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Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

pferde wrote: post #240
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #225

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Interesting that you'd use "Section", "§", as a reference marker. Asterisk (*), and dagger (†) are common reference markers in British English, but not the section sign, aka "silcrow". Is that a common usage /auf Deutsch/? Such use is listed on the Wikipedia page, but it's a use I don't ever recall having seen before.

I'm wary of using the asterisk in internet forums, or really in almost any textual exchange online these days, because everything tries to parse text as markdown, and I am never sure whether or not my asterisks will get eaten. Especially on sites like this one, which have no previews.

On HN you just escape as \* to avoid it doing italics, but I agree that using characters that uniformly work is sensible

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by throw10920 »

23B1 wrote: post #248
throw10920 wrote: post #170

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I wouldn't use the term "property theft", as even though there's a very clear analogue to IP and digital economics for anyone who cares to think about it, pro-piracy pedants will gladly jump on the term (which is strongly tied to physical property) to avoid addressing the problem itself. This problem doesn't happen as much with other terms like "theft", "IP theft", and "piracy".

I would use the term property theft, because I would have the exact same reaction to someone stealing my wages, my stuff, or my time.

I agree that it's the exact same evil, I just wouldn't use "property theft" either to describe those things - for instance, in the case of wages, I think most people would use "wage theft" instead.

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by thot_experiment »

l33t7332273 wrote: post #258
thot_experiment wrote: post #230

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How many actual zerodays are there that don't require you to ALSO be doing something dumb per year? It seems exceedingly rare. I understand the argument if you're talking about like, a server running some CMS or whatever, sure that's gonna get pwned because it's a big target so it's worth going after. Your natted personal machine? You're fine unless you're running executable off random russian sites (and even then yo…

There was that Windows IPv6 no click zero day within the last couple of weeks

good thing i disable IPv6 at home because it's an annoying pita and i run no machines with windows in the cloud, checkmate :P

on a more serious note though I don't think machines with ipv6 enabled that are behind a NAT are likely to be vulnerable to this, i suppose maybe wormable if you can natpunch through some p2p voip or gaming service, it's the sort of patch i would probably install if i were made aware of it (if i had ipv6 enabled), but being made aware of it doesn't like, leave me worried, and i don't consider it to be likely to affect me unpatched

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by 23B1 »

throw10920 wrote: post #262
23B1 wrote: post #248

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I would use the term property theft, because I would have the exact same reaction to someone stealing my wages, my stuff, or my time.

I agree that it's the exact same evil, I just wouldn't use "property theft" either to describe those things - for instance, in the case of wages, I think most people would use "wage theft" instead.

HN pedantry always amplifies the conversation

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by 23B1 »

hobs wrote: post #260
23B1 wrote: post #249

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My time and labor is my property.

And nobody copying your work can take those away from you.

If you can't afford the software/music/art/film/book, then you don't buy it.

Digitization doesn't somehow transform my limited time and resources into something you're suddenly entitled to.

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by esperent »

Rinzler89 wrote: post #167
throwaway48476 wrote: post #138

Can this be used to enable the HEVC extension without a M$ account? It's so frustrating they can't license the patents as a lump sum.

Why would you need it? HEVC codec ships with the driver package from your GPU vendor.

This hasn't been my experience. Nvidia + Intel GPU drivers are installed but I still can't play HEVC with the default windows media player. MPC Black works fine though, and probably VLC too.

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by [deleted] »

dist-epoch wrote: post #228
Alifatisk wrote: post #192

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How do you get the direct link?

I got them from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/j58y6f/no_longer... There are many articles with this workaround. Funny how it still works, almost 4 years later. This is not an accident, MS knows what it's doing.

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Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by adr1an »

thot_experiment wrote: post #189
38 wrote: post #118

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Exactly why you should never, ever, enable auto update, for anything. Too often it ends up breaking something or patching something you don't want patched. It allows a profit seeking company to enable or disable software functionality on your device, regardless if it's in your interest.

Yup, 100%. My golden rule of computers is: If it's working right now, an update can only cause it to break. The best case scenario is that it still works. Why would your roll the dice?

The arch rule says update btw

Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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Post by eric-hu »

indrora wrote: post #132
38 wrote: post #118

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Exactly why you should never, ever, enable auto update, for anything. Too often it ends up breaking something or patching something you don't want patched. It allows a profit seeking company to enable or disable software functionality on your device, regardless if it's in your interest.

It should be noted that unless you've modified an Xbox One, from what I understand you cannot stop it from auto updating unless you permanently disconnect it from the internet (which will cause your licenses to eventually expire, in the year timespan or so), new launch games won't run (they're tied to a minimum version of the OS).

> (which will cause your licenses to eventually expire, in the year timespan or so)

Can you manually modify the system clock? If so you could roll the calendar back every 3-6 months.

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