• Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    238·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • bobo@lemmy.ml
      23·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • ptu@sopuli.xyz
        46·
        3 months ago

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

        • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          44·
          3 months ago

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

          • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip
            36·
            3 months ago

            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

          • ZorsithEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            FWIW they’ve always been bad at redacting things, this has happened before with other documents IIRC

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

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

  • chraebsli@programming.dev
    136·
    3 months ago

    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 ;)

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 months ago

      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)

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • TeddE@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          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.

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    34·
    3 months ago

    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

        • 4am@lemmy.zip
          6·
          3 months ago

          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

      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
      24·
      3 months ago

      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)

        • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          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

          • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            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.

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      3 months ago

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

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
    7·
    3 months ago

    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 …

    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
      7·
      3 months ago

      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…

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.