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by gigel82 5y ago
It'd be nice if they went all the way with the second one. I need to manually wireshark and add to my blocklist after every major update. Just want a Windows 10/11 "Power User" SKU with completely disabled telemetry, &qu
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by gigel82 5y ago
Facebook has an O365 license; managers definitely use Outlook e-mail & calendar to its full extent. ICs rarely check their e-mails.
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by gigel82 5y ago
We have Android apps running on Windows now, and devices like the Duo which are not quite phone-like but pretty close and we know they've been experimenting with running Windows 10 X on those, so it wouldn't be far fetched to go b
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by gigel82 5y ago
That sounds interesting for routing applications. I was just looking into building a custom router using an older PC and a dual-port 2.5GbE NIC. OpnSense sounds like a solid choice, but I'd prefer a Linux solution because the CPU is pr
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by gigel82 5y ago
Tried it out, but the problem is no catch-all / aliases, and with the family subscription you're limited to 6 accounts. Also, you won't be able to sign in into Windows / Office with me@domain.com, you'd still need t
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by gigel82 5y ago
Dave Plummer posted about this a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA (it's an interesting channel to follow from an old timer Microsoftie)
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by gigel82 5y ago
Don't know first-hand about Alder Lake, but I have an Asus laptop running an AMD 5900HS CPU (with a 3070 GPU), and an M1 Max for work. I can buy 3 Asus laptops for the price of the Macbook, and despite that I still prefer working with
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by gigel82 5y ago
I've been running Windows since forever on hundreds of machines and this has literally never once happened to me. Not discounting your experience, just saying it doesn't match my own.
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by gigel82 5y ago
I hate MS's stance on privacy like anyone else, but I have serious doubts about your post. This would be a very big thing if actually true. Most likely thing that happened was that you started Edge yourself, then clicked on the pop-u
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by gigel82 5y ago
Thanks, some of this went over my head and sounds way too complicated. I'd be satisfied with a home-user-oriented manual tutorial, like install Debian with these packages, a nftables setup that firewalls everything but these 3 ports, h
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by gigel82 5y ago
This needs a companion guide about how to set up the host machine. Which Linux distro to choose, how to set it up / harden it, nftables / firewall, public key login, etc. If anyone has one handy, I'd appreciate a link.
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by gigel82 5y ago
> It's almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows Specifically, this faction's name is WebXT. They're the one responsible for adding all the ads, the forced Edge adoption, etc. And they're d
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by gigel82 5y ago
I bought Start11 but the "StartMenuHost.exe" was still running in the background, taking about 80Mb of RAM and doing random web requests, I had to takeown the directory and physically remove the file, because it was being restarte
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by gigel82 5y ago
I still have an old Exchange Friends & Family thing that a buddy working for MS set me up with ~14 years ago; I just pay for the domain and set up some DNS records at that time. I haven't really used it for anything, but checked no
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by gigel82 5y ago
RPA is definitely a rapidly growing market; look at UIPath's meteoric rise, or the things coming out of Microsoft like Power Automate.
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by gigel82 5y ago
Found the r/antiwork subreddit recently and it was quite illuminating to see the story from the actual workers' POV. People are sick, and their employers are asking them to come in anyway; the CDC move to 5-day quarantine is much
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by gigel82 5y ago
C'mon Microsoft, do a Starcraft 3. Pretty please! Starcraft 2 is one of the last game I still play with my ("old timer") friends for social interaction in the Covid era.
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by gigel82 5y ago
I heard the issue is that there no longer are "people responsible". Since Windows was moved under E&D, there is literally no one claiming ownership of Windows. So divisions like WebXT (the folks shoving advertisement in the OS
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by gigel82 5y ago
I've heard the tool's internal frontend (OCV) is equally frustrating to use by employees; and because of the huge amount of useless replies (that the author mentioned) in most teams it's only used for sentiment analysis on ke
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by gigel82 5y ago
Just to look at a slightly different perspective, is it possible you're just not aware of the work they're doing? (especially since you mentioned they're a higher level) Perhaps there's a breakdown in communication, I&#x
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by gigel82 5y ago
> The point of DS&A interview is as fast as possible system to vet engineers that aren't time wasting on both sides I have to disagree. Doing LeetCode problems is a huge waste of time for me; I'm not interested in a career
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by gigel82 5y ago
If anything, it's quite the opposite (at least in cloud): https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/cloud-market-ends-2020-... C# for non-backend scenarios is a different story; no charts but IMO it's been going d
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by gigel82 5y ago
> If you publish software you have responsibilities and no "provided as-is" clause can fully free you from it. Especially if you do so with the intention to cause harm. Says who? I can publish whatever the heck I want to my pro
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by gigel82 5y ago
Yes, that is a very dangerous precedent. This isn't like the leftpad issue where someone stole credentials from the project owner. This is the project owner himself publishing a new version of his project.
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by gigel82 5y ago
We need to apply zero-trust everywhere. How do we know anything about anyone online? Unless it comes from a respected company, any npm project author could be a malicious actor just waiting to hit some large number of downloads to surreptit
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by gigel82 5y ago
I'd never do this either. You and I have different ethics than this guy. We're all in agreement that's a total asshole move and no-one would be trusting him again in the OSS community, that's not in contention. However,
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by gigel82 5y ago
I take issue with the title of this article. This was not an attack. The project's author committed a change to his own open source project, which he had every right to do. Was that an asshole move, and did he lose all credibility in t
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by gigel82 5y ago
I will eat my hat if Apple doesn't enter the ad market big-time in a couple of years. All the signs point to them building a massive privacy-invading trove of data on their customers to exploit. Of course, their PR will spin it up as &
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by gigel82 5y ago
Valid concerns, you need to pick your VPN carefully if using a public provider. In my case, I relay everything to a VM I trust that is running a firewall and AdGuard for DNS ad-blocking. The system may not work for everyone (for example, st
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by gigel82 5y ago
Private Relay was always a sketchy proposition; if privacy is your concern, you're almost always better off using a VPN. Yes, granted, Apple could always extract (and to some extent probably is) your history directly via OS hooks, but

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