does anyone else think that windows defender is a surveillance tool, not a security tool? To hash all known files, so that when a file is later deemed illegal, it can be traced back to its origins using this private file hash database? wikileaks, etc.
Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
171–180 of 261 posts
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#172Things 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…
laughs in Linux
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean keep a spare machine for emergencies? Some of us have always had them as primaries, rather than leaving that world. 20 years ago, the type of person analogous to a typical HN type would have been on Linux. Thread after thread on places like Slashdot started from a position of Linux advocacy as a common baseline. Then in the early 2000s there was a massive shift to Mac among those types. Personally, I…
It's ironic, Linux today is in a better state than its ever been. Chrome is Chrome, dependency hell is more easily mitigated by containerization, desktop environments have mostly become stable, hardware from Purism, System76, and Dell is quite good. I think a lot of us just end up with Macs because work IT hates the idea of managing Linux machines and macOS gets you 95% of what you need.
> I think a lot of us just end up with Macs because work IT hates the idea of managing Linux machines
Many of us end up with Linux precisely because work IT doesn't manage Linux machines. (What's worse is when they think they can manage Linux machines.)
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#174Things 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…
What about the case of Zoom? Not that privacy focused
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#175Earlier 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.
> Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
It's already happened.
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#176A 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…
Similar experience here. Not to mention the seemingly-continuous/mysterious "update bandwidth". When I boot up a Windows machine at my vacation condo with a 2Mbps DSL line (okay, yeah, but it's all I can get), it sucks it completely dry for an hour or more, with nothing about updates or anything meaningful appearing on the Windows screen at all. What's it doing? Who knows. edit: clarity
Windows 10 has a "this is a metered connection" option that might help in that situation. I use it when tethering my work laptop to my phone, and it seems to prevent that sort of abuse.
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cannot reply to sibling... Nvidia doesn't have simply the best OpenGL implementation, it has the fastest and most forgiving implementation. No argument about speed (or Cuda), but by being forgiving of code that shouldn't work according to spec, it creates lock-in and makes more conformant implementations look bad. Also, on Linux, AMD's OpenGL implementation - which is just Mesa - is very high quality.
> but by being forgiving of code that shouldn't work according to spec So they are not following spec, and that's a good thing?
If you're trying to run a non-conformat application that you are unable or unwilling to modify, then yes. It is a good thing.
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Between Gimp, Inkscape and Krita, what are the things not covered in this domain?
For some simple photo manipulation Gimp works - but it seems a lot harder to use. Plus it's missing non-destructive adjustment layers, and the brush engine is nowhere near as advanced as photoshop. Inkscape is similar - everything is a little harder to do - and there's some basic things that don't seem to be in the application at all. Does Inkscape support multiple artboards yet? What about exporting multiple resolut…
> but it seems a lot harder to use
I actually feel the exact opposite - it's easier to use than Photoshop - but that's probably because I used GIMP before I ever had access to Photoshop.
100% agree about Inkscape, though.
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
Linux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.
It depends on the software (and associated hardware if you're talking about graphics) of course, but between wine (and its extensions like proton that are successfully handling many AAA games old and new), qemu, and virtualbox, the need for actually having to dual boot from Linux or have a dedicated Windows box grows less and less each year.
Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
#180Things 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…
laughs in Linux
chortles in BSD