@electrineer no that's quite illegal, but nobody will do something about it.
Asking for your religion makes sense tho' you can choose with the answer what kind of church/mosque/synagoge you want to support, or just say atheist and save a few bucks on taxes each month

Hacking tools are determined by their routines, if an application calls a certain stack of functions and tries to make certain changes to the system it will be flagged as malicious. If you then know your stuff you should be able to disable windows defender and turn it back on once you are done.

@KoganeNoKenshi yeah the windows update team always feels like their apple employees:
Windows Update Team: "it just works"
User: "but it doesnt"
Windows Update Team: "LALALALALA CANT HEAR YOU"

Let me guess the driver is not properly signed or some dev branch driver? Windows has a webservice it can ask for the newest drivers for your hardware, and replace them if they dont match. Intel notoriously distributes unsigned missmatching GPU drivers for their Arc GPUs and do not notify microsoft about the newer version, either because they do not intend for those drivers to be distributed to the general public or in some cases they plain and simply forgot.

@ostream yeah but if linux is ever gonna be highly popular with average people, one distro is gonna be having a lionshare, and that would be something like ubuntu. Which has the snap store so many people here are advocating for. And that one IS controlled by canonical.
And as we can see live in action with android, 99% of people won't install another app store on their system other than the one shipped with it, which would in this example concentrate a lot of power in canonicals hands.

@ostream what you call mess is what I call freedom and useability. I fear a world were every program has to approved by some comitee at some company, like android and iOS today.
I cannot fathom why you would advocate for a centralized software registry while you can first hand witness what happens if any company has control about what software can do and how can be used.
You get google and apple employees dictating how things should be done. First coding techniques, then business practices, then politics.
And no don't tell me this won't happen with your favorite app store if it gets popular, absolute power corrupts absolutly, you need no kings and queens for that.

@Fast-Nop yeah mate that's the workflow 99.9% of the world uses and some snuffed up linux elitist will not change that. Ever.

@Fast-Nop yeah ok let me compare these 2 processes:
Windows:
1st I google for App
2nd I find page that looks not fake
3rd I download the App
4th I run the App
Linux:
1st google the App
2nd find page that doesnt look funky
3rd ok its an App lemme check my distros app store
*not there*
4th Ok let me check package manager
*not there*
5th Ok let me add some remote realm then update my system update all dependencies and then download the App.
6th realise it's not compatible or breaks with your distro or theme.
7th realise that you never reach step 4 to 7 because almost everybody drops out after the 3rd step.

Yeah it's totally better in a world of package managers and app stores for average people. Totally. And that ignores the whole quagmire that ensues when you have a single store/app front. Just look at google play store and the app store.

@Fast-Nop that doesn't change a bit that the AVERAGE user has an aweful experience with package managers. People just wanna download binaries and run them.

@catgirldev what amazes me to this day is that PHP ignores lower/uppercase, i.e.
foo() and
FOO()
are the same thing, and some retards even defend it.

>Our server runs PHP
All your problems began there.

I would rather do User Experience Design for Linux Desktop Applications than work with Apples garbage.

I first use const, then let and rarely var. They all have a purpose, well, if you don't write shitty code.

If you don't wanna pay you are kinda fucked. LibreOffice is the better choice but it is so far behind on the features and UX that I just pay for Microsoft Office.
If you dont do any professional work LibreOffice will be just fine, the last time I opened OpenOffice it crashed my entire PC but that is ages ago and probably fixed, I haven't tried since.
Don't listen to the vim+latex crowd, it's the same as tarkov players, they just want to spread the suffering

How can you be this confused that you think memory safety is security or code privacy? Like how can the education system failed you so hard? Is this guy not good at english and horribly misunderstood something?

What the fuck? Is that such a touchy subject to you? Here in europe you have to confirm your identity anyway with official documents, and they need that information for taxation and retirement fund purposes. For me this would be a reasonable question in any interview anyway, the employer should know at what stage of my life I am.

Pain and Suffering.

The gist of it is basically: everybody poked the bear and now they are confused why they get mauled by the bear. I dont say the bear is right, but the reaction was to be expected.

I have to deal with code written by an Idiot that thinks the else statement is a luxury and should not be used. Rather write code like:
if { return; } if { return; }

@kamen yeah that's why I like to use tabs, but some people just prefer spaces, and I do not get paid enough to fight them.

@vintprox I'm sorry if it isn't obvious english is not my first language, and I'm kinda sleep deprived.

@linus-torvald if support was a criteria I wouldnt have pulled up this project from .net core 2 to 5 just now 😅

@abdilahrf oh boi do you get sued if a winrar instance with an expired testlicense calls home from your companies IP Address. Winrar lets noncommerical people use it so they get used to it and demand to use it at their job, and that company then has to buy licenses for exorbitant sums, or get sued the shit out of them. Lived through both ways this goes. The winrar people have no chill.

Companies. You get sued if you dont.

Hack was made for this one special usecase where you build the most successful website on the internet on a crappy apache and PHP in your dormroom and now you are a billion dollar startup so you Hack(haha get it) a C++ style execution framework on top of it so your fellow developers wont kill you for dragging them through the mud that is PHP.
This one special usecase is called Facebook by the way.

Emails are HTML so you'll just use a template engine like handlebars, sms are just text so you'll get pretty far with string.Replace().

Although windows is a memory management nightmare, it really isnt it's fault for you running a OS designed for SSDs on HDDs.

We can't really interact with the chinese communities because their gouvernment won't let us. Well if they would the chinese would have a different gouvernment.

Experiences I have made:
Cannabis is great in small dosage for focus. Basically no risk high reward.
Amphetamines from normal speed to meth are all contraproductive.
Ecstasy & 2CB are probably good in small dosages for creatives, but I'm not one.
LSD in small dosages(25microgram) is propably the biggest risk and reward. Yes your brain runs at 150% efficiency, but you have to deal with, well LSD.

You can improve trust me, Im somebody that went from total human garbage to just human garbage 😅