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I wonder how long before someone says "Having to wait for security patches to be made only when new exploits are discovered is inefficient, we need an AI agent running all the time, inspecting every command, to respond immediately if an exploit is found." and then they just stop security patches and you need that AI crap consuming ram and energy like hell while sending all your data to the mothership.

I just rebooted to give an example... in less than 1 minute Edge WebView alone tried about 400 connections (everything red in the graph was blocked)

In the last few months I saw so many new services being added to Win11, connecting to so many new domains... WindowsSpyBlocker, that a lot of people use with the DNS, is awfully outdated, and unless stuff like Sophia Script, Win-Debloat-Tools, winutil, O&O Shutup were updated recently (like 1 or 2 months tops) it's also outdated.

Microsoft is also constantly changing how stuff works, intertwining stuff so you can't fully remove without breaking functionality. You used to get media expansion packs (stuff like av1, avif and webp support) through updates or you could download them from their site or use a Powershell command to install them, now you are forced to do it through the MS Store, and guess what happens if you uninstall the MS Store? (at least, a few months ago when I got a new Win11 install, removing MS Store removed the packages). Probably a lot of Edge removing tools are broken by now too, if you watch your network you gonna see Microsoft Edge WebView 2 calling tons of domains all the time, and if you remove it you kill your internet connection entirely (you can, however, block it on the firewall. It used to be just one service, but with some recent update it's four different services you have to block now).

What I'd recommend is manually uninstalling all the bloat you can, then running Get-AppxPackage on Powershell to find whatever crap is still lurking and removing it with Get-AppxPackage -Name "PackageName" | Remove-AppxPackage (don't remove what you are not sure what it is for, search or ask AI when in doubt, and some stuff you won't be able to remove anyway), then execute msconfig to disable other crap you may also find there (again, be careful with that) and lastly get a program like simplewall or Portmaster to block Windows communication at firewall level (Portmaster has a very friendly UI) - the problem is, each update Microsoft includes new services, and you should let stuff like Wuauserv, Do Svc, Crypt Svc and BITS open because they handle updates, but always check what the domains they are connecting to are for... still, even though they may not be for telemetry, they could totally be sending telemetry data through them, so there is no way to use Windows safely.

simplewall/Portmaster can completely cut the communication of Adobe, Nvidia and whatever other program you use, so you'd technically look like you are offline to them - if you need to use their online features, or they need online authentication to even run (evil as fuck), I don't think you will be able to escape data collection.

When China does it, it's called Cultural Revolution.

A good title gives you information about or summarizes the subject. A shitty title hides that information to force people to click to discover what it is, and 99.99% of the time it's some low-quality crap. I won't be clicking that video and will never know if it's good, because just from the title I lost all respect for its creator, whose name I don't even want to know. Clickbait is a cancerous culture pushed by content farms and predatory engagement algorithms. I refuse to submit to it.

they are collecting it to protect it, like a British Museum

Thanks. I have seen this and I thought it was all lemmy since it looks like devs wanted it that way for everyone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

Is this not clear enough? Slurs are against our code of conduct and the goals of this project. Go to voat or gab if you want to use racist or sexist slurs; we don't allow them here.

If you dont like it, fork it. Stop bothering us about it, we will never fully remove the slur filter.

yep, this time I have read the thread to the end :P

Well, I believe brainwashing can only happen when there is no access to information. Adults make choices, and this is part of being held responsible.

Mention dynamic pricing then

That's very beautiful, but do you feel that way too when Trump says vaccines cause autism, Elon Musk goes on rants about the woke virus, and then that racist uncle who likes to drunk-drive and catcall mentions them as beacons of morality protecting society from transexuals?

Regardless of nature and nurture, at some point people must be responsible for the things they do and say, else we are going to have to excuse everyone for everything, as nature and nurture is no one's fault... and I don't believe that. One can understand all the context of why they are like that, and still want them to fuck off.

There are insults that I feel like are moralistic, majority seem linked to non-marital sex but the root overall is trying to shame someone for sexual activity that "should" be shameful. From those aimed at women like removed (lol lemmy, I'm saying the female dog here), slut, removed (ugh, the way devs treat everyone like children is ridiculous... it wouldn't prevent a troll from writing wh0re, just prevent adults from having a conversation), etc, to homophobic insults, and even some more "neutral" like bastard... I don't feel like people talk about bastard enough, like, you are trying to shame that person for their mother not being married? Like, single mother = bad person? (like son of a removed, bastard is pretty misogynistic)

However, when someone says something really dumb, and you try to come up with an insult to his intelligence, I think inevitably someone will try to link it to people who are mentally impaired. Even the word "dumb" here, it's used for people with speech impairment, and people believed they couldn't talk because they were idiots, which meant mentally impaired as well... given enough first-world-boredom, someone will make the fight against "dumb" and "idiot" their cause too.
What about when there is data and evidence to something and the person refuses to see or hear... you gonna call them blind/deaf? You will have a hard time finding an insult that first-world-boredom won't try to link to shaming people with disabilities... even calling someone crazy, insane, demented, deranged, etc, those are all used to demean people with real mental conditions, it's ok to make them the butt of the joke?

I'm all pro using insults like asshole, piece of shit, etc, instead of moralistic stuff when you are trying to insult a person's character... but what if you are trying to insult a person's cognitive ability? People dead set to be offended will find a way to say you are being prejudicial towards people with cognitive impairment.

edit: nvm, thanks for the answer.