The Beard of Knowledge

@Brparadox Remove Case, fans, and windows 11

You get this PC for free but you have to remove 3 parts.. What are you getting rid of? 👇

I guess the French government gave Microsoft a funeral. LMAO.

@Naaackers And also linkedIn

If both tiktok and youtube shorts could stop fucking the quality of videos that are uploaded that would be like really cool

@vajoexe Not everything in life is bad... hang on yo the good things, and if you haven't found them yet, youre not looking hard enough.

i hate everything and life itself have a good one guys

800GbE upgrade. New GPU systems. Faster storage. And Kevin explaining on camera exactly why unlabeled breakout cables are a future troubleshooting nightmare. @Brady_Corp @DellTech #datacenter #networking

@METAPCs I would change the backdrop... I'll send you my address 🤔😉

If you could change one thing on this build, what would it be?

@Big_E @YouTube I found the workaround to be making the first .15 seconds of the video to be the thumbnail. That allows you to open the youtube app (not studio for some ungodly reason) view your channel, then edit

Dear @YouTube For the love of god, allow us to add a thumbnails for YouTube Shorts. I know they "don't matter" as much, but most of us creators have OCD. Sincerely, Everyone.

@Big_E Making me money, paying the bills, and invoicing for work.

Serious thought for streamers out there. What’s one thing you wish you had someone else doing or automatically done so you could stress less about that, and focus on being live? Is it the gathering of clips? The ideas? The posting? Is it working with brands or organizing your schedule? What is ONE thing where if you had outside help, you feel it would push you exponentially?

Flux Party...

HPE's Data Protection Accelerator Node offloads dedupe and encryption so the Alletra X10000's all-flash object layer just absorbs data. Result: 63 TB/hour backup throughput from a single node, 144 VMs in 26 minutes. Full deep dive on YT and the website. @HPE

WTF is going with the US economy? I just had to pay my light bill with a credit card. 💀🥵

I got flagged by HR for my new “productivity enhancement” policy. All I did was implement a 10-minute countdown timer on every ticket. User opens a request form? Timer starts. If they don't finish before it hits zero, the form auto-submits however it looks. Blank fields? Closed as "User Error." Wrong category? Closed as "Misrouted." All caps description? "Potential security threat, ticket purged." HR said I’m "creating unnecessary stress." But my metrics? Chef’s kiss. - Ticket volume tripled - Average time to close dropped under 90 seconds - 72% of tickets now resolved by users crying and fixing their own problems HR asked how to disable the timer. I told them to submit a ticket. They didn't make it in time.

🚨Google built an invisible watermark into every image Gemini has ever generated. Over 10 billion pieces of content marked. One unemployed engineer just cracked it open. With 200 black images and math. It's called reverse-SynthID. SynthID is Google DeepMind's invisible watermark. It's embedded at the pixel level into every image, video, audio, and text generated by Gemini. Invisible to the human eye. Designed to survive cropping, compression, screenshots, and format changes. It was supposed to be unbreakable. Here's how he broke it: → Generated 200 pure black and pure white images from Gemini → When you average enough pure-black AI images, every non-zero pixel IS the watermark. Nothing to hide behind. Just the signal, naked. → Used FFT spectral analysis to map the exact carrier frequencies → Discovered the watermark uses a fixed phase template — identical across every image from the same model → Cross-image phase coherence at carrier frequencies: over 99.5% → Built a detector that identifies SynthID watermarks with 90% accuracy → Built a V3 bypass that drops 91% of the phase coherence and 75% of carrier energy — at 43+ dB PSNR. Almost zero visible quality loss. No neural networks. No proprietary access. No leaked code. Just signal processing and too much free time. Here's the wildest part: The green channel carries the strongest watermark signal. The carrier frequencies change based on image resolution. And the entire phase template is fixed — meaning every single Gemini image carries the same fingerprint structure. One engineer. 200 black images. A Fourier transform. That's all it took to reverse-engineer a system protecting 10 billion+ pieces of content. 519 GitHub stars. 39 forks. Python. Research and educational purposes only. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

We are happy to announce we've raised the price of our adblocker from free to $0.00

A teacher in China and their students built a two-stage rocket out of plastic bottles and water pressure. It actually works.

After 30+ years of signing windows drivers, we have been locked out of driver signing like many other companies. In a word, the disrespect and disregard with which MSFT is treating IHVs and ISVs is stunning. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s because we didn’t read our emails or submit the right verification paperwork. Cuz we did all that back in October. And this month, we were suddenly and without any warning locked out. Support said they’d “do their best” to let us know “within 90 days” if we’re good enough to get back on. In the meantime, many thousands of desktops and instruments are not being updated, cuz we can’t sign drivers. Awesome job, Microsoft. Thanks.

Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows and switch to Linux for government desktops. 🥳 🇫🇷 Not only that, but they have also moved 80, 000 National Health Insurance Fund Employees to open source alternatives replacing U.S owned Big Tech platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom. It’s amazing to see the country take action, push for real digital sovereignty, and opt for open source solutions! 🇫🇷 👏 More can be found here: numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espa… More on why we need Digital Sovereignty: tuta.com/blog/digital-s… #DigitalSovereignty #France #Linux

AD hacking with some of my favorite tools! Also a sleeper tool, NetTools

@StreamWithMeld 👀👀👀 hi, its me

Onboarding more creators to early access today 😈 Who’s waiting to get in?

💻 France to Replace Windows with Linux on Government Desktops Source: cybersecuritynews.com/france-replace… France has taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty, announcing plans to migrate government workstations from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The move was formally declared during an interministerial seminar held on April 8, 2026, organized by the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM), the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI), the Directorate General for Enterprises (DGE), and the State Procurement Directorate (DAE). DINUM officially announced its exit from Windows, signaling a full migration to Linux-based workstations across state infrastructure. #cybersecuritynews