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GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

ElGroucho posted:

Controversial view: I like Windows 10, and if you think its going to get any info from you that facebook/google/NSA doesn't already have, you are an idiot

how would Facebook know that I have 17 GB of gorilla porn on my computer, or how often I jerk-off to it? cortana does, she kbows about the porn. she knows about your bootleg Photoshop version and she has a copy of your last resume that you wrote in word. when she saw that you tried to spin your job at white castle as "gastronomy service specialist" she chuckled a little bit and felt sorry for you for a moment.

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ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

RaDaMaNt posted:

Is this the worst windows yet?

no, but, it's not much better than 7. its biggest improvement is "copy paste into cmd.exe" and "pretty graphs on file copy dialogs." cortana is an interesting gimmick but pretty transparently about datamining over anything else

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

when are these chucklefucks going to realize people put up with windows' poo poo expressly because they dont want some central app store controlling what they can and cant install

wait does it not let you install programs that don't come from the app store or something?

Tipps
Apr 18, 2006


party in the front

business in the back
itop people who clicked Express Install and then bitch that they accepted a bunch of bloatware and poo poo

Custom Install NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO toggles master race

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Parallax Scroll posted:

wait does it not let you install programs that don't come from the app store or something?

no but thats obviously the direction they want to go, so goddam badly; they sliced the salami too thick on windows 8 and had to be more subtle this time, hence Metro Start Menu

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

ElGroucho posted:

Controversial view: I like Windows 10, and if you think its going to get any info from you that facebook/google/NSA doesn't already have, you are an idiot

You're all missing the full view! We don't have a program that can properly distinguish what's gay or not yet, or even one that can distinguish between risky clicks and genuine fascinated one-handed slow scrolling. They still have to use humans for that.

If we all look at gay porn they clearly can't keep tabs on all of us and our viewing habits! And if they tried to they'd need a massive recruitment campaign to get enough analysts. It's a win/win. Either they give up, or they hire a hundred thousand people to spend all day monitoring everyone elses' internet, a cushy job if ever I saw one (I have low standards).

Point is, we should all look at gay porn. Just in case the NSA is looking in. Then they get the pleasure of gay porn too! C'mon, the NSA are human too.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

IronClaymore posted:

You're all missing the full view! We don't have a program that can properly distinguish what's gay or not yet, or even one that can distinguish between risky clicks and genuine fascinated one-handed slow scrolling. They still have to use humans for that.

If we all look at gay porn they clearly can't keep tabs on all of us and our viewing habits! And if they tried to they'd need a massive recruitment campaign to get enough analysts. It's a win/win. Either they give up, or they hire a hundred thousand people to spend all day monitoring everyone elses' internet, a cushy job if ever I saw one (I have low standards).

Point is, we should all look at gay porn. Just in case the NSA is looking in. Then they get the pleasure of gay porn too! C'mon, the NSA are human too.

this, but for gorillas also

5er
Jun 1, 2000

Qapla' to a true warrior! :patriot:

Lucky Guy posted:

lol if you jerk it to respectful porn

if you don't like to cum with dignity then there's nothing I can say to help you

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
I have a gripe that has nothing to do with spying.

When you search and click on things, they build a profile around you and then deliver you things that they think you'd want to see. Fine. A lot of people itt are saying 'sounds good.'

My problem is doesn't the internet become a bit of an echo chamber then? Every time I search, Google/MS presents me with what they think I'd want to see. Things that are more relevant to me not necessarily my search terms. The issue there then is when I search for some news or whatever, I get presented with things that are already going to confirm my biases. It becomes harder and harder to really get to the good info or info that the algorithm thinks I wouldn't be interested in (the opposing opinion). Instead of finding information and keeping an open mind, people just get fed more crap; whether it be politics, liberal/conservative, or even just regular every day poo poo.

Unless you intentionally search for things contrary to your opinion (so like almost no one), you'll get people typing in 'Obama' and getting back all kinds of bullshit about birth certificates and insane plots because that's what the algorithm thinks they want to see based on their previous searches.

You've searched for natural medicine and alternatives to western medicine? Well now there's going to be tons of anti-vaccine and homeopathy front loaded in your search results all the time.


The YouTube suggestions update is as small example of this. In the relevant videos below, where normally there's just poo poo related to what you're watching, they've started adding videos recommended for you. Alright cool but when I'm listening to Scarface I want to see Geto Boys in the list down there, not Slavoj Zizek.

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Aug 5, 2015

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

Moridin920 posted:

I have a gripe that has nothing to do with spying.

When you search and click on things, they build a profile around you and then deliver you things that they think you'd want to see. Fine. A lot of people itt are saying 'sounds good.'

My problem is doesn't the internet become a bit of an echo chamber then? Every time I search, Google/MS presents me with what they think I'd want to see. Things that are more relevant to me not necessarily my search terms. The issue there then is when I search for some news or whatever, I get presented with things that are already going to confirm my biases. It becomes harder and harder to really get to the good info or info that the algorithm thinks I wouldn't be interested in (the opposing opinion). Instead of finding information and keeping an open mind, people just get fed more crap; whether it be politics, liberal/conservative, or even just regular every day poo poo.

Unless you intentionally search for things contrary to your opinion (so like almost no one), you'll get people typing in 'Obama' and getting back all kinds of bullshit about birth certificates and insane plots because that's what the algorithm thinks they want to see based on their previous searches.

You've searched for natural medicine and alternatives to western medicine? Well now there's going to be tons of anti-vaccine and homeopathy front loaded in your search results all the time.


The YouTube suggestions update is as small example of this. In the relevant videos below, where normally there's just poo poo related to what you're watching, they've started adding videos recommended for you. Alright cool but when I'm listening to Scarface I want to see Geto Boys in the list down there, not Slavoj Zizek.

This is a legitimate issue with the whole search thing. There is of course the whole comedic value of going on some other guy's laptop to look something up for college or whatever and all the default search terms are for bestiality, leading to the laugh track being pulled, but you can get biased searches over time just because you mindlessly look up certain things, like games or science or whatever (you do all your porn searches on a different browser, and different search engine, obviously).

That's before you even get into Google doing that thing where they put certain sites higher on search lists and others lower, for various commercial reasons.


[Edit vvv] Top result for "vaccine" should be how we eradicated smallpox, and are on the verge of doing away with polio too, and maybe something about how our malaria vaccine is far from perfect but will still easily save a few hundred thousand lives each year. Regardless of prior search terms.

IronClaymore fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Aug 5, 2015

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001
Everybody just pays attention to the results they want to see anyway, if someone's search history leads to them searching "vaccine" and seeing nothing but anti vaxxer results I doubt very much any normal results would've mattered to them

RaDaMaNt
Apr 24, 2012

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

no, but, it's not much better than 7. its biggest improvement is "copy paste into cmd.exe" and "pretty graphs on file copy dialogs." cortana is an interesting gimmick but pretty transparently about datamining over anything else

But you can paste into cmd.exe in Windows 8 and I think there are graphs on copy dialogs there already too.

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
Can't you basically turn off all of that poo poo anyways?


*frowns, shakes head, unticks "store porno viewing record so Microsoft can blackmail you with it" option*

"Why is this even in here?"

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747

Tipps posted:

itop people who clicked Express Install and then bitch that they accepted a bunch of bloatware and poo poo

Custom Install NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO/NO toggles master race

it turns everything back on when you windows update/a couple of hours pass

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Dongattack posted:

it turns everything back on when you windows update/a couple of hours pass

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

I keep uninstalling Metro Solitaire and updates keep reinstalling it

For gently caress's sake Microsoft, no means no!!!!

scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark

waitwhatno posted:

how would Facebook know that I have 17 GB of gorilla porn on my computer, or how often I jerk-off to it? cortana does, she kbows about the porn. she knows about your bootleg Photoshop version and she has a copy of your last resume that you wrote in word. when she saw that you tried to spin your job at white castle as "gastronomy service specialist" she chuckled a little bit and felt sorry for you for a moment.

What does it sound like when Cortana throws up in her mouth a little bit?

Section 31
Mar 4, 2012

ElGroucho posted:

Controversial view: I like Windows 10, and if you think its going to get any info from you that facebook/google/NSA doesn't already have, you are I am an idiot
Very good slave. Your master will be proud of you.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Whoa, a lot of serious posting in GBS today

Gonna save the world from the illuminati ITT

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Network Pesci posted:

What does it sound like when Cortana throws up in her mouth a little bit?

astrix, you, you, gee, gee, gee, aich, aich, astrix

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

ThaGrandCow posted:

They're basically giving it away to everyone, even pirates if you signed up for the beta test, so they can get the sweet appstore cut.

i can't wait to upgrade my windows 7 to windows 10 to get a piece of these great app deals!

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Rutibex posted:

i can't wait to upgrade my windows 7 to windows 10 to get a piece of these great app deals!


is that real

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

Moridin920 posted:

is that real

no, it's photoshopped

cant you see the pixels

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

waitwhatno posted:

how would Facebook know that I have 17 GB of gorilla porn on my computer, or how often I jerk-off to it? cortana does, she kbows about the porn. she knows about your bootleg Photoshop version and she has a copy of your last resume that you wrote in word. when she saw that you tried to spin your job at white castle as "gastronomy service specialist" she chuckled a little bit and felt sorry for you for a moment.

would pay for Cortana humiliation porn

sounds extremely my poo poo

...now she knows, too.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Moridin920 posted:

is that real

yeah, DVD play back is a patented thing that requires microsoft pay a license fee per copy of windows 10 sold. of course they have no interest in paying this fee for millions of free upgrades so they took out DVD playback capabilities

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

Rutibex posted:

yeah, DVD play back is a patented thing that requires microsoft pay a license fee per copy of windows 10 sold. of course they have no interest in paying this fee for millions of free upgrades so they took out DVD playback capabilities

Same reason the Xbox One The First Xbox required you to buy that remote control for movies. If you wanna watch movies on the drat thing, then YOU foot the bill!

scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark
I would pay fifteen bucks for an "app" that would let me legally watch pirated movies. Your move, MS.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Lol if your think your life is so valuable that your privacy should be preserved.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
Lol if you're such a self-hating beta cucklord you think your privacy isn't worth preserving.

edit: ah, limey, should have figured

Dead Gay Romans
Mar 19, 2015

Pitbull enthusiast

vyst posted:

Lol if your think your life is so valuable that your privacy should be preserved.

this is exactly the same limp-dicked attitude that let Andrew Jackson wade waist deep in blood of your nations finest soldiers using nothing but a wall and some drunken pirates. Two weeks after the war ended.

Windows 10 sucks poo poo, lol if you upgraded.

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW

vyst posted:

Lol if your think your life is so valuable that your privacy should be preserved.

It's pretty hilarious how british people are such weak willed pushovers that they actually allowed an Orwellian prophecy come to pass and think it's a good thing. I thought they were supposed to be better at irony than americans.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Rutibex posted:

yeah, DVD play back is a patented thing that requires microsoft pay a license fee per copy of windows 10 sold. of course they have no interest in paying this fee for millions of free upgrades so they took out DVD playback capabilities

you say this like it isn't something that would get pitched and seriously considered at a meeting

METATERREN
Jul 3, 2015

I enjoy putting things in my mouth.

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

my biggest beef with windows 10 so far is that I was in the middle of working on something with music playing when the loving superfetch optimization service decided to kick in, locking the machine up for five minutes and making the music slur; I thought the loving processor had just melted down :argh:

Aside from the egregious violation of person and the advancement of the window of opportunity for psychopathic fascism to dominate the lives of millions that the new feature rich Windows 10 is bringing to the masses, this is exactly the problem with all bandwidth and processor resource sucking activities that work on an automatic basis.

METATERREN fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Aug 6, 2015

Cabbages and Kings
Aug 25, 2004


Shall we be trotting home again?
lol at babbies screaming "MY BANDWIDTH IS MINE" like they don't understand how the internet works

Love Rat
Jan 15, 2008

I've made a psycho call to the woman I love, I've kicked a dog to death, and now I'm going to pepper spray an acquaintance. Something... I mean, what's happened to me?

Hobohemian posted:

I still have 7. Suck it losers.

I have Windows 8. Suck it losers?

(I miss 7)

orly
Oct 2, 2005

Philthy posted:

Looks like a lot of potential HIPAA violations. Many health industry apps use app title bar names to share data between sister applications (Such as current patients name, location, etc). If Microsoft is recording the current running app with its current title bar name with the patients name in it, they're in some deep poo poo.

lMAO

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

lol my friend from high school is a lead backend developer for Windows 10 and is working over 12 hours a day to make sure it doesn't fail. i guess he isn't doing a good job

well i guess he did a good job on the technical standpoint since it runs well. wonder if he had anything to do with the cool spying poo poo though

get that OUT of my face fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Aug 6, 2015

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
do half the users in this thread also install things like norton AV and the ask.com toolbar when installing new software

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Omi-Polari posted:

do half the users in this thread also install things like norton AV and the ask.com toolbar when installing new software

Bonzi buddy nigga

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011





Anybody who's not a noob disabled that poo poo anyways suck it OP and suck on my free fully supported modern OS :boom:

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Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp

Philthy posted:

Looks like a lot of potential HIPAA violations. Many health industry apps use app title bar names to share data between sister applications (Such as current patients name, location, etc). If Microsoft is recording the current running app with its current title bar name with the patients name in it, they're in some deep poo poo.

just lol if you don't realize the healthcare industry uses NT 4.0 or ME for these exact reasons

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