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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.

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.

Well shit

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

QuoteCaskur's food porn... everything.

 :laugh:

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 09, 2024, 06:32:06 PM100% 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.

"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. "

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 09, 2024, 06:32:06 PM100% 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.

Quote from: Erica Mena on June 09, 2024, 07:00:48 PMWell 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.

Quote from: horse sense on June 10, 2024, 08:55:43 AMI 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

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 10, 2024, 10:07:46 AMIt'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.

Quote from: R. on June 10, 2024, 10:50:34 AMPretty 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.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 10, 2024, 10:57:34 AMI 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.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 10, 2024, 10:57:34 AMSame 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.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 10, 2024, 10:57:34 AMSame 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.

Quote from: Lokmar on June 10, 2024, 07:59:38 PMHell, 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.

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.

Quote from: knows things on June 12, 2024, 05:43:52 AMI 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.

I remember that too. He did not have the look of a man totally stunned by such devastating news.

And he stayed there through storytime. Your country is under attack and you don't want to scare 25 kids in a classroom by abruptly getting up and leaving when there's a crisis of this magnitude going on? Bullshit.

he knew it was controlled and had been carefully protracted and therefore had no need of a sense of urgency

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 03:29:37 PMI remember that too. He did not have the look of a man totally stunned by such devastating news.

And he stayed there through storytime. Your country is under attack and you don't want to scare 25 kids in a classroom by abruptly getting up and leaving when there's a crisis of this magnitude going on? Bullshit.

he knew it was controlled and had been carefully protracted and therefore had no need of a sense of urgency

Pretty much. Which cast everything that came after in a wholly different light than the media was attempting to push. I opened my eyes a good deal wider after that night, so to speak. I mean fuck Michael Moore documentaries, I went full on Dylan Avery with that shit. Dug deep, came up with answers that made a lot of people very hurt and angry.

Heh, I was talking with an owner of one of the BDSM clubs in New York after the fact. A 1%-er... he told me some of the crazy shit that was going down in NY in the aftermath. Like the time police pulled him over, ostensibly to search his car under the pretext of his being a potential terroriist. During the ensuing search, he was instructed to sound his horn. According to the officer, reports of car bombs being wired to car horns were a thing.

The club owner looked over at the bridge support he was parked next to... for one of the bridges crossing the Hudson and commented "are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Just do it" came the reply.

I've said it before... people are stupid. Or complicit. Either way it doesn't matter, the end result is still the same.

Quote from: knows things on June 12, 2024, 04:39:27 PMPretty much. Which cast everything that came after in a wholly different light than the media was attempting to push. I opened my eyes a good deal wider after that night, so to speak. I mean fuck Michael Moore documentaries, I went full on Dylan Avery with that shit. Dug deep, came up with answers that made a lot of people very hurt and angry.

Heh, I was talking with an owner of one of the BDSM clubs in New York after the fact. A 1%-er... he told me some of the crazy shit that was going down in NY in the aftermath. Like the time police pulled him over, ostensibly to search his car under the pretext of his being a potential terroriist. During the ensuing search, he was instructed to sound his horn. According to the officer, reports of car bombs being wired to car horns were a thing.

The club owner looked over at the bridge support he was parked next to... for one of the bridges crossing the Hudson and commented "are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Just do it" came the reply.

I've said it before... people are stupid. Or complicit. Either way it doesn't matter, the end result is still the same.

911 was no different than pearl harbor in my mind. They needed to rally Americans to a cause and those buildings were aging and had already outlived their usefulness in terms of profitability -- it was time to light the proverbial match and launch an insurance claim.

and that's exactly what they did.. and scarified 3000 lives in the process... but hey, 20 years later Afghanistan got 89 billion in advanced weaponry to use against us whenever it is that our young boys are forced to meet them once again on the sandy battlefields of a place they know nothing about.

So getting back onto topic Biggie Smiles Bigly & @knows things, what in your opinions are the best, most user friendly Linux distros as an alternative to Windows?

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 04:48:14 PM911 was no different than pearl harbor in my mind. They needed to rally Americans to a cause and those buildings were aging and had already outlived their usefulness in terms of profitability -- it was time to light the proverbial match and launch an insurance claim.

And to loot all the gold reserves out from the vaults beneath. Or so the eyewitness accounts have it. The subway tunnels were used to transport that entire store of wealth out with an armed cordon to keep nosy civilians from getting too close. And who knows where it went? Not me, that's for sure.

I can't speak with any authority in terms of the profitability of the buildings themselves, but everything else you've mentioned is pretty much bang on the money. There was a memo circulating the upper echelons of the military within a week that was basically a laundry list of nations in the Middle East the US were going to declare war on. Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Iran... I forget the others, but the list was somewhere around a dozen names that the US military brass were going to use 9/11 as the pretext to go in all guns blazing.

Displacing the persons in said countries to go.... well, you can guess where.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 04:48:14 PM20 years later Afghanistan got 89 billion in advanced weaponry to use against us whenever it is that our young boys are forced to meet them once again on the sandy battlefields of a place they know nothing about.

Pittance, all things considered, though I'm sure the Afghani warlords were stoked as fuck for the resale price they got from Vladimir Putin for their largesse. Essentially making Joe Bidet guilty of funding both sides of the Russo/Ukraine fracas. Funny, if it were Trump doing it then the media would be shrieking for his immediate castration.

Quote from: JOE on June 13, 2024, 12:44:01 AMSo getting back onto topic Biggie Smiles Bigly & @knows things, what in your opinions are the best, most user friendly Linux distros as an alternative to Windows?

I'm not repeating myself, fuckhead. If you couldn't read my post the first time around I'm not inclined to keep smashing your oblong melon into the sink to shake the map of Thiel's cum out of your eyeballs.

Linux Mint was always the easiest for me to setup and use. If I remember correctly it's from France so it can skirt US copyright law and install all the graphics and media drivers you need. Sometimes other versions make you hunt them down.