skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were like 3-4 open source projects posted here (yeah, people don't get that the point of publishing an open source project is to actually collaborate) aiming at making privacy on Windows 10 one click away. As far as I can tell, they all did a miserable job and blocked some legit features (like Windows Update) and domains and never updated their projects once we told them about the legit features they're blocking.

So, there's plenty of checklists out there, but none of them is actually useful at the moment.
I wonder why you're getting downvoted.
Looks like it's time for the first real-world test (for most of us younger folks who didn't have anything invested in 2008 and have enjoyed a bull market since then) of all the theories I've read from financial independence gurus about index funds, i.e. how the market always recovers and goes up and if it doesn't none of this will matter anyway, the financial heads will always say it's different, the investors will always panic and oversell, just stay tough, hold on, maybe buy more, and come out ahead...
Agree, and is interesting. Porsche seems to face currently the multiple problems of being an expensive car with a little dated design, ridiculously inflated maintenance and repair costs, that drinks a lot of fuel in a world plenty of speed limits and that, well... is a german company.

Is having a Porsche a positive symbol and chick magnet currenty in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, UK... or is more a sort of middle age men's embarrassment?

Maybe lots of advertising and community managers could fix the problem again. Maybe they just had passed their prime time. Who knows?. I personally do not want this car.
One is free to do what one likes, but there are consequences.
How I eliminated Spam
There are numerous sites (eg [1]) which claim to provide a list of FQDNs associated with Windows 10 telematics. These sites usually advise you to reroute those FQDN to localhost via the hosts file.

To my point of view this is a endless game of cat-and-mice... finding the (changing?) telematics FQDNs and updating the hosts file. By design this cannot be a permanent solution.

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/blocking-these-domains-stops-...
I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities.

So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7.

You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.
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I know this is supposed to be facetious, but UHAL stock is actually quite attractive at current levels. They own a growing self-storage business but don't break out the profit contribution (although they do disclose the revenue contribution). Pure-play self-storage stocks like EXR/SSS/PSA trade for 18-20x 2016 TEV/EBITDA. If you give UHAL credit for that on the estimated earnings from the self-storage business, you are getting the moving business for a very undemanding valuation despite it growing 5-6% per year and with a dominant market position.
Yeah, like every single other Linux distro. I think Ubuntu is actually the only one doing this and yet, even in Ubuntu, it takes literally two or three clicks to turn this feature off.
Or, run an internet forum and wait a while.

I've been signed up to so much over the years that I mostly ignore it now, just unsub from the things I can and mark as spam everything else.

BTW, if anyone implements a "Thank you for signing up" email, please please please put the original IP address used to sign up in the email along with the "If this is not you". The few services that have done this have enabled me to identify (from my own web server logs) the users of the forum(s) that have been peeved at me on those days. That at least gives me the chance to talk to them and stem the flow of porn emails (or whatever they've decided to sign me up to).
Obesity is linked with poverty in the USA. "Counties with poverty rates of >35% have obesity rates 145% greater than wealthy counties." It's not all about lifestyle choices. http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/60/11/2667.full
> maybe strict monogamy will soften as a norm.

Polygamy is already the norm in the West, only it's serial polygamy instead of parallel one, i.e. you're supposed to dump your previous partner before picking the next one. But most people enter most relationships being very open to the idea that it won't be lifelong, and that other partners will be part of their sexual, sentimental and patrimonial future: this constitutes polygamy, irrespective of the order in which you have sex with the several partners you plan to have.

Will insistance on serial polygamy soften? I'd say that the forces seem aligned for this to happen:

* reproductive control was the main reason for historical control over people's sexuality. With reliable contraception and easy paternity tests, those incentives are dramatically weakened.

* don't underestimate homo sapiens' urge to practice polygamy: historically we've had to punish adultery by gruesome death, it still routinely causes financial ruin in the US, yet people always kept committing it! They're still willing to wreck their own children's family and well-being, in exchange for some renewal in their sentimental and sensual lives! This urge seems to me at least as strong as the gluttony epidemic, which turns many Westerners into impotent, morbidly obese wrecks, one hamburger at a time.

* Exposure accelerates acceptance. Internet is bound to make affairs more and more visible, and as a result, we'll get used to them.

As for modesty, even before Internet, the list of which body parts / positions were naughty evolved fast and flexibly, within decades (think miniskirts, sleeveless tops, bikini, monokini, Frei Korper Kultur, or conversely, the comeback of islamic female garbs in middle eastern countries). With Internet as a great accelerator, we'll soon be mildly too bored to Google sextapes of our acquaintances. I known I already feel that way about celebrities. First time patrons of naturist resorts typically report nudity-induced awkwardness to last about 1/4h :-)
Nice try :P

# uptime
14:34:38 up 587 days, 21:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Yes, but the lists I've seen look huge [1]. It also requires 3rd party software/hardware to block since the name resolution for many of the endpoints seems to be hardcoded into dnsapi.dll. There's also no guarantee that some security update will add additional server names that Windows can talk to. Basically you end up in a security arms race with your OS provider - which is hard if not impossible to win.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
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How many clicks and keypresses does it take to turn it all off?
meta-note: here are all the TotT lists on github -

https://google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+toolsofthetrad...
We initially may have seemed to have different ideas of "simplicity", because I certainly agree that if using a framework works for a site, and allows you to re-use code to avoid extra lines (like the extra CSS, jQuery, etc. you mention) then that is the best way to go.

When I said simple, maybe I meant "efficient" instead. I just see a lot of misuse of frameworks where all of the code is thrown in and then barely customized to make it work, and all the extra unused cruft is left in. Basically pages are loading a bunch of stuff that is never actually used...

So I think maybe we were speaking past each other a bit, because I generally agree with you.

The initial post at first seemed a bit hostile, but some of that I think we're inferring- because we're reading our own tone into the text. Also, as you said, it's something you constantly deal with, so I'm sure it's a big point of frustration for you.

When frameworks work to allow you to clean up a codebase or prevent it from becoming the mess you describe, then they definitely make sense. When they cause bloat for no good reason- that's when I have a problem with them.

I guess it all comes down to developer use/misuse of them, not the frameworks themselves, in most cases.
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Society can deem a behavior bad even while the individual can forgive and forget.
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Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust.

Google started engineering features that were supposedly opt-in but they were so convenient that most people opted in anyway. Google forced people to divulge their data, for instance location, for navigation. It did not actually need the level of data it collects to provide navigation, it was just a way to steal their location privacy to increase its marketing reach and to improve the service not necessarily for the user but for its own business needs. How long before Microsoft starts employing the same tactics. You know you have a choice but it's a totally false choice!
I'm just amazed that in 2015 we can run videos on every possible platform, same for viewing pdf documents, and even web-based applications.

But when it comes to simple "natively-integrated" applications, there is a clear divide in platforms.
> That seems perfectly reasonable

No that's not , and what is shocking is that you find it "perfectly reasonable".
That is such a (I don't know word to express my feelings...) "offensive"?, "humano-centric"? "hubris filled"? title. And exemplifies and perpetuates humankind's atrocious relationship with our fellow earthlings.

Dolphins are not turning out to be brighter. They were/are as bright as they always have been. Humans are the ones changing, losing a bit more of our ignorance and hubris.

This is still so pervasive that most people don't even recognize that as an "issue". Just like people hundreds of years ago wouldn't be phazed by the title "Negroid race is turning out to not be savage sub-humans after all".
EULAs are never legally binding

And blanket statements are always false.
> you can beat it in every single metric with commodity hardware.

The zSeries selling point is not the hardware, but the reliability (which is in fact the hardware). The z in that series stands for zero down time and they are not selling hardware, but close to 100% reliability.

Now in reality, no one can guarantee zero down time, but IBM does in fact guarantee 5 nines (99.999%) and 6 nines (99.9999%) up time and that guarantee costs money.

You certainly can't get those sort of up-time numbers using nothing but commodity hardware.
If you're in the UK using BT, they have a DNS issue that is not resolving any cloudfront distributions. Best way to get rid of it is to temporarily/permanently use OpenDNS or another provider.
I have a license for like every single Microsoft's product (Windows 8.1, Office 365, Dreamspark account, 1 TB of data on OneDrive, some Skype premium minutes) and yet, I completely agree with him. I love Microsoft's products and I'm using them when I need to use them, but Windows stopped being my primary operating system ever since that whole Snowden scandal.

People just automatically assume that I hate Microsoft because I'm using Linux as the only operating system on my primary laptop. That's not even remotely the case.
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I was thinking about this for IoT yesterday. Basically if you wanted a machine with premanent uptime, it would be two identical basic machines that would periodically power cycle each other. On error, hard-reset, and reload the OS/app from the working device onto the problem device.
And still... with more privacy features than the new Windows 10.
You can see the Z1 replica, as well as an implementation of the Z3 with relays in the Deutsches Technikmuseum - The Museum of Technology, in Berlin.

I was fortunate enough while there to run into Zuse's son, Horst Zuse, also a computer scientist, fixing the Z3!
No one seemed morally repulsed then.

The single and only reason Ashley Madison got media attention -- and they got plenty (morning radio in the Southern Ontario space just loved bringing them up) is that it was salacious: The whole premise of a site to arrange affairs is just very "click baity", and it's sure to draw attention.

Ashley Madison played those cards brilliantly, turning their entrant in a hyper competitive dating site market into a newsworthy, edgy find an affair site.

But that same gambit also means that if you fail, many want to see you fail big, exactly the same motivations drawing media.

There is no hypocrisy or dual standards here. Site is newsworthy for its market, and it's newsworthy for success, and even more for failures.
I do not think spam accounts are ever deleted, just flagged. Maybe those created in some absurd numbers. After all they make a valuable training data for spam detection algorithms.
They typically report a name, version number and sometimes the operating system. Normally, they wouldn't report enough information to let the tracker know if it's actually a windows 10 machine running the client.
Can’t we remove them from dnsapi.dll?

Decompile dnsapi.dll, remove all hardcoded hosts, replace and protect to a nonexistent group so that windows can’t even override it during an upgrade.
http://www.whocares.io/search_results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...

I happen to have an HCA (Health Care Assistant) friend and searching for it gives me 2 different results!

Looks like you should make the role names case insensitive :)
The OP wrote a lighthearted observation of the reality in front of him.
> Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute.

I think this says more about Android than it does about Windows 10. Windows 10 has crazy defaults, but so does android and many android apps want access to my info for no good reason (e.g. news apps wanting access to list my accounts, my phone number, my contacts, precise location etc.). Comparing privacy defaults of Windows to Android is not comparing it to a particularly high bar.
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I know the sample Troy showed may not be representative of the whole, but I think there are a lot of users, outside of tech, that aren't aware of the breach.

There is a comment somewhere -- maybe it's from the article, I can't remember -- expressing surprise that the AM home page doesn't acknowledge the breach at all. I would imagine that they are still receiving signups from folks who aren't following this story.
A little OT, but you piqued my interested. Is this Spam Nation? Is it good?
Not to criticize this project specifically but having done some Angular & React apps I wish these libraries would allow some kind of bridge for JS and jQuery plugins.

Do you need incomplete or lagging Bootstrap port for each new framework of the day ?

Especially when you're not doing a SPA and integrates in an existing website, it leads to duplication.

For example I've used Angular-UI and have encapsulate real Bootstrap components in directives and the advantage of the former was not that obvious because it leads to new and different bugs, incomplete features etc.
Our school (K-12, east coast, I'm IT director) has purchased hundreds of both devices in the past 4 years. We started with 3:1 iPads in the first year, distributed evenly throughout the school. We very quickly realized that the iPad is not the right device for any student who ever needs to type anything, and the "enterprise" management from the MDM providers (who are handcuffed by the atrocious tools, including Apple Configurator, that Apple provides) is pretty awful compared to the outstanding and couldn't-be-easier management through the Chrome Management Console.

So now we purchase iPads for prekindergarten through second grade, and Chromebooks for 3 and 4. Starting in grade 5, we have a mandatory BYOD and the Chromebook is our recommended device. In the middle school (5-8) the Chromebook takes 65% of the market share (versus Apple 30% and other <5%). In the upper school (9-12) it's more a 50/50 split Apple/Google.

It's just so hard to discount the functionality of a real keyboard in any school where typing (and consequently writing) matters. Google Docs on an iPad is still awful, despite lots of improvements in the past few years. Still, if it were up to me, the lack of management tools for the Apple side (each device requires a LOT of manipulation by hand to install apps, update software, manage accounts, etc) would be the deciding factor and I'd never buy another iPad again.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify that our "BYOD" program 5-12 is a laptop program. That's 65% Chromebooks and ~30% Mac laptops in grades 5-8, not iPads. We don't allow the iPad for the program requirements, though we permit their use as long as the student also has a full-sized laptop.
There has been a surprising hesitation by many in making the data searchable.

I mean, it's straight up mySQL dumps. You don't even have to do any complex ETL. Making that geographically and attribute searchable is remarkably easy. Like four hour project easy. Mapping everyone on OSM would be trivial.

Yet very few such apps have appeared. I suspect because of the privacy implications, coupled with the fuzzy legal area of the data -- I might have it, but I'm not going to announce to the world that I do.
I use a free operating system (Linux, currently Slackware) because I take property rights seriously. Years ago I decided that I did not want to use 'cracked' software and didn't have much money.

Strange how things turn out.
The original IP address can also speed up the prosecution process, at least in Europe, where many privacy violations are a criminal offense.
Eric Raymond's words helped change the world (Cathedral essay). He inspires me every time I read his work, sometimes I disagree, often agree, usually both but he never fails to get me thinking in new ways.

IMHO Eric is one of the elders and I pay tithe to this man who I respect and learn from. I value his forthrightness, especially in these times of chilling effects - he head is firmly above the parapet and of course he takes flak.

Eric's list of Open Source & Free Software contributions
http://www.catb.org/esr/software.html

For me personally, it is an honour and a priviledge to be on the same planet at the same time as Eric S Raymond - super stoked to fund his work - his work merits it.

Eric on the Cathedral & Bazaar from the browser wars (when M$ nearly pwnd the net)
https://youtu.be/jw8K460vx1c?t=38m30s
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It doesn't work particularly well. A lot of people thought China's management of the economy was brilliant while the growth was easy. The same was true of Putin's Russia while they were riding the temporary oil price boom. Now the tide is going out on all of these easy growth scenarios that were riding the cheap dollar (including the $9 trillion in foreign debt issued in dollars that provided a lot of the growth fuel). The dollar has turned and is crushing emerging markets and pulling trillions in capital away from them.

When the tide goes out like it is now, you quickly discover that the bureaucrats in command economies are almost always incompetent and that incompetence was being temporarily masked.

China was propping up their markets to give the elites time to get out.[1] The stock market bubble was designed to be a wealth transfer, from household savings, to their extremely debt-laden corporations. That transfer is complete, and didn't work particularly well, so now China is prepared to allow the ceiling to cave in on the average investors holding the bag. That's why they've stopped supporting the market.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/china-s-ri...
Great post. Soft errors have a different meaning altogether in electronics. It's an interesting read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
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You don't understand what it is like to be a man then. It has nothing to do with "inequality". When it comes to sex it is woman that hold most of the cards. For a man, unless they are handsome, wealthy and well endowed (i.e. perfect) then they are at the mercy of women. Which means they have two choices, they either "beg" for it or try to "take" it. Both come in a variety of subtle and overt forms. In either case it is a very insecure state for a single man. And ironically woman can sense that. Woman are always more interested in the taken man because that insecurity is no longer present. So in a cruel twist of fate, a taken man who struggled to woo his current mate discovers now he has many more options for the taking.
> It is very well possible that behaviour like This will result in massive problems in the European Union with its much more atrict privacy laws.

Unless TPP passes[1]. One of it's provisions may result in a weakening of privacy laws. Unfortunately it's hard to tell since the whole thing is secret.

[1] http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/07/16/TPP-and-Personal-Data/
> but Windows stopped being my primary operating system ever since that whole Snowden scandal.

Snowden released nothing specifically about Windows. No backdoors, no specific cooperation, only the NSA's bespoke malware (but they also have malware for everything under the sun, Linux, uEFI, RAID firmware, cell modems, etc).

Sure, the NSA were spying on Microsoft by hooking the fiber lines between Microsoft's data centers in order to gain backdoor access to Hotmail (now Outlook.com). But they did the same thing to Google and several other organisations.
Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible. UI seems to be one area that benefits--almost demands--a central planning authority. I'm reminded of Supported Features [1]. There is some great open source software out there. But I'm struggling to think of great open source software with a good UI.

Not that I'm saying Windows is good mind you. My personal preference would be OSX, which you can view as Windows with a better underlying OS or Unix with a decent UI. Either way it's a win.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/619/
Hey guys, just trying to make a quick buck like the rest of us riding on the glitter wave. No, but seriously send pepper to your enemies, it's AT LEAST twice as much fun! Ok?
> BTW, if anyone implements a "Thank you for signing up" email, please please please put the original IP address used to sign up in the email along with the "If this is not you".

+1; doing a macro-level lookup of the IP address's location would be useful, too, for less tech-savvy consumers.