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[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 108 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] slice@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’a surprisingly detailed installation description 🤔

[–] platysalty@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 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

Yes, finally Linux gets a Bonzi Buddy release.

[–] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] whou@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Ain't nobody got time for that 🎶

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This must be the new version of Fedora

[–] mapokapo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] maeries@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, did they mess with fedora, too?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 7 points 1 year ago

You mean, no, not yet

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] parsonpigeon@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

It's a bit more than $15 for RHEL

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[–] dinodroid@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SinJab0n@mujico.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] SinJab0n@mujico.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Clipboards@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Source??? Source??? Source??????"

Whoa, somebody get this man 50ccs of Source before he goes into Source Withdrawal

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called trust but verify. Without proof you're just talking shit and wasting everyone's time and effort. But you know that because you're disingenuous, not stupid, right?

[–] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That point went about a mile above your head

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Please, lower it for the rest of us then, because it just looked like you were being insulting for no reason from my end.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] eugene1970@waveform.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Definitely not, that would be an absurd privacy violation

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] eugene1970@waveform.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 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

[–] aloso@programming.dev 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.

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[–] peter@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] spiffeeroo@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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This. This is what we get for crossing the 3% mark.

Screw it! I'm switching to BSD.

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 15 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...

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

More like Linux Year of The Desktop Edition

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

The bad ending.

[–] bread_with_toast@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pay 2 Win(dows)

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll give it about tree fiddy

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mertssmnoglu@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Is anyone have oem keys, just asking.

[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's ok. I have the crack.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Good, but what does it have to do with Linux

[–] donut4ever@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
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