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The impudence of Microsoft has reached new (criminal?) heights

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Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 05, 2020, 05:29:36 pm ---But what if the goal is just wasting their resources to make it less profitable? It doesn't matter if the data analysis is impacted or not.

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Go run some back-of-the-envelope numbers and then explain to us why that's a silly idea.

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 05, 2020, 05:26:17 pm ---I suspect that @Scram's view on this might be that it would take perhaps tens of millions of accounts to make an impact, and even then the algorithms would "learn" to ignore the noise after a while.

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Obviously. You're trying to compete with a stupendously well funded and equipped adversary whose business model is sifting through endless amounts of noise. Thinking you have any chance of making any kind of meaningful impact is hilariously naive. It's the electronic equivalent of thoughts and prayers. You can't hope to do anything meaningful if you grossly misunderstand the situation.

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 05, 2020, 05:27:29 pm ---You mean they don't???    :o

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They may not love you, but at least they'll love your donations.

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 20, 2020, 07:48:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on June 20, 2020, 05:47:46 pm --- :-DD  Years ago I wrote how I was using Wireshark and saw were even pressing a number key on the MS calculator causes the OS to send the data up to MS.   

I'm still using a WRT router to block all MS traffic.   To install the BLE software for Dave's 121GW,  I had to pull it from the store.  I let my guard down just long enough for them to push a new update which had additional IPs that had to be accounted for.   I have not changed anything after that.   10 still tries to send data non-stop but at least the PC is usable.

I had been using an old version of Firefox but recently was forced to "upgrade".   I pitched FF and tried Opera for a day,  until I learned it was sold off to China.  Then I tried Vivaldi and ran into problems with it that I wasn't smart enough to sort out.  So now it's back to FF and setting the admin rights to block its updates.    Too bad really as I like Vivaldi.

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What happened with Vivaldi for you?  -  I've got it playing all four seasons here! :D

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Sorry, I was derailed and forgot about this post.   I removed Vivaldi after their last "upgrade" and was still seeing the same problem.   There was a specific message about trying to locate the sites before timing out.   I suspect it's attempting to use an address that I have locked out.    FF, IE  and even the Chinese versions of Opera did not have the problem so I went back to FF.   If you like, I can reinstall Vivaldi and see if I can sort out the cause. 

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on July 05, 2020, 05:35:38 pm ---Go run some back-of-the-envelope numbers and then explain to us why that's a silly idea.

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How many parallel instances of searches can you run on something like a Raspberry Pi if well optimized? Most likely it will be bandwidth limited rather than CPU limited, but even a mere 1Mbps of text searches is a lot. For each search, it takes a lot more processing to decide which results in the database to return as a page. Even if their electricity is 10x cheaper than yours (not likely unless your rates are very high to begin with), I'm struggling to see how you can do a search with just 10x as much processing as it takes to pick a few dictionary words, string them together, and submit them as searches. It doesn't take that many words to expand the number of possible combinations to well beyond what is feasible to cache.

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