If you are OK with Microsoft backing up this information without your explicit permission, then fine, use a Microsoft account. I just pointed out how to avoid this backup (although you will be nagged to set up backups).

I assume that this backup will also include the GUID that was discussed a day or two ago, so even re-installing Windows won't eliminate this tracking.

This is wrong and literally dangerous.

Firstly a lot of people don't really understand the whole idea of a hybrid marketplace where it is a legit brand but also hosts ones selling dangerous crap. Especially most people don't realise that it's somehow fine for Amazon to sell stuff which is illegal. Amazon is hosting it, providing the storefront, processing the sale and payment. To most people that's selling.

And even if you do know, it's really hard to identify what's merely cheep cheese and actively dangerous. I'm confident with electrical stuff, being an engineer, I know what creepage is and so on, but this is so far beyond what most people know. Even generally competent people have a hard job spotting this from things outside their area of expertise. i doubt I could spot a dangerous ladder.

This is why you use a local login, instead of a Microsoft account.

Microsoft has been making this more and more difficult, but I think that, after setup, one can create a local login and then remove the Microsoft account.

Windows 11 doesn't have an option to turn off updates, only postpone them.

The only way to prevent updates is by disabling the service.

Tell me you dont care about your members without telling me you dont care about your members

They trust me, the dumb fucks.

He's ALREADY told people explicitly he doesn't care.

And, what about alternative browsers? Do they send this also?

OK, so what is on the ngrok site that triggers this?

Not explained here, how is this information accessed remotely? Does Edge (or any other browser) send it in a header? Is there Javascript on some websites that makes the target send it?

There has been a wild amount of fabrication in published papers coming to light over the past decade

Some yeah.

because funding dries up when the outcome isn't what the people controlling the funds wanted.

You have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

So FreeCAD can also do programming. I did like OpenSCAD, especially minkowski sum. Downside though is it works on meshes not curves.

How do you feel about charging for on-device features, that work without an Internet connection, like this one?

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/...

Except that this feature runs entirely on-device. It works without an Internet connection. They want people to pay to use the hardware they already own outright.

A month or so ago, I received a call about my credit card and, at the point that they wanted to pass the call to their fraud center, I hung up. Obvious scam, right? Well, actually, no. It was a genuine call from my credit card company.

The credit card company has been good with fraud, texting me if there is a suspicious activity and allowing me to text back yes, or no. But then, I tried to buy a new dishwasher: the charge would not go through and there was no text. Eventually, I had to use a card from a different issuer.

But if their own outbound calls appear identical to scam calls, they should be responsible for any resulting fraud.

It's not about CMYK though - that's an even smaller gamut than RGB.

That depends on the RGB colourspace surely? But also...

For a photo editing program, you need a color space that is as large or larger than human vision.

Well you only need a gamut as large as the best device you are intending to display the image on.

Yeah like I said a small number of people really into photos need this.

Editing photos directly in RGB is the equivalent of a video production company (back in analog days) creating and editing videos exclusively on VHS tape. There's information loss every time you make a generation copy.

No, you don't generation loss in the same way. You may get loss entering the colourspace, IF any pixels saturate in either direction (i.e. are not representable in the new gamut), but you won't get any loss within the colourspace from the colourspace itself simply by doing stuff there. You might get quantization loss, of course, so you may well want more bits to avoid those accumulating.

But also my point stands: almost no one knows about that stuff, and based on the quality of stuff I see around and about a lot of professional stuff barely exceeds what you can do in MS Paint.

A lot of Linux devs apparently think people want to work with native RGB pixels.

I think a small number of photo weenies think a lot of people are smashing it with advanced photo editing.

My personal observation is that this is not the case. The amount of professional (as in someone paid for it) signage and stuff that is utterly shit is frankly shocking. I'm talking about fucking weird contrast/colour correction, actual stretches (so round things aren't round), mucked up resolution so you can literally see nice chunky pixels, mismatched colours and so on and so forth.

Frankly I think that outside a rarefied segment of the very high end most people are not doing anything remotely advanced. I doubt they'd know CMYK if it ran up and bit them on the leg.