kind of hilariously ironic. What do you call an app that makes itself impossible to remove, and deletes users' files without their consent? I guess when you spend too long fighting malware, you end up becoming the malware, or something.
Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
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Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you checked https://www.protondb.com/ to see which games run well on Linux with Steam? Lutris ( https://lutris.net/ ) also provides scripts for games that aren't on steam or bought on other stores. You can also install Pop!OS which is another Linux distro for gaming (or so I've heard).
Funny you mention it. This thread actually sparked some digging and I'm currently looking into flashing Pop!OS right now. For anyone interested: From what I've gathered, Pop!OS has a bit more support than the officially released SteamOS Beta version, which is actually someone outdated right now. But from what I've read about the Steam Deck, Steam has a new version of their OS that the deck runs on. So maybe (hopefull…
> maybe (hopefully) it will be released along with the deck - couldn't find any info on that though.
Valve has stated that their SteamOS 3 will be a freely-available open platform, and that they encourage other device manufacturers to ship it on their hardware. I assume that this means isos will be available.
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happened to me as well. Even when those keygens were in zipped files, Defender would flag them as malware and remove them automatically. The only solution I found to this was to keep the keygens in a password protected zipped files.
Interesting ideas here: how antivirus becomes a form of censorship. Maybe that’s an extreme view but it feels like now that Microsoft supplies it’s own defender app. And like all forms of martial law beginning as a way to protect citizens! I also noticed that with win10 when apps crash it sends the data to Microsoft—as though they can fix 3rd party apps for us. Yeesh. I think I’ll skip out on Windows 11 TYVM.
lowering the quality of the discussion admittedly, but in the most generous possible tone of voice, I ask, why does "thunderbong" have password protected zip files of game-cracking exe files ? because of smoking weed and piratin games thats why !
and, should the wealthiest corporations on earth be in charge of making sure that thunderbong does not get to make game cheats at home ?? of course NOT
on the other hand, as a software developer in the 90s, I went to Hong Kong, and saw first hand stalls of 100% pirated movies, games, OS and apps.. lots of it, with professional COPIED artwork and packaging .. as a content creator this was really disturbing.. people told me that there are no software development jobs (then) only hardware companies, for this exact reason
Summarize- commerce takes place in a market, and theft is a real, constant problem, both at the commercial level (Hong Kong) and personal level (Thunderbong). Yet, society must have some stable relief valves for overzealous, rich Sheriff types, and overreaching rich merchant types, to prevent rifling through the rights, privacy and headspace of Thunderbong, and the legitimate customer THEY might become, while dealing with commercial pirates who are just basically stealing.
I am a Westerner, and I have to say, I am more concerned that Thunderbong have a safe life, than I am about the profits of Merchant and turf of Sheriff.
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The "court of public opinion" didn't prevented walled gardens on the mobile world That's more like megacorp vs consumers, not megacorp vs megacorp. Trying to force vendors to remove piracy apps would be closer to the latter. As a concrete example, apple's app tracking transparency seem so be doing pretty well.
So how to you explain the complete lack of recording features on TV sets that support streaming services?
The complete lack of recording features? I can't comment about brazil because I don't like there, but in the US they're pretty popular, to the point that cable providers even advertise it as a feature, eg. https://www.xfinity.com/learn/digital-cable-tv/x1 (search for "DVR")
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
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>* overwriting a folder deletes existing contents, rather than merging them Wait. If there truly is not a setting for this then it makes finder unusable as a file explorer and arguably the entire OS. Recursive merge is one of the most fundamental things a personal computer does.
I hate being the kind of internet guy who's like "X sucks" about something a lot of people have worked on, but I really, really, really dislike Finder. It fails as a file explorer on several fundamental levels. For example network shares in Finder feel so tenuous and like they could break any instant. Sometimes after you sleep your Mac and wake it up, you have to reboot to be able to reconnect to a network share.
Well, at least Finder used to be good... before OS X.
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
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I love Linux, but it's still like a glass house. One simple terminal command out of curiosity will basically force you to reinstall the OS. If you're response to that is "well you should know what you're doing before you run as sudo," all I can say is no. There is no reason why changing a DE, or installing certain software should make it nigh impossible to revert to previous changes short of being an expert or full r…
> One simple terminal command out of curiosity will basically force you to reinstall the OS. You mean like `sudo rm -rf /`? Would an equivalent command run by an admin on Windows not cause the same types of issues? Sure, there might be some files that can't be deleted while the system is running (like kernel32.dll or whatever it's called), but you'll certainly break a lot of things which you can only reasonably fix b…
My last Linux kill was mixing up command that adds group to a user with one replacing whole user groups list.
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
#297Given that Linuxes are usually distributed via torrents, isn't it curious how suddenly a "bug" in Windows blocks so many torrent applications all of a sudden?
Yes, Microsoft which has been hating on Linux for almost 20 years since Ballmer days (despite moving .NET to Linux and releasing VS Code and building their own Linux distribution and becoming one of the biggest Linux server hosts in the world in Azure and building WSL and hosting Linux distributions for use on it) has just this week moved against the torrent protocol from 2001 which is famous for spreading Hollywood films.
What's curious is that Linux is used by reasonable people for sensible reasons, but mostly represented online by total conspiracy theorists. At least make your conspiracy believable that the MPAA lent on Bill Gates who used his contacts inside Microsoft to get a rule added to Windows Defender?
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
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Isn't this already what Windows does? It's warned about unsigned binaries on first run for a while now, no? And I can see some argument for that, even if in practice it feels more like teaching users to blindly ignore warnings. But holding uncommon or un-Microsoft-sourced (that is, signed) to a higher standard feels wrong.
> Isn't this already what Windows does? It's warned about unsigned binaries on first run for a while now, no? Sort of? There's three I know of 1. the generic warning for files you downloaded off the internet 2. the UAC warning when you try to run any program as admin 3. the smartscreen warning for uncommon files. The first two has the "run/open" equally as visible as the "don't run/cancel" button. The last one is the…
Another interaction before 3. is the Edge / SmartScreen integration where it won't download files thought to be unsafe "This is unsafe to download and was blocked by SmartScreen Filter" and you need to explicitly download them, e.g. screenshot in this blog:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-download-blocked-files-sm...
Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
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'For the vast, vast majority of its customers, keygen files are going to be malware.' That's just not true though. They have the ability to detect malware. What they are doing is blindly labeling anything reslembling a keygen as malware , for no valid reason. This also doesn't just apply to Defender.
> What they are doing is blindly labeling anything reslembling a keygen as malware First of all, that's not true. You can test it: create an empty file and name it keygen.exe. It won't get deleted. The code inside the file has some similarly to one of the hundreds of thousands of malware used to train Defender, and there's a false positive. None of that matters, though, because you can just not use it if it causes pr…
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Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
'For the vast, vast majority of its customers, keygen files are going to be malware.' That's just not true though. They have the ability to detect malware. What they are doing is blindly labeling anything reslembling a keygen as malware , for no valid reason. This also doesn't just apply to Defender.
> What they are doing is blindly labeling anything reslembling a keygen as malware First of all, that's not true. You can test it: create an empty file and name it keygen.exe. It won't get deleted. The code inside the file has some similarly to one of the hundreds of thousands of malware used to train Defender, and there's a false positive. None of that matters, though, because you can just not use it if it causes pr…
Found the Windows Defender dev