Re: Microsoft: one step forward, one step back

On 6/26/2024 3:23 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-06-26 13:27, DFS wrote:

On 6/26/2024 1:06 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-06-26 12:47, DFS wrote:
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Even you will have to admit it eventually: Microsoft has no interest in users having any kind of privacy.

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If MS has been 'invading my privacy', I've seen no negatives from it.

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That has to be the stupidest comment I've ever read in this newsgroup.

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Dumber than your statement that "Once we moved out [of a haunted house], we suddenly had no trouble getting pregnant and all of our bad luck vanished."?

 I stand by that statement.

It's ludicrous.  There are no ghosts.

Because they didn't directly harm you, you consent to them knowing everything about you? How is this comment not self-defeating?

Their optional telemetry will eventually become mandatory, and their optional client-side scanning will eventually be enabled by default. Using any previous operating system of theirs which doesn't have these "features" will become impossible.

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They will, huh?
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I know you believe in psychics, but I didn't know you actually were a psychic too!  Congrats!
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So tell me: is MS really doomed?

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Microsoft is doomed in the eyes of people who value their privacy and their freedoms, including freedom of speech. The lemmings, however, will gladly go on with Microsoft's invasions.

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Last week you were a Windows lemming.  Today you're a Linux freedom fighter.  From zero to hero in a week!

 I tend to keep an eye on tech news. Doing that is what made me iffy about Microsoft and Apple for as long as it has. I've forgiven their behaviour repeatedly in the past, but it now looks like they're doubling down. They don't even want you to have local accounts because "security!" The same way Apple's client-side scanning was about "security!" and Microsoft's client-side scanning is "security!" You are free to continue to be fooled.

You've seen the light... for the 20th time.

Whether you like to admit it or not, you too will use Linux.

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VERY doubtful.  Too much crappy hobbyware forced on you, and I DETEST Stallman, the "father" of the GPL.

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As far as I know, Stallman did not create anything other than GCC and the FSF. Everything that came after that was influenced by him, but not credited to him.

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Think about what a sick monster he really is.  He would rather videos of your child being raped remain available on the Internet because in his warped brain it's 'censorship' to destroy them.

 I understand his position though I disagree with it.

You "disagree" with it?
Something's really, really wrong with you if you have anything but a visceral, almost violent response to a demon like Stallman.
Grow a pair and condemn the foul creature in the strongest terms.  If Biden said something like that you'd call for him to be jailed.

 > Either way, Linux will survive despite your resistance to it.
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Together we can beat it:
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 Yep, and I am now using the exact distribution that made me react that way.

Is it not a 'steaming pile of garbage' anymore?