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Fun story, when my ex and I split a few years ago, I wiped all connections of my Microsoft account to the machine I built him. Last week, when I logged into my
by nixosbestos 2mo ago
Fun story, when my ex and I split a few years ago, I wiped all connections of my Microsoft account to the machine I built him.
Last week, when I logged into my Microsoft account, I had an extra machine with a funny name. Checking some logs, sure enough that was the hostname he gave that machine. Realized what had happened, refreshed the page, and it was gone.
The URL parameter for these devices in the Microsoft Account page is the GDID. So the Microsoft Account page showed me a GDID of a device I unlinked ~4 years ago. (And I'm slightly obsessive, I check on my Google/Microsoft account every other month.) Gooood job Microsoft.
- Melatonic 2mo agoYou sure it wasn't one of the other UID numbers that have been in use longer ?
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- nixosbestos 1mo agoYes? It's the fucking GDID. Anyone could've just looked and confirmed it. It's the GDID format; it's not a GUID; I'm not stupid. EDIT: god, shocking, crazy, hard for this site to imagine but, I spent 10 whole seconds looking at my account, click on a device, looked at the URL. It's clearly a hex-encoded GDID. https://account.microsoft.com/devices/device?deviceId=global[001880098F23FCDB] https://account.microsoft.com/devices/device?deviceId=global... `001880098F23FCDB` but sure, I'm the idiot here. I MEAN HOLY FUCK ITS LITERALLY THE GLOBAL DEVICE ID IN THE URL, IN THE EXACT FORMAT OF A 'GDID', BUT WHAT DO I KNOW? And yes, it's totally normal for my Microsoft account to show me a machine named 'pelinore', registered to my account, when I literally don't know the first fucking thing about DnD, and I have specific machine naming convention that would never include 'pelinore' /s.