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Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by scholia »

outworlder wrote: post #198
pmelendez wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary I think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the "free" alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one. Just to name a few: Gimp and Photoshop Inkscape and Illustrator Maya/3DStudio and Blender I would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chu…

You are missing the point. "Proprietary system" here means Windows. All these applications could run under Linux just fine if the vendors cared.

Any good examples of closed source applications being financially successful on Linux? How do the opportunities on Linux compare with investing in applications for other platforms?

It's not so much about "caring" as about the ability to pay programmers to create profitable software.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by microtonal »

makomk wrote: post #200
weland wrote: post #148

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> Besides driver problems As long as you stay away from perpetually-beta distributions that I shall not name, driver problems are really a non-issue. I haven't had a malfunctioning peripheral under Linux in a very long time now (years?). Driver problems are on-par with what you see on Windows :-). > missing support for newer OpenGL standards This has been a common complaint about OS X for a long time, and no one thou…

I don't think it's even true that keyloggers are any harder to write on say Windows. The only thing they can't trivially get hold of is your password for the machine itself. (Of course, if you write a naive keylogger you're going to get caught by any AV software worth its salt.)

I don't think it's even true that keyloggers are any harder to write on say Windows.

This is false. Windows has a mechanism since Vista (UIPI) that provide some UI isolation (lower privilege processes can e.g. not listen to keystrokes on higher privilege processes):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Interface_Privilege_Isola...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625963.aspx

E.g. web browsers normally run at the 'low' integrity level and cannot eavesdrop on other processes (which are normally at the 'medium' level). It would be nice if someone with knowledge Windows internals could explain UIPI a bit more, I gathered this knowledge a while ago due to being interested in the topic :).

Of course, if users just accept anything at UAC prompts, everything is lost ;).

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by _lce0 »

AlexandrB wrote: post #108
Amezarak wrote: post #92

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That's literally a bog-standard privacy policy clause. You can find the essentially same four points on everything from Ubuntu to Wikimedia. Can you be more specific about which part of it you find particularly unreasonable? Can you explain how the claims that the privacy policy allows MS to share data with the MPAA are founded?

Normally these kinds of terms appear on web services where the scope of disclosure is contained to the information you upload to the service (e.g. repos you upload to Github or posts you make to Reddit). Windows 10 is fundamentally different because the scope becomes everything the OS can suck up including everything on the hard drive and keystrokes from the keyboard. You no longer have the option not to disclose som…

> [...] becomes everything the OS can suck up including everything on the hard drive and keystrokes from the keyboard.

Not just on the machine.

It can scan the whole local network, understanding about LAN, devices, services, all of which could be hard to reach from WAN.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by jdright »

adestefan wrote: post #133
x5n1 wrote: post #67

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Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…

> Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. When you post "M$" in a reply I automatically mark you as rabidly anti-Microsoft and usually stop reading. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but childish acts such as those have no place in a rational discussion.

When you post "childish" in a reply I automatically mark you as rabidly ad-hominen and usually stop reading.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by Karunamon »

outworlder wrote: post #198
pmelendez wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary I think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the "free" alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one. Just to name a few: Gimp and Photoshop Inkscape and Illustrator Maya/3DStudio and Blender I would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chu…

You are missing the point. "Proprietary system" here means Windows. All these applications could run under Linux just fine if the vendors cared.

And what leads to the vendors caring? Demand.

There is no demand for this software on linux. Professionals have better things to do than choose their software based on ideology.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by andrepd »

soccerdave wrote: post #93
thescrewdriver wrote: post #72

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> Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. I think this says more about Android than it does about Windows 10. Windows 10 has crazy defaults, but so does android and many android apps want access to my info for no good reason (e.g. news apps wanting access to list my accounts, my phone number, my contacts, precise location etc.). Comparing privacy defaults of Windows to Android is not comparing it…

This is a main reason that I have avoided Android so far. The iOS permissions model is a far better model. At least with the next release of Android (Marshmallow) they are fixing some of this and hopefully you will be able to use apps without giving them access to so much info.

Try Xposed App Ops. It shows when, if ever, was the last time an application made use of each particular permission, and lets you revoke them.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-appops...

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by aruggirello »

pmelendez wrote: post #173
x5n1 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…

> we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary I think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the "free" alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one. Just to name a few: Gimp and Photoshop Inkscape and Illustrator Maya/3DStudio and Blender I would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chu…

If Microsoft did not advise OEM's to preinstall Windows, the cheapest desktops and laptops would be those with a GNU/Linux distro (no Windows license). Then perhaps Linux would have a wider adoption on the desktop.

And if Linux had any significant market share (I'd say even 10-20%) you would have native Linux versions of most of that software - not entirely unlike what you have on OS X.

Edit: clarified.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by DanBC »

tunap wrote: post #225
joesmo wrote: post #208

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As far as I can tell, I still only have the option of accepting or denying apps' permission on CyanogenMod. Also, I can hide my contacts and location from apps, if I'm really persistent about clicking the deny box a million times. But I still can't approve only the app permissions I want and not approve the ones I don't (which coincidentally are not essential to app functioning).

I'm unsure why I cannot replt to ionised to ask which version he/she's running. I remmberPrivacy Guard briefly had those features, or was it when 'Roid inadvertently included the privacy feature they pulled d right after the EFF praised them for it? Either way, I'm sure my new flip phone will spy on me, I'll minimize what I give them... a removable battery doesn't interfere with elegan design on a clam, apparently.

> I'm unsure why I cannot reply to ionised to

HN rate limits replies when comments are nested. You either wait for the reply link to show up, or you clicky the time stamp.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by andrepd »

pmelendez wrote: post #173
x5n1 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…

> we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary I think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the "free" alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one. Just to name a few: Gimp and Photoshop Inkscape and Illustrator Maya/3DStudio and Blender I would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chu…

Proprietary system as in Operating System, not proprietary applications.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by wrenky »

danlindley wrote: post #181
smtddr wrote: post #158

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>>I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. I'm going to recommend to you, or anyone, wanting to verify Windows 10 network behavior to do it without depending on software running on the OS itself. Try verifying it again using network analyzing software on linux or macosx, running downstream of…

Could you recommend a resource that would provide some good information on this? I keep hearing about ways to modify routers to operate this way, but have yet to come across something that clearly describes how this is done.

As bitwise said, best is to use a small linux computer on the same lan. You could use any computer really, just make it different than the host you are trying to capture on!
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