#when it concerns commissions they will be prioritized so the problem with slow writing for oneshots wont come in ^-^

[spacexseven]

as much as i love you drabbles and concept, tour oneshots i think are yoùr best work yet. i reae through your ao3 ones (even the ones on your alt acc) because i wanted more and even though i dont know the fandoms you wrote for, i thoroughly enjoyed it. i find that your mistamista works are more devloped than your older things and the progress is awesome! it's a shame you don't have a lot available.

i think so too. i can explore more ideas in drabbles but i genuinely love writing longer things and developing my style. the thing with my mistamista works is that they're all purely passion projects. none of that was requested (just like my childe writing) so i took much longer to write those but i ended up liking it so much more. also because i adore rohan and risotto so so much :( i am working on something for that account but it's not my priority since it's something of my own interest ^^

unfortunately due to my schedule i've come to the point where i need to choose between slower updated and long writing or regular updates w drabbles and asks. i prefer the latter because there's no disappointment involved. i'm very harsh? about my writing in oneshots so it takes forever and is mostly scrapped.

[thephonetech20-blog]

Printer Pratfalls, Privacy Predicament, Performance Problems Plague Windows Update

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has decided to start rolling out its own Edge replacement to PC users across the planet. Inevitably, this has caused problems — updates always cause issues for somebody — but there’s an array of issues lighting up Reddit and Microsoft’s own tech support forums. counting on which version of Windows you've got, you’ll receive one among three different updates:

KB4541301: Intended for Windows 10 1803 and 1809.KB4541302: Intended for Windows 10 1903 and 1909. KB4559309: Intended for all Windows versions, 1803 – 2004.

Those who have installed KB4559309 are reporting a laundry list of issues, including very slow boot times, markedly worse performance when gaming, external hard drives not working properly, display failures, printing problems, and Office files failing to open. a part of the matter is that KB4559309 can't be uninstalled without using System Restore. The update can't be removed through the quality Add/Remove Programs process.

There are a couple of ways you'll handle this problem. First, you'll install Chromium Edge manually. the aim of this update is to modify over your Edge installation, but manual updating appears to avoid the issues some users are having.

Second, you'll download the tool Microsoft has made available for blocking edge up the primary place. The blocker toolkit won't prevent you from installing the new Edge version manually, but it prevents Microsoft’s servers from updating you whenever they desire it. That application is often downloaded here. Third, you'll edit the registry manually. Standard statements about the risks of registry editing apply. Screwing around within the registry can hose a Windows installation pretty quickly, and therefore the problems you create might not be easy to repair without reinstalling the software.

Follow the instructions carefully. Hat-tip to Windows Latest for surfacing the instructions below:

1. Open the Windows Registry editor via the “Regedit” command.

2.  Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft. Open the Microsoft folder.

3. Right-click on the folder and choose “New Key.” Name the key “EdgeUpdate.”

4. Left-click on the new “EdgeUpdate” folder you only created, if it isn’t automatically selected. you'll need to scroll to the rock bottom of the registry — on my machine, the “EdgeUpdate” folder was created at the very bottom of the list. Once you click thereon, you’ll see one “default” key and zip else.

5.  Right-click under the “Default” option and choose “New,” followed by “DWORD (32-bit) Value”.6.  Name the DWORD “DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium.”

7.  Double-click the DWORD you only created. Change the worth within the “Value Data” field from 0 to z. You are doing not got to touch the “Hexadecimal” versus “Binary” field.8.  The last step is to reboot your machine. this may prevent Microsoft from updating Edge automatically. I can’t find specific data on now, but you ought to still be ready to manually install the browser if you would like to.

Why Is Microsoft Importing Firefox and Chrome Data? You might want to avoid Microsoft’s new Chromium Edge for one reason: It imports your user data from Firefox and Chrome without permission.

Here’s how the method typically works: 1.  Run the browser installer.

2. The browser installer asks if you would like to import your data from another browser.3.  You select “Yes” or “No” and proceed with the installation.

Here’s how Microsoft’s new Edge does it: 1.  Run the browser installer.

2. The browser imports a number of your data from other browsers.

3. The browser asks if you'd wish to import your data.

If you say “Yes,” you’ll never notice the matter because you chose to merge your data pools. If you say “No,” the installer is meant to delete your data. However, Microsoft has noted that if you stop the installer early, some “residual data” may remain. But here’s the rub: once you launch Windows 10 after updating Edge, the sting installer runs automatically, which suggests Microsoft is gobbling down your data, failing to delete it upon exit, and claiming the whole process is somehow beneficial.

When asked about this activity, Microsoft responded: We believe browser data belongs to the customer and that they have the proper to make a decision about what they ought to do with it. Like other browsers, Microsoft Edge offers people the chance to import data during setup.

This is claptrap, start to end. Microsoft isn't respecting personal data privacy within the slightest by starting the import process before even asking if you would like to, then failing to delete data if you don’t. albeit you aren’t concerned about the privacy aspects of the difficulty, you would possibly not want Firefox or Chrome data in your new Edge installation.

I can’t represent people, but I subdivide my browser use by activity. I run Edge with no add-ons whatsoever, so I always have a browser I can use to see a recalcitrant website. I exploit it for streaming because Chrome still won’t stream above 720p on Windows 10. I exploit it for various tasks than I exploit Firefox and Chrome, and that I don’t mix data between them.

We’ve inveighed against the Windows 10 update model so often, I’m honestly uninterested in doing it. Five years after Windows 10 launched, I see no evidence that the corporate has improved perceptions of Windows as a stable OS, and an excellent deal of evidence suggesting that it's not. I even have written many more stories about failures in Windows 10 following each of Microsoft’s upgrade pushes than I ever wrote about, say, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 SP1.

Yes, Windows gets updated more often, and yes, Microsoft has added some nice features over five years, particularly when it involves monitoring system performance. But those improvements have come at the value of near-endless troubleshooting and a few serious, high-profile screwups. it's going to not appear as if it, due to how our site displays multiple URLs in sequence, but each of the words linked above points to a special story. It wasn’t hard to seek out the examples, either.

Microsoft has published data claiming that Windows 10 generates far fewer problems or user issues than previous versions of the OS. I even have no proof that it isn’t true. From a press perspective, however, the constant drumbeat of Windows 10 failures is downright wearying. whenever Microsoft releases a replacement version, I decide to write another few stories about everything new that’s broken. Since Microsoft won’t follow Apple and Google’s lead and release one update per annum, we get to go to this subject a minimum of twice. Often it’s considerably more, since individual Patch Tuesday updates often break things, too.

Microsoft could also be making real progress as far because of the absolute number of individuals who are impacted by problems, version after version. Perception isn’t always reality, and forum discussions are dominated by people that have problems, not people that don’t. But this constant, unending drumbeat of issues can't be doing Windows 10 any favors in how people perceive its reliability, albeit the underlying situation is different.

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The Year Without the Open Internet Order: 2018 Year in Review

In the waning hours of 2017, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order, ending net neutrality protections for the millions of Americans who support them. The fallout of that decision continued all throughout 2018, with attempts to reverse the FCC in Congress, new state laws and governor executive orders written to secure state-level protections, court cases, and ever-increasing evidence that a world without the Open Internet Order is simply a worse one.

The story surrounding net neutrality has always been one of the greed of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) versus the desires of the majority of people, the actual way the Internet is structured, and the ideal of a free and open Internet. Every win this year represented a win by actual people speaking out over big ISP money. 

In the States

The so-called “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” didn’t go into effect until June 11, 2018, but states started preparing for the FCC’s abdication of oversight over the Internet early on. State leaders immediately committed before the ink was dry to stand up for net neutrality. A net neutrality bill, S.B. 822 was introduced the very first day of the California legislative session. Governor Bullock of Montana issued his Executive Order only weeks later in January. By March, Washington’s state legislature had overwhelmingly passed net neutrality legislation to the Governor. In April, Oregon signed into law H.B. 4155, which required any ISP getting money from the state to adhere to net neutrality principals.

California’s S.B. 822 turned out to be a particularly contentious battle, as that was the strongest bill moving this year. After passing in the California Senate, a state Assembly hearing gutted it, removing the strong protections that made the bill a net neutrality gold standard. But  Californians spoke out en masse and a potent coalition of fire fighters, college students, startups, local ISPs, public interest advocates, and low-income advocates made clear the support a free and open Internet has. As a result, the final bill retained the ban blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization—paid prioritization has been a particular target of misleading ISP arguments. The ban on certain kinds of zero rating—the kinds that lead consumers to services that ISPs want them to use rather than giving them choices—also remained. And so did the ban on access fees, which means ISPs will not be able to get around these protections by charging fees at the places where data enters their networks.

The result was a bill that passed with bipartisan support and was signed by Governor Jerry Brown in September. By the end of 2018, six states—Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Montana, Rhode Island, and Vermont—had executive orders preventing the state from contracting with ISPs that didn’t adhere to net neutrality principles. Four—the aforementioned Oregon, California, and Washington, as well as Vermont —had net neutrality laws. Every time the opportunity arose a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted in favor of net neutrality.

In the Courts

Almost immediately after California’s law was signed, the state was sued by the federal government along with the major ISPs that supported the repeal. The FCC in an attempt to keep any states from daring to step in to the vacuum it created when it repealed the Open Internet Order, had included language in the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” that “preempted” states from writing net neutrality laws. EFF and other legal experts contend that when the FCC gave up its authority to regulate net neutrality, it also gave up the authority to tell the states what to do in that field.

Because the fundamental question of whether it is even legal for the FCC to preempt states in such a way, California agreed to put enacting S.B. 822 on hold until the D.C. Circuit case is resolved. The preemption effort after all was in response to a last minute ask by Verizon and other wireless industry players and even asked the FCC to block state privacy laws. Nothing in the federal law has any statutory language that authorizes the FCC to block state action.

The central case, Mozilla Corporation versus the FCC, also began this year. Mozilla, Vimeo, twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have sued the FCC, as the FCC’s “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” was based on the FCC being simply wrong about how the Internet works and because the FCC failed to adequately consider all the things it is legally required to do, the order is “arbitrary and capricious” and therefore not valid.

EFF filed an amicus brief in this case on behalf of 130 technologists who helped develop core Internet technologies. In this brief we explained the ways that the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” mischaracterized how broadband Internet access service works; for example, the FCC claimed that because you can download movies using your broadband connection, your ISP is actually the entity responsible for providing those movies—not Youtube or Netflix or whatever video provider actually hosts the movies. We also explained the importance of net neutrality to speech and innovation.

 We’ll be watching to see if the FCC repeats these false conclusions about the Internet when the case continues in 2019.

 In Congress

 Throughout 2018 there remained the possibility that Congress could overturn the FCC’s decision. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) allows a simple majority vote by Congress to overturn an agency order, provided the vote happens soon after the order is published.

In May, the Senate reflected the will of the 86% of Americans who support net neutrality by voting 52-47 for the CRA. It remained for the House of Representatives to follow suit, but although 180 Representatives signed the Discharge Petition calling for the vote before the end of the year, they didn’t get the majority of 218 required to get there.

That said, next year’s Congress could still pass net neutrality legislation that overturns the FCC, just in a different form. We will also have to be vigilant as major ISPs push for their own fake net neutrality bills through their allies in Congress. Undoubtedly they have realized that absent convincing Congress to delete non-discrimination from the Communications Act, their days of pushing an anti-net neutrality agenda in complete defiance of the American public will eventually come to an end.

Other Consequences of the Repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order

2018 kept illuminating ways the 2015 Open Internet Order protected users beyond just net neutrality rules but in areas of public safety and competition. In August it was revealed that Verizon had throttled the Santa Clara fire department’s “unlimited” service during a wildfire. In the midst of trying to fight the Mendocino Complex Fire, Santa Clara’s fire department found its Verizon Internet slowing to dial-up speeds, and when it called Verizon to ask what was going on, Verizon told them to switch to a plan that cost twice as much. The 2015 Open Internet Order would have let the FCC investigate Verizon’s actions in this situation and if necessary to use its power to remedy the situation in the future, but, instead, an overburdened and limited in power FTC is left and likely cannot penalize Verizon for conduct the company itself admits full fault.

The service outages in Florida (some that may still be present today) following the hurricanes likewise reminded the world that a FCC with no authority over broadband companies is reduced to issuing press releases asking them to treat people better. Both of these situations show that a post-Open Internet Order world is having problems resolving issues relating to public safety. That makes sense, since public safety is the role of the government and maximizing profit is the concern of companies.

Fortunately, 2018 didn’t see a sudden avalanche of countries joining the United States’ approach of abandoning net neutrality. South Korea contemplated following suit and abandoning net neutrality in light of the FCC action at the behest of their ISPs. EFF testified before the parliament to explain the level of opposition American regulators were facing from the public as well as the dire competitive situation United States broadband market faces due to a lack of fiber to the home competition (a problem completely unheard of in South Korea). In light of the local circumstances surrounding what is arguably the biggest mistake in Internet policy history, from the national protests to the fire department being unjustly throttled, the South Korean parliament decided to stick with net neutrality.

2018 proved just how important the 2015 Open Internet Order was to protecting net neutrality. It showed states and the Senate stepping up to try to rectify the FCC’s decision. And it started the court battles that will decide the future of the free and open Internet.

This article is part of our Year in Review series. Read other articles about the fight for digital rights in 2018.

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