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So I tried to go on Twitter this morning and got told the site wasn’t available. On checking whether Twitter was down, I found out some idiots have started a DDoS attack* on not just Twitter, but Netflix, Spotify, Etsy, Reddit and a bunch of other sites as some kind of extortion scheme. “We’re not going to let you use your favorite sites until you give us money” or some such nonsense.

Honestly, I don’t want to give these assholes money. I want to give them an ass kicking.

And if this turns out to be another attempt to mess with the election by preventing early voting?

Hopefully some assholes aren’t just going to go to jail and pay a fine. Hopefully some assholes get to go to prison, have their pictures splashed all over the Internet, and get to have their lives completely destroyed. Because you know what? Fuck those guys.

When I was young and dumb, someone calling down some rAIDS was just an annoying juvenile prank. “Oh noes, I can’t read my favorite fanfic today. Guess I’ve gotta do something else until the rAIDS clears up.”

But blackmail and extortion?

Fuck you very much.

GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL.
DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200.

Just because these kids have grown up with the Internet doesn’t mean they have the first clue about life and the world. Cyber-attacks and extortion don’t make a person Woke. It makes them a Criminal.

Wake up.

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*DDoS attack — basically, you gather a bunch of people and keep visiting a website until the site doesn’t work anymore. It’s the same thing that happens when a million people all try to look at the same cat picture at the same time… the servers can’t handle the load and suddenly no one can look at the cat picture.

Your information isn’t stolen or anything. It’s basically someone standing in the door of a store and not letting you in. It’s an annoyance tactic for the most part.

When it becomes a concern is when someone has a zombie army of slaved computers also hitting the sites. Why? Because to get a zombie army you infect a bunch of people with malware and use their IP addresses to commit your crimes from.

And that’s what they are: Crimes.

DDoS attacks aren’t funny jokes anymore. They cost people time and money they’re not going to get back, and a malicious DDoS attack can ruin someone’s business or ability to make money.

And extortion?

That’s totally illegal, bro. And it pisses people off.

Small Gods at Amazon

Ugh, the first thing I saw when I checked my email was article after article about Donald Trump. And all I can think is, “When is this guy going to crawl back under the rock he came from?”

I understand that people have the right to vote for him if they want — but do I have to be constantly deluged with images and stories about him? I get it. He’s a fucking MONSTER. It’s something he even seems to agree with based on his comments about women and his actions on social media and television.

He’s spent his entire adult life screwing people over so he could make money. And now he wants to screw the whole country over so he can… make money. (It’s not like he’s changed his position on money.)

It’s gross. It’s tired. And you’ve won Donald, I’m fucking terrified of you.

Now get the fuck out of here. You’re fired.

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WHY WE SHOULD BE TERRIFIED OF A TRUMP PRESIDENCY:

1. that hair
2. that attitude toward women
3. that ignorance toward late-term abortions and what they are
4. the constant lying
5. the sociopathy
6. the environment
7. the long-term effect on children
8. the fact that he calls a Presidency a “regime”
9. fascism
10. rampant capitalism at the cost of the people
11. bad business practices
12. racism
13. the promotion of ignorance
14. rape-apologists
15. rape
16. nuclear weapons
17. war with Russia
18. Mike Pence
19. internment camps
20. murder of a 12-year-old girl (#WheresMaria?)

And there’s even more reasons why I would never vote for him.

He’s a loser.

All Systems Red at Amazon

Today, I am in a bad mood. I didn’t realize how bad my mood was until I reached for a rubber band and found that there were none… to which I responded by sweeping everything off the counter and piling everything that doesn’t belong to me in a chair. The owners can either collect them or throw them away, I don’t give a fuck.

It was an instant switch from down but calm, to raging fury of destruction.

I think I’m finally beginning to process his words from yesterday, and I don’t like them.

Not just because he’s kinda right, but because I am tired of all the shit I get. I am tired of dealing with these people that I don’t think I even like anymore. I am tired of dealing with the person they force me to be.

I’m tired of all of it.

Now I’ve just gotta figure out what I’m going to do. As they say, “Should I stay or should I go?” And right now? I’m leaning toward go.

Small Gods at Amazon
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I am so frustrated. All I want is a simple photo viewer that allows me to arrow/space bar through my pictures. But of course Windows 10 dropped that capability. Because why would someone want to look through their photos quickly?

That’s dumb. We all want to open big apps and spend hours trying to get the bundled Photos program to recognize various folders. That’s what people love: wasting time.

Because that’s what time is there for, to be wasted. Because we’re all going to live forever and there’s nothing else we want to do than to wait for some bloated program to open, decide that it won’t see any other pictures in a folder–or even recognize the folder at all–and frustration is like medicine. Or poison. One of those.

Ugh. I’m very set in my ways and I hate change.

So having to reset Windows 10 the other day, which resulted in the loss of a bunch of stuff, is already an experience I wish I could have avoided. But it is what it is.

Change is inevitable.

But does it have to be so fucking frustrating, Microsoft? Really? Do you have to make everything some giant uphill struggle so that the thought of switching to Linux or some kind of Windows-alternative starts seeming like a version of heaven?

Because really, all I need is Scrivener, OpenOffice or LibreOffice, Semagic, and some way to view and edit photos and I’ll be satisfied. And unfortunately, 4 out of 5 is not acceptable for all of my years of loyalty to Windows software.

And all the ways you’ve invaded my privacy in recent years, Microsoft? Your insistence on access to my private data so you can send it to your HQ for some inane reason? Fuck you very much.

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I’m just so tired of fighting Windows all the time.

I’m tired of not being able to do the things I want with my own computer.

I’m tired of the weird programs turning on and doing things in the background at the behest of Microsoft.

I’m tired of having to go through after every update and check that my Privacy settings haven’t been reset to “Share everything with Microsoft”, because honestly, I don’t want to share squat with Microsoft.

I want to turn on my computer, edit documents, and watch YouTube videos of cats frolicking.

I don’t want my screen to keep freezing and my data to be lost. I don’t want my computer to shut itself off and turn itself on without letting me know what’s going on or giving me a warning to save my stuff. I don’t want to suddenly have everything S-L-O-W way down as some hidden Windows process begins doing something I can’t track or figure out why it’s happening.

I want my computer back!

Mike's Harder Lemonade: Deadpool version God, now I want a drink. So, thanks for that Microsoft. If I turn into an alcoholic, I’ll know who to blame:

Deadpool.