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Seeing users as their enemy would explain their windows 8+ and msteams strategy.

by antifa 4y ago

naikrovek 4y ago
- antifa 4y ago
  Windows: forced updates, forced unscheduled restarts, telemetry, spying, ads, cortona, forced surprise download of the entire windows 10 onto windows 7 systems, dark patterns, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10 Microsoft Teams: high CPU and RAM usage, electron, there is literally a UI/UX bug with every interaction, it strips away formatting I wanted while always keeping unwanted formatting, ignores the paste with shift convention to paste without formatting, forced WYSIWYG, scrolling randomly flies away seconds after I've reached where I wanted to scroll to, search is cumbersome, images sporadically timeout when trying to view them, users occasionally experience messages appearing sent but the recipient never got them or they never left the user's device. These bugs are over a year old and generally not fixed.
  - naikrovek 4y ago
    neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams, so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. updates: users have shown Microsoft time and time again, that unless forced, users simply will not update their computers. the result was that we had an internet teeming with unpatched Windows systems getting very bad worms when the vulnerability was patched 6-months prior. everyone, including powerful governments, blamed Microsoft when the users were at fault. so now Microsoft forces updates, because we won't do it unless we are forced, and now everyone blames Microsoft. we put them in a corner, and now we deal with our complacency. so, we blame Microsoft when we don't do the right thing, and we blame Microsoft when they force us. genius. restarts: literally never had a windows machine restart without telling me many hours prior. I think you all don't check your notification icons and let things live behind that "more..." arrow. telemetry is fine, you can view it and delete it. spying: doesn't happen. no one cares what you do and you are not important enough to spy on. the forced win 10 upgrades were bullshit. you got me there, and I've never once defended that practice.
    - antifa 4y ago
      > so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. I have fiber internet and no other application I use (zulip, slack, discord) behaves this badly so consistently. > neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams But you can Google each issue and see endless reports of it being unresolved for years. > excuses about updates, telemetry, spying My computer, my decision. If I turn off auto updates, it should stay off. MS can have recommended and default settings, but removing the option for settings and removing the settings I selected are bad and anti-user.
      - naikrovek 4y ago
        your computer your decision, you're right. don't use windows, then. I WANT to know that my computers are up to date at all times. you don't. great. use something else, then, and quit complaining.
        antifa 4y ago
        Linux keeps computers up to date just fine without subverting user's interests constantly.
        naikrovek 4y ago
        then use it.
        antifa 4y ago
        Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." You seem weirdly complacent with objectively bad things. Things can be better and it's worth fighting for.
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sT370ma2 4y ago
Why is everyone ignoring the argument that Truecrypt and Veracrypt don't require a TPM to very securely encrypt a hard drive; therefore, TPM's are not even necessary to prevent a laptop thief from having access to corporate data or a company's internal network? If a securely-encrypted hard drive can be accomplished without a TPM (in or outside the CPU), why is a TPM in the CPU desirable? It seems to provide no real improvement in security will providing enormous potential for abuse. The only scenario that I can envision is that an employee simply refuses to encrypt his hard drive, even after he has been threatened with being fired if he does not. Does this happen often enough to justify the potential for abuse that a TPM inside the CPU affords--and in fact, assured abuse in countries like North Korea. By the way, I read today the Dell and Intel had decided not to use Pluton. How do you explain that if Pluton is so necessary.

Seeing users as their enemy would explain their windows 8+ and msteams strategy.

by antifa 4y ago

Seeing users as their enemy would explain their windows 8+ and msteams strategy.

naikrovek 4y ago

antifa 4y ago
Windows: forced updates, forced unscheduled restarts, telemetry, spying, ads, cortona, forced surprise download of the entire windows 10 onto windows 7 systems, dark patterns, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10 Microsoft Teams: high CPU and RAM usage, electron, there is literally a UI/UX bug with every interaction, it strips away formatting I wanted while always keeping unwanted formatting, ignores the paste with shift convention to paste without formatting, forced WYSIWYG, scrolling randomly flies away seconds after I've reached where I wanted to scroll to, search is cumbersome, images sporadically timeout when trying to view them, users occasionally experience messages appearing sent but the recipient never got them or they never left the user's device. These bugs are over a year old and generally not fixed.
- naikrovek 4y ago
  neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams, so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. updates: users have shown Microsoft time and time again, that unless forced, users simply will not update their computers. the result was that we had an internet teeming with unpatched Windows systems getting very bad worms when the vulnerability was patched 6-months prior. everyone, including powerful governments, blamed Microsoft when the users were at fault. so now Microsoft forces updates, because we won't do it unless we are forced, and now everyone blames Microsoft. we put them in a corner, and now we deal with our complacency. so, we blame Microsoft when we don't do the right thing, and we blame Microsoft when they force us. genius. restarts: literally never had a windows machine restart without telling me many hours prior. I think you all don't check your notification icons and let things live behind that "more..." arrow. telemetry is fine, you can view it and delete it. spying: doesn't happen. no one cares what you do and you are not important enough to spy on. the forced win 10 upgrades were bullshit. you got me there, and I've never once defended that practice.
  - antifa 4y ago
    > so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. I have fiber internet and no other application I use (zulip, slack, discord) behaves this badly so consistently. > neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams But you can Google each issue and see endless reports of it being unresolved for years. > excuses about updates, telemetry, spying My computer, my decision. If I turn off auto updates, it should stay off. MS can have recommended and default settings, but removing the option for settings and removing the settings I selected are bad and anti-user.
    - naikrovek 4y ago
      your computer your decision, you're right. don't use windows, then. I WANT to know that my computers are up to date at all times. you don't. great. use something else, then, and quit complaining.
      - antifa 4y ago
        Linux keeps computers up to date just fine without subverting user's interests constantly.
        naikrovek 4y ago
        then use it.
        antifa 4y ago
        Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." You seem weirdly complacent with objectively bad things. Things can be better and it's worth fighting for.

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sT370ma2 4y ago

Why is everyone ignoring the argument that Truecrypt and Veracrypt don't require a TPM to very securely encrypt a hard drive; therefore, TPM's are not even necessary to prevent a laptop thief from having access to corporate data or a company's internal network? If a securely-encrypted hard drive can be accomplished without a TPM (in or outside the CPU), why is a TPM in the CPU desirable? It seems to provide no real improvement in security will providing enormous potential for abuse. The only scenario that I can envision is that an employee simply refuses to encrypt his hard drive, even after he has been threatened with being fired if he does not. Does this happen often enough to justify the potential for abuse that a TPM inside the CPU affords--and in fact, assured abuse in countries like North Korea. By the way, I read today the Dell and Intel had decided not to use Pluton. How do you explain that if Pluton is so necessary.