Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

Post by a1369209993 » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

paulmd wrote: post #222

willis936 wrote: post #131

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>* overwriting a folder deletes existing contents, rather than merging them Wait. If there truly is not a setting for this then it makes finder unusable as a file explorer and arguably the entire OS. Recursive merge is one of the most fundamental things a personal computer does.

that's the pretty standard behavior on unix. Unless the window manager goes out of its way to override it, mv'ing a folder to a place where one already exists will replace the old folder with the new one. You can go out of your way to do it manually with rsync and similar tools, of course, but by default you're moving directory pointers around, not merging trees.

  $ mkdir 1 2
  $ touch 1/foo 1/bar 2/baz 2/quux
  $ mv -T 2 1
  mv: overwrite '1'? y
  mv: cannot move '2' to '1': Directory not empty
  $ mv --force -T 2 1
  mv: cannot move '2' to '1': Directory not empty

Post by apostacy » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 11:30 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #190

crazygringo wrote: post #166

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That makes no sense. By that logic, what are firefighters doing but censoring homes? What are koalas but a form of eucalyptus censorship? What is locking your front door but a form of censoring burglars? No, just no. Censorship is preventing the transmission of ideas , nothing more, nothing less. Deleting a file has nothing to do with transmission, and it's being done in response to a perceived threat, not its commun…

...I'm less sure of this. If Windows Defender was deleting any file named "Animal Farm.txt", that would be a form of censorship, right? It's preventing the transmission of a piece of political literature. Now, what if it was deleting "Animal Farm - The Video Game.exe"? Now, what if it was deleting the keygen for "Animal Farm - The Video Game"? What if the activation server for that game had gone offline, and this key…

Post by a1369209993 » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 11:36 PM UTC

pebble wrote: post #123

sslayer wrote: post #23

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I ditched in the middle of Windows 7, with absolutely no regrets. Valve has made tremendous inroads in gaming with Proton, along with developers releasing for Linux, there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft.

Can you watch youtube videos with hardware acceleration yet?

Post by MeinBlutIstBlau » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 12:27 AM UTC

bogwog wrote: post #194

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #117

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I love Linux, but it's still like a glass house. One simple terminal command out of curiosity will basically force you to reinstall the OS. If you're response to that is "well you should know what you're doing before you run as sudo," all I can say is no. There is no reason why changing a DE, or installing certain software should make it nigh impossible to revert to previous changes short of being an expert or full r…

> One simple terminal command out of curiosity will basically force you to reinstall the OS. You mean like `sudo rm -rf /`? Would an equivalent command run by an admin on Windows not cause the same types of issues? Sure, there might be some files that can't be deleted while the system is running (like kernel32.dll or whatever it's called), but you'll certainly break a lot of things which you can only reasonably fix b…

Post by teawrecks » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #242

teawrecks wrote: post #237

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You can't transmit what you don't have. Also, fwiw "transmission" is literally the name of torrenting software. Would your argument change if that was the package being removed instead of qbittorrent? Most people use windows, windows comes with defender on by default, what's stopping the govt/some company from getting msft to remove programs and files they don't like?

> what's stopping the govt/some company from getting msft to remove programs and files they don't like? Literally the capitalistic profit motive? You know, companies generally try to avoid pissing off their customers and driving them to competitors for no good reason. If Microsoft started politically censoring users' content, that's probably the easiest thing they could do to send users away from Windows and Office o…