Pretty sure it just redirects all the spyware from American servers to Chinese ones

Shh, how else could hackers avoid WW3?

LOL ?

Imagine a world where the usa calls to arms and suddenly no plane, carrier or tank would be able to move an inch.

It'd be a better world.

Chinese govt demanded its own custom made version of Windows 10

As if the Chinese would care... ?

Pretty sure it just redirects all the spyware from American servers to Chinese ones

I don't think m$ would give that data up so easily tho...

There were reports that even Deepin was spyware..

Yeah... And it's kinda more like unintentional leakage rather than spyware.

I don't think m$ would give that data up so easily tho...

They did

Imagine a world where the usa calls to arms and suddenly no plane, carrier or tank would be able to move an inch.

Not just the us, but yeahhh

It'd be a better world.

A beatiful world indeed....

It's not really giving it up, it's more "keeping it local"

They did

Wait, what?

Yeah... And it's kinda more like unintentional leakage rather than spyware.

They intentionally added analytics and ads to their desktop.

Thats not "accidental" imho.

They intentionally added analytics and ads to their desktop.

I must say, seems like this.

Imagine a world where the usa calls to arms and suddenly no plane, carrier or tank would be able to move an inch.

So much power just gives more opportunities to be abused.

They intentionally added analytics and ads to their desktop.

The analytics were definitely intentional, it's the unsecured nature of how they're transmitting it that's the issue.

(because it allows potential attackers to understand fairly specific info about the software running or the hardware it's on)

Wait, what?

Yep, Windows 10 Chinese Government Edition exists

I can't imagine an average office buying new PCs just because.

Except on "honest" public institutions. Here at the university they have the heating turned on even on winter even if it isn't cold inside, having to open the windows just to not die grilled... Why? The school has X money assigned for diesel. If they don't spend it, the next year the university would trim down the budget

The analytics were definitely intentional, it's the unsecured nature of how they're transmitting it that's the issue.

They could be more transparent about the data collection, then...

The analytics were definitely intentional, it's the unsecured nature of how they're transmitting it that's the issue.

"My desktop environment collects and sends data about me away" is an issue i'd have before its transmitted.

Yep, Windows 10 Chinese Government Edition exists

Oh smh...

Yep, Windows 10 Chinese Government Edition exists

Lol, I wonder what they even do with that to make it different.

They could be more transparent about the data collection, then...

This is true.

Lol, I wonder what they even do with that to make it different.

Read above :p

"My desktop environment collects and sends data about me away" is an issue i'd have before its transmitted.

And this, ofc.

"My desktop environment collects and sends data about me away" is an issue i'd have before its transmitted.

Not accurate, but I get the idea.

So much power just gives more opportunities to be abused.

Dont worry, even engineering nation germany has up to 60% of its equipment non-functional at all times.

Lol, I wonder what they even do with that to make it different.

Strip it down to almost windows 7 levels. No cortana no OneDrive no Skype etc etc etc

Dont worry, even engineering nation germany has up to 60% of its equipment non-functional at all times.

I feel like there's a big red button somewhere that puts it all into overdrive. ?

Except on "honest" public institutions. Here at the university they have the heating turned on even on winter even if it isn't cold inside, having to open the windows just to not die grilled... Why? The school has X money assigned for diesel. If they don't spend it, the next year the university would trim down the budget

Interesting. In my original country they don't receive money not even needing it ? But as I said, it differs a lot from country to counry and even between regions. A richer city can allow itself to have fancy offices and modern equipment while a poor city or a smaller town has to deal with whatever is available.

Strip it down to almost windows 7 levels. No cortana no OneDrive no Skype etc etc etc

Lol, that's interesting. "Functional Win7"

Dont worry, even engineering nation germany has up to 60% of its equipment non-functional at all times.

I just love how outdated were 80s german elelectronics. They kept making complex and modern circuitry with outdated techniches. Then you see a PCB from that era... ?

Dont worry, even engineering nation germany has up to 60% of its equipment non-functional at all times.

And this is how you avoid wars... even if you want, you can't!

I feel like there's a big red button somewhere that puts it all into overdrive. ?

I imagine tiny robots suddenly reassembling and repairing all things when that button is pressed xD

I imagine tiny robots suddenly reassembling and repairing all things when that button is pressed xD

The alien dreadnaught Elon always wanted ?

I just love how outdated were 80s german elelectronics. They kept making complex and modern circuitry with outdated techniches. Then you see a PCB from that era... ?

Even cooler are DDR electronics - with zero influence from anyone else germans continued to make their own stuff without any influence from outside. It was seriously dated very soon but it was all super unique.

I imagine tiny robots suddenly reassembling and repairing all things when that button is pressed xD

This somehow sounds possible and doable....

Interesting. In my original country they don't receive money not even needing it ? But as I said, it differs a lot from country to counry and even between regions. A richer city can allow itself to have fancy offices and modern equipment while a poor city or a smaller town has to deal with whatever is available.

Then you see we have computers from firsts 2000, on a engineering school, that arent able to open Catia in less than 10min

I imagine tiny robots suddenly reassembling and repairing all things when that button is pressed xD

Ultron :P

Even cooler are DDR electronics - with zero influence from anyone else germans continued to make their own stuff without any influence from outside. It was seriously dated very soon but it was all super unique.

I think Becker autoradios are such ???

Then you see we have computers from firsts 2000, on a engineering school, that arent able to open Catia in less than 10min

Let me guess, you're in LATAM, right?

Interesting. In my original country they don't receive money not even needing it ? But as I said, it differs a lot from country to counry and even between regions. A richer city can allow itself to have fancy offices and modern equipment while a poor city or a smaller town has to deal with whatever is available.

It's pretty much the system that if you don't spend allocated budget it gets trimmed next year, so to avoid that, you find things to buy

Let me guess, you're in LATAM, right?

Spain ?

It's pretty much the system that if you don't spend allocated budget it gets trimmed next year, so to avoid that, you find things to buy

Yeah, and the system differs.

Spain ?

Ah, like mother like son...

Ah, like mother like son...

Kek

Yeah, but we don't have that over there. Sometimes they will buy new equipment and everybody is like ❤️ ❤️ But it may well pass a decade before they do anything else.

There's typically a reason somewhere

Your trust in human judgement and public decisions is amazing.

Even cooler are DDR electronics - with zero influence from anyone else germans continued to make their own stuff without any influence from outside. It was seriously dated very soon but it was all super unique.

we had our own operating systems in Poland, some approaching unix-like; plus we had some unique computers of our own too

Pretty advanced for its era, like the japanese gear. But japanese gear was more miniaturized, didnt use phenolic PCBs and were more reliable

we had our own operating systems in Poland, some approaching unix-like; plus we had some unique computers of our own too

Dont remind me, german banks require oses to use localized commands so retarded managers can hope to use the command line. ls becomes kat (katalog, catalog)

we had our own operating systems in Poland, some approaching unix-like; plus we had some unique computers of our own too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odra_(computer)

The taskbar in XP made me angry. ?

I saw banks using XP but the computers reasonably modern.

Already auctioned

Do they auction it? In many places they were throwing it away... literally. You could walk in and pick whatever you liked. I've got a printer that way.

Usually yeah, they give them to an auctioneer after having an in company auction

Good place to get an i7 for 100 bucks

But you gotta work there first ?

Interesting.

No, they were just dumping everything on a big container in the street and people could take whatever they liked before the trash truck would come. (no, they don't recycle, they just bury the stuff somewhere)

Thats why we germans have such a flourishing market for old lenovo thinkpads

Oh, is it that? Then German bureaus have my blessing. But they shouldn't restrict themselves to Lenovo, there are so many good expensive computers that could be sold / auctioned every few years....

Mostly winshit except for some bright projects that use linux and the general incentive from the eu to favor OS solutions over closed crap in the future.

I didn't know the EU favours open source. That's cool

Oh, is it that? Then German bureaus have my blessing. But they shouldn't restrict themselves to Lenovo, there are so many good expensive computers that could be sold / auctioned every few years....

lenovo, dell and hp.

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Spyware + spyware = yay!!!

Spyware**2 ?

I didn't know the EU favours open source. That's cool

Only recently they put it into recommendation.

I didn't know the EU favours open source. That's cool

EU even has its own license, EUPL, which is an official EU's open source license translated into all members languages

Spyware**2 ?

Spyware²

Eu states all say "we have no alternative to msshit" because they get enough black briefcases from microsoft to the right positions.

Spyware²

Hey! How did you do that?

Hey! How did you do that?

alt-gr + 2? ²

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Oh, nice. I didn't know

No, they were just dumping everything on a big container in the street and people could take whatever they liked before the trash truck would come. (no, they don't recycle, they just bury the stuff somewhere)

Working machines are money so throwing them out like that wouldn't fly with the bosses

Broken machines do get tossed though, but those are given to a charity that refurbs them for needy kids

Working machines are money so throwing them out like that wouldn't fly with the bosses

They don't care. But keep in mind that often public offices in LATAM work as back holes. Money and resources fall there but nobody is accountable for them.

Ah

Broken machines do get tossed though, but those are given to a charity that refurbs them for needy kids

Interesting. It's exactly the other way around. Bought new laptops for kids but toss the old stuff.

Our country is much more "in the open" about stealing

Basically everything is overvalued in government tenders. $10 and $20 newspapers

Our country is much more "in the open" about stealing

No, no. It's not stealing, it's bureaucracy. Things get lost in papers.

Spyware**2 ?

?

Oh, but I'm using a computer. ?

No, no. It's not stealing, it's bureaucracy. Things get lost in papers.

Our leaders don't bother with paperwork, they give their cousin the overpriced tender ?

alt-gr + 2? ²

Ooh, thanks!!!

Oh, but I'm using a computer. ?

ALTGR + [number]

Thanks!

Thanks!

np :D

Hey! How did you do that?

+1

Basically everything is overvalued in government tenders. $10 and $20 newspapers

https://github.com/wybory2014/Kalkulator1 - leaked source code of an application that my goverment paid ~100 000eur for, check out this quality work

A calculator?

What a new app for?

A calculator?

voting calculator, a regular desktop calculator is a complicated marvel compared to that

I'll try to find some nice nuggets there, one minute