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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months agoIt was October Spooky when Microsoft dropped the GetWinX.exe icon on everyone’s Win7 and Win8 taskbars. The first time, we all followed the directions and dove into the registry to remove it, because it wasn’t enough to just delete it. The icon would self restore.
Then Microsoft reinstalled their adware in a critical security update Big Mic also started using dark patterns making upgrading opt-out, and hiding the onay toggle.
Thats when an engineer, UltimateOutsider, I think, created the GetWinX Control Panel which not only did the full remove in a wizard but also monitored on boot to see if it came back.
It was a reassuring day. I think no matter how much the companies enshittify, it will only drive pissed off engineers to write hard bypasses. It’s how we got the GCP. It’s how we got Windows Loader for every release since XP’s activation process.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That kind of shit is why I run GNU, and so should everybody else.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You don’t run gnu; you probably run Linux. In the same sense, you don’t mention how you ride the tires to work but you probably mention riding a bicycle, bus or car. You go to see art, not the tools used to create it, and this is why van gogh’s art is on display and not the brushes he used to such great effect.
Keep it in perspective no matter how hard the feet-picker wants to distract you.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, I run GNU. IDGAF whether the kernel is Linux or HURD, but I do care that as much of the system as possible is copyleft instead of merely permissive.
elscallr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well this was definitely the dumbest pedantry I’ve seen today.
Well done.