I’m not sure I get your comment… I learned that crossing different official and reliable sources was the best way to get most of any information bit. Taking the overlapping information as the most reliable one.
Care to simplify what you’re meaning, so even stupid me can understand?
Thank you !
Uhhhg… Why so offensive? I’m just saying that if you trust a multi billion dollar company, your trust is in the wrong place.
If you are privacy conscious and have to deal with Microsoft’s services because your workplace doesn’t know better… I feel sorry for you.
Wait until an internal leak reveals how this was a self-backdoored/malware vulnerability.
I will probably get down voted for this comment (because conspiracy?) but in a few years we will see a lot a pikachu faced memes about it. Can’t wait to laugh my ass off.
The most upsetting thing IMO, is that people are just so brainwashed that they forgot what this was all about…
I hope and pray OP will read your comment 🤞🙏 Thanks for the write up !
☝️But this is also true on Windows. There’s no AIO plug&play OS ! That’s what arcade and consoles are made for.
You want to customize your windows? Tweak some graphical knobs? Install some plugins? New driver? New hardware? Do some more advanced stuff with powershell?
This all implies some user interaction ! Debugging a Windows issue is not that uncommon but most people just format or restore from a backup image (because it’s easier… Less time consuming…).
It’s just that people got used to how consoles/Windows/MacOS work and are hand held like they are babies not capable of maintaining their own system.
Don’t get me wrong, Linux IS harder to maintain than any other OS, but it also gives you back the opportunity to take control over your system/hardware/personal life !
Haha kinda scary !! XD
Yeah I tried readeck and while it does better than the others it still doesn’t use single file (or I missed some configuration?)
I do like it because it even transcribes YouTube videos and that’s very neat ! However, I work lot on superuser, stack*,ask* pages which aren’t properly scraped and render with their comments.
The only perfect working solution I found was singlefile + Zotero.
Not a single self-hosted read-it later use single file in their backend. I wonder why… single file works flawlessly on every site !
The only one that works similarly is linking.
I do agree :) Just think about those wonderful NIST curves specially crafted to snoop on all communication. If this doesn’t makes you extremist and “paranoid” then nothing does…
And in france it was many times in the news about a group of friends who were arrested for using Signal. […]
I never heard of such a story. Do you have any reputable source to backup your claims?
I just read “open source alternative/hamachi” and I’m already hooked ! Brings back good old memories how I used to play splinter cell coop over Hamachi.
Thanks for sharing, will give it a try someday after I finished other projects in my homelab
I can use VM maybe but I don’t want to pay for the Windows license.
If this is your only concern, there’s a script floating arround on github (MAS 104k *) that activate any Windows version.
Not sure I’m allowed to send any links because this could be considerate as piracy and probably isn’t allowed in this community.
But you have enough keywords to find your way with any search engine if that’s a route you would consider.
They mostly don’t give a fuck about what you download. Just don’t share the stuff forward.
That’s a no go in the P2P community. Leeching is bad for the whole network and for everyone else. Especially on public torrents.
Now that I know a bit more about security and obfuscation I rather not use any pirated games/software anymore. If they know how to crack/reverse engineer some complicated stuff, you can be sure they add some shady stuff in it.
They need somehow a way to earn there living expanses ? It’s a service we think it’s free but nothing comes without a counterpart.
It’s related though. If you have enough money, the means and interest, nothing is impossible. Specially if you are a big player/monopoly in IT.
Yes I don’t have any degree in cryptography, AI, or any related stuff in security and mathematics, however I read a lot, tinker a lot and work hard to maintain my homelab and self-hosted services. I’m not intelligent by any mean but I’m not stupid either, critical thinking is a very important aspect but I digress.
To give you another example, to better understand my comment on why I’m thinking like this, are some of the NIST curves in cryptography to sign SSL certificates which do not contain any backdoor by itself but have known weaknesses which allowed the NSA to snoop on communication for years… Intentionally or not that’s you to decided with your personal believes. And that’s not something I read on reddit or first search engine result but mostly research papers or people in the education sector writing trusted paper. And thankfully zlibrary exist or I woulsn’t be able to access those resources.
I surely oversimplified everything here, with my limited knowledge, but that doesn’t take away (IMO) that we shouldn’t trust any big player in the IT infrastructure overall.
PS: And yes Microsoft probably doesn’t need to implemented such measure, cauz’ people are anyway giving those info away for free… You’re right on this point :).