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[-] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago

This is real. And you can have your own fake activation watermark here.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

It’a surprisingly detailed installation description 🤔

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Joke project gets bonsai treatment, production gets one comment in docker compose.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Dev of joke project is having fun, dev of production software is not gonna do extra work they don't have to

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, finally Linux gets a Bonzi Buddy release.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Actual question. Isn't installing stuff from third party repos like super dangerous? The package scripts run with root access, right?

So, I guess you could tell if the hash of the package matches the hash of the code after you build it... But, what about upgrades on that package after it is installed? They could change the setup scripts and screw a lot of people right?

Not saying these guys do it, just wondering about security stuff.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

quote stolen directly from the repo:

"Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired." — Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

ideally package build scripts should be checked each update (although i am personally too lazy to)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ain't nobody got time for that 🎶

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago

This must be the new version of Fedora

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wait, did they mess with fedora, too?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You mean, no, not yet

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It's a shame that Fedora is also the most usable linux desktop distro

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's a bit more than $15 for RHEL

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

That's exactly why we need to give them the boot.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's exactly why we need to give them the boot.

Hard disagree. If you're running something business-critical, the support that you get with a RHEL license {or any other vendor, for that matter) is worth its weight in gold.

If you can't fix something, you don't want to be looking for solutions by sifting through forum posts directed at home users when the business is losing thousands of dollars per hour. That's what the license is for, and that's what you pay for.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Even after paying, windows sells our info, every keystroke.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Any proof? Kinda seems like major privacy violation if it sold our keystrokes like that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cortana enhanced program, enhanced tipe writing, voice recognition. Maybe they don't sell it directly, but the register every move.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Again, proof? Articles? Anything? Pretty bold statement without evidence.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Am I missing something? This article is 7 years old & mentions nothing about keylogging

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is it really that bad? I haven't used it in years so I'm not following it. Do they literally have a built-in keylogger?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely not, that would be an absurd privacy violation

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Microsoft does collect a lot of data. But storing every keystroke is first of all impractical, because it would take a lot of disk space to store every keystroke of every user, and secondly not very useful unless they also knew when, in which application, and in what context each key was pressed.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah it’s not exactly a private OS but a key logger would be mental

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

At this point I don't think it will be, to be honest. And at this point they don't need one, their pretend assistant has the ability to record all the activity anyway

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Think about it practically. Microsoft is not an advertising company, they make their money from enterprise software. Windows is installed on billions of computers. The infrastructure required to accept and process every single key pressed by every single windows user and turn it into something usable would be enormous. And for what? To make a few extra millions by selling it to some advertising company?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is an advertising company just like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple. Bing search and Edge browser in Windows are a few ways ads are shown to users. Netflix is using Microsoft ads network for their platform to show to their subscribers. Companies pay a lot of money to get preferential suggestions/queries on their stores and search engines.

https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/microsoft-audience-network

Microsoft generates over 10 billion US Dollars per year in revenue from their advertisement division. The revenue growth from their advertisement business is growing exponentially at around 10 percent every year.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I didn't know they actually operated an ad network outside their own services. I still don't think they are keylogging everyone though

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I'll wait for Linux Millennium Edition to come out first

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

More like Linux Year of The Desktop Edition

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I heard it is buggy, I think I'll wait for Linux Vista to be released.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The right license in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Torvalds. Wake up and... smell the ashes...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The bad ending.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pay 2 Win(dows)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'll give it about tree fiddy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

God Dammit Loch Ness Monster, I ain't gonna give you no tree fiddy.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Is anyone have oem keys, just asking.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's ok. I have the crack.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good, but what does it have to do with Linux

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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