Another nail in the coffin of MS telemetry apologists.
Really, MS is freaking evil when it comes to this stuff. Wonder which asshole greenlighted this huge telemetry push. Must have been sanctioned from the very top.
Really, MS is freaking evil when it comes to this stuff. Wonder which asshole greenlighted this huge telemetry push. Must have been sanctioned from the very top.
Satya Nadella is directly responsible here. There has been no response from him on petitions about it. Google the various sources:
Ben Evans is responsible for enforcing the state of affairs on .Net core at least. https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093
Joey Ailleo, Powershell PM said this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629942
"I'm a huge privacy advocate, but telemetry doesn't have to be a dirty word. With PowerShell Core, we went through an RFC process to define our telemetry goals and implementation[1], we publish our data to a public dashboard[2], and all of the telemetry source code is out there in the open[3]. Our telemetry enables to help drive prioritization and decisions around platform/OS usage, and disabling it as simple as setting an environment variable[4]."
That's basically MSFT policy:
1. Telemetry is good for you
2. We do X, Y, Z (but forget to mention the times they got it wrong like the environment variable didn't work on Debian packages they built for .net core).
3. Default is opt out, if you can (windows 10 pro has no opt out option).
4. Stick fingers in ears.
MSFT, you can go to hell at this point. This is just disrespecting and abusing your customers. I will ALWAYS put a privacy respecting vendor at the top of the list.
Microsoft is indeed, Evil. Not evil as in mustache-twirling damsel-on-track-laying villain, but evil as in how cancer or ebola is evil. Those who place their trust in that (or any other) company deserve what they will (inevitably) get. It's not that have malicious intent. I don't think about the countless numbers of microbes that my body destroys everyday either.
It's just, you know, Business™: Humans are resources, and resources are to be used.
They’re doing too well and doing bad things too often for me to feel sorry for them.
And I somehow doubt this is considered in monopoly situations: we’re not just talking one product.
Typing this response from my Debian Testing system. I'm needing Windows less and less. Now that I can run Elite: Dangerous using WINE, I don't even need Windows around as a game OS. I can develop my applications in the Debian system and if needed I can boot a Windows 7 or 8 VM to produce a Windows distribution of said application (Python, PySide, Qt).
Basically, everything I need to do I can do whilst not booted into Windows. I'll keep that Windows 10 partition handy to boot, just in case. Otherwise, I'm free from its shackles.
1. Buy a new Lenovo laptop.
2. Buy a new Apple laptop.
I went for 2 and paid for Little Snitch and it is literally dead and works flawlessly.
Once my family’s windows 10 laptops are off (even if they’re doing nothing but charging them with lid open), my home network is silent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)#Privacy_c...
Didn't know about this though -- thanks. Guess I should be getting a copy of Little Snitch myself, heh