<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@daveking" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>daveking</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@itgrrl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>itgrrl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@dpnash" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dpnash</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kind.social/@pomegranate_stew" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pomegranate_stew</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@samplereality" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>samplereality</span></a></span> If I was good at photoshopping, I'd create a picture of a keyboard with where all the keys were just F and U. 🙂</p>

<p>looking through the windows apppatch database gives you such gems of application names as &quot;SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated&quot;</p><p>also it considers Microsoft Excel a DirectX application and applies a GPU preference to it</p>

<p>i don't think kamala fucking harris needs your donations in order to feel invincible </p><p>given the scope of her backing by corporate donors no amount you could possibly raise will ever be anything more than a mere drop in the bucket</p><p>that money would do so much more good in the hands of someone from the <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> or <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/TransCrowdFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransCrowdFund</span></a> hashtag struggling to afford the basic necessities of life</p><p><a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/MastodonForHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastodonForHarris</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>Also: congrats!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> </p><p>I switched to flat pedals and never looked back.</p><p>thought that I would miss them on long rides in the countryside but I didn&#39;t.</p><p>And I feel a lot safer when riding in streets with cars.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@misty" class="u-url mention">@<span>misty</span></a></span> it looks like it has an incredibly complex filesystem compare-and-match system where the filename is just one component of what it&#39;s looking for, like when you run &quot;setup.exe&quot; it checks for a few hundred other files it knows can point to a _more specific_ application than just &quot;some setup thing&quot;, and then if it doesn&#39;t find anything specific it falls back to a generic option (though i still haven&#39;t found one)</p>

<p>while i'm at it i may as well chuck my own hat into the <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/MastodonForHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastodonForHarris</span></a> <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> ring </p><p>i'm currently unemployed and job searching and couch surfing. i'm an impoverished neurodivergent trans woman just trying to survive and find stability</p><p>if you enjoy seeing stuff about the memoir i'm writing, the work i've done with FediPact, the rad instances i've set up at cyberpunk.lol and cyberpunk.gay, the cool clothes i DIY together, my pirate radio station vantaradio, my awesome videos, my amazing selfies, or just my posting generally -- then know that your support helps me continue being able to exist and do all those things</p><p>paypal: <a href="https://paypal.me/v33b33" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">paypal.me/v33b33</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>cashapp: <a href="https://cash.app/$vantablack420" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cash.app/$vantablack420</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>venmo: <a href="https://venmo.com/vantablack420" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">venmo.com/vantablack420</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>liberapay: <a href="https://liberapay.com/v4nt4bl4ck" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">liberapay.com/v4nt4bl4ck</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>ko-fi: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/vantablack420" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ko-fi.com/vantablack420</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>GFM: <a href="https://gofund.me/aa09f716" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gofund.me/aa09f716</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>patreon (monthly): <a href="https://www.patreon.com/vantablack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">patreon.com/vantablack</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@misty" class="u-url mention">@<span>misty</span></a></span> okay i figured it out</p><p>appinfo.dll (the service implementing actual UAC prompts) seems to call into apphelp.dll, which contains the implementation of &quot;shim engine&quot;, which is the database of all files which may require compatibility workarounds</p><p>there is a tool you can use to dump the shim database as XML: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080205155145/http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/pages/sdb2xml.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2008020515</span><span class="invisible">5145/http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/pages/sdb2xml.aspx</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@marick" class="u-url mention">@<span>marick</span></a></span> Are you planning to camp? I remember camping overnight. Would probably be amazing for star-gazing.</p>