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Which one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?
Netscape Navigator Gold
pats good old Telnet client
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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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.
Vivaldi is my browser of choice due to sync, and because Firefox as much as I love it does not perform well when scrolling on mobile. Of course, Firefox has sync as well.
Firefox has sync, but it's opt-in, not opt out. You have to login.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#323Microsoft doesn't even try to pretend anymore. Shamelessly piggy-backing Windows and Edge for a whole series of secondary goals with no care in the world about this being user-hostile or open market manipulation.
I guess you could say that they're back.
Funny thing is that in large corporations, Edge is often preferred as the default browser over Chrome, for Edge being a "cleaner" Chrome.
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Is pass-through good enough on modern hardware where I can just run a windows VM for gaming and then shutdown windows when I'm done? This would be the ideal scenario for me. I applaud Valve's efforts with proton, but I think Microsoft will start pushing back. I bet starfield will be very difficult to run well in Linux, for example.
yes, with vfio. I've had a windows 10 in a VM on my "main desktop" for nearly 3 years now. Gentoo gets two screens and an "ok" GPU, windows gets the beefier GPU and its own screen. I use qemu, there may be other ways to do it. The linux machine can't "see" the other GPU or screen(s). if you want to do this, there are a couple of gotchas. One i'd recommend bearing in mind is not using identical cards. Either two vendo…
Fwiw the stuttering fix you describe is likely moving from IRQ to MSI, it's common to edit the passed-through PCI device in regedit to use MSI (message signalled interrupts) instead.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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I don't know HIPAA specifics off-hand, but I would not be the least bit surprised if ephemeral pre-signed urls get generated for sharing HIPAA protected assets based on cookies/auth. If the URL is live for a time window and doesn't insta-expire on refresh, then it's conceivable that data gets leaked here.
HIPAA requires "reasonable" measures. Hilariously, you can't chuck a drive full of plain text PII into a dumpster in the back of your building... ...unless there's a fence around it. A lot of the nonsense around shredding hard drives is just the drive industry convincing people that they need to destroy perfectly good devices. Unless you're facing state-level actors a simple zero-out or pipe from /dev/random will suf…
>A lot of the nonsense around shredding hard drives is just the drive industry convincing people that they need to destroy perfectly good devices.
Unless you're willing to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that each and every such hard drive does not in any shape or form contain sensitive information and pay hefty fines and jail time when you inevitably fail, the only nonsense here is you. It has been proven time and time again that data once written can be and will be recovered.
Any storage media that contains or contained sensitive information must be physically destroyed. That is the only surefire, foolproof way that we currently know of to securely and permanently delete sensitive information.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#326This 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…
> Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images
Regardless it would seem to me to be a HIPAA violation.
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See that’s on-brand with the cutthroat ruthless billG company. So not ideal, but not surprising either. This is anti-customer and needlessly fraught with legal implications. Of course it seems aligned with their hallucinations-enabled OpenAI investment. How much of this is just attempts to feed GPT4?
> See that’s on-brand with the cutthroat ruthless billG company Tangential, but this made me reflect on how "good"/"nice" Ballmer, and Ballmer-era MS, was in a very relative sense. This is slightly startling considering how my mental image of either Ballmer or MS is not great. But now looking back it does feel like relentless anti-competitiveness lessened a bit during that era, and lot of good stuff happened then. Wi…
Ballmer was as bad as Gates (and seemed completely unhinged at times to boot), Nadella only looks good next to Ballmer but has done plenty of stuff that should have never ever happened.
All of them were present at MS when they pulled their 'millions of lines of code' bullshit in an attempt to kill Linux and harm FOSS.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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#329I love the options they give you to "disable" this. There's a toggle for "Enhance images for all sites" which if enabled gives them the URL of every image you view, but if you disable that, you're still allowing MS to "Enhance" images and collect data on some sites. MS could for example still collect data on every other image you see. Then MS gives you boxes where you can enter the sites you don't want them to enhanc…
And this option disabled by default of course
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#330This 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.
I trust Microsoft far more than I trust Google.