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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I think the depths of the answers here, particularly with China, are far beyond the scope of technical discussion and to be honest likely beyond the scope of European-specific tech needs. Just because the US did one thing a certain way, and
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I am very strongly convinced that the person behind the agent prompted the angry post to the blog because they didn't get the gratification they were looking for by submitting an agent-generated PR in the first place.
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I think the point of the conversation is that if we take the predatory capitalism out of the way, using MRIs could potentially be a net benefit overall for everyone.
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
Yeah, Stuxnet was the absolute worst of the worst the depths of its development we will likely truly never know. The cost of its development we will never truly know. It was an extremely highly, hyper targeted, advanced digital weapon. Nati
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
Exactly this. Everything I've seen online is generally "I had a problem that could be solved in a few dozen lines of code and I asked the AI do it for me and it worked great!" But what they asked the AI to do is something peo
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
Sort of. I've done a lot of thinking about this one, and realize that it's really not just "one person" but a very large team of individuals, along with the "politics" of everything. If the President brings on
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
By default, yes. But it is possible to enable Bitlocker to use a SED directly.
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I never understand anyone's push to throw around AI slop coding everywhere. Do they think in the back of their heads that this means coding jobs are going to come back on-shore? Because AI is going to make up for the savings? No, what
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
The articles surrounding the insider builds gaining "ads" are from 2024--now 1.5 years ago. So whatever was implemented is in the OS at this point--particularly items that showed up in the "Beta" channel of Windows. Ther
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I think it's critically important that when arguing on the internet you bring data driven information and not emotions. Although I know for many people, particularly in tech, operating system choice is an extremely subjective, emotiona
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
As a reply to this, because it's important. Searching does indeed bring up ads, however, they're to the right and only if you do not have whatever it is you're searching for installed. I know this is splitting hairs, but I li
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
Again, let's clarify here. Microsoft implemented, in its Beta Windows Insider Channel in 2024, ads in the "Recommended" section of the Start Menu. The very section I just described pretty plainly how to turn off. I mean I don
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
You are conflating two different things, however. There is a fundamental difference between the executive branch "requesting" information and the judicial branch issuing a warrant/subpoena. In the former, it is perfectly lega
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
For those that want to remove items, You can quickly disable these options by going into Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off "Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more". It's like a 10 sec
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I do not have ads in my start menu, and no, I didn't "debloat" my PC. This is a base install where I flipped a couple of settings in the start menu options.
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by blackcatsec 8mo ago
I honestly don't understand the hatred that Microsoft gets for most of the work they're doing in Windows. As I've stated before, most 'problems' people ultimately have are either configuration issues or hardware iss
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
That was before Tim Cook presented Donald Trump with a gold and glass plaque along with a Mac Pro. We live in far different times these days. I have no doubt in my mind that Apple is complying 100% with every LE request coming their way (no
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
Firstly, Apple does not refuse such requests. In fact, it was very widely publicized in the past couple of weeks that Apple has removed Advanced Data Protection for users in the UK. So while US users still enjoy Advanced Data Protection fro
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
To be fair, which makes it even more ominous with Apple. At least Microsoft explicitly informs you during setup and isn't trying to hide it behind some vague language about "resetting password".
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
I truly do sometimes detest the open source community's often outright hostility towards monetization of software. People gotta eat.
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
to be fair, this isn’t a perfect solution but it does get us much closer to that solution each time. There are still plenty of democrats whom don’t support solving these problems (for any number of reasons, I’m not going to conjecture here
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
I always agree with a good-faith, well-reasoned political argument. And HN generally seems to have a much more educated base than most of the other stuff out there--but agreed with the other person that I think it's probably best to ke
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
The Intel thing is extremely true, but also equally true is the god awful Nvidia drivers that existed in the early days of Windows Vista. I don't even think Nvidia had a non-beta driver until 6 months after Windows Vista went gold. I t
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by blackcatsec 9mo ago
This is a thread that's certainly going to go over well. There are some valid criticisms of Microsoft, and a great many criticisms that are unfounded or are often misdirected. Or in some cases, the vast majority of folks don't use
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by blackcatsec 10mo ago
The reason people use Chromebooks is because they want to minimally manage the devices. The Chromebooks being locked down is ENTIRELY the point of using them in the first place...That and because Google.
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by blackcatsec 10mo ago
Perhaps not, but in the USA you don't have a sudden fight with windows and gravity if you do something against the regime, either.
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by blackcatsec 11mo ago
I'm not reading this whole thread, but based on the title I figured it kind of boiled down to name calling bullshit by more open source maintainers. Folks, we have to stop this bullshit. NOBODY is perfect. Not you. Not me. Not anyone
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by blackcatsec 11mo ago
I mean, internet standards kept up. IPv6 is a thing, and some form of dynamic IPv6 stateful firewall hole punching a la UPnP would be useful here. Particularly if the application used the temporary address for the hole punch--because once t
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by blackcatsec 11mo ago
Hamachi does not require you to open any ports on your firewall by nature. Except maybe the local firewall (Windows firewall, likely) which apps should automatically get asked for when they try to use a port.
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by blackcatsec 11mo ago
Yeah. This is generally the type of thing that turns me off to working in the Linux/MacOS world. It's just a near constant "We're living in the 90s" attitude towards everything Microsoft does or has done. It's

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