Posts by Dan 55

Re: How is this to be managed?

And presumably even if this does get through...

- There'll be nothing to stop anyone disabling gov certs, like now.

- There'll be nothing to stop someone writing an add-on that makes it obvious when a gov cert is being used (e.g. red address bar or click-through screen or something), like now.

Re: At last! A Brexit bonus!

I guess everyone can be thankful digital services never got off the ground in the UK so there's no government CA?

Re: Chrome

It's not the standard on Windows, in fact Edge started putting banner bars saying don't use Chrome when you went to the Chrome site. I just checked it again now and instead of the banner I get "ChromeSetup.exe could harm your device. Do you want to keep it anyway?" Amazing.

Re: Stabby stab

The Onion - ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.

“It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.”

And yet you were unable to address the fact that Windows 10 has a more inconsistent and more difficult-to-use UI than its predecessors.

Windows 11 brings more consistency but hides options behind submenus so more clicks are required to find them.

Re: I had already jumped ship at the time

Missed the edit window...

The quoted text in bold is from Microsoft, not Ubuntu.

Ubuntu changed from opt-out to opt-in.

Re: I had already jumped ship at the time

Did you even bother looking? I mean, it's right there on the same settings page as the rest of the options regarding the telemetry.

Did you even read it? It couldn't be any less specific if it tried. Compare with e.g. Ubuntu's specific list.

Required diagnostic data is information about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

Spoken like a true budding conspiracy theorist. That's not intended to be a pejorative either, just a statement of fact.

The fact that there is no present-day commercial OS which doesn't include telemetry is not a conspiracy theory, unless you would like to provide evidence that it is.

you still haven't answered my question regarding any evidence you have about Microsoft misusing the collected data.

The original point was collecting telemetry in the first place, not whether or not they're misusing it.

If you have to include a disclaimer like that, maybe that should tell you something.

It tells me you appear to find the need to cheer-lead Microsoft collecting telemetry.

How sure are you about that? Have you ever thrown a packet sniffer on your network to make sure? Or are you just trusting them because they're part of your tribe?

I trust Linux distros to be specific about the data they collect, granular about the permissions, opt-in, and transparent. If it turns out that they aren't then users generally force the distro developers to correct this (e.g. Ubuntu changed from opt-in to opt-out). Distro developers may not even want the GDPR/CCPA responsibilities.

So, one more time. This is not a difficult question: Do you have any evidence that Microsoft is, or ever has, misused the telemetry data collected from Windows machines?

And, one more time, the original point was collecting telemetry in the first place, not whether or not they're misusing it.

You can resist it and be left behind, or you can embrace it.

Embrace the suck.

It's as if MS threw out all the UI lessons learned in the 95-2000 era and Windows 7 era, started all over again only this time with crayons, came up with something worse, decided to go with it anyway, and only implemented half of it in Windows 10 (the other half can be discovered if you do a bit of palaeontology in control panels and icons).

Re: I had already jumped ship at the time

Did Microsoft ever outline what "Security", "Basic Health & Quality", "Enhanced Insights", "Diagnostics Data" mean? Who knows. I'm sure the definition is buried in the 167-page privacy statement and it's my fault for not spending a few days at work reading it fully before deciding whether or not I should use Windows.

You are also aware that basically every other OS does the same thing, right?

Apart from Linux/BSD/hobbyist OSes, they're all Silicon Valley OSes so of course they have an unhealthy fascination for slurping data. That doesn't make it right. So may all these OSes all go forth and multiply, along with the people who try and justify it does make it right.

The Linux kernel may not collect telemetry data, but plenty of apps bundled with any given distro do.

So? I can choose the distro and I can disable any telemetry in any software, if it has telemetry (can you tell me which Linux software does, out of interest)?

Also, you can include all the replies you got a week and a half ago. I say that in a non-stalking way as I replied too.

Re: I had already jumped ship at the time

win10 - decent

By "decent" you mean "more tolerable than Windows 8, if you're not bothered by the data slurp" right?

Re: It's simple really.

The only problem is it's simulations all the way down.

Re: No thanks

Why would you expect an open OS to one day have all its ARM distros locked down?

Re: No thanks

Linux on ARM is not locked down and most of the apps are there with a flick of the compiler switches. Only MS and Apple decided to lock down their own desktop OS on ARM.

So it should be very obvious to anyone that Russia very much has the knowledge and capability to build, operate and service it's own space station, if it wants to.

They can't even build their own satellites if they want to:

Putin wants to know why Russia can only build 40 satellites a year

Short answer, prepare to be surprised: Russia's a corrupt kakistocracy.

Iron Sky!

Re: Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station

I fail to see how Putin's Russia can do this as Russia is an economically declining state soon to be overtaken by Brazil in GDP terms.

He might have a chance if he shamelessly copies western IP.

Re: Let's hope so

And learning The Ten Commandments for C Programmers.

Re: Live by the sword...

Here's the archive.ph link.

Thanks for posting it. What Apple did was despicable, unsurprisingly.