Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

One of the fun things about setting up #GroupPolicy again from scratch is contemplating the engineering thoughts behind some of the professional, coporatized descriptions. Especially:

1. "If you don't turn this option on, you're crazy. It should be on by default. Why isn't it on by default? Don't ask."

2. "If you turn this option on, you're crazy. Unfortunately, some idiots have lots of money to spend on Windows licenses. This is for them."

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#WritingWonders July 8: What's your least favorite stage of writing a story? Why?

Not that it comes up a lot in the nanofic work that is my bread and butter, but filling in the intermediate details.

My muse is great at filling in the overall arc of the story and a whole bunch of great vignettes set here and there throughout it. Filling in all the gaps between them, though - that's where the "dragging ideas out of my brain with rusty razor wire" bit comes in.

#eldraeverse

Oh, shit, that's July 9. My bad.

On the gripping hand, I've got compliments on how solid the world feels even from people who hate my writing, so... 😂

#WritingWonders July 10: What are you good at when it comes to writing?

Worldbuilding.

On the one hand, I was doing that for fun for, like, fifteen years before I actually took to *writing*, so that's sort of to be expected. On the other hand, it's much more in my comfort zone and where my talents lie than writing, which sometimes feels like dragging thoughts out of my head with rusty razor wire, so.

So, I've been neglecting everything (sorry, #WritingWonders folks) for the last few days, because I finally got access back to everything and have been restoring backups and recreating networks from scratch after the raid. So please pardon my distraction.

Now to catch back up!

(If you said anything to me over the last couple of days I might have missed, please poke me to be sure.)

Among other things I resent regarding seized computers is that I spend friggin' decades carving this network/domain into a tiny polished jewel where Everything Just Worked, and now I have to recreate the whole damned thing from memory.

And shit, I don't have a perfect memory of last week.

#myUptime #asInMyCabbages

I SHOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, EITHER.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/japans-largest-port-stops-operations-after-ransomware-attack/

#WritingWonders July 5: Has your MC ever been involved in a physical altercation? If so, why?

Well, yes. It comes with the job, and so she's been specially trained in Constabulary martial arts, designed to hold and restrain without doing harm.

Most of the time, it's been to prevent people from hurting themselves, which pleases her. Otherwise - well, it's always a failure to have to use force as a poor substitute for authority.

But sometimes, despite everything, they run.

#eldraeverse

Reminder: even now, you are committing the moral atrocities your great-grandchildren will tweet about.