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Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by disiplus »

unicornfinder wrote: post #24
lmilcin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft did change. But then it looked how Apple and Google did the same thing, successfully, and sailed away in terms of market share and now it wants to replicate the success. The thing is, I don't think it is going to succeed. The likely thing that is already happening is that power users are leaving Windows and once power users leave the platform will die.

From my perception the power users already left years ago. It's just that with WSL they're very slowly starting to come back.

wsl is not that great

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issue-458254244

Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by alkonaut »

dogma1138 wrote: post #25
alkonaut wrote: post #18

It's not quite clear what is published here. What copyrighted material is it that is accessed through somme kind of "circumvention" and what is the circumvention?

I’ve tested this OS a few times as an alternative for Kali/BBL for environments where Linux hosts would raise flags. The distribution was a fully fledged ISO install of Windows 10 with the activation feature disabled. I don’t think the authors here have a leg to stand on.

Haha and the discussion here sounds like it’s ms being angry about scripts removing ads/telemetry. HN gonna HN.

Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by FactolSarin »

choeger wrote: post #5

Interesting case. If Microsoft really demands that a user does not disable features, I am looking forward to some taking this to court. The thing is, software licenses are still largely uncharted territory. If I am not allowed to modify the system as my hardware executes it, will Microsoft take liability for any damage, material or immaterieal that could be caused by it? Think of an upgrade bricking your device (happ…

That's not really what's going on here. "Ninjutsu OS" is a modified Windows 10 ISO. Basically a pirated copy.

Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by [deleted] »

malikNF wrote: post #32

Microsoft being Microsoft, its such a shame so many video games still only support MS. Over the years MS has become really user hostile (well may be not as much as my samsung android phone I guess) with constant forced updates, forced adverts for their products. And now a DMCA for a project trying to help folks customize windows? Sigh! Few days ago there was an update on Windows10 and my computer was restarted forcef…

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Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by quijoteuniv »

The amount of telemetry that gets block by my DNS sinkhole when running the windows 10 maschine i have for work is insane. Even with the settings on maks privacy. In a way i think Microsoft should be happy someone is using windows for pentesting. Or that windows is not to o bad to use with a few tweaks. Everytime I have an important meeting I have to make sure i am not going to get one of those force starts that can take hours.

Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by nickjj »

disiplus wrote: post #41
unicornfinder wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my perception the power users already left years ago. It's just that with WSL they're very slowly starting to come back.

wsl is not that great https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issue-458254244

Accessing mounted drives can be avoided by putting your source code in WSL 2's file system, but it is for sure still a pressing issue since folks tend to have multiple drives and want to access them within WSL.

But to your point, WSL 2 does have some really big issues pending tho, such as https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 and https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4699. The TL;DR is that WSL 2 will happily use 80% of your system's memory by default and it never frees disk up in the VM that it runs in. The VM's disk will continue to grow and grow unless you as an end user run some PowerShell incantations to shrink the vhdx. In other words, deleting files from within WSL 2 won't clear the disk space used by the VM.

Within like 2 hours of using WSL 2 for the first time I found my system grinding to a halt because it used 11GB of memory and chewed through 60GB of my SSD since when I copied my source code into WSL 2's file system (to avoid the poor performance documented in your issue) I forgot I had a ton of wave files included in one of the directories since I kept those in a private directory in my podcast site's source code.

Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by FactolSarin »

How does something like this get to the front page? Someone provides a cracked copy of Windows and calls it "Ninjitsu OS" and then cries foul when it's taken down because of course it was.

Is there that much of an anti-Microsoft sentiment that people upvote something like this uncritically?

Re: Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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Post by romanovcode »

henearkr wrote: post #4

Microsoft hasn't changed after all... I used to like what they were doing with WSL, but now on the contrary it starts to worry me, because it can become an avenue of evil behavior against users/devs/open-source/...

Did you even read the article? Someone took ISO and modified it for re-distribution which is piracy. It has absolutely nothing to do with disabling features on your own Win10 installation.
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