as someone from dc i agree 100%

I was young and was probably running Win98 with the Yahoo! and Ask! toolbars, with a cool Comet Cursor so I could update my Angelfire site while downloading over Napster. Using Yahoo, MSN and ICQ messengers to connect with my friends from school.

But I could play Age Of Empires and Quake, so that's all I really cared about.

I don't know why machine-id exists, but what I do know is that this only exists on Linux operating systems that use systemd, based on this command:

sudo systemd-machine-id-setup

So the way to avoid it entirely is by switching to a systemd-less Linux, such as Salix OS (clear net only). Actually, systemd has a lot of problems (clear net only), so you should avoid it anyway.

And as to what is it good for besides compromising privacy... I also have no idea. I guess Lennart Poettering Red Hat wanted to do something with it, but they didn't know what to do with it, so they left it as a privacy compromising thing of however many Linux users are being used by systemd.

Honesty, I'm not certain, but it appears in every mainstream distro that uses systemd.

Most people are aware of MAC addresses, but if you search the web for machine-ID being seen as a privacy concern, you'll find nothing.

No need to have a constant, unchanging value that exists from the moment a system is installed.

I'll research it more and update the blog post if I find anything noteworthy.

If you use Adobe anything you have only yourself to blame. It's a contender for worst software creator in all of human history.

Did you skip Win98 or how did that abomination not manage to push you away to Linux?

Maybe people that couldn't figure out how to access pomf.cat?

Only one way to find out.

Everybody would score high this way

Is this a girl?

Who's the fag the downvoted?

Why does this machine-id exist in the first place? What is it good for other than compromising privacy?

I don't Wally World allows you to buy cards with cards.

Impressive interpretation of a coin funnel. His channel has some other useful projects, too.

Can always use the giftcard to purchase a pre-paid Visa/Mastercard giftcard, then buy your booze and smokes.

Arrested... Development.

This guy has a very long record of being a serial liar.

I watched this a few weeks ago :)

Cool couple busting ass on this.

Build is alright. Small as can be. That's not a real useful build. You'd have to go outside to change your mind.

Good book still. I have it in my library.

No way you can build the stuff he did today for anywhere near $50 or $500. Inflation and monetary theft is the cause. Nonetheless, can build it cheap by mall mentality cul de sucks standards.

Off grid and away from the muckity mucks is looking more like sane path each passing day.

Microsoft talking about disinformation?????? What do we have here...

We have a once monopoly company, plus a 'creative' company that is so far up average internet users a$$ with ads and profiling, then the mouthpiece of MI-6.

Blah blah blah.

Anti fake news.

When did Microsoft ever care about open source and standards? Had to reverse engineer much of their stuff to have Open Source alternatives and viewers.

Fuck these companies. Fuck their founders. Fuck that fake organization too.

Unfortunately there is little I can do in terms of modifying the code. I'm not a developer so custom development to the software is beyond the scope of what I can offer as a solution.

Best I can do is manual tagging of NSFW content that makes it to the front page. Though lately I've not really seen much content that is that concerning on the front page.

Never too late to adopt. Widows XP sp3 was the last Windows OS I've ran, and haven't looked back since. Though I'll admit that I like simple desktop environments like MATE and XFCE to replicate the classic and familiar navigation that I grew used to from Windows NT 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP.

For newcomers you can't really go wrong with something like Pop_OS, Ubuntu or Mint. They seem to have good support and are really new-user friendly communities behind them.

I've already lost track of how many spy codes are in images. There are so many ways of burying "metadata" in those formats - it's what they were MADE for - and programs that claim to "strip" it are probably "accidentally" forgetting something.

This looks like one more whack at it - I'm not sure from reading that it is a tremendously NEW thing - I'm not sure how they plan to change, say, a .GIF file (not that that didn't have open-ended spy data storage protocols built in already). Are they doing so?

That will be my final push to switch to linux

Liquid fuel can be more available than butane refills. He could have also carried fuel in the jar and sparked with the empty lighter, but that's no fun.

This looks cool, but... what's the point? You already had a lighter at the beginning.