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The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2018 at 8:42 pm by Sterben.)
Big developments in the world of internet privacy, If your a cloud user you may want to be careful. The statement Microsoft put out is quite disturbing as well, another issue as well is how will this effect non-cloud users?
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-techno...egislation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...ding-bill/
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 8:45 pm
Meh, I'd rather just scroll down real fast and click "accept".
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 9:06 pm
(April 1, 2018 at 8:45 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Meh, I'd rather just scroll down real fast and click "accept".
It could happen to you !!!
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 9:54 pm
All this "opt-in" shit. I've had to go throttle Cortana many times. Seems like whenever an update is pushed out, all the nosy shit gets turned back on. My wife got caught up in the scraping shit that FB did, or was at least party to. She did NOT opt into that. Of course, scare tactics about Cheeto von Tweeto not winning (on FB) had zero effect on her. But a lot of other people fell for that shit. She has friends that she explains shit to all the time, when they come to her bitching about some crazy crap they read on the internet. How they aren't able to parse that on their own mystifies me, to be honest. I don't even use FB. I don't give a shit what people had for breakfast (some of the best bacon I've ever had, and a cherry danish with a nice hot cuppa java, just for the record),  and I generally expect reciprocity. :nods:
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 9:55 pm
Oh, don't get me started on Cortana.....just bought a new computer and hoping there's a way to disable the bitch.
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 9:56 pm
Don't store illegal shit on the internet. Gotcha.
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 10:00 pm
(April 1, 2018 at 9:55 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Oh, don't get me started on Cortana.....just bought a new computer and hoping there's a way to disable the bitch.
It's a pretty simple process.
1) Go here and download the installer.
2) Make a bootable USB out of the iso with Rufus.
3) Restart your computer and boot off the USB.
4) Run the Installer, selecting "Format Partition."
5) Enjoy a Cortana free operating system!
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 10:56 pm
Ewww, Linux Mint.
Use Ubuntu or Manjaro instead.
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 11:02 pm
Lubuntu - Artful Ardvark
Love it.
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RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2018 at 11:23 pm by KevinM1.
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I'm using straight Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) for work purposes. It does the job. I used Manjaro as a daily driver for a while and really liked it. It's a user-friendly rolling release Arch distro. In my experience, it's up there with Ubuntu in the "it just works" category.
I've soured on Mint for a couple reasons. They were utterly pwned 2-3 years ago. They were less than half-assed with their security measures, hosting their .iso repository on the same server as their hardly updated and largely unpatched WordPress site, which ultimately lead to backdoors being installed in an unknown number of machines. Also, their drive for system stability is asinine*. If a package update causes a problem, they simply blacklist it, even if it contains a security update. They don't work with upstream to fix the issue, they just ignore it. So, Mint machines wind up being Frankencomputers left at various states of security flaws.
*Maybe they smartened up since I abandoned Mint, but there are better choices out there regardless (whatever one might think of Canonical, Ubuntu is rock solid, and Manjaro actively works with upstream to mitigate stability issues while ensuring security updates are released on time). And if you like the Cinnamon desktop environment, it's trivial to install it on just about any other distro.
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