Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

Gone for 2 days, and it was apparently pandemonium at work...

 

[Ryujin]

An old friend just posted a pic on Facebook of himself, playing a keytar, with Lee Aaron doing the "back to back with the guitar guy" thing, from back in the '80s, when he was in her backup band. I can't help laughing my butt off because even though it was before i knew him, I still remember that picture from then

 

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[Aeson]

May 2025 - We announce that Windows 10 is going out of support in October so you won't be able to use Windows 10 computers after that.

October 2025 - Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10. We disable access for computers running Windows 10.

January 2026 - "Why can't my computer connect to the internet?"

I'm glad they didn't do this with computers running 98 or XP. Most government computers would have shutdown. I didn't know they were disabling computers with 10. That's upsetting.

 

[Aeson]

There are reasons to believe that the 501st might convince them...




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This is the same "legion of my best troops" that were defeated by a bunch of rock throwing teddy bears.

 

[Aeson]

Okay, so it isn't just me.

I was watching a show about channel boats and the guy was talking about keeping the landline current isolated from the boat so his aluminum* hull wouldn't get damaged. I wanted to make sure I understood that principle (both HS and college Chemistry were a while ago), and also confirm that it was the same reason you don't want to mix copper and steel plumping.
*I guess aluminium, since it would be a British boat.

So I google it (rather proud that I remembered the term) and the google suggested a YouTube video with an AI 'babe' in a bikini or lingerie and lab coat as thumbnail. This is a little concerning because 1) we don't watch 'adult' material through our internet, 2) could very well have kids doing this googling, and 3) the subject was base chemistry concepts. So we watch it (out of morbid curiosity), and other than a rather ASMR-ish AI female voice, it's a normal chemistry explainer video. So Google or the YouTube algorithm thinks we need glorified booth babes (as in there just for the thumbnail) for completely untawdry google topics.

I did the same search at work (just the search) and it comes up with a different AI-generated-thumbnail video, this time with cleavage-ful woman in construction hat & vest. So it even knows to toe the line for places of business. I just... future generations are going to have a really weird opinion of us and I want to yell down the ages "I did not agree to this!"

I think the thumbnail is made by the creator of the video. I've seen enough videos where they comment on the thumbnail. Some, for some reason, think they need sex to sell their video to viewers. It's click bait.

 

[Velderan]

I'm glad they didn't do this with computers running 98 or XP. Most government computers would have shutdown. I didn't know they were disabling computers with 10. That's upsetting.

Microsoft isn't, but companies that run Windows 10 are. Basically you can flag computers as not being compliant with whatever your organization's policies are and the computer will be quarantined with limited access. Sometimes that limited access is to at least install patches so the computer can become compliant, but in the case of a Windows 10 computer needing to be replaced it's just to get the user to call the service desk. In the case of the timeline @Ryujin mentioned, if I am reading that right they also get to explain why 2 or so months passed without them having access to their work computer. Depending on the necessity of the computer for their job, that could be an amusing "so what had happened was" story.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm glad they didn't do this with computers running 98 or XP. Most government computers would have shutdown. I didn't know they were disabling computers with 10. That's upsetting.

Like @Velderan said it was my org that was disabling access, not Microsoft. The computers are no longer receiving updates so all that would take is one Zero Day exploit and out network would possibly be screwed. Because of that we block on-prem network access and off-prem VPN access from our network, for Windows 10 computers.

We do the same for Mac computers that no longer receive updates. Rather interestingly Mac people seem to think that their computers will be supported forever, whereas most Windows people understand that operating systems go away.

 

[Ryujin]

Microsoft isn't, but companies that run Windows 10 are. Basically you can flag computers as not being compliant with whatever your organization's policies are and the computer will be quarantined with limited access. Sometimes that limited access is to at least install patches so the computer can become compliant, but in the case of a Windows 10 computer needing to be replaced it's just to get the user to call the service desk. In the case of the timeline @Ryujin mentioned, if I am reading that right they also get to explain why 2 or so months passed without them having access to their work computer. Depending on the necessity of the computer for their job, that could be an amusing "so what had happened was" story.

The ones that really get me are when I look up a given computer and find out that not only is it still running Windows 10, but it was also handed to the user 18 months ago and never signed into at all. "Not only was your computer not set up when you initially received it, but it was also not migrated to <NewDomainName> a year ago last October, when we mandated a move of domains due to the change of the org's name. That was explained in a mass email in March of 2025, May of 2025, September of 2025, and then final warning given a day before the move in October of 2025."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Some, for some reason, think they need sex to sell their video to viewers. It's click bait.

Better chemistry through biology.