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Well, today was the day. I finally got my fill of this site. Thanks for the memories HN, but this just isn't worth it. I could have been coding. From now on I will be. Adieu.

You can actually customize a large part of it and turn all of it off. You can't firewall it off, but you can learn how it actually works and just turn it off.

So, a second ago it was that you can't use a local account...but you can, so now it's..."The defaults are bad and people are dumb." Literally all of the people who install it or bu…

I might just be tired of hearing the same arguments over and over, but it I did see the assertion that BitLocker shouldn't be used to keep your "secrets". As if the choice of which…

Some of it's pay as you go, oddly enough. But you are largely correct that more money equals more access to these kinds of things. There is a company in China that paid them to ins…

One other thing. A "pile of power over you"...that's not helping, man. They have some commercial legal arrangement that you don't particularly care for. They can't come and kick yo…

I just don't think that's an accurate picture. They aren't recording your voice and storing it somewhere. Browsing and search history are collected by other platforms for predictiv…

There's an OS project run by Joanna Rutkowska and some other folks called Qubes that does exactly that. It's really interesting work by sharp people. https://www.qubes-os.org/

And what secrets are those? If you think that you are secure because you don't use bitlocker or windows AND THAT'S ALL that you do...you aren't secure, you just have bad UI.

That's not really accurate. Maybe we can reach out to someone at MS and they can explain exactly what is being sent. It certainly isn't virtually everything that you do...it's some…

That looks like some amazing work. I'm going to give it a try.

The privacy concerns. The letter from the Mozilla guy. I'm not even saying that they aren't valid. The vitriol and high-horse moralizing. How is that productive HN style discourse?…

It actually does run locally with access to API's that you authorize. Just saying...

Businesses actually have very different privacy arrangements than individual consumers. Its a function of how much they spend.

That's the thing, though. I find the constant kvetching about privacy the most cynical thing. None of these posts are news, new information, or even a new take on existing informat…

I didn't mean to make it sound that way. I actually agree with you completely. I was trying to write for my audience there...my point was just that obviously they will want to gain…

businesses actually can get a very different deal when it comes to data "sovereignty" issues. it's really consumers who have the least leverage. If you want an arrangement where yo…

I'm going off on a tangent? YOU installed their software. You didn't have to. No one forced you to. Don't like the TOS? Call them and schedule a meeting to talk about coming up wit…

That's actually how it works. You give it permission to use your O365 account. You give it permission to use your location either at setup or in the config settings at a later date…

Those aren't even remotely the only two choices here. There have never been more options for an end user of technology. You don't have to use agree to it. It's a trade off. If you …

You are completely free to not use it. I'm not trying to be a smart-a here. There have never been more options for end users. You aren't signing away your rights to privacy without…