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[–] BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

My company is moving to Windows 11, I had one of my service desk teammates tell me that for an IT support person I'm very critical of change

Before Windows 11 I was critical of change because every change came with no new training for my team and a giant email to the company explaining very lazily about the changes and with the same text at the end of every email.. "Any problems call the service desk".

Now we've lost active directory.. Now I'm in a position where an incredibly incompetent IT security have restricted our access to intune and Entra and then the business wants me to still perform my daily duties as normal.

Upside is that same IT security is getting removed in the next few weeks.

Probably to be replaced by someone else even worse.

I just want to learn how to use Entra and Intune.. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit.

Active directory just worked.. It was built when people at Microsoft actually knew how the operating system worked.. None of those people are still at Microsoft..

[–] danielfm123@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

We thought china was better

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

the fucked up thing is this GDID thing apparently also show up for VM. So that would mean any VM and even a Quebe?

Fuck microsoft

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hacker

Uses windows

He got what he fucking deserved

Not only he uses windows, but a ms online account as well!!!

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, buy the thing to take note here is what tech companies can hide.

You know they're tracking users but there are still things we'll never find out unless they reveal it themselves or are made to reveal in indirectly.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

On the other hand, open source software has everything revealed by default. It has no dirty secrets to hide

[–] someone@lemmy.today 9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

why would a hacker use windows?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Enhance!!!!

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

Probably bc its the most used os

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Don't forget the unique identifier of Edge and Chrome.

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Does MS track what you do in Edge and Windows, yes. Does Google track you in Crome and any app of theirs, yes. Does Apple track everything you do on their devices, yes. Does meta, twitter, all social media sites track the fuck out of you, also yes.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Does Linux track you? Does LibreWolf track you? Does GrapheneOS track you? Does Vanadium track you? Does SimpleX or Signal track you? Does...

Never mind, I think you get my point.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

tracking is a core function of pretty much all commercial software at this point

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, all of that is true.

Were you building up to making a point, or...

[–] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 87 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Something this article glosses over is the fact that Microsoft knew all of the web URLs he was visiting. I don't know if that's because he was dumb enough to sign into Edge with his Microsoft account or if they were collecting that a different way, but the GDID wouldn't have been nearly as useful without that info.

[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And able to identify the specific accounts he was logging into. How are they able to do that?

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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Can you explain the joke?

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[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 day ago (29 children)

Year of the Linux desktop anyone?

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