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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by theduder99 »

mikae1 wrote: post #124
hospitalJail wrote: post #114

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>Mojang The real danger. (almost unironically though) I can switch OS, Office is almost obsolete with google + free stuff, their browser/software is terrible and never used, Github(yikes, well, git works..), LinkedIn(and nothing of value was lost). So we really are at the whim of M$ when it comes to Github and Minecraft. Scary. But hey, I used to be obsessed with Nintendo games, and now people have Zelda clones so I…

Could you name some Zelda clones?

fenix rising is better than botw

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by PascLeRasc »

isoprophlex wrote: post #234
PascLeRasc wrote: post #188

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How are you verifying this in job interviews? Not using Windows is at the top of my list of wants in a new job, to me it'd be as good as a $10k raise. But I'm aware that asking about this during an interview sounds petty.

I get that, I felt petty too, but I'm much more productive, and much happier without windows. So you gotta frame it like that. "The cloud runs on linux, I'm most productive when developing natively on something close to where we deploy, can I not use windows?", or, "I have years of bash muscle memory and automate a great deal of mundane tasks, is it okay if I use linux?" Or otherwise make it a gentle enquiry, "I see…

That's how I've been framing it too, something like "I do my best work on Linux/Mac". A couple places that have seemed otherwise fine have acted weird though, Tesla especially.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by tester756 »

bboygravity wrote: post #161
mihaaly wrote: post #137

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Above the privacy concerns that MS captures your data that they can have their hands on quick and loose and the way they please their terrible record of ruining long living basic functions is a second reson not to go for laptops with Windows, not trusting it for reliabile functionality and handling any private data of mine. Having a completely isolated separate computer for company data on Windows that belongs to the…

Lol, explain this to the average European/global business. They pay for "the service" to upload their trade secrets and literally everything to Microsft / the USA. OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, etc etc. And then boast about their high level of "security". The naivity is unbelievable.

Is this naivety if they *trust* MS?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by fknorangesite »

donmcronald wrote: post #53
crazygringo wrote: post #4

This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default . Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there? As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry? Not only does this seem like a terribly…

It’s crazy. I used Edge when it first switched to Chromium because it was a nice, clean Chrome alternative with working sync. Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted. This “feature” is insane and it makes me concerned about what Windows might be doing in the background.

> Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted.

> This “feature” is insane and it makes me concerned about what Windows might be doing in the background.

Today? We've had almost forty years of being taught that Microsoft can't be trusted about what they're doing in the background.

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Post by kube-system »

f1shy wrote: post #117
Melting_Harps wrote: post #98

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> Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation. Without sounding to condescending: Bro... this entire Industry still relies on using fax or snailmail for records. Using slow, leaky, non-private/seure channels for sensitive information is not as much of a concern to this field than one thinks if you've been in the belly of the beast. Ask anyone who has spent anytime doing IT work at a hospita…

Waaaaait! In the US also the FAX is still a thing?! Seriously?! I have heard terrible stories from Germany and Japan, but did not know that also the US…

The US has a zillion healthcare providers. Some are so huge and well resourced that they literally have $100 million+ digital record systems. Some are so tiny that it's one doctor operating out of an old house with pen and paper. A fax machine is the least common denominator.

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Post by PeterisP »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #155
hospitalJail wrote: post #139

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No source code= black box you can't trust.

Well, the rendering engine is open source. https://webkit.org

All the bad things of Edge we're discussing here are not in the rendering engine, so who cares about that?

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Post by SR2Z »

vorticalbox wrote: post #253
belter wrote: post #171

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> The security model alone is an unfixable disaster (and many have tried over the years) Surely you are talking about Windows... :-)

Linux isn't any better. Take any Debian based os download a .deb and double click it. It's executable by default, opens up in something like Eddie and just asks for a password. Nothing about Linux is really more secure than windows other than the fact it is a small target.

Knowing the root password for a machine is meant to grant you full control over that machine...

You literally just described an .exe or .msi.

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Post by dustyharddrive »

V__ wrote: post #217
BasedAnon wrote: post #93

When are people going to grow a backbone and switch to Linux? It's kind of hard to feel sorry for tech-literate Windows users

Different people will have different reasons, but if you are curious, these are mine (I'm generalizing a bit): * I don't want to use the terminal at all if possible. Not to configure my OS, not to do basic stuff which Win can do with a few clicks. I'm in awe how fast and efficient some people are with it, but if I need it at most once or twice a day, it's a nuisance. * No binaries. I don't want to compile software ev…

> No binaries

There are so many binary packaging formats available, almost to a fault.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by replaceusb »

V__ wrote: post #217
BasedAnon wrote: post #93

When are people going to grow a backbone and switch to Linux? It's kind of hard to feel sorry for tech-literate Windows users

Different people will have different reasons, but if you are curious, these are mine (I'm generalizing a bit): * I don't want to use the terminal at all if possible. Not to configure my OS, not to do basic stuff which Win can do with a few clicks. I'm in awe how fast and efficient some people are with it, but if I need it at most once or twice a day, it's a nuisance. * No binaries. I don't want to compile software ev…

All of those have been non issues and I have been daily driving linux for several years now.

The only few things I do from terminal is updates, because I do not want to load application icons from the update manager. My bandwidth is metered most of the time due to travel. Doing it from terminal is text based.

I cannot remember the last time I had to compile anything that wasn't related to something I was tinkering with out of curiosity. I wanted to compile those things.

Package and dependencies are issues on windows as well. The builtin application manager takes care of those? So I am not understanding that complaint.

Aside from a handful of multiplayer games that do run, you just cant play due to anticheat software not working. Every game in my steam library, and GOG has worked without issue through wine/proton. Native games also work great.

The problems I have with windows 10/11 even after running those is all the data it is constantly sending. Again I am on a metered network so MBs count. You cannot disable telemetry, you can only reduce how much is sent.

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Post by dizhn »

bboygravity wrote: post #161
mihaaly wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Above the privacy concerns that MS captures your data that they can have their hands on quick and loose and the way they please their terrible record of ruining long living basic functions is a second reson not to go for laptops with Windows, not trusting it for reliabile functionality and handling any private data of mine. Having a completely isolated separate computer for company data on Windows that belongs to the…

Lol, explain this to the average European/global business. They pay for "the service" to upload their trade secrets and literally everything to Microsft / the USA. OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, etc etc. And then boast about their high level of "security". The naivity is unbelievable.

But but they have a privacy policy. (Same people lose it when you even mention a similar service from Russia or China)
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