Some more reading, for those following along:

(Oct 11th) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Removing-Windows-Recall-breaks-File-Explorer-in-latest-24H2-update.899991.0.html

This was their stance 2 months ago:

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/turns-out-you-wont-be-able-to-uninstall-windows-11s-recall-feature-after-all

I don’t think that would have changed if not for the backlash Microsoft has received for it.

Now, supposedly it’s optional and off by default, but that could change again anytime…

Telus is the one that’s sent me dozens of notices; they don’t care. They just pass on the message they received and wash their hands.

In Canada, I get letters (well emails) when I rawdawg some torrents; but it’s never gone further than that.

Prior to using usenet, I constantly torrented w/o a VPN (talking 10+ TB of data across 3ish years) and received a new email notice or two every other day. I’ve still got a folder with 60+ notices. ISP doesn’t give af, they just forward the copyright notice in the form it was sent to them, and that’s it.

Now though I primarily use usenet and haven’t gotten a notice since. Downloads are also way way more reliable and faster.

That’s covered in the article you’re commenting on.

Another user on GitHub also pointed out that Microsoft’s own DISM can be used to disable the Recall service without the File Explorer consequences, although Titus points out that this behaviour seems inconsistent, as in his testing, the File Explorer still changed its appearance after a restart. Inconsistency aside, it’s unlikely that any non-technical Windows user will even know what DISM is, never mind how to use it, and this reliance on a command-line utility to remove a controversial feature is indicative of MIcrosoft’s goals.

Because 2 letter tlds are reserved to be issued to countries. Ideally the country’s 2 letter country code.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain

All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.

at least for the technology-related domains.

It’s not a technology related domain though; it’s a country’s domain that happens to be used for a lot of tech.

With the country dissolving, the domain does too, so it can become available for future countries.

So the .su domain was handed to Russia to operate alongside its own (.ru). The Russian government agreed that it would eventually be shut down, but no clear rules around its governance or when that should happen were defined.

But ambiguity is the worst thing for a top-level domain. Unknowingly, this decision created an environment in which .su became a digital wild west. Today, it is a barely policed top-level domain, a plausibly deniable home for Russian dark ops and a place where supremacist content and cyber-crime have found cover.

I seems IANA would like to not repeat past mistakes.

I’ve heard of ytdlp many times, but I rip so little from youtube I just haven’t had the need to look into it.

YouTube tends to be one of my last resorts for media sources.

I tend to rip music videos from youtube with yt1s.com

It’s manual and tedious, but works. I’d like a solution like the arrs, but I also don’t keep many music videos so 🤷

The glasses are just a camera. Pretty much any camera can be used for this; Metas glasses are just a bit more discreet than pointing your phone at someone. Cameras are pretty ubiquitous and come in many many form factors, including super small easily hidden forms like clothes pins/buttons.

The real news here:

reverse face search engines like PimEyes and Facecheck ID, as well as people search engines like FastPeopleSearch, CheckThem, and Instant Checkmate.

Can be used to dox people in seconds.

Considering how old Facebook is, you’d think they would have their shit together when it comes to password security…

1. it doesn’t necessarily take full resolution images

2. just because it can capture images a few hundred milliseconds apart doesn’t mean it’s continuously capturing images. It could be several in short bursts with a delay between groups of images.

To be fair, they aren’t specifically targeting this data.

Rootkits give the software unrestricted access to all the data on the computer. You then trust that they don’t use that access for anything nefarious… Aswell as trusting there’s no bugs/vulnerabilities in that software that give a third party access to that data.

While I haven’t looked into this particular anti-cheat; they frequently prevent Linux users from playing altogether, ban users due to false positives, and sometimes even gain/require access to data entirely unrelated to gaming, such as your personal documents or even browser data (cookies, history, passwords/tokens, etc) as many of them contain Rootkits

If you use usenet, many indexers have a requests section. I’ve had a couple filled at NZBgeek in the past.

There’s a video in the article showing the whole process. The new module was completely hidden inside the calculators case and soldered to the internal connections.

Until you actually open it up, it doesn’t look abnormal at all.

Issued by the school; I never owned it.

Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.

My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.