Yes and no. They started to limit GPOs. Some are only valid on Enterprise Licenses or Windows Server and will be ignored by your usual Windows Pro License at home. With Windows Home, you're SOL regarding GPOs.
Also they started to migrate some of these settings to their Intune Device Management and will ignore those if not set via Intune.
Read: Companies can still disenshittify Windows to some degree, but they make it harder and harder for normal people to do so.
Life insurance companies invest your money in the stock market - they only need to pay it back after your death which is hopefully in a while and not like tomorrow. They're involved in more risky investments and might bust regarding the AI bubble.
There's a mechanism that protects peoples savings with which they basically "insure" your savings for a little fee in case they go bankrupt. The problem is, that this fee will often be reimbursed by the state (and as such by the tax payer). So in the end, they get the gains from those investments and if they fail too much, all the risk is averted and paid for by the public.
You wouldn’t even really question your new device on the network. Since the monitor must forward the packets from and to your PC it’s MAC address would show up in the network, but that’s expected. And good luck separating the traffic of your monitor from that of your PC if it originates from the very same MAC address as it’s basically the new network card of your PC connected via USB C. And since it could act like a bridge, it could strip out the responses to its own requests and not forward those to your PC so you don’t even see them there. On the other side it’s all TLS encrypted so nothing to see either. Heck, it could even only send its own requests when your PC is actively using the connection so that it’s less noticeable.
You might do some DPI and check what IPs you connect to but good luck finding if it really is your monitor and not some random app on your PC. If it’s using DoH, you can’t even inspect its DNS traffic to get a clue what’s going on (SNI in the handshake might still offer some clue).
Also all of the above enables tracking and spying on you covertly. Ads are quite obvious, so there’s nothing to hide there.
HDMI and USB C are used in monitors. Both can transmit more than just the image data, e.g. tunneling an Ethernet connection. Not sure if Display Port also supports that
Most people will be on Win Home which usually locks you out of gpedit. Or ignores your settings there, some even from the registry. In the recent times there are even some GPOs locked for Pro and only available on an enterprise version or Windows server...
Old McDonald has a network
E I G R P
And on his network he has some traffic
E I G R P
With an ACK here and an ACK there
Here an ACK, there an ACK
ACK ACK everywhere
Old McDonald has a network
E I G R P
Ja, versuchen wir ja, aber wo bitte ist denn das Euter von Hafer, Soja, Mandel und Co?!?
Yes and no. They started to limit GPOs. Some are only valid on Enterprise Licenses or Windows Server and will be ignored by your usual Windows Pro License at home. With Windows Home, you're SOL regarding GPOs.
Also they started to migrate some of these settings to their Intune Device Management and will ignore those if not set via Intune.
Read: Companies can still disenshittify Windows to some degree, but they make it harder and harder for normal people to do so.
tl;dr:
Life insurance companies invest your money in the stock market - they only need to pay it back after your death which is hopefully in a while and not like tomorrow. They're involved in more risky investments and might bust regarding the AI bubble.
There's a mechanism that protects peoples savings with which they basically "insure" your savings for a little fee in case they go bankrupt. The problem is, that this fee will often be reimbursed by the state (and as such by the tax payer). So in the end, they get the gains from those investments and if they fail too much, all the risk is averted and paid for by the public.
Where do you fill it with wine?
Ein Trecker steht im Weser Fluss,
Doch mit dem Planschen ist dort Schluss,
Damit doch dieser schönen Bach,
Natürlich bleibt, bei Nacht, bei Tach.
Doch jeder ist gut informiert
Wird der Trecker doch viel pfostiert,
Und jeder, der ein Meimei liebt,
Ist froh, dass es den Trecker gibt!
Skandal! (Im Landschaftsschutzgebiet)
Skandal! (Im Landschaftsschutzgebiet)
Skandaaaaaaal! Um einen Trecker...
Land of the free
Home of the slave
Federal Bureau of Ingestion?
You wouldn’t even really question your new device on the network. Since the monitor must forward the packets from and to your PC it’s MAC address would show up in the network, but that’s expected. And good luck separating the traffic of your monitor from that of your PC if it originates from the very same MAC address as it’s basically the new network card of your PC connected via USB C. And since it could act like a bridge, it could strip out the responses to its own requests and not forward those to your PC so you don’t even see them there. On the other side it’s all TLS encrypted so nothing to see either. Heck, it could even only send its own requests when your PC is actively using the connection so that it’s less noticeable.
You might do some DPI and check what IPs you connect to but good luck finding if it really is your monitor and not some random app on your PC. If it’s using DoH, you can’t even inspect its DNS traffic to get a clue what’s going on (SNI in the handshake might still offer some clue).
Also all of the above enables tracking and spying on you covertly. Ads are quite obvious, so there’s nothing to hide there.
HDMI and USB C are used in monitors. Both can transmit more than just the image data, e.g. tunneling an Ethernet connection. Not sure if Display Port also supports that
Most people will be on Win Home which usually locks you out of gpedit. Or ignores your settings there, some even from the registry. In the recent times there are even some GPOs locked for Pro and only available on an enterprise version or Windows server...
Die Bahn hat MerzWeg-Abteile?! Ü
Correct. It's Bayrische Motoren Werke which translates to Bavarian Motor Factories or maybe Bavarian Motor Workshops.
The German
Werkhas several meanings:Ein Trecker im Wasser, da ist er, da ist er,
Ein Trecker ist im Wasser, im Wasser ist er!
Warum ist er denn dort, meine Brüder, meine Brüder,
Warum ist er denn dort im Wasser da drin?
Was weiß ich denn davon, hab kein Plan, hab kein Plan
Was weiß ich denn davon, ich meimei nur mit!
🎼🎶🎵
Found the guy (or gal) who added themselves to the docker group and is using Claude on the same user account
Handelt der Bauer nun mit Daten,
Muss er nicht mehr durch Gülle waten
Warum auch immer ich erst „mit Daten handelt“ gelesen hab und verwirrt war…
Old McDonald has a network
E I G R P
And on his network he has some traffic
E I G R P
With an ACK here and an ACK there
Here an ACK, there an ACK
ACK ACK everywhere
Old McDonald has a network
E I G R P
https://xkcd.com/243/