Windows has a hardcoded list of Microsoft domain names that entirely bypass the hosts file. I see nothing about this, so I would assume there is no countermeasure here. Curiously, this approach appears to have been tested as working anyway.
Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
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Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
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#23Wouldn't it make more sense to instead use the same GDID on thousands of hosts? Or a random GDID on each read? No GDID sounds like it sticks out a lot more.
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#24"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…
> What causes this obfuscated writing style? Claude without an editor having worked too long on its own project.
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#25Sharing in the hope it helps even one person on the fence to convert. C. 2012 I swore never to use Windows again, and I've managed it! It is possible - macOS is really good (you'll have to unlearn your muscle memory of the Ctrl key) and Linux gaming has come a long way. If using Windows professionally, consider installing it in a VM on your mac or linux box, then asking your agent to set up scripts that remote to to…
There is another option, which is to use Karabiner to revert to PC-like shortcuts. Learning the mac way is probably better if you plan to use mac exclusively, but I was triple-wielding macos+windows+linux for a period and I wanted my muscle memory to work across all of them.
Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
#26Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
#27"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…
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#29Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
#30"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…