YOUR WALLPAPER IS RUNNING CODE ON YOUR PC Hackers... hid malware inside Steam Workshop wallpapers and thousands installed it. The catch: these weren't images. They were full Windows programs disguised as backgrounds. Kaspersky just exposed it. - These "application wallpapers" are executables that run the second you load them - One posed as a game, launched normally, then dropped a DarkKomet backdoor in the background - Payloads ranged from account stealers to crypto miners to ransomware - Some had tens of thousands of downloads before anyone noticed Your desktop was never supposed to have admin access to your life.show more

You booked a moving company to help you move... to a new home. You agreed to their price and signed a contract with them. On the day of the move they arrive as promised and they pack up your belongings and load it up onto their truck. Then instead of taking them away to your destination, they take it to a warehouse. You call them and they said that it would be more money to take it to your property because it’s getting late. Essentially they are holding your belongings hostage, so what do you do now since you don’t have the extra money they want?show more

Dear congressmen Max Lucks and Gökay Akbulut MdB, Whatever... would we do without you visiting El Salvador to tell the people whose lives never bothered you when they were murdered in the thousands that they and 92% of their fellow citizens are wrong to support their president. Surely your efforts are needed here and not in your country, which is sinking into crime, economic ruin, and geopolitical irrelevance. Then again, as a fellow German I understand how refreshing it is to be in a country where you can criticize the government without the police raiding your home next week. Maybe one day we’ll have that in Germany, too.show more

Driving on Tesla FSD is a life changer. Instead... of gripping the steering wheel in tense concentration, your hands are free to capture a moment like this on your camera as you admire the beautiful sky through your panoramic windshield. Your mind isn't cluttered with the stress of navigating through traffic or making split second decisions to avoid accidents. Instead, your focus is free to wander, to contemplate, and to soak in all the beauty that surrounds your vehicle. You see, the freedom of attention is one of the greatest gifts FSD can offer, outside of safety. Rather than seeing the road solely as a pathway lined with obstacles & dangers, you can appreciate it as a moving portrayal of your beautiful life, full of interesting details you'd otherwise would have missed. As your Tesla navigates the turns & adjusts to the speed of the road, you’re able to share quality time with loved ones, catch up & focus on an audiobook, or simply enjoy a rare moment of peace in a really busy day. In giving up control of the wheel & trusting the technology that is driving you, you gain control over how you spend your limited time, making each mile a measure of life's quality, instead of a measure of distance.show more

Rogantino per sempre ❤️ On Monday, August 26, we... picked you up from Schiphol Airport, ready to welcome you to our Service Course for the first time. You had a smile on your face, from ear to ear. It was a special moment, not only for you, but also for us. You were about to make your dream come true. 🥪 There was an instant click and you ate your first ‘tosti’ with us and you loved it. It became a simple symbol of the warm welcome we wanted to give you. Not long after that came the moment you had worked so hard for: signing your very first professional contract as a cyclist. After you put down the pen, you thanked your family. It was clear how proud you were and how much it meant to you to have them by your side. When Bas Tietema, Wim and I (Julia Soek) traveled to Spoltore for your farewell, we felt the warmth of your family and saw the beautiful Italian hills where you trained daily. The impact you left on the community is immense. As we sat there at your kitchen table, surrounded by photos, trophies and memories of a wonderful career that lasted too short, we saw the role cycling played in your life. We are proud that we were able to share the last miles of your race with you and your family.show more

It is spectacularly easy to get shadowbanned on X... One wrong reply and your reputation can go up in flames Luckily there are a few steps you can take to reduce your odds of getting banned by 10x 🔶First step: Don't reply from notifications Notifications are a minefield because hidden, spammy replies are shown to you as normal replies It's never worth replying from here. You risk replying to low reputation accounts without even knowing it Just reply normally from the posts so you know what's marked as spam 🔶Second step: turn off sensitive content in your settings Engaging with sensitive content could hurt your reputation score Little do you know, but a ton of content that’s not actually sensitive, gets marked as sensitive Turn off sensitive content in your settings, then become shocked when you see how much innocent content is marked as sensitive (tutorial video below) 🔶Third Step: Check for following/follower ratio before hitting reply Easy check to take before every reply This is brought up in the code 100 different times as a reputation destroyer Make sure to hover over people’s name before replying and check for their ratio 60% followers to following is the ratio cut off point 🔶Fourth Step: Don’t feed the trolls There are 100+ labels for toxic behavior in the code Engaging with anyone with these labels hurts your reputation For some of these labels they can be applied just for “insults” Best not to engage with any trolls (also good for your mental health) 🔶Fifth Step: Get the blue checkmark The easiest step of them all It’s coded into the algo that if you have the blue checkmark you can’t be marked as spam Yes it costs money, but if you have any serious interest of growing on this platform, it’s a must have 🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶 I've said this before, but it absolutely stinks you have to take all these steps just to get some reach At times, it can be like walking in a minefield It doesn't exactly make a social media platform feel very 'social' I have high confidence Elon is working to fix this. He's mentioned it before. But in the meantime, take these steps and be careful. It's worth it if you care about being seen on this platform. I'm 100% confident brighter days are ahead. Let me know below if any of these tips helped and what other steps you take to avoid getting banned.show more

New feature in Claude Code 2.1.14 just dropped! You... can now search and install plugins from the marketplaces installed in your current Claude Code session. This is huge if you’re building plugins on top of Claude Code’s marketplace layer (Skills, Agents, Hooks, etc). How it works: - Run /plugin - The official Claude marketplace is installed by default - Use the search bar to find the plugin you want - Select one or multiple plugins with space, then press i to install - Go to the Installed tab to browse and enable them With the exponential growth of Skills and Agent-based components running in the CLI, improving plugin discoverability is a big win. Pretty sure more marketplace-related features are comingshow more

251024 GQ Korea Q&A with Kai Q: What is... the phone application that you use the most these days? 🐻 Rather than an application, what I do the most these days is beg others for their hotspot. My phone was shattered [T/N: When he dropped a dumbbell on it], so I had bought another one in a hurry in the USA. But when I got back to Korea, you have to register/activate it again, and I haven’t been able to do that yet. Life is not possible without wifi! [So I ask others] “Could you turn on your hotspot?”show more

Karpathy method + Claude Code reading your whole Obsidian... vault is the smartest second brain on earth. The method is simple and brutal. If you can’t build a thing from scratch, you don’t know it. Tutorials are fake learning and your brain deletes them in 3 days. Most people ignore this. They build a second brain that just sits there, folders of notes nobody reopens, dead text. Point Claude Code at the vault and it wakes up. 5,000 notes, one mind. It reads all of it and answers in your own words and your own proofs, not a model’s guess. Then the loop closes. Want to understand neural nets? Skip the 3-hour video and ask Claude Code to build a tiny one. 200 lines from scratch. Watch it train, break a layer, watch it fail, fix it. It clicks in 20 minutes instead of 3 weeks. The second it lands the note gets written. One idea per file, linked to 10 others, dropped into the vault while the memory is still hot. Now it compounds. Month 1: is 60 notes. Month 6 is 900. Every new note pulls in old ones, so you ask anything and the answer comes from your brain, not the internet. Before: 40 tabs, 6 half read PDF, 0 retained. After: build it once, own it for life. Setup takes 4 minutes. Plain text, no lock-in. A second brain nobody reads is a graveyard. Yours just started thinking.show more

In Fight Club, Tyler Durden secretly appears in single-frame... flashes before the Narrator ever meets him. One of these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments shows Tyler disguised as a hotel waiter—a detail most viewers never notice on their first watch. Your subconscious already met Tyler Durden before the Narrator did. In Fight Club (1999), director David Fincher deliberately inserted four subliminal flashes of Tyler Durden before the character is formally introduced. Each appearance lasts just a single frame—about 1/24th of a second—placing it near the threshold of conscious perception. The effect was designed to make audiences feel that something was off without immediately understanding why, reflecting the Narrator’s own fractured state of mind. One of these hidden appearances shows Tyler briefly standing in the background of a hotel scene as a waiter, visible only for an instant. Most moviegoers never noticed the flashes in theaters, and it wasn’t until home video made frame-by-frame viewing possible that fans were able to track down all four of Tyler’s secret appearances.show more

Learning is something you and your baby do together.... You can think of the process as happening in three distinct stages, during which skills are transferred gradually from you to your little one: During the first stage, your baby is observing the behavior and skills of others. During the second, they begin to emulate these behaviors - and can find success with the support of a helpful adult (you) or more expert peer (often a sibling). And gradually they internalize these skills and perform them all by themselves. This video is a great example of the shared second phase. Infants explore the world with their mouths. But an important lesson of toddlerhood is that some things are for putting in our mouths, while others are not. This little one knows that we don’t eat the Play-Doh. But it sure is tempting! Watch as he breaks off a piece and brings it to his mouth. As he does his eyes lift and he realizes that Mom is watching - which alone prompts some introspection. He grins broadly, shakes his head and exclaims “No, no, no” - using Mom’s past words to affirm his decision to place the Play-Doh back on the table. Left to his own devices, who knows? But together, without exchanging a word, he managed to make the right choice. As a parent it’s important to remember the key role you play in the learning process. And that extends to your child’s behavior. Self-regulation begins as co-regulation. So be there. This sweet little guy was shared to IG by parentosa.show more

This is one of my turntables for Bumblebee's damage... variant from Transformers Rise of the Beasts. We use renders like these to critique our work on the characters in a sterile environment before putting them into shots. Normally, fans don't get to see these behind the scenes looks at our characters, but I convinced the marketing team to also include this turntable in the official breakdown for the film as I think it is super cool to see how the characters are made and brought to life. I have so much behind the scenes work to share about Transformers but unfortunately 99% of it is under NDA so the odds are that no one else will ever see them, as unfortunate as that is.show more

Your circle is either your power or poison, choose... them wisely. This touching scene caught on camera shows a group of young boys enjoying a baseball game together. When a player decided to toss a ball into the stands, all the boys immediately pointed to one of their friends - it was his birthday. The player noticed their gesture and threw the ball straight to him. As the birthday boy caught it, his friends burst into cheers, their faces glowing with pure excitement and joy. It wasn’t just about the ball - it was about friendship, kindness, and the simple magic of childhood. Moments like this remind us that the people around us shape who we are. The right circle will lift you up, celebrate your wins, and find joy in your happiness. The wrong one will quietly drain your light. Your circle can be your strength or your weakness, choose wisely.show more

On your open perpetual position can become an NFT... and live in your wallet. You open a position like normal than mint it. The program issues a token 2022 nft, that points to your exact position. Normally your open position lives inside the protocol. With Percolator Trade your able to wrap it into an NFT that sits in your own wallet. A real, ownable object instead of a line in a dashboard. Because it’s a token, it moves like one. Send the NFT to another wallet and the position goes with it. Whoever holds the NFT owns the trade. One NFT = one position If you burn it, your back to holding the position directly. That’s the composable part, a position use to be stuck inside one account. Because it’s a token, it can now be sold OTC or used by anything that speaks tokens. Why does it matter? Because the position is bound to the NFT, it can’t be drained out from under whoever holds it so there is no middleman that holds your position. The NFT does, and the NFT is yours. One important safety detail; transfers run through a token 2022 hook that checks the positions health first, so it can’t be handed off in a broken state & the NFT layer is a separate program so it can never touch the funds the core engine holds.show more

I am hear to share with you of one... of my FAVORITE EVER health related tools. Blue Light Blocking Glasses. A powerful tool to block the harmful frequencies of artificial light wherever you may see it. At work on the pc, in the gym under fluorescent lights, in airports and grocery stores, in the evening when you use your phone… Wherever these eye straining lights are there, these Ra Optics glasses protect your eyes. They are developed in tandem with world leading photobiology expert, Dr. Wunsch - who I Have personally met and can confirm he is the real deal when it comes to light knowledge and the technology inside the glasses. These are not just colored lenses. What I have experienced: - Falling asleep easier - Less eye strain - Calmer mental state - Compliments on the glasses - More focus during work sessions - Less jet lag when traveling If there was one thing I would recommend you purchase to support your health in this world, these blue light blockers would be up there as some of the best. I use mine every single day and night. You can get 10% discount using my code “solbrah” - here is the link:show more

For a Western observer, it is extremely difficult to... understand what is happening in Iran. How is it possible that just a few weeks after the massacre of tens of thousands, young people risk their lives and begin a new wave of protests? The answer to this question is simple: These people do not want to live under the rule of a theocratic dictatorship because they have learned that they have no future. They can never find a job, have a family, or live a normal life. It is difficult to understand, but being alive or dead is not much different for them. Thousands commit suicide every year. After realizing that they share the same goal, they have now gathered together to bring about change. They will either change their future or embrace death. It is sad but true.show more

The IRS is giving you a 100% write-off for... buying Bitcoin miners? Under current tax law, Bitcoin mining hardware qualifies for 100% bonus depreciation. That means if you are a business owner or investor, you can write off the entire cost of your miners this year. Keep in mind, it is for the year they are placed in service. So if you are planning to capture a deduction on your April 2027 tax bill, your miners need to be hashing prior to December 31, 2026. If you have capital gains, passive income, or just a big tax bill, this is one of the most sophisticated ways to achieve a write-off and achieve Bitcoin exposure. If you are serious about building wealth and reducing your tax burden, this is the move.show more

I came across a great persistence mechanism and created... a Sigma rule for it. Just drop your batch script or add a line that points to your payload inside C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts\ErrorHandler.cmd, and upon execution of C:\Windows\System32\oobe\Setup.exe, the payload will run. In the clip below, I have cmd.exe /c calc.exe as the payload. If ErrorHandler doesn't exist, you can create it along with the directory. Thanks to hexing for posting about it 🙏 In regards to the rest binaries under the C:\Windows\System32\oobe\ directory, most of them will not work, whereas others will force a restart (i.e. audit.exe) 🔗:show more

❗️ Breaking: Footage from inside the airplane (Azerbaijan Airlines)... a few moments before it crashed in Aktau According to Russian media, one of the passengers threw these images to his wife as soon as he realized that the plane was falling. In the video you can hear people praying, and oxygen masks have already fallen out. Also there is shocking footage already after the crash of the airliner. People are asking for help and moaning in pain.show more