• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    out of all the censored things, they didn’t think to censor a product key before declassifying it. I wish I could say I was surprised.

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        Imagine if it did and the only reason it was censored was because they did a search and find > TRUMP > Make selected text background black.

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      I’ve only seen videos of it, but apparently you can copy paste the redacted parts of the pdfs. They legit left all of the text data on a different layer.

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        I wish the people who found that would’ve kept their mouths shut until 100% is released

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          Unfortunately with an error so egregious, the amount of people who found that near instantly was probably in the thousands

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            Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can “uncrop” it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule

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        Yea I saw this as well, it was only a handful of documents but they did indeed do that on them.

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        Yep on mobile I could select the blackouts and do a copy paste into a note app.

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          I don’t think a product key is directly a security risk. Though the sloppy undisciplined nature of this release is indirectly a risk I suppose.

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            I don’t believe it’s a security risk either, however it’s considered a secure token/crediential, so those aren’t supposed to be given public.

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    you can activate any windows or office by using vlmcsd (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd). you can selfhost it, choose any windows version like 11 pro or enterprise or office product like office 24 enterprise. activate it using your kms server and you can enter the matching licence key every so often to activate it. doesn’t cost a cent except hosting on 512mb/1cpu. i think there are public kms servers with vlmcsd too. obviously JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES ;)

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    He used the Home version?

    He owned his own island, he could at least go for Professional!

    I remember Windows 7’s editions being a complete mess, but a come on!

    Either ask your IT guy or your friend Billy G, both will laugh at you for picking a Home version when you have the money to go pro.

    What a fucking loser.

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        Funny enough I got 7 ultimate for free by having a Microsoft themed Tupperware party and using their party invite platform. They sent me a box with free copy and ms colored streamers and windows 7 napkins. I still have the napkins new and sealed. Had to take like 4 pictures with my friends around a laptop I think. Not a bad trade for the best version of 7. I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s. 7 was one of the good ones

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          I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s

          Just sayin, if you host a Linux install party you can get a copy of most Linux distributions for free. You can also get it for free if you don’t host a Linux install party, but that’s minor details.

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            Everyday is a Linux party here! Been running gentoo for like 20 years on my server box, which has now grown a couple more boxes in swarm config and my wife’s machine is now mint.

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            For me I think I enjoyed 98, XP, 7 it was nearly Star Trek rules every other edition was ok. 7 was the culmination of the best of. But absolute shit ever since. Honestly wish I could just go back to 7 for anything that requires windows( I try to stay away from it whenever possible)

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          I got a copy of Vista Ultimate from a friend who worked for Microsoft. Upgraded that baby to 7 Ultimate the instant I could and rode that product code for over a decade, until last year when I installed Linux on everything.

          Actually, I think I might still be using that product code on my Windows VM. Hmm.

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        Ultimate is such a nice codename, I’m a little tired of the modern deluge of Ultra, Pro and Max.

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        I still have a retail boxed Windows Vista Ultimate copy new in box! I won it and never opened it. They also gave me a processor and mobo with it… THAT part I was stoked about.

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        I mean yeah, I just wanted to laugh at him for not doing the minimum.

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      The number of other people laughing at actually paying for Windows is not zero.

      Aside, did you type “looser” ironically? 😅😶

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        Eh, back in the Windows 7 days paying for Windows wasn’t that bad of a deal, but starting with Windows 10 it felt as if you were paying to get ads.

        As for your last part, I am not a native english speaker, and my phone has two dictionaries, sometimes it picks the Swedish dictionary, sometimes it picks the English.

        I have been in situations where the dictionary marks a word as being wrong and offers a suggestion, when I then pick the suggestion, that word is also marked as being wrong, and the original word is offered as a solution.

        This can be rather annoying, and means that sometimes stuff like this slips through.

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      Bill G, was not his lover
      He’s just a man, who said
      “I flew here for the sun.”
      But the kids aren’t there for fun

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      Not really anything a normal user would miss over home premium. Most features in pro and higher target enterprises.

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      In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’. Make of that what you will.

      But this post doesn’t really address that. It suggests Epstein bought Windows XP once, which … is fine … I guess? (Doesn’t let him off the hook for the criminal empire he ran though)

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        In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’.

        Probably because it was the final straw for his wife Melinda, and Gates wasn’t happy how much she would take in the divorce. Considering he was a serial philanderer and often used his position at Microsoft as a way to meet women (including Melinda!), it’s not like he respected that marriage or his wife very much, so it can’t be that he’s sad about losing her or something, so my bet is on sad he was going to lose a lot of wealth over his Epstein connections.

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          Oh, I too doubt the regret is for anything beyond “I got caught and this makes me look bad shash will directly cost me money slash power slash influence”. I only made the reference to say that Gates’ ties to Epstein were known well before 2026.

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    I saw someone mention that if you find an old installer for windows 10, you can upgrade to that and continue on to upgrade to w11 still and keep the activation.

    ymmv

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      i don’t think an old win10 installer would work, microsoft blocked the w7/8/8.1 upgrade path on their servers

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          7 is quickly going down as the best version of windows of all time. 10 was alright too but it was the beginning of the end

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        I’m hoping we’ll get past 5% on the steam hardware survey this year. Very possible given the trend.

        Too many of my younger friends are obsessed with bf6 or a handful of other live service stuff that will not come to linux any time soon, or refuse to because they think they’ll run an ai model or don’t want to figure it out for their dev projects.

        I moved over a few months ago and don’t miss it.

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      Or you could update to a modern Linux build, most of which are just as easy as windows and 90+%of apps can run through wine so you don’t miss out on anything

      Yea I use Arch BTW bitch! (Just kidding about the bitch part, it sounded funny in my head, I’m sure you are a wonderful human being and I hope you have a marvelous day)

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          I looked through your stats and saw your disk storage and had a dyslexic moment and thought the 250gb was your ram.

          I was about to hate you for that :D. Like at today’s prices that would be some Billionaire level crap hehe

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            Oh hell no lol. I splurged on 64gb of ram a year ago because it was about $200. It’s overkill, but I do run VMs and game servers from time to time for friends and 32gb is kind of the base for ddr5 anyway. I swapped the work system standard for users over to 32gb around a year ago, and I try to keep my personal at home stuff to about double that since I use the stuff for a long long time.

            The / partition is a bit too big, but this was my first time splitting out home after a migration from pop_os. Learned a lot from that. Also have a bit of unpartitioned space.

            I have to swap bootloaders from systemd to limine or something since I have heard a lot of people mention at this point that it’s better btrfs recovery. Haven’t had the motivation yet.

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              lOpensuse is systemd and btrfs, never had an issue with btrfs recovery. But if you have deets I’d be interested.

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    So wait, if you activate a machine with this key wouldn’t that alert a bunch people?

    I mean given Bill’s ties to Epstein and whatnot. Ms would keep track of that right?

    I wonder if W7 had some kind of backup cloud feature… you know, restore lists …

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      Windows 7 came out in 2007, if I remember correctly. That was a time when it wasn’t that uncommon to have a computer without an internet connection. Telemetry also wasn’t really a thing, either - when you had crashes or usage data the OS thought might be useful to Microsoft, the OS actually asked you, and understood that no means no. Honestly, those were better times in that regard…

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      The key was published in the files. It’s not suspicious to use the key given that it’s public info; it’s not illegal to read the released files.