Speaking of, there’s VPNs or you could use PIHole to block Microsoft’s telemetry and AI ips.

That game of cat and mouse would get very tiresome very fast and Microsoft would win in the end. Better to hope for new vwrsions of Tiny11 or one of those debloater scripts to disable the AI features entirely, but they’d probably be reinstated with every update. Maybe use a hook to re-run the script after every update? I don’t even know if that’s possible in Windows.

Thankfully I’ve been Microsoft free for years now so I don’t have to know. Linux is a blessing.

No, that’s the kind of thinking that prevents me from taking 13-year-old stoners on Lemmy seriously when they talk about helping them to rule “their” world like they’re going to crown themselves Pharaoh of the Earth.

Assume whatever you want.

Yeah, I don’t really want to live in “your” world and I definitely want no part in governing it. But I wish you the best in your endeavour.

You’re defending a very defensible position with the weirdest arguments.

The problem is that without evidence of mishandling, what can we achieve? How can we force Google to be more transparent? The only way I see is via the courts, and they require proof.

Not just pigeons. Pigeons with diarrhea who have been shitting all over the pieces for years.

Of course they have, it’s not election season. Only the especially crazy crazies will continue tondisplay these signs indefinitely, but there are plenty of slightly kess crazy crazies who had them up during election season and voted for the mango-colored child rapist.

Since you didn’t specify the kind of “AI” model, I’ll assume you mean LLMs. But this really applies to any so-called AI model. All of them are trained on stolen content. Every last one of them is a hurricane of millions upon millions of copyright violations. So the answer to your question is a loud, resounding “no”.

Malware Anticheat can even tell if it’s running in a VM explicitly configured to look like real hardware, so it’s probably not trivial at all to accomplish this. Like someone else said in another comment chain, the ideal solution is Microsoft patching the intentional security flaw that allows kernel-level access at all. No kernel-level cheats, no kernel-level anticheats, no incompatibility. But of course it’s against their monopolistic interests to do so even if it benefits everybody else but them.

It’s the sequel to Shooty Guns (1992), one of the first games to come in two separate floppy disks.

Actually, once you go far enough into the past, Linux has better support for legacy Windows software than modern Windows does. The claim might be true if they’re counting a lot of shovelware.

Not having Malware Anti-Cheat support is a good thing. Hopefully it will continue this way until people realize that it’s not worth giving shitty companies like EA access to your online banking passwords just to pretend to shoot 11-year-olds in the head.

No.

They would be required to comply with the current administration’s extremely biased and borderline illiterate interpretation of those laws.

Probably someone on the White House’s payroll who has a micropenis.

Fuck yes, Python.

They won’t fuck this up YET. If AppManager doesn’t currently use ADB to install APKs, it can be made to. So can any F-Droid or Aurora Store client.

However, I’d say that the odds that Google will stop at this certificate demand and will not eventually try to paywall ADB somehow are currently 0% in my estimation.

It’s high time someone created an independent fork of Android. Very soon, custom ROMs won’t be enough.

Putting your faith in something and doing it because it’s all you can do at this point are two different things. I don’t currently live in the USA. I can’t go to protests. I’m not likely to be allowed to vote in the next election, if there is one. All I can do is pressure, weakly and indirectly, and this is one way of doing it.

I’d rather engage in gestures that may turn out to be a total waste than not doing anything, because that is guaranteed to be a total waste.

Personally, it’s because I haven’t seen anybody post about the ballroom.