Microsoft goes all in on bundling spyware for Windows 11

[disgustapated]

https://rumble.com/v50ladn-microsoft-disables-windows-recall-after-massive-public-backlash.html


Yup. I told you this was coming. A new feature, initially released "on" by default, is being rolled out. This new feature screencaps everything. Whatever is open on your computer screen, smile 'cos it's on Candid Camera. That's browsers, passwords, bank statements, games, Caskur's food porn... everything.

Of course, when people started ree-ing about this latest invasion of privacy (not to mention security flaw), Microsoft said "uh-oh, spaghettio" and promised to leave it turned off by default.

How about removing it from the build entirely? I notice that option isn't on the table.


This is one of the reasons why I cautioned you all last year and the year before to maintain a "network blind" machine, preferably running Windows 7 or some flavor of Linux, where you might store all your sensitive data, where it would not be visible to outside snooping or tampering. Have you done it yet? Because I did not trust and remain distrustful of Microsoft's constant forays into my private and public life.

I'll assume the answer is "no" and remind you "you get what you fucking deserve". I'll also mention that I have a total of seven devices here, none of which run Windows 11 and three of which are Windows 10. I'm seriously contemplating rolling those back to an earlier iteration of Windows in the event Microsoft decides to backport a version of this latest spyware that somehow works around the third party protections I have installed from places like http://sordum.org

Welcome to 1984. Big Brother Nicrosoft is watching you.

[Biggie Smiles]

100% spot on. As a technology professional I call rant for days on all the ways Microsoft is fucking their customers, their partners and the industry as a whole over.

Have you heard of "Azure Virtual Desktops"?

Get this for a concept ... it'll blow your mind just how dumb people, even in the technology sector, really are.

So they are basically touting this service where you run your WindowsX desktop in their cloud. Meaning the desktop operating system runs virtualized on their hardware in their cloud. Which you must use a client resident on your own desktop running at your home or business to get to.

Think about this for a second. A ""service"" where you use a microsoft desktop to RDP over the internet into another Microsoft desktop miles away. And when you use that desktop in their cloud you are being charged for running cpu, memory and disk and charged on a utilization rate for all network traffic that you generate on this machine.

So at the end of it all you are paying N+ a littany of other charges to fucking run a god damn desktop

1 x cost of personal PC
2 x for microsoft license (personal pc and AVD)
1 x for internet connection
1 x for internet router/firewall
and extra cost for all the CPU. Memory, disk and network consumption.

how's that for highway robbery...

and the fucking lemmings are gobbling it up.

[Erica Mena]

Well shit

My kid wants a new laptop as a graduation present. But she doesn't want a Mac

[JOE]

Caskur's food porn... everything.

 

[JOE]

100% spot on. As a technology professional I call rant for days on all the ways Microsoft is fucking their customers, their partners and the industry as a whole over.

From what I've read Windows 11 has been a real lemon Biggie Smiles Bigly. Windows users aren't adopting anytime soon:

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/windows-11-market-share-declines-as-users-seemingly-shift-back-to-windows-10

It only has about 20% of the Windows market. So it may go down in history as another Windows Me or Vista.

Anyway I thought most new software still runs on Windows 10. So there's really no point upgrading to 11. And they're already talking about a Windows 12 so 11 could be short lived.

[JOE]

"Statcounter released a new report showing a noticeable decrease in Windows 11's worldwide market share since Feb 2024. The struggling Windows 11 fell below 26% while Windows 10 enjoyed 70.03% of Microsoft's OS market share. "

[horse sense]

100% spot on. As a technology professional I call rant for days on all the ways Microsoft is fucking their customers, their partners and the industry as a whole over.

Have you heard of "Azure Virtual Desktops"?

Get this for a concept ... it'll blow your mind just how dumb people, even in the technology sector, really are.

So they are basically touting this service where you run your WindowsX desktop in their cloud. Meaning the desktop operating system runs virtualized on their hardware in their cloud. Which you must use a client resident on your own desktop running at your home or business to get to.

I knew they had rolled it out ages ago, I just didn't remember the name. And yes, I expected that people would gobble it up, in spite of the sheer lunacy of paying for a service that could be expressed far more cheaply (and with less security flaws) by simply learning to maintain a machine of their own. I based that clairvoyant prediction on how easily people were stooged into paying through the nose for the "privilege" of carrying about their own personal tracking device in the form of cellphones.

People are fucking retarded, is what it comes to. And they will make every excuse under the sun as to why they are so reliant on these leashes that tether them to the potential of getting assfucked sideways. I've lost count of the amount of excuses as to why people allowed themselves to be medically experimented upon and I've no doubt this encroachment on people's privacy will be no different. What astounds me is that these same assclowns will go completely batshit crazy over some individual like you or I being privy to their IP address (for what I don't know) but opening the door for some faceless flunkey to potentially shut them down in ways that would make Truedeaup blush and they barely even shrug before rolling over and presenting their chocolate starfish.

Well shit

My kid wants a new laptop as a graduation present. But she doesn't want a Mac

I wouldn't want a Mac either. You think they are above all this shit? Ummm... they were talking about rabbiting about in your software for the purposes of monitoring your devices contents and deleting any of your shit that they disagreed with long before Microsoft came to the party. And forget Android; that's got Google's telemetrics all over it.

The simple solution? There is none. But you can protect her to some degree by impressing upon her the risks of of what is unfolding here in all its gory detail. And getting her a Linux Mint or Ubuntu OS and telling her to learn to code. Otherwise she's as good as accepting a leash and collar less like a human and more like a dog.

Then again, you might be wasting your breath and she'll be telling you "don't care, just slip that noose around my neck and I'm good to go". People tend to be happiest doing that... at least until the beast comes for them and they realise that everyone around them isn't lifting a finger for fear of being fucked about in like manner.

[Biggie Smiles]

I knew they had rolled it out ages ago, I just didn't remember the name. And yes, I expected that people would gobble it up, in spite of the sheer lunacy of paying for a service that could be expressed far more cheaply (and with less security flaws) by simply learning to maintain a machine of their own. I based that clairvoyant prediction on how easily people were stooged into paying through the nose for the "privilege" of carrying about their own personal tracking device in the form of cellphones.

People are fucking retarded, is what it comes to. And they will make every excuse under the sun as to why they are so reliant on these leashes that tether them to the potential of getting assfucked sideways. I've lost count of the amount of excuses as to why people allowed themselves to be medically experimented upon and I've no doubt this encroachment on people's privacy will be no different. What astounds me is that these same assclowns will go completely batshit crazy over some individual like you or I being privy to their IP address (for what I don't know) but opening the door for some faceless flunkey to potentially shut them down in ways that would make Truedeaup blush and they barely even shrug before rolling over and presenting their chocolate starfish.

I wouldn't want a Mac either. You think they are above all this shit? Ummm... they were talking about rabbiting about in your software for the purposes of monitoring your devices contents and deleting any of your shit that they disagreed with long before Microsoft came to the party. And forget Android; that's got Google's telemetrics all over it.

The simple solution? There is none. But you can protect her to some degree by impressing upon her the risks of of what is unfolding here in all its gory detail. And getting her a Linux Mint or Ubuntu OS and telling her to learn to code. Otherwise she's as good as accepting a leash and collar less like a human and more like a dog.

Then again, you might be wasting your breath and she'll be telling you "don't care, just slip that noose around my neck and I'm good to go". People tend to be happiest doing that... at least until the beast comes for them and they realise that everyone around them isn't lifting a finger for fear of being fucked about in like manner.

It's insane to watch technology professionals fuck themselves right out of a career within the next 5 to 10 years to help Gates make another 50 billion.

It's the purest form of roaches voting for raid I've seen in a long time. You have integrators who's primary bread and butter is hardware sales of high end servers, storage and networking equipment who are gleefully PUSHING their clientele into cloud based services in Azure with this idea that it will save on capX costs.

when in fact it actually does nothing but increase them.. but I digress

Now here's the kicker that proves 99% of people are too stupid to breathe. The heads of those very same companies are literally wondering why this shift in focus is losing them MILLIONS on their balance sheets.

Hello? Because you're not selling the computing gear every 5 years when these things go EOL anymore? It's running on Microsoft's cloud.

but but but -- as an integrator they are kicking us 10% off the top on subscription costs! Yes, yes they are... until of course you are of no value to them any longer after every Tom, DUck and lemming has entered in this unbreakable alliance with Microsoft. Then, when microsoft starts looking to increase their quarterly profits by another 10% year after year where do you think they'll turn to make those numbers?

idiots... I swear

[R.]

It's insane to watch technology professionals fuck themselves right out of a career within the next 5 to 10 years to help Gates make another 50 billion.

It's the purest form of roaches voting for raid I've seen in a long time. You have integrators who's primary bread and butter is hardware sales of high end servers, storage and networking equipment who are gleefully PUSHING their clientele into cloud based services in Azure with this idea that it will save on capX costs.

when in fact it actually does nothing but increase them.. but I digress

Now here's the kicker that proves 99% of people are too stupid to breathe. The heads of those very same companies are literally wondering why this shift in focus is losing them MILLIONS on their balance sheets.

Hello? Because you're not selling the computing gear every 5 years when these things go EOL anymore? It's running on Microsoft's cloud.

but but but -- as an integrator they are kicking us 10% off the top on subscription costs! Yes, yes they are... until of course you are of no value to them any longer after every Tom, DUck and lemming has entered in this unbreakable alliance with Microsoft. Then, when microsoft starts looking to increase their quarterly profits by another 10% year after year where do you think they'll turn to make those numbers?

idiots... I swear

Pretty much. And the longer it's left to run on that model, the less availability of people there will be to understand the specific hardware and configuration required to put together an alternative to the Microsoft option. You're seeing the same thing in the scientific and engineering communities with the academic shift away from training people in Fortran - before much longer no-one will understand how any of this shit works and there'll be no option but to take the wildest and wooliest arrangements on faith. "Trust the Science" in other words.

Should make your average shyster happy I suppose.

[Biggie Smiles]

Pretty much. And the longer it's left to run on that model, the less availability of people there will be to understand the specific hardware and configuration required to put together an alternative to the Microsoft option. You're seeing the same thing in the scientific and engineering communities with the academic shift away from training people in Fortran - before much longer no-one will understand how any of this shit works and there'll be no option but to take the wildest and wooliest arrangements on faith. "Trust the Science" in other words.

Should make your average shyster happy I suppose.

Same thing is happening in pretty much all areas with the advent of an AI model running on quantum computing They can erase and completely rewrite history to their own liking in a matter of minutes. Across the entirety of the internet.

Today you can google your eyes out for something which proves with any level of certainty Trump is a racist. You'll find nothing. Tomorrow that might not be the case when they begin to erase actual history in favor of a prefabricated one constructed by AI

I tell all my friends to get ahold of any many paper books and stuff on independent media as they can because this is coming. Watch.

[JOE]

I tell all my friends to get ahold of any many paper books and stuff on independent media as they can because this is coming. Watch.

Seems AI is also slowly wiping out much of the consumer software too Biggie Smiles Bigly. Getting harder to buy traditional versions of software & mostly everything is going subscriber only. Trying to get what remains of the good stuff while we can still get it. Companies dont want you to own the software or perpetual type anymore and prefer the consumer pays for their subscriber only model.

[Lokmar]

Same thing is happening in pretty much all areas with the advent of an AI model running on quantum computing They can erase and completely rewrite history to their own liking in a matter of minutes. Across the entirety of the internet.

Today you can google your eyes out for something which proves with any level of certainty Trump is a racist. You'll find nothing. Tomorrow that might not be the case when they begin to erase actual history in favor of a prefabricated one constructed by AI

I tell all my friends to get ahold of any many paper books and stuff on independent media as they can because this is coming. Watch.

Hell, I remember watching CNN for weeks before the Iraq invasion in the early 90's. CNN showed the Iraqi military convoys lined up at the Syrian border waiting to take shit Saddam didnt want discovered or captured out of Iraq. You cant find that broadcast footage anywhere.

[knows things]

Same thing is happening in pretty much all areas with the advent of an AI model running on quantum computing They can erase and completely rewrite history to their own liking in a matter of minutes. Across the entirety of the internet.

Today you can google your eyes out for something which proves with any level of certainty Trump is a racist. You'll find nothing. Tomorrow that might not be the case when they begin to erase actual history in favor of a prefabricated one constructed by AI

I tell all my friends to get ahold of any many paper books and stuff on independent media as they can because this is coming. Watch.

I've been saying it too. Also to maintain a network blind computer where tomorrows deletions might be archived today. Although I am fully cognisant the veracity of such archives will likely be questioned, be they of a geopolitical or sociopolitical nature, I am also aware that an unprotected movie, music or game collection could be decimated overnight if stored locally on a machine with a connection to the internet. The simple solution being to store it behind the Ultimate Firewall of an unconnected Windows 7 machine and only copy across that which you need using flash and/or optical media.

I have terabytes of stuff stored, the backups of which exist yet in a military grade waterproof case with faraday shielding. It may survive a Carrington event, it may not, but I'm hopeful.

As for books, there's not a great deal I would preserve, though I have a few titles. One might surprise a few people here; an 1888 print of the Catholic Bible. I find it mildly amusing myself, being an avowed agnostic and all. But I nonetheless think it a text that ought be preserved against the sorts of bullshit that beset our society today. And who knows; maybe one day I might find myself a believer in more than just the message it contains within. I also prize my copy of the 2018 Shorter Oxford English dictionary, one of the last editions to be printed before definitions to words like "vaccine" were altered to make them more MRNA friendly. It's my reference to a time before Clown World went completely sideways and started eating its own culture.

[knows things]

Hell, I remember watching CNN for weeks before the Iraq invasion in the early 90's. CNN showed the Iraqi military convoys lined up at the Syrian border waiting to take shit Saddam didnt want discovered or captured out of Iraq. You cant find that broadcast footage anywhere.

I caught something similar in the 9/11 coverage... a journalist reporting on the collapse of WTC building 7... 20 minutes before it actually fell. No shit, it was in frame behind the journo for the entire live cross. Had I been quicker off the mark, I might have loaded a tape in the VCR.

The one that really got me though was the footage of George Bush reading to the class. I'll never forget the visceral reaction I had when the aide leaned in to inform George of the news. Seeing Bush's eye movements... I thought "you bastard... you knew this was coming. The "archival footage" that's on the public record now... I don't believe it's the same. I've seen it surface a few times and his reaction is not the same as I remember watching it live on television.

But hey, when you gotta lie your way into a war, you gotta lie your way into a war, right? Right.

[JOE]

Here's yer kinda guy Biggie Smiles Bigly Smiles:

He kinda reminds me of that Mad as Hell Guy, only he's directing his rage at Windows 11.