Major threat to Windows 10 (read this.. VERY important!)
Categories: ‘Computing’, ‘Politics’
This is a blog post I wish I posted out a lot sooner, because this is a major issue that randomly came out of the blue (this morning): it is imperative that you grab all the updates you can of any devices you own with Windows 10.. immediately.
This comes straight from leading cyber security experts (the NSA, and the US Department of Defense).
The reason is an exploit has been found in the current build of 10 (yet they never listed
it, which is a bit suspicious) and warn everyone to update. Because if you don’t, the very thing protecting you from the internet’s dark side is going to be used against you. Hackers will be making tools that they can use to install malicious software “to over 900 million PCs worldwide, with little to nothing that can be done to stop or remove the infected software due to the system believing it is from an approved Windows Update.”
That’s some scary shit right there!! They claim by getting the updates now, your devices should be protected from the exploit (or you will “put your machine at extreme risk in the future”).
Below is some proof – links to the official NSA statement – and a statement from Wired..
OFFICIAL NSA Statement
Detailed News Report from Wired
My thoughts:… For it to suddenly pop out of nowhere, and it to use such dire warning.. I feel for the first time in my life, our government is doing a coverup. Because, my local news channels aren’t showing anything about this.
But, how it’s on major business websites like Forbes, this shouldn’t be ignored either. It’s better to play it safe than sorry (keeping your devices up to date is a good practice anyway).
From what I’m seeing here (which provides more info into it), the NSA discovered the vulnerability and reported it to Microsoft. It also says how it’s “exceedingly rare” for the government to be looking into this. I say, this is a way for the NSA to further spy on
us (covered up as a major security threat).
Plus… I don’t even feel safe with this patch. What if this isn’t enough? And, what does the patch even do, to protect? The NSA claims they’re “focused on transparency”, yet won’t tell the public what it does to protect your device.
When hackers will be able to disguise malicious code as Windows Updates, how in the FUCK is this patch going to know it’s non-legit?! My guess, it will serve as a scanner for
this ‘CVE-2020-0601’ strain (mentioned on Forbes). If it’s found within a forged Windows Update, it’ll stop it from getting on your system.
Anyway, I grabbed all the updates I can 20 minutes after I was alerted by the VRC Tools Discord (a huge thank you to them for the alert). I really hope I’m safe from this.
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Fluffy’s last chance…
Categories: ‘Personal”, ‘Drama’, ‘Love Drama’
My ‘favorite’ subject: Fluffy. Things have gone from bad to really sad with him.
…He still has feelings for me, to the point it got obsessive (and again really sad). In
school, claims he is “terrified”. I’m trying to get him to calm down, saying that we would talk to Aftershock about this. Prior to that, I said this to him;
“We could had stayed as father/son, but you— you’re all “can we be a couple?” And he said “would… you like that..?” Fluffy, I want to help you here. I don’t want you to be this way. But, you’ve got to help me out, by becoming a better person.
He wanted to see me ingame, and I told him I would be on sometime after dinner.
The rest of this segment will be discussed in the next one…
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Quality time with Jero
Categories: ‘Personal’
With that out of the way, it’s time to talk about what happened yesterday. A day since Jero talked to me again, I didn’t really come on to see him– more of to test and see if the particle system would work better (and it didn’t). That’s when I saw him.. in a public world. He likes to world hop, but I wish he would do it safer (such as friends only, a friends+, or an invite+ instance). Because he saw why I don’t go to them (at least, as often as I did before I got VR and just joined the game).
He was in the Void club world. Managed to easily track him down, and when I found
him, he was just getting back from being AFK to fix something on his end. We talked about random things (most I forgot, sadly). But I remember him telling me that he feels I’m a really nice guy. Here’s to hoping it goes to something further than this.
Hanging infront of a mirror, suddenly VRChat freezes up and I hear a looping sound of someone crying in the background. The freezing happens for a good two minutes, then I’m getting really bad framerate.
Heh, glad to see VRChat’s trust and ‘safety’ system is working against crashers! lmao
Forced closed VRChat and relaunched into my homeworld. Jero wanted to join me, and he did. As soon as he joined, I said “and that, gentlemen, is why I don’t join public
worlds!!” with a hearty laugh. He laughed too, realizing he messed up there. He then asked me “did you get crashed too?” I said “no, VRChat froze though”. He said SteamVR for him crashed completely. Dang.
Hung out in my home world for awhile, and even showed him why I chose the world upstairs.. pettable doggo. 🙂
While upstairs, Jero suddenly says “Fluffy wants to join”. Yes, I’m quite alright with that, and accepted Fluffy’s invite. I knew Fluffy was going to be depressed (over an argument I had with him earlier in the day.. which I will be explaining later).
I was able to show Jero my particle toy (he saw it, and said he wants it). But since Frost has control of his avatar, only he could. I also recommended him to get Playspace Mover.
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The above segment continues here…
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I could see Fluffy looking more and more depressive, trying to avoid us. Jero walked over to him, trying to figure out what’s wrong. I knew, but I was terrified to tell him (feeling I’ll scare him away of him feeling I’m a monster or something).
Started eating at me the more Jero tried to ask, then I said to myself “Ugh. FUCK IT! TELL HIM!! Just don’t tell him EVERYTHING!”, and said to him “I know what’s wrong with Fluffy. But I can’t really say it here,” and wanted Jero to meet me outside.
25 minutes passed as I tried explaining ‘mostly’ everything. I never told him about Fluffy’s desperate lewd side (and how he wants to do it outside of VRChat). Again, I was scared to tell him. But he wanted to help me out by trying to get out of this mess, and the only thing he could think of was to “continue the role-play” as father/son.
I really didn’t want that, and told him how I wanted Fluffy to find someone else. Yet, this seems to be the only option I have. I’m pretty sure he thought of “blocking the toxic
guy” being an option, but couldn’t say it.
So, once again.. I’m ‘doing it for him’ and ran back to tell Fluffy. BUT.. I told him (the same thing I told Jero), that I don’t want anymore fights and unnecessary drama. This, is pretty much his last chance that I’m giving him. If he blows it, then I’m done.
Fluffy was understandably very happy (only to feel loved again) and showed it by hugging me and him. And hey, if this works out with Jero (of us getting back together), Fluffy would have an RP family again. I almost said this to Jero (when I saw him), but stopped myself.
And this is where the above segment ends, and this one begins.
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With Fluffy being happy again, Jero wanted to watch movies, but I wanted to do something different; the VRChat equivalent of the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.. ‘EvolvedAnt Defuse’. Except this has a twist to make things even
harder.
You start in a mini version of VRChat HQ (with a basement and two floors), and must make it to the Server Room. There you grab the bomb, take it back to the basement, and there is when you work with your friends in a desperate attempt to defuse it. Two oversized keycards stop you from running right into the Server Room. First you must unlock Floor 1 access, then you must unlock Server Room access.
The first time, I was the defuser (with Jero calling out what I need to do). Holy fuck was it chaos. I ended up short-circuiting the wrong pins and..
BOOM.
“Woops.”
This time, I let Jero be the defuser (and myself calling out what he needs to look for). We did much better, until I was reading about “adding the number of vowels in the word”. Yet my brain ends up saying “voxel” instead, making Jero confused. Suddenly I correct my mistake and say “shit, I meant vowel! Not voxel!” Yet he doesn’t know what a vowel is! GAH!! 3 minutes until we blow up! I grab my phone and I’m all “Hey Siri, what the fuck is a vowel?!” (as I didn’t know what a vowel is either).
Siri tried explaining it as “A vowel is a syllabic speech sound produced by the vocal tract.”
NOT HELPFUL, Siri!! lmao
30 seconds remaining, I run out of the basement, up the stairs and bang on the
doors, yelling..
BOOM
..I started laughing my head off after that! HAHAHA.. holy fuck, that was INSANELY
fun!! 😀
Went back to Jero (who respawned at the basement) and said “we are NOT expert bomb defusers!” He chuckled hard, agreeing. Asked if he wanted to go another round, but he was too exhausted by that. Definitely can agree, let’s go watch some movies!
Fluffy picked the movie.. it was horror, but I was shockingly alright with it (because it had a ‘somewhat’ happy ending). The movie was called ‘Lights Out’.
He then picked the second movie (even though it was my turn to pick). Jero saw what it was about and knew he was going to be spoiled by it, and wanted Fluffy to stop it. I did and was able to pick. Chose a Studio Chibi manga.
Halfway into the movie, Jero to the right of me.. snoring.
I chuckled, never thought a Studio Chibi movie would put him to sleep! Poor guy. His snoring got louder overtime, and I was forced to temporarily mute him (so I could hear the movie).
Hopefully one day, he’ll be mine (again). Watch the rest of the movie, Fluffy went to bed with Jero still snoring his head off.
The movie restarted, which seemed to wake him up. Then he went AFK for awhile, which leads to the next segment.
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Kovo can’t let past drama go
Categories: ‘Personal’, ‘Drama’
I receive a random message from Wufy at this time, wanting to talk to me about “the dutchy avatar that got released not a while ago”, and trying to ask me why people hate the model.
Not knowing when Jero will get back, I say sure to this and get in a call with him. I was very confused of this ‘new Dutchie’, but it was the model that got released at Christmas.
Anyway, Wufy was upset at Kovo for the way they acted when he showed them his new avatar. Said Kovo stared at it for 10 seconds and said he didn’t like it. And this really hurt him.
Though Kovo did feel sorry and apologized, Wufy didn’t know if they hated the work he put in, or hated the model itself. When he asked others about it, he heard about the drama with Lich and Jusper (yet didn’t know anything about it). Yet all he wanted was my point of view. Told him what I could, and he feels Kovo should let this old drama go. Definitely agree.
Anyway, we watched a movie together after Jero went to bed. He was cuddling me, then stopped (as in crashed). And Wufy’s all “Benie! Benie! You’re hugging a dead body!” while laughing. We waited for Jero’s avatar to pop out, and Wufy said “he just wants a hi-5!”
So I high-5’d him, and after that he left. Wow, nice.
When the movie was almost done, this was the time I got alerted to that major threat with Windows 10. When the movie ended, I quickly got the updates and restarted.
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Back on VRChat (talking to Wufy in Discord), I met him in the main movie world. There I talked to him about Jero (thinking he was curious). But when he heard Chris’s name, he knew the guy. Said Chris is “lewd as fuck” and “doesn’t stop with the lewd jokes”, surprised Jero even fell for him. He also said “getting back with an ex, isn’t really a good thing”. Well not this ex. I feel I’ll be absolutely happy with Jero.
I also told him about my ‘favorite’ subject.. Fluffy. He says Fluffy is toxic (in a way). And as for us being father/son (again), he’s the one that said how this is their last chance. I honestly never thought about it until he said that.
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So, that’s about it for this one. Can’t really say anything else.