CursedUrn

Are they actually updating some of the old UI this time? Usually they just add a new version of some UI, with less features than the original, so you often have to dig back through layers of Windows versions to find the option you want.

> Screw you software, I’m in charge, not you.

Ahh, this guy didn't get the memo. With modern Windows you're just temporarily borrowing the computer, but Microsoft is in charge of it. They decide what programs you can run, which folders you can look in, which files you can delete and yes, they decide when it updates, even if you're in the middle of something important.

> I've disabled most of the telemetry

How can you be sure about this? They patch and update the telemetry code frequently, for example, when they updated it to get around hostfile blocking, or moved their servers to new addresses for the same reason. The Windows 10 upgrade assistant that was installed without warning on Windows 7 included telemetry that regularly scanned all the executables on your drives and sent the list to Microsoft (ostensibly to check for compatibility, but I'm sure they kept the data around). If you can't trust the OS and they can update it at will, you have no hope of privacy.

We need an online Bill of Rights to stop these huge companies destroying lives and businesses on a whim.

The point of Cortana was to harvest user search data and push Microsoft services in the search results. Actually finding the user's files was a low priority secondary goal.

I would expect the game to be short if you abuse a bug to get massive amounts of gold and skip through the progression way faster than you're meant to.

Recommending craft chocolate is kind of missing the point. You can buy expensive specialist chocolate anywhere, but that's not the same sector of the market that Cadbury occupies. You should be comparing it to stuff like Hershey's.

Does that mean Facebook will stop doing it? I find that hard to believe. I doubt the EU understands Facebook's code or servers enough to judge if they're complying.

Does this work in practice? There are surely lots of subtle ways an employer could retaliate against you that would be really hard to prove as retaliatory actions.

How do you stop a bad actor (e.g. CA) using up the entire country's water supply?

So could Google just put spyware (sorry "telemetry") in the rendering engine?

This looks cool. Does it make use of the tech Valve has been developing for gaming in Linux?

Why isn't it a public forum? The Internet has largely replaced all traditional public fora.

Ironic given Facebook's business model is to spy on users.

Can you use the output of this in a commercial product? Are any of these machine learning image manipulation programs permissive like that?

Also they added microtransactions on many platforms. I did expect them to ruin it more by now though.

Is that talking about my computer or his computer?

Secure Boot is about to become the consumer standard with Windows 11. Popular online games are already starting to require it. I wouldn't be surprised to see Netflix and other streaming services require it.

Facebook's current market position is almost entirely based on being there at the start. Mark knows this and is terrified of missing out on the start of another big thing.

How does the Windows App SDK differ from UWP? Does it still include the awful DRM features that prevent viewing/editing/deleting files on your own hard drive?

I presume they made a big push to integrate Whatsapp/IG and Facebook (on a technical and branding level) to make it harder for anti-trust to break them up later.

The privacy cost of these devices is largely hidden. People are really bad at judging the long term and secondary/tertiary effects of their actions, they only see the immediate benefit. This is how the dystopian surveillance state grows.

How do you explain the massive list of advancements humanity made during the Enlightenment period with this attitude? Seems like you're advocating another dark age.

If you're lucky they've built a new one with reduced functionality and a button to open the old one. That's how they usually handle things.

I wouldn't be surprised if both of those are still running in Task Manager's process list if you look, under unassuming names like SearchUI.exe. It's quite hard to disable Microsoft's malware in my experience, a lot of it relaunches itself, or comes back after an OS update. The number of running Microsoft processes goes up every year.

Of course not

So you could fork this repo and add dependencies on other closed source libraries?

I thought GPL wasn't compatible with closed source binaries?