still pretty amazed at how crap they looked up close compared to the glittery show they put on for those of us in the audience. I do love me some theatrical magic!
Whenever some great piece of art or memorabilia is stolen, the main fear is that it will just end up getting destroyed when they figure out that it’s impossible to fence the item.
Took almost 30 years for George Miller to create this masterpiece. And in a few months we get to experience the world of Mad Max again with "Furiosa". Can't wait for that!
Wonkette Movie Night Feb. 3: Summer Of Soul
"In 1969, the same summer as Woodstock another festival took place, it was filmed but never seen. Until now."
This is an excellent documentary with amazing music and live performances, including fascinating interviews. Worth the rental! With music from: Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & The family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King and The 5th Dimension.
Summer Of Soul is available with subscription on Hulu and Disney+. For $3.99 on YouTube and Apple TV.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-feb-3-summer?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Lordy lordy "Mad Max Fury Road" was waaaaaaaaaay better than it had to be. George Miller made the best action movie ever with it.
Jesus!
I just went to the grocery store for coffee and toilet paper, and when I came out someone had ran into my car! The rear driver's side's bumper is scratched and some of the brake light's cover is broken! What the entire hell?
You could ask the grocery store if they have cameras on their parking areas.
Oh no! I'm so sorry! What a PITA.
I guess the upshot--I'm an optimist--is that nobody else knows what they're doing either, so nobody is probably working against me.
So sorry, Babe. Maybe ask the store if there are cameras?
There are cameras, but of course they're not ON.
Years ago, I had bought a brand new car. I picked it up from the dealer on Tuesday and on Saturday went grocery shopping. I purposely parked it at the empty end of the parking lot. When I got back to it, a shopping cart had hit the driver's door and left a big scratch on it. I realized I had matured because my reaction was "Meh, it was going to get scratched sooner or later."
The scratch was still there 20 years later when the car was totaled by being hit by a truck while I was stopped at a red light.
I LOVE when I park at the empty end of the parking lot, and someone STILL manages to park next to me, AND ding my doors.
I once was driving my (now) husband's car and started getting distracted by the temp tag on the car in front of me to figure out when they got it (it was that day). Ran right into it, causing very little damage, but still, they literally were driving it home from the dealership. I of course paid for the damages to their car and they even sent me a Christmas card saying that I was very nice.
In a weird coincidence, I thought that I was breaking out in hives that day because I was scared to tell my husband about the accident (which caused a bit of damage to his car) but I actually had shingles, so he wasn't allowed to be too mad.
Oh shit.
I hope like HELL that it wasn't a hit and run.
It was, sis--there was nobody else around, and no cameras. I wasn't there but car crashes (even in shows) freak me out and I'm shaking. No body damage/dents, but just the scrape and the break of the light covering.
It's an old, beater, 14 year old car, but I still feel dinged!
If car crashes in shows freak you out, I'm guessing you didn't watch our Wonkette movie last night! :D
NO.
I don't blame you! I got a bit stressed out about it myself.
Especially the ones that come out of nowhere--the one in No Country for Old Men freaks me out every time.
I hate driving, and I hate being in cars, and one time I was telling my accupuncturist about that (I was still stressed out from a long car trip) and she was like "maybe in a past life you died in a horrible car crash".
I have never gone back to her--not a woo person, but Jeez--not helping!
I blame Biden. Was your car EVER hit while Trump was POTUS? I thought not!
That is true.
I'm going to write to Biden, and I assume he'll loan me the money to fix the light at least--I know he'll want me to pay it back, but still...
Nah...Joe will GIVE you the money, since he's a communist and a socialist. He'll probably drive it down to you himself in his bitchin' 67 'vette.
I knew a policeman assigned to hit and runs in Miami. He averaged over 9000 reports a year.
The day before I graduated from law school, I parked in the parking lot of a place where I got a massage, and when I came out there was a giant dent in my car--I went to the dude in the booth who collected payments for parking there and asked who backed into my car and he was like, "lady, I just take money--I'm not paid to watch" which okay, but I'd think you'd notice if someone slammed into another car.
I asked the store if they have cameras, but they don't.
Nikki Haley has no clue what Trump is being indicted for, and has no idea how many cases he has won, or lost. LULZ! Sure, totally believable. Let me help you out here Nikki - he's won ZERO cases, and he's been found guilty of fraud and sexual abuse.
That's total hearsay from 9 jurors!
--Alina Habba
"We'll never give up! We'll fight this injustice to the end of time! What's that? Under NY law, in order to appeal we have to actually pay the court that $83.3 million or find a bank that's willing to loan Mister Twump money? Uhhhh...we'll get back to you."
This is outrageous. The Post-Dispatch has a paywall, so I copied the article to my Substack in case you want to read about it.
𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁. 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀
"For six years, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been sitting on a secret: A unit created to investigate police shootings did such shoddy work that its reports were often late, missing key information or not filed at all. The failures were detailed in a 2018 audit of the Force Investigative Unit, describing delays, errors and incomplete police work. The city has been fighting to keep the audit out of public view ever since it was finished."
I. Just. Can't. Even.
As far as this damned angry bitch is concerned such an investigation should've been conducted by an OUTSIDE agency.
Police internal investigations should ALWAYS be conducted by a civilian agency, but they almost never are. At the very least there should be a civilian oversight group that reviews the internal police investigation, but this almost never happens either. You don't ask the rats to police themselves.
𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 '𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻' 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁
https://www.wgbh.org/culture/books/2024-01-24/boston-researcher-discovers-previously-unknown-stories-from-little-women-author-louisa-may-alcott
Twenty previously unknown works that were likely written by the prolific 19th century author Louisa May Alcott have been rediscovered thanks to some sleuthing by a sort of literary detective: Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University.
My eyes veritably ache to read those stories.
She wrote under several pseudonyms. I have a couple of books that have her "blue" stories in them. The public wanted the children's stories but she got tired of writing them.
Oooh...did someone show some ankle?
They aren't really "blue" to our standards but they are a LOT about women taking control of their own bodies. (along with showing some ankle 😆) I guess its pretty obvious that I'm a fan of her's.
//makes wolf whistle
Senator John Kennedy (Fake dRawl) said that a man living under a bridge in a box would have a better idea of what's in the border deal than he would. That's probably a true statement, but I'd say that's also an evergreen statement in regards to John Kennedy.
John Kennedy is just as damned DUMB as he sounds.
He's actually a very smart person, he pretends he's stupid to appeal to his base of slack jawed yokels. I can't imagine going to a speech therapist to learn how to sound DUMBER, and more southern, but he did.
Looking forward to a hot mic recording minus the accent.
He's a very educated person.
1) Ask your staff to summarize it for you. That's what you pay them for.
2) Open a newspaper and Read All About It.
Sounds like a lot of work, and it's easier just to keep pretending to be a dumb hick.
Is it stored in a hermetically-sealed jar under Funk & Wagnall's porch?
Fuck am I old.gif
What is this "dictionary" you speak of?
It’s true of the cornpone character that disingenuous asshole plays on tv. I’m sure the actual senator knows full well what’s in the deal.
Good point! That's what was actually making me laugh, because he's an Ivy League grad, but has no clue what's in a bill that's being debated in Congress. He's kind of shooting himself in the foot, but his base doesn't give a crap, so it's all fine.
I read somewhere that he went to a speech counselor to learn how to sound MORE like a hick.
If only he had staff who could snag a copy for him. Sad!
Remember that time that Nancy Pelosi wrote the ACA in TOTAL secrecy, with zero debate, and NOBODY knew what was in it? Yeah, this immigration bill is JUST like that.
You have to pass it to know what's in it!
My mother repeated that line to me, and I said "you know, she meant that the people who would be RECEIVING the benefits would have to wait to see what was in it." Probably the most repeated out of context line the GQP repeated ad nauseum.
Good morning, or whatever hour of the day it may be where you improve the ambiance with your charming presence. I'm enjoying a second cup of coffee after spending entirely too long entering the wrong passwords in an effort to sign in so that it would function.
I'm a lazy bint who'd had Windows7 for years and didn't have to sign on every bleedin' time I sat down in front of the PC. After not sleeping again last night I had to sieve through the ridiculous number of sign in codes my brain has amassed before moving the keyboard and finding a note where paul had written down for me.
I am such a dense dame sometimes.
I hate the fact that computers with Windows 11 pre-installed tries to force one to create an online account. I value my privacy as I'm sure most of us do so fortunately there's a way to bypass the Microsoft account setup using the command line. Unfortunately, you have to be a bit savvy using the command line. Fortunately, there's tutorials on how to do it and I'm very computer savvy.
Tell the computer that you plan to join a domain, and it will let you create a local user.
It frustrates the hell out of me that the one place a person should remain anonymous tends to make that damned difficult these days.
I had to root around on the internet to find the method to bypass that part of the setup. I believe the bypass was created for businesses and corporations to eliminate that nonsense on their networks. Big businesses use scripts to deploy Windows operating systems over their networks and don't want to deal with security issues that crap creates.
I keep an encrypted and password-protected Word file on my computer that lists all my logins and passwords for EVERYTHING, otherwise I would never remember them all. As long as I don't forget the secret password to open that document, I'm fine. :-)
A proper password manager (I use the built-in password manager in macOS as well as 1Password) is a lot better than the encrypted Word file. Why?
One, it's in the cloud, so it's available on my three computers and my iPhone and my iPad.
Two, it supports auto-fill so the browser (I use Safari; Chrome is a data-miner) will pop up an entry for the password.
Three, because it's in the cloud, I don't have to worry about the file being lost or getting deleted.
I understand your appreciation of cloud storage, but I refuse to use it because I am a Super Security Freak. I only access personal websites on my desktop computer, so I only have one device to worry about, and it gets backed up to two separate local network NAS every day. I only use my cell phone to make phone calls, and I only use my tablet to read e-books or look up something on Wikipedia related to a TV program I am watching. Yes, I'm a Luddite.
So, weaving and hand crafts on the side, then?
Hell, no. I don't grow my own food and keep my own farm animals, either.
The macOS password manager allows you to store the passwords either locally or in iCloud. You can choose.
There is also a password manager in Firefox and it also stores passwords locally.
But if you only access "personal websites," there are no passwords to store, I would think.
(My password for Wonkette is stored in my password manager.)
Yes, I have many passwords, for personal banking sites, streaming sites, email accounts, and media sites such as Wonkette and several newspapers, and others. I would never use Firefox's password manager, or even a built-in Windows password manager (there is no such thing), because I don't trust Firefox or Microsoft or Google or anyone, really, with my passwords, except myself. I don't even log into Windows without a password. If I go out of town I set a boot password on my PC so that if someone steals it while I am gone, they can't even boot into Windows. Like I said, I'm a Super Security Freak, which is why I don't access the Internet on my cell phone, because it's too easy to loose a cell phone or have it stolen, and I don't want to risk anyone accessing any email or personal apps on it. My router has a very obscure password, and the WiFi password is not only obscure, but I also use MAC address access control.
I worked in IT for 25 years ... I know how easy it is for someone to hack your passwords and your online accounts, which is why I don't pay any bills online or through AutoPay.
Consider keeping an of site (or at least off computer) backup of that file. And make sure someone that you trust knows that master password.
I have my little snap-shut notebook but intend to pester paul about downloading a password manager again. I tried to talk him into it when he was still in the Army because I thought it would make so much of the work he had to do at home easier, but he wasn't interested.
I tried a password manager program once, but it was too much work.
Hi Skepti! Glad you are back.
I have a small notebook where I keep all my passwords. It's alphabetical like an address book, every time I get a new password I write it in the book. So glad I have it, such a super simple and basic way of saving them.
Please use a real password manager program. Please. It's a lot easier than the notebook. Why? Because when you need to enter a password, the manager pops up in the user name/password fields and auto-fills.
If you're on a Mac and/or use an iPad or iPhone, the built-in password manager works well. Passwords are stored in iCloud and sync to all devices. Latest versions of macOS and iOS allow you to share passwords with people in your family (part of iCloud family sharing).
1Password is also excellent and I use that, too. In addition to storing passwords, it is a vault that lets you store other information, such as secure notes, and it's great for keeping track of software licenses and whatnot. And like the manager in macOS/iOS, it stores the passwords in the cloud so it is accessible across devices.
One more thing: both of these passwords support the creation and storage of random passwords. Random passwords are a LOT more secure than something you think up, because what you think up is inevitably based on a real word or words. After all, if you have to remember it, you'll base it on something you can remember. Truly random passwords are the way to go, and the password manager stores them and remembers them so you do not have to.
Anything but a paper notebook, please.
Thanks for your concern but I'm good.
I also have a little notebook wherein I keep all of my passwords and need to add the sign in paul chose for getting online so that it's current.
Password manager software.
Everyone should use one.
I am going to pester paul about that again. He poo-pooed the idea a few years ago when he was still in the military. I thought a password manager would help him keep all of the not inconsiderable number of passcodes he had to remember straight, but he didn't want to use it.
I could see not using a commercial password manager for military things. I would not want to have to report to my CO that the someone got the nuclear launch codes because LassPass got hacked.
I do use a password manager but not a cloud based one. The passwords are kept on my machine although even that is not perfect.
I've been using one for years.
Never had an issue.
Most breaches at this point are spear phishing anyway. And a manager will actually help with that too.
The little book works just fine. It is an old school password manager. Most everything I use has the passwords saved. Only need the book as a back-up.
I'm notorious for forgetting passwords I really need so that little book of mine is kept well guarded.
This is the way.
Yay! You're back!
All day we vacillated between "I think 'broken' suggests a technical issue," and, "Why hasn't someone told us she's OK?" So that was our Saturday without you :)
By the time this keyboard was functional I was pretty wiped out and in a very poor humor so I went dark for the night. There's some nastiness with the bigots going on in our town and it's really starting to piss me off.
Glad you are back among the Wonkettariat!
Thank you.
It's hella embarrassing, but I do not cope well with technical difficulties online, and it gets a bit tense because I don't do everything online exactly the way paul does, thus there was a bit of conflict.
But it all got worked out and I have a functioning keyboard once again.
BTDT. So glad to have you among us again.
No need to be embarrassed; we all have areas in which we shine, and others in which we…kinda don’t. ❤️
Welcome back!
On the way to happy hour last Thursday, mist rose from the Hudson River in a way I hadn’t seen before (guess that’s what you get when it’s 50+ degrees in January). Post-happy hour, the low-hanging clouds did cool things with the city lights: https://substack.com/profile/6099518-vb/note/c-48307584?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=3mqf2
In about an hour I’m going to start an almost 5-hour trip home from Buffalo to the Hudson valley. I’m expecting to see gray weather phenomena the whole way: rain, smoke in the hills and on the Mohawk and snow as I approach Albany lasting the rest of the trip. We would have left earlier except Ms. AIB brought the granddaughters to see Disney Princesses on Ice. Ha ha.
"sea smoke"
It has been grey and gloomy and rainy-misty for a week now in my area, and I'm really sick of it. For 60+ years I've wanted to live in England, but whenever we have a long patch of rainy weather it suddenly occurs to me that I might not like it there as much as I think I would.
I visited London for four days one January and it was brightly sunny every day. No one would believe our photos were not photoshopped.
I had the same experience on several occasions. I usually visit England and Ireland in September, and it was mostly sunny every day, with only brief periods of rain. Everybody commented on the sunny photographs I came home with.
For some reason my brain believes the only appropriate time to light candles is when it's gray and gloomy outside. Not nighttime, gray time. If you've got any around, might be nice to light them.
Hello fellow New Yorker!
Ditto!
Tritto! The snow here in Delaware County is sticking; yesterday was (relatively) warm so it didn't at first. I just looked at Meccalopolis's phone and it's 54º F in Manhattan, where we'll be driving to later. We're both back at work tomorrow.
I had the same "water smoke" in South Carolina the other day. It was very pretty, but probably is the result of an 80 degree day in January. I did enjoy looking at it as I drove over the bridge.
Nice. Kind of like sea smoke:
https://www.wildflphoto.com/oppage.php?id=50#group=scenes&photo=50
I should have scrolled!
How does the RW ecosystem respond to the E. Jean Carroll verdict you ask?
--“Everyone is just trying to pretend it didn’t happen,” said Jason Roe, the former executive director of the state Republican Party in Michigan.
Kinda like WW II.
This is a disingenuous demographic that goes out of their way to avoid the reality of quite a few things.
Holding numerous contradictory "realities" simultaneously is a neat trick they've developed as well.
The Rethuglicon alternative universe provides just that sort of ambiance all too well.
The FBI and ANTIFA provoked the typical tourist visit of Jan. 6th.
If these fascist fuckers pull a sick and twisted stunt anything like January 7 again they had ALL should get an individual, extended "visit" inside of a jail cell.
They come through the windows and doors again, shoot the fuckers!
I LOVED that I watched Nikki Haley blabber for 10 minutes about how she was going to "fix" the economy if she becomes POTUS. Riiiiight, she's going to "fix" it in the same manner that GWB "fixed" Clinton's economy. I guess the unemployment level is just too low for her tastes, and the stock market is too high.
No pushback from the host, I assume.
Let's just say I was yelling at the TV.
A sample:
JFC, Kristin Welker, ask her WHAT is wrong with this terrible economy that she is going to "fix."
Hey, Kristin Welker, why don't you ask her about all those green energy jobs that Biden has created? My own dumb hick state is benefitting to the tune of $10 BILLION dollars worth of new investment.
Same way trump "fixed" the American carnage left in Obama's wake.
Yeah, that toilet paper shortage and million deaths that Obama caused was a real headache for this country.
Don't mention the war!
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it!
Or, if you do, remember it’s “The War of Northern Aggression.”
My thought exactly :)
My wife made me walnut pancakes. Amazing. So buttery. I don't even put anything on them.
I probably need to take a run this afternoon.
Recipe or it never happened!
These are incredible. I also add a touch of vanilla because I love vanilla.
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/whole-grain-pancakes-recipe
--edited twice because it took me two times to spell "add" correctly
Is there anyone who doesn't like vanilla? I used to ask the same question about chocolate, but I discovered that yes, there actually are some people who don't like chocolate, believe it or not, so it's probably the same with vanilla. When I was a toddler I must have mis-heard my mother saying "vanilla" and I thought she said "Manilla", just as I thought she said "Cimmanon" instead of "Cinnamon", and everyone in the family started saying Manilla and Cimmanon as an inside joke. My sister and I still do this and drive everyone else crazy.
I was once at an ice cream stand, and heard a guy say he didn't like chocolate. I turned around, looked at him and his wife, and said "who doesn't like chocolate"? His wife said "I know, right"? The guy said "I just don't like it." I can't imagine it, since I LIVE for chocolate.
There are so many different kinds of chocolate. I wonder if that guy had tried all of them. For example, the chocolate in Mexico is radically different from the waxy milk chocolate so popular in the USA, and really good European chocolate is altogether different as well.
Bookmarked!
Oh, she keeps that from me. I do most of the cooking, because she's really not that great at it, but walnut pancakes she kicks the crud out of.
She has many other fine qualities.
Today's FA Cup match between West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton was stopped for 38 minutes due to "fan disorder" requiring police intervention. West Brom and the Wolves are local rivals. Once order was restored, the Wolves finished their victory to move on to the next round.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39408257/west-brom-wolves-fa-cup-derby-suspended-fan-disorder
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day - celebrated on the anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. However, none of my local media sites mentioned this yesterday, they only reported on it today as "something that happened yesterday." I always find this belated reporting slightly annoying, but at least they DID cover the story of various remembrance events around the world.
Commemorate it on May 5th 2024* with ((( us ))).
* Date for 27 Nissan changes every year.
NYC lit the Empire State Building yellow in remembrance; saw reports of this in the Trib, NYT, NBC, all over bluesky
That's awesome. My local newspapers did not say a word about it, and as far as I know there was no public event planned. Even the local synagogue's website does not mention it.
The synagogue will commemorate on May 5th.
I wonder if they (and other media) think that if they acknowledge Holocaust Remembrance Day, they will be taking a "side" in the war. Nauseating, but you know that's how people think.
Many fine people, etc.
It's their depraved absence of honest contemplation of what happened in those hell holes.
Ever since I was in jail I've been telling people that the only difference between our modern jails and Auschwitz is that modern jails are solidly built out of concrete, have indoor plumbing (often defective), and usually heat. Other than that, there isn't much difference.
I've spent a little time in the local county jail and I know that to be the damnable fucking truth.
I like my sheriff. I said what I said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rt3oeSRl5k
Our Sheriff and local Chief of Police were both at the front of the BLM marches we had in the summer of 2020.
Both are republicans and we’re in a pretty red county.
But they put the well-being of the protesters over their personal feelings about the BLM movement, and we had zero problems during the protests.
I voted for the incumbent sheriff in 2022 because a Republican was going to win, and the other candidates were all MAGA loony tunes types. The incumbent won.
This guy is very proactive. He was the one who came right out and told the local neoNazis trying to start shit to get fucked, it's not happening here. He was very cooperative with Occupy when he was Chief of Police of Daytona Beach.
He's a Republican who voted for TFG twice, denounced him after 1/6, but has been supportive of DeSatan. I don't get how this all goes together, but there it is. He's been excellent for this county.
From NPR: Apparently some guy stole one of the pairs of ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz and thought he could fence the rubies on the slippers. He gave up the scheme when he realized they were just costume sequins, and the slippers were recovered.
An unfortunate sequins of events.
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I thought they caught that guy ten years ago?
Yeah, it was an older story. I guess the guy is getting sentenced now and he’s old and in hospice so his lawyer is saying just let it be, he’s just an old crook who hasn’t done criming for years.
And apparently was never very good at it.
I bet he also thinks all the jewels in TV shows and movies are real and not paste.
He smokes Morley cigarettes and has a 555 phone number.
I remember going to see a friend backstage at San Francisco Opera, and, even though I knew all the “gems” were paste, I was still pretty amazed at how crap they looked up close compared to the glittery show they put on for those of us in the audience. I do love me some theatrical magic!
Yep. He’s plotting now to steal Thanos’s glove with the infinity stones.
Genii, these people.
Yep.
Whenever some great piece of art or memorabilia is stolen, the main fear is that it will just end up getting destroyed when they figure out that it’s impossible to fence the item.