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Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by roblabla »

op00to wrote: post #36
pas wrote: post #28

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Ah, I don't really care about telemetry, but their amazing outlook.com SMTP service rejects mail from small senders, and there's no way to successfully appeal. Yeey, brave new megacorp world!

What’s the difference between a small sender and a spam host?

What's similar between them? A spam host will likely be high volume of similar-looking email sent to users who will never reply and most probably trash/spam-categorize the email. A small, single-user sender will likely be *very* low volume of fairly different-looking email sent to users who will likely answer and otherwise interact with the mail. They have literally nothing in common.

Before I moved to fastmail, my email was consistently getting nullrouted by microsoft. Everything was setup correctly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC, etc...), and every other mail host I tried would receive my mail correctly. I send out a very low amount of email (3-4 per month?).

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by Snetry »

gavinray wrote: post #50
pjmlp wrote: post #26

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But it will be built on top of WSL3 and all hackers will jump of joy with Windows/Linux.

Relevant tweets from self: https://twitter.com/GavinRayDev/status/1446459866059612162 https://twitter.com/GavinRayDev/status/1446460168389136395 WINE and the very popular/well maintained Linux distros have gotten so good in recent years that the scenario is nearly identical to Windows + WSL2, except with the DE reversed. And WINE is never going to run entirely as smooth/easy as regular Windows, though it's pretty dam…

difference is WSL2 is more of a virtual machine than a translation layer like wine or WSL1

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by Krasnol »

peteri wrote: post #95
intricatedetail wrote: post #35

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Many people only use Windows because the software they have don't have a Linux build. Maybe people should start pressuring vendors to make Linux builds and that could end Windows.

There are several reasons for Windows popularity today: Active Directory - The centralised control it gives corporates. Games and DirectX - Although this seems to be getting to be less of a reason. Backwards compatibility - Windows 16 bit apps are now dead, but you can take the VB6 code I wrote pre-Y2K and run it today. Linux fragmentation - It's difficult to support all the Linux variations with a single binary (or…

There is also one reason many here don't see:

you don't have to bother with the console. Everything can be installed and run with a mouse.

Don't take me wrong. I understand the good sides of console programs. You can do a lot there but your average user doesn't care.

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by garganzol »

amyjess wrote: post #29

Because of things like this, I'm at the point where I consider the invention of public-key encryption to be the worst thing that's ever happened to the world. If governments had _immediately_ preemptively classified anything related to assymetric encryption—and actively enforced the classified status—as soon as the first research into it started appearing, the world would be a much better place than it is now.

This is a slippery slope way of thinking. One would argue that appearance of computers is similarly evil, but many of us can confirm that this is not true.

It all depends on who uses the tool and their motives, not on the tool itself. The tool is powerful but it's totally neutral. And can be used for both bad (dominance, ransom) and good things (security).

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by southerntofu »

huhtenberg wrote: post #93
pas wrote: post #28

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Ah, I don't really care about telemetry, but their amazing outlook.com SMTP service rejects mail from small senders, and there's no way to successfully appeal. Yeey, brave new megacorp world!

Ah, yes: Hello, My name is [Kumar/Numan/Punith/Suresh/Sachin] and I work with the Outlook.com Sender Support Team. I do not see anything offhand for the IP (xx.xx.xx.xx) that would be preventing your mail from reaching our customers. Good bye and fuck off. In response to complaining that their servers say - 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [xx.xx.xx.xx] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provide…

At least you got a response! Most people don't. According to some previous blogposts and threads on this topic, apparently if you just contact them often enough, they will after a few months escalate the problem to the competent team and get you unblocked.

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by pid-1 »

Oddskar wrote: post #58
Gargyle wrote: post #8

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Where did they actually do nice things? VSCode is still not entirely open source and the official builds have spyware included.

It's honestly weird to see "Telemetry" labeled as "Spyware" by a technical people that, quite frankly, should know better. Spyware is NOT the same as gathering Telemetry data. You can also just turn off Telemetry in VSCode in the settings. I think a vast majority of people on HN gather data on customer usage of the products that they build. Because it ultimately makes us able to tailor the products better for our cus…

From my POV (user), how do I know if my data is being aggregated correctly and not being sold?

As a developer, how do you know the data you're collecting now won't be used maliciously in the future by your org?

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by ogurechny »

zahllos wrote: post #23

The article mentions Process Explorer. Since Sysinternals were bought by Microsoft many years ago and the tools are distributed directly via Microsoft, such tools are unlikely to have an issue being signed. A brief history of the process for those not following it. Originally for kernel-mode drivers, you needed a code signing certificate cross signed by Microsoft's root . This means that the certificate follows a cha…

qBittorrent developers just said fuck it three years ago, and let the world burn with unsigned installer. I suggest everyone to join the civil disobedience. If you don't, you'll soon find out you can't run your programs.

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by ddalex »

dTal wrote: post #53
eps wrote: post #25

In related news - ever wondered why Windows 11 can't be installed on "older computers"? You know, the ones that don't have a TPM chip? Now you know. Windows 11 completes the lock-up of the OS. That's why Windows 11 exists in the first place. All other changes are secondary. Microsoft knows they would've not been able to pull shit like this as a Windows 10 update, so they were effectively forced to do a version increa…

"Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that." --Richard Stallman, "The Right To Read"

Stallman was ALMOST right.

The fight is not about which programs the user can run, but who controls the user data

Re: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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Post by patrec »

broodbucket wrote: post #63
pjmlp wrote: post #54

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Ironically I have been using Linux via VMWare for about 10 years now, because I got fed up with Year of Linux Desktop, which to this day still doesn't provide a proper experience to anyone that cares about graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling. When my Asus Netbook dies (1215B with XUbuntu), the next UNIX travel laptop will be an Air. So you can spare the talk about how much GNU/Linux has progressed, since I…

Have you ever considered that there's a huge amount of users that don't care about "graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling"? Maybe Linux on the desktop doesn't suit your individual needs, but you seem awfully combative about it on the basis of your specific niche.

> Have you ever considered that there's a huge amount of users that don't care about "graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling"?

Have you ever considered that this "huge amount of users" might not care about graphics programming or usable UI/UX tooling, but that >99% of them sure care about either graphics (games, photos, video, digital painting, ...) or usable UIs and UX?

I'm using Linux all the time, and it's quite amazing how terrible anything Desktop related is. Who is going to fix that if the state of graphics and UI/UX tooling is so poor that it either drives away or stymies all the people with relevant skills to drive some improvements?

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