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All of this "help" for "fixing" Windows 10 privacy issues seems to be based on the "don't worry, I know best" method rather than actual facts explaining the effect each of the items being disabled.

I like using Cortana and Windows Store apps. I like being able to provide bug reports when something hangs.

I don't like the idea of any data going to the mothership that doesn't have an obvious effect on my day to day computing. I'm especially leery of anything that requires (arbitrarily defined) personal information.

I also don't have time to research every one of these registry keys or policies...soooo...thanks for doing some of the work!
What? It is possible, and it's exactly how I've been using YouTube for about a year. I don't have a YouTube account, I add the "Uploads" feed for each channel I'm interested in to my reader.
Is it fair to assume the actual task was more complicated than renaming .cha to .txt and you just made it more generic here for example's sake?
yes, it helps by sending a signal:
it gives to microsoft the information that you are only using Win10 for playing. And 'something else' the rest of the time.
You can start following here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ it is a subreddit dedicated to hardware passthrough.

They run Windows in a virtual machine, and pass a dedicated GPU into the VM, the results are very impressive, but the installation is very complicated, and you won't get rid of Windows.

As VFIO matures, and the API stabilizes a bit more, I think we will see distros offering an easy "install and play" experience.

There is a complete guide here: https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/ And as you can see, it involves all kinds of steps.

One day, hopefully Windows will be just a shell to play games on :-)
I pick the OS first, but most of the tools that I use are cross platform. If I did need applications that were only available on one, I would likely use a VM. Of course, if the main applications that I needed (maybe ones that I use 80% of the time) were only available on one, that would be different.

I think his advice is perfectly reasonable, it just doesn't apply to everyone. I bet that it applies to a lot of people in a technical audience, though.
I still don't understand why anyone would buy a Bolt (or a Tesla) over a Volt.

Since I heard about the Volt initially back in 2006, it was the most logical and practical approach to powering a vehicle that I'd ever heard. Eliminate gas usage on 95% of your driving, but have gas available for long range and fast refueling against the entire infrastructure of the US.

Pure EV's are nothing more than "around town" cars in a lot of the country, which I'm sure is great if you can afford it or fun for early adopters but otherwise just an impractical luxury.

That first 40 miles approach turned the MPG formula on it's head by making clear that miles-per-day is the real metric that people need to worry about.

Going forward, the approach of the Volt could easily be modified to replace the gas generator and tank with fuel cells, bio-diesel, ethanol or any other power source that comes along.

The perk of the approach is that you have 2 options and you aren't purely SOL after a long power outage from a hurricane or other unexpected event. That happens with an EV and you don't have another way to charge it via wind/solar you're left with a very expensive brick.
Afaik Ubuntu removed that module like 2-3 years ago. It still reported like 1/100000 of what Win10 does daily.
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This solution passes the GPU to the Windows OS, running inside the VM, so it will use the Windows GPU drivers.
Recently, this profiler for multi-threaded Unity apps. It's almost the simplest thing that could work, but it's surprisingly effective. I've used it almost exclusively to optimize the hell out of the multi-threaded game I'm working on.

https://github.com/andy-wood/multi-threaded-profiler-unity/b...
The projects I am the most proud of:

http://rationalfiction.io - a collection of amazing science fiction stories.

http://lumiverse.io - discovery platform for educational videos.

http://digitalverse.io/rigs/ - several rigs that I have made, for practicing 3D animation in SideFX Houdini.

Single scripts:

https://github.com/raymestalez/rssdigest - sends me a daily email digest of my rss feeds.

https://github.com/raymestalez/reddit-scripts - scrapes /r/WritingPrompts, and compiles a list of the top writers and their best stories(http://fictionhub.io/story/top-100-writingprompts-authors)

http://blog.digitalmind.io/post/ai-writes-hpmor - ANN that generates Harry Potter fanfiction.
Except for the fact that TSLA stock price trades as if it will dominate all the markets it operates in.
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Ars is wrong. You can only get 150k per work under the statutory damages provision.
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Probably 2007-2010 range, I still have my budget desktop that I put together in 2008 if that gives you an idea. These were never top of the line machines so they don't get much love.

I usually just went with Ubuntu because at the time it seemed like it was user friendly. I tried openSUSE at one point. If you can name a distro better aimed at supporting these types of devices I'm game.
~3% performance loss is barely anything.

I'd say that's plenty efficient enough.
Progress on addressing online abuse
Along the same lines as #1 is the example of the Brazilian government suspending WhatsApp nationally because they were technically unable to provide user chat messages for use in a police investigation.
Yeah, Wine is amazing for what is is, but is never quite good enough for current, big desktop applications.
The article may be using the term 'machine' differently than what the HN community is used to.

In the Army we used similar technologies for planning, and the technologies were kept on SECRET computers that could only connect to the SIPRNET (an intranet for secret material). Because of the nature of the work we used to wipe and reimage the HDD's frequently (in training environments it was wiped and reimaged after each training session). I image each of those wipes/reimages might count against the 558k count of infringements.
germany is one of the last countries where that may be perceived an issue. Literally all other countries in the world have a speed limit that is way below 150km/h. So top speeds above 150 are just there for germany and for bragging rights, not for any practical purpose. What's more interesting is the torque and acceleration available at higher speeds.
No, banning pornography hasn't exactly been clean or simple. Remember the Facebook breastfeeding controversy?
What about containerzired deployment? Isn't Docker the silver bullet? Or at least will it allow to mitigate your issues easily?
OK, then you point me to the unified feed for your subscriptions that YouTube publish.

Oh wait, you can't, because there hasn't been one for ages now. They only have per-channel and per-playlist feeds.
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I agree, I don't know why they make it so easy to wipe everything. I was thinking of getting my son (8) a chromebook, install minecraft on it, basic Linux, etc., but that splash screen makes it a non-starter. It's almost guaranteed that a little brother will get his hands on it and wipe the drive within a week.
Thats not what I mean. You are not the copyright owner, you take it (under GPL terms) and upload it to the App store. The uploaded version is restricted, as per Apples terms. Users do not yet have the rights you need to grant them according to the GPL. You fulfill your obligations, granting these rights, in the next step.

Then, outside of the App store, you give everybody an additional copy. The GPL is satisfied, since the user gets to distribute the binary, and gets the source.

You are not distributing it separately under two licenses, but at the same time over two channels.

It's like you have a locked-down computer in a high security room, and I want to send you a program. "A" enforces the security of the room and while you can download stuff to the computer, you can't copy stuff from it. "G" supplies the software to me, and says I can give it to other people, as long as I allow them to have the source and pass it on under the same terms. I would say you can satisfy both at the same time by giving the customer an additional copy at the same instant, say on a USB drive.
Extra battery in the floor of the trailer? Hooks into the car and gives it some extra juice, why wouldn't that work?
Yup, the unified feed is exactly what I'm referring to.
>(Is it just me or is it actually very hard to figure out whom I've given consent to do something with something that is mine?)

Reading and understanding EULAs for every tool you use is a full time job that requires a law degree.
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Same here. It just times out after a few seconds.
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I have a similar experience. Got fascinated with computers before school offered classes. Learned QBASIC, then VB (3?), then C (the basics of each, not mastery!).

Eventually majored in CS and graduated with the degree. But I find a complete lack of passion for 80% or more of my colleagues. I mean, I don't really care that much about the product I am making, but I still want to do a good job and learn something I can use for myself (or my future career).

Other people just seem to "write code to make it work". Don't follow tech news, don't follow security news, etc. Just a job to them I guess, no interest in side projects.
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No. It was just a feed of the changes to the channels you're subscribed to. There's no double subscription here. It was this in feed form: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
Haven't played the sequels yet (I'll probably grab Mankind Divided now it's on Linux), but I recall that something very like "press a button to pick an ending" was a prominent feature of the first Deus Ex.

Then again, the original had a bunch of other little flaws, but none of them were really dealbreakers.
This is a big deal.

Car of the year, when you're talking about normal internal combustion cars, doesn't really matter that much. When you start talking about new (and, for $30000, scary) tech like electrics and hybrids 10-12 years ago, it makes a big impact on purchasing decisions.

I bought my 2005 Prius largely based on the car of the year recommendation on the 2004 Prius (among other research, sure). That recommendation helped validate that I wasn't buying an experiment - people who know cars thought this was a great buy.
Some modern games are best thought of as semi-interactive movies.
this makes me miss the OG fb. I dont use facebook much, but I think I would use it quite a bit more if this was the layout.
What you think about sandbox applications (like docker) over a PaaS can it mitigate a heterogeneous scenario?
It doesn't need to be an installer, it would be great to have a standalone executable version too.
There was a small discussion recently (last week maybe?) about having a site similar to the old fuckedcompany. I'm guessing that's why it made any traction.
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This does not blanket apply to all Xiaomi devices. There are official builds of CM available for the Mi3, Mi4, Redmi Note 3, and a fully open source unofficial build for the Mi4C and Mi4S.

Unlocking their bootloader can be done officially through a request, or unofficially. Changing the recovery by replacing a single file in the EDL and retaining bootloader lock is also possible.
Then you're not actually subscribed to any channel, and you don't show up as a subscriber in their analytics.
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This is a far stronger argument against JS-driven websites than the environmental argument.

Would you ever make the argument: "this website would be so much easier to use with a little Javascript, but Javascript is bad for the environment, so it should remain without"?

If not, the environment isn't actually a factor in the reasoning process. It's just a club to wield when it supports what you've already decided is the correct answer.
Not sure about our policy for sharing the report but we have a slightly more technical version on our blog: http://www.kryptowire.com/adups_security_analysis.html
I worry about this type of non-consent when accepting IP through an intermediary, e.g., full movies on YouTube. How am I supposed to know if the content distributor secured the right license for my jurisdiction? Is that on me?

From a legal perspective, how is this ambiguous situation different from more sketchy operations like bit torrent?
I am actually quite happy that someone else than me is trying new drugs before they are widely used as a treatment. I have mixed feelings about Microsoft using consumers as beta testers.
I couldn't imagine having to fight paid software to not invade privacy like that some time ago. Things have gotten out of hand, it's a sad time. How did it come to this?
No, actually: it really was that simple, and I told my friend it was a super simple thing.

I took the fact that it was so simple as an excuse to do the more complicated things alongside a very simple piece of code. That way, it's easy to see what the code does and then think about the implications of being able to run something like it (including something more complicated) cross-platform.
> It's almost like I was intentionally using this tiny project (which isn't especially interesting in its own right; as many have noted it's a one-liner batch file) to provide a one-stop shop for the basics of getting a cross-compiled setup with Rust. ;)

That was my initial thought reading this. Even the most devout Rust enthusiast wouldn't go to this much trouble to avoid executing 'find' one would hope (yes, find does everything you need here for those wondering)
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Explanation of the most probable reason for the removal of the phone-home mechanism.

Virtualization technologies are most often used in classified environments for planning purposes. Computers used in classified environments are designed to be connected to the SIPRNET[1] and never see the NIPRNET[2]. The phone-home mechanism would never have been able to function and might have caused issues with the functionality of the system.

[1]http://www.dhra.mil/perserec/osg/s1class/siprnet.htm

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNet (please note the NIPRNET does connect to external sites such as google)
Then the code author should have jumped through the hoops to learn Windows shell scripting, instead of purposely overcomplicating.

When I see things like these, it honestly makes me hate computers and IT.
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> Microsoft know full well that everyone would just click "NO" when asked whether to activate all these telemetry tools in simple language.

That's not true. I am more than happy to share anonymous usage and telemetry data with software providers, assuming that it's clear what I am sending, that it's anonymous, and that I can easily change my decision later.

Simple language makes me far more likely to give you as much anonymous data as you want. If I can't tell what I'll be sharing, I won't be sharing anything.
Here's a source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2855745/new-communications-ap...

My mistake. Text isn't end-to-end, only calls are.
The Web was not meant to run on specific markets, platforms or browsers.

It's the World Wide Web. Being accessible to everyone is the whole point.

We have other platforms that target specific markets. That's fine. But we only have one Web.
Give it up. CNN is green-screens and lies.
Make it in their (financial) interests to not have prisoners?
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I'm sorry but this is crap.

Any amount of service toggling and hosts file stuffing will not suffice. It just screams ignorance. As a software developer you should understand that plugging holes in a black box is a futile effort. All these tools are doing is giving a false sense of privacy, that the next update will undo by flipping a switch or installing a new service.

If you think the OS is violating your privacy, stop using it or remove it from the Internet. Or both. It's the only way.

Edited to add: If you actually like Windows (I do), just switch to the Enterprise Edition and dial Telemetry down to "Security". Here is an explanation of what little is then shared, and how to even further minimize your footprint: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

Edit to address the availability of the Enterprise Edition: If you are not able to get it via your $JOB, a valid key from MSDN surplus shouldn't be more than $50 if you look around. Of course you'd then be bending the EULA in your favor, but hey, since Microsoft is spying on everyone against their will I think it is fair game, right?
I believe it's a normal cycle of mutations. A time comes when a system has to choose between evolving or not.
This is my go to dev environment right now, on Pixel 2. I rarely have to restart the machine, and I backup the linux chroot to the gigantic drive space they give you for free. So if anything ever did happen, I could reload like nothing. Also it's just fun.
Off the top of my head, the pre-Tesla EVs I remember are the GM Impact, an electric RAV4, and an electric S-10/Ranger (the latter primarily sold to corporate fleets).

The EV1 spawned a movie, with most owners very interested in buying.

If you think a RAV4 is a shitty ecobox, well, I'm not sure how I can help.
The thing is these are system apps so not easy to analyze unless you're root. What you can do is use observe your device traffic and see if any of these domains are pinged:

bigdata.adups.com (primary)
bigdata.adsunflower.com
bigdata.adfuture.cn
bigdata.advmob.cn

Then check the content of the POST request (usually to url/mobileupload.do )
Bingo.

SPA is what I like to call "non-existent technology," meaning a buzzword that is neither a real technology people can download and use, nor a specification people can refer to. Other examples: "Cloud computing," "NoSQL," "SOA." It only really exists on people's resumes and on blog posts. Non-technical people have no way of knowing that it is not real.

There are good reasons why web applications have backends. There are also good reasons why you would use that backend to serve pre-rendered HTML. There are also good reasons why you would use page transitions to take the user from one screen to another. These concepts are lost on many developers nowadays. I'm not saying you never want an SPA, but it's really freaking hard to do because you're going against the grain on a platform with 20 years of progress in another direction.

What happens when non-existent technology makes up the greater part of the beginner's stack? When instead of the LAMP stack or Ruby on Rails, people graduate coding bootcamps with a specialty in building functional SPAs using NoSQL and cloud-based BFFs?
> (for better or worse the most novel hardware change to a laptop in a decade)

not by a long shot. I see this kind of statement all the time from apple fans about apples oh-so-unique innovations, and it's rarely something that hasnt been done before

I could give several examples of more novel features in the last decade, but that's subjective, and this isnt: the touch bar concept has been done before [0] (and better imo)

0: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3136325/computers/razers-radi...
Also the VR version of Doom (2016) could definitely help. But getting lost in the world of Fallout 4 does sound amazing.
Aren't you people EVER gaming though, programmers or not? I am doing it a lot less compared to only 5 years ago but I want the opportunity to be there the second I figure I want to game a bit, and no, dual-booting is not a way of addressing this at all.

Elaboration: when I have 3 Chrome windows, 2 work VMs fired, a separate Chrome window for the work services, several consoles outside of the VMs, and a live Twitch stream running on the TV hoooked to my PC then no, I am not willing to reboot only to play a game.
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IIRC it's not the battery power as much as it is the cooling.

Many of the parts on electric cars overheat when pushed pretty quickly, and while adding cooling similar to a traditional ICE seems to be the answer, it adds even more weight and complexity to a platform which is already fighting to save every oz.

Even the Tesla Model S can't do more than a single lap around many tracks without overheating.
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This sentiment, posted every time Apple does something post-Steve Jobs, is essentially American declinism [1] but for Apple. Substitute Apple for America in this Robert Kagan article [2].

>But how real is it? Much of the commentary on American decline these days rests on rather loose analysis, on impressions that the United States has lost its way, that it has abandoned the virtues that made it successful in the past, that it lacks the will to address the problems it faces. Americans look at other nations whose economies are now in better shape than their own, and seem to have the dynamism that America once had, and they lament, as in the title of Thomas Friedman’s latest book, that “that used to be us.”

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/10/08/declinism-is-america-and...

[2] https://newrepublic.com/article/99521/america-world-power-de...
The world is awash in affordable, pointless VR devices
What about WhatsApp which is end to end encrypted
We did work with DHS and notify all the parties ahead of the press release. We also remember carrierIQ ! We have a comparison table here:
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Yeah, backdoor usually means that the device accepts credentials from a third party, and not sending them reports.

I suppose you could interpret this "backdoor" as third-party access to the data, rather than to the device.
Does it? Does the request actually provide enough to uniquely identify you?
For me it is Splitons!

Splitons is a simple Offline web application to split costs between friends (www.splitons.com).

It has been a mobile first development using AngularJs, Bootstrap and font-awesome.

Splitons takes advantage of AppCache, websockets and local storage to provide the best user experience possible.
There is a clear separation between the Ui and the service thanks to a simple reusable Api.

At this moment, the application takes care of about 150 projects, users are regularly providing feedbacks and thanks email.
They really enjoyed not having to install another application and how easy it is to share a project.

Because it is an open source project (https://github.com/Paraintom/Splitons), one user sent me a pull request that I accepted to improve the Ui some months ago.

Please try and give me a feedback!