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Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

freehunter wrote: post #36
jenscow wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing. They moved to mobile instead

This is the correct answer. Even Ubuntu's famous bug #1 (Microsoft has a majority marketshare) was closed many years ago [1] as PC operating systems have declined in importance. Steve Jobs's comment about PCs being "trucks" has also come true. Almost all leisure computing has moved either to mobile devices (phones and tablets) and/or to the web (which overlaps mobile devices), making the OS less and less important. G…

And yet, Linux Desktop still is not dominant, even only counting desktop computers. Hmm...

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by jchw »

freehunter wrote: post #25
jchw wrote: post #2

The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding. How they can simultaneously do incredible things for Github, and open source Windows components, while continuing to not fix the most user hostile Windows ever produced, is completely bonkers. My litmus test for whether Windows is finally fixed is whether of not it’s possible to install it without Candy Crush, but unfortunately without killing the network and…

Honest question and I am absolutely not starting an argument, but what have they done for Github? All I'm aware of is making private repos free, but I haven't seen anything beyond that. I must be out of the loop.

I have no idea how much they had to do with Github’s recent developments, but:

- Github Sponsors with donation matching for some limited time period

- Github Pro which based on browsing user profiles a surprising amount of folks have bought into

- Github Package Repositories.

- Github Pipelines.

Generally I have been waiting for Github to start sucking but it has only gotten better imo.

I have been a pretty big Gitlab fanboy for a while so it’s weird to harp on Github’s progress but they’ve done a good job flipping the script.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by Razengan »

ctrl-j wrote: post #37
Razengan wrote: post #12

Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment. For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again. There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of…

I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…

Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by la_barba »

skrebbel wrote: post #23

So the objection is that Internet Explorer has msn.com as its default homepage. This is fair, it's ridiculous and a relic from a long gone age. But so is Internet Explorer. What kind of super old Windows version were these people running? What caused IE to open out of the blue? Windows has plenty flaws but randomly open browsers is not one I'm familiar with.

I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the default behavior on system boot, who knows. After the update they decide to send you to their website - but they fuck up the API call and so IE just shows the default homepage.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by starik36 »

dzink wrote: post #16
jtdev wrote: post #6

A related observation: I have between 4-8 *nix, MacOS, iOS, machines running on my home network at any given time. I’m using piHole (with base config) to block ad traffic. My blocked percentage hovers around ~10%... until I boot up my one Windows 10 machine, which spikes the blocked ad traffic to ~25% and remains that high -with zero applications running mind you - until I shutdown the machine, after which it quickly…

I’ve seen less on the Windows 10 Pro version (switched off all datasending features on install).

How does one do that?

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by emsy »

ctrl-j wrote: post #37
Razengan wrote: post #12

Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment. For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again. There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of…

I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…

I agree that the lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw. But they're on a different level. One is an inconvenience, the other is utter disrespect of your privacy.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by parliament32 »

specktr wrote: post #27
simplyinfinity wrote: post #3

The guy probably has infected machine... which is far more likely than MS runing ad farm

Have you used windows 10 recently? I didn't realize how bad it was until I installed a fresh copy of windows 10. My backup windows machine has so many registry patches to disable the crapware that I didn't recall how bad it truly is by default.

Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by fit2rule »

Razengan wrote: post #43
ctrl-j wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…

Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.

Had my Linux machine up and running somewhere since the day Linus announced it on minix-list.

Still though, also have my stack of MacBooks.

Apple becoming a Unix vendor lured me to their hardware, which functions as a terminal server in most regards, for my needs. For everything else, there's a fat Linux machine.

Windows: just, no. Only use it if I get paid to use it.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by fit2rule »

skrebbel wrote: post #23

So the objection is that Internet Explorer has msn.com as its default homepage. This is fair, it's ridiculous and a relic from a long gone age. But so is Internet Explorer. What kind of super old Windows version were these people running? What caused IE to open out of the blue? Windows has plenty flaws but randomly open browsers is not one I'm familiar with.

>What kind of super old Windows version were these people running?

Build-servers.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by ufmace »

This sounds pretty bizarre. I wonder exactly what version of Windows they were using? Sounds like maybe not a server version? I've run a bunch of Windows computers, and while they have some annoying habits, I've never had one spontaneously open a IE window on me. Maybe he got malware on it somehow? Though getting malware on a server would be very disturbing.

Most of my most-annoying OS features are around updates these days. Windows Update loves to just spontaneously force-reboot whenever it feels like it, too bad if you had some unsaved files or some process you intended to leave running. OS X is nicer about its OS updates, but the Mac App Store seems to like to silently download and install updates whenever it feels like it. Pretty annoying when you're trying to do something on your last few % of battery, and it decides to burn up the CPU updating XCode or iTunes or something, with no indication what it's doing or how to make it stop.

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