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Posted by Screwtape
Sure, but I think 2016 is when people really started to think there might be a systemic problem and not just some unfortunate coincidences.

Anyway, this isn't the politics thread!

Today Firefox 66 was released, which means Firefox Nightly got bumped to version 68. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I actually found some regressions and filed bugs for them:

- browser.display.use_document_fonts=0 is not respected
- Tree Style Tab requires an extra click to do anything

Much to my (pleasant) surprise, both bugs got triaged, confirmed, and somebody found the exact commit that caused each regression within a couple of hours of my reporting them.

I'm still a bit annoyed that the regressions happened, but I'm pleased to get a response so quickly, and now I'm keen to see how long it takes the regressions to be fixed.

Posted by Kakashi

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Lightest I saw was MS-DOS 7. Someone pulled out everything but the MS-DOS part of 9x and put it up as a standalone install.

Any reason for this? Anything that requires 7?

Posted by Kakashi
I thought about it and came to the conclusion; if you're dumb enough to commit a crime, you're dumb enough to live on the edge doing so. I think the law would be smart enough to disregard any argument involved with this case.

Posted by Screwtape
There was an MS-DOS 8?

Posted by sureanem
Huh, apparently MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 are open-source. Pretty neat:
https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

It does however beg the question of why they didn't open-source later versions. Are they worried about revealing bleeding-edge technologies such as extended and logical partitions, directory tree copying with XCOPY, support of hard disk partitions greater than 32 MiB, support of up to four MS-DOS primary partitions, and memory remapping with HIMEM.SYS?

Posted by sureanem
For instance, Edge gets swapped for Firefox

Posted by Screwtape
the GNU project gives out as many copies of Emacs as they can.

Posted by jimbo1qaz
Netsurf is a "lightweight browser" (though I haven't used it recently, and it's probably incompatible with much of the web).

Posted by Nicholas Steel

What happens when you install a Cumulative Update for Windows 10? Does any of the removed stuff get reinstalled or is the update process smart enough to not do that?

Or are you supposed to just never update your copy of Windows 10 and leave your system full of security holes and bugs?

Restrictions. The device manufacturer or installer and Microsoft reserve all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement. For example, this license does not give you any right to, and you may not:

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(ii) publish, copy (other than the permitted backup copy), rent, lease, or lend the software;

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Posted by wertigon


AME won't get anywhere. It's a C&D lawsuit waiting to happen, since copyright law expressly forbids every redistribution and modification of Windows 10. You do not have a legal means of fixing the Windows telemetry.

Posted by Screwtape

Posted by byuu
> it was archived for posterity and deleted from the database

Oooooh, is that what happened to it? That would be super fun to read through again.

It super-is! You can get the zip file from gitlab, or I believe tukuyomi's collection is back up again, so you can get it from there as well.

My nick on the ZBoard was Thristian ("Screwtape" was already taken), and apparently my first post was encouraging you to make your game database identify games by MD5 instead of CRC32. ;)

Posted by sureanem
The issue remains firmly in the theoretical domain as long as you observe privacy best practices. In reality, there is no issue, only on paper.