Would not be at all bothered about losing Teams, can you take the paid version away as well?
While you're there, let's discuss OneNote and Sharepoint, which need to either be written for the 21st Century or euthanised.
Posts by Lee D
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Warning: Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will be gone in 2 months
Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000
Tesla's Autopilot is losing out to Ford, GM in self-driving tech
Wednesday 25th January 2023 23:41 GMT 
You mean that the rich upstart company bankrolled by an insanely stupid billionaire that's basically gone bust multiple times in its 18 year history, which hasn't sold as many cars in its entire history as Ford does in a year, suddenly isn't able to compete even in its own area of "expertise" (*cough*) now that the traditional manufacturers are dialling down their ICE production (which was only there to make most use of its patents and tooling before they become obsolete forever) now that most countries have set a deadline for ending such engines?
You mean that as soon as the traditional manufacturers went "Sigh, yeah, okay then", their collective R&D budget (which outpaces Tesla's actual income many times over) absolutely trounces a so-called "tech" company at its own game, but in a safe way instead of a "let's just kill people but not mention it" kind of way?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. If only I said that... well, before most people had even heard of a Tesla.
Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko
Monday 16th January 2023 14:24 GMT
Re: who pays for the API
Most of those bot-like things are used by corporations to bring together all their comms in one format.
Same way that Twilio can message over SMS or Whatsapp - so you don't need to change anything. You just add a Whatsapp account, advertise it, and your media people, your employees, your customers, still talk to you over the same channels as always. No retraining for your staff required.
Bots like those (and I don't know those in particular, but those kinds of things) are used as part of a "This is our Monday company message". Write it once, press a button, it goes out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, the website, email, etc. all together in an appropriate format, with link modification, etc as necessary.
Because none of those companies will work together to help you do that, so you have to have 3rd-party software to do that for you.
Sure, "nothing in it" for Twitter... but find me a large company nowadays that doesn't offer their own customers an API of some kind for things like that. Hell, I've spent this morning looking at my cloud-switch/routers API and tying it into a status dashboard along with a dozen other programs, including the site access control management panel which also offers REST/JSON etc.
"Nothing in it" except your customers making greater use of your system whereas without it they may not even bother to get on there because they can't use their normal tools to do so.
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud
Monday 16th January 2023 14:13 GMT
Re: Open source
If you are peer-pressured into slaving away on a open-source software project for any return - whether reputational, monetary, or otherwise - then you are particularly mentally vulnerable AND absolutely in the wrong part of software development.
"You know if you don't have OS contributions in your CV then you are a less worthy hire and so on."
Nonsense. Don't work for those companies, ever.
"And let's not get into the social aspect of this where mostly people from privileged background work on those Open Source projects."
Puh-lease... I was hacking on Slackware 3.9 and kernel 2.0.38 for years as part of floppy-based distro Freesco - precisely because I couldn't afford a real router or a hard drive, after I had spent most of my youth programming and giving away the results of that programming to friends, family and the Internet at large (my state-secondary in a deprived area that I grew up in LITERALLY hosted an assembly to show off that I'd created software, my brother had used his college account to upload it to a Usenet newsgroup (we didn't have internet!) and then I (my brother) later got an email from a woman in Canada saying how she loved it and thanking me for it... part of the assembly was literally the "Wow, look at this amazing new tech, a MESSAGE FROM CANADA sent over THE COMPUTER!").
Monday 16th January 2023 10:26 GMT
Re: Open source
Nobody forced people to write that software.
They wrote it because they wanted it, they contributed it to to others knowingly and consciously, and they were fully aware (more than anyone else ) of the licensing arrangements to which they submitted it.
Open Source programmers don't work on programs because they're exploited. They work on them because they want a system that's outside corporate control, works, is free, or even just exists.
Nobody is sitting there prodding OS programmers into coding teams and forcing them to slave away in cubicles, with a list of criteria dictated by big business because they want to exploit it. The programmers made something. They gave it to the world. The world - including large corporates - decided to use it.
And, yes, I'm an open-source programmer (I refuse the capital letters, and links to GNU, FSF etc. personally as I disagree with the way they do things). Most of my stuff is MIT-licenced. If a piece of it was picked up tomorrow and made someone a billion dollars... good luck to them. Sure, it'd be annoying but at the same time: I never did it for the money, or any expectation whatsoever.
If you don't want companies to pick up your code and use it to make money - licence it appropriately.
Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks
Thursday 12th January 2023 11:56 GMT
Pretty sure I could arrange this myself if I really wanted to, there are services to rent out CPU , GPU time, etc.
But I'm not sure I want to pay electricity to run an inefficient heater to generate lukewarm water from a server based on a water tank in my loft that has to be somehow attached.
Even a loft itself is a poor environment for a computer - dusty, spiders, condensation, extremes of cold and heat, inaccessible, potentially rodents etc.
I bought a house recently with loftspace that I don't use for storage (I don't have enough stuff to justify it), but I still sited my "servers" (Raspberry Pi's), NAS and network cabinet in a cupboard rather than in the loft. Also, I chose a cupboard that's NOT under the water tank. I've never had a leak, but I'm not taking that chance.
In actual fact, some of the cabling (to cameras, network sockets etc.) does go into the loft - none of it near existing cabling or the plumbing deliberately.
The "waste heat" from that cupboard just stays in it. It's not enough to worry about and it heats the house as a byproduct, and heating air is a lot easier for a computer than heating water. They even come with fans built-in...
The days of random people running a computer unnecessarily to sell the compute time are long gone, several cycles over. The last was the rush for SETI/Folding@Home, etc. It's lovely that people want to donate their time and money to projects like that, but you'd be better off dropping some cash into an AWS server instance or even just renting a cheap dedicated server or similar, in terms of value for computing.
Getting enough money to pay the homeowner for the necessary several hundreds of watts to slightly warm their water? I can't see it happening, let alone covering, installation, management, decommissioning, etc.
You'd be better off just buying a solar panel and attaching it to a 100W heating element. Sure, it wouldn't get 100W all the time, but it would do more directly and cut out several middlemen. And the cost of a 100W or even 200W panel is going to be less than whatever computer you're installing there.
Hell I have heating that runs off a homebrew solar system, I could do a better job just plugging in a small, low-power water heater (e.g. a fish tank heater dangled into my header tank) than I ever could trying to do this with the computer middle-man.
On the 12th day of the Rackspace email disaster, it did not give to me …
Patch Tuesday updates spark errors when creating Hyper-V VMs
Wednesday 14th December 2022 22:26 GMT
Re: MS Edge on Win7
1) Stop running Windows 7.
2) Stop running Edge.
3) Take backups.
4) If you insist on just pushing updates to your systems, at least utilise the fact that you can stop updates on 7 quite easily, and then checkpoint, test, rollback them individually as necessary.
5) Stop running "bleeding-edge" and then complaining that you have blood on your shirt.
Wednesday 14th December 2022 22:24 GMT
Almost like this huge multi-national corporation which supplies military, government, huge business, millions of customers around the world, could afford to create an automated testing suite that deploys updates to a variety of configurations of machines automatically and continuously in their massive cloud datacenters, and tests basic functionality of a huge raft of settings and processes, so that obvious errors like this flag in their testing BEFORE they roll them out to the entire planet.
Apple brings DIY fix-it store to Europe, UK – with gritted teeth
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools
Friday 2nd December 2022 12:02 GMT
Re: Office - open or closed?
I wouldn't. I hate Outlook with a vengeance and think it does two things terribly - calendar management and email management. Bit of a drawback for the product, from that point of view.
Webmail and calendaring clients of all kinds exist, it's just a matter of finding the combination you like - and you can even use their Outlook plugin if you're that desperate.
My default NextCloud (latest stable) has groupware already installed, and the default NextCloud Calendar and Mail plugins are right there in one click and integrate together.
Friday 2nd December 2022 11:57 GMT
Re: What about Google's stuff?
Neither of you guys saw Microsoft (US)'s court case where that literally did not happen because it could not happen because Microsoft (US) and Microsoft (EU) are unrelated companies each subject to their own jurisdictions, and each storing only the data for their respective clients.
This is literally what the US attempted, and Microsoft not only did not co-operate... they couldn't. Microsoft (EU) basically refused the request, and anyone who was party to enacting it in the EU (or even allowing Microsoft (US) to enact it) would be charged in the EU.
Sorry, but your example is literally what DOES NOT HAPPEN because the US jurisdiction ends at the US borders.
Thursday 1st December 2022 09:53 GMT
Re: What about Google's stuff?
Not true.
Google were the first out of the door with a full GDPR compliance statement, updated regularly and for Google For Education, you can select your data storage location very simply. As far as I know, there's nothing that they do wrong there, and they beat MS to it by years, and yet Apple (iCloud) etc. STILL are not GDPR compliant and have no intention to be.
If you're worried about schools, worry about Apple and its blatant disregard for all GDPR and data protection. They literally won't issue a GDPR compliance statement. Google did so years in advance of the laws in the UK, to a level of detail and assurance that made it a no-brainer to continue using them.
Google also offer Google for Government - which operates entirely on isolated government servers in government datacentres. They know how to do it. MS I suspect haven't fully joined the dots between their "office.com" domains and data transfer, but UK schools using Google have explicit assurances that it's entirely within the UK and never ever leaves the UK. Apple... they don't even respond when you ask. I chased them for 5 years, nothing. And, no, there was no "GDPR statement" on their website... just a thing that says they strive to comply.
There's a reason - iCloud is nothing more than randomly geolocated AWS, Azure, etc. instances. They buy the cheapest locations from their competitors (who do things properly), then pass it off to you as "Apple iCloud" but can't even be bothered to separate it by region and pass on those same assurances they are given themselves.
Thursday 1st December 2022 09:48 GMT
Re: Office - open or closed?
I have to say that if I ever set up my own small business again, I'll be going NextCloud and their cloudy office (is it Collabra?) on a bunch of my own dedicated servers.
I can't see anything that I have done professionally using Google Workspace or Office 365 that I couldn't do in some way with the same kind of setup, and in a more integrated way, entirely under my own control.
In fact, I'm often amazed when I look through the plugins for NextCloud at just what it can do - OpenStreetMap equivalents of Google Maps, Asterisk SIP integration, etc.
I understand the need for a large commercial backer for big companies, but for anything I'm ultimately responsible for, I'd be going NextCloud etc.
I've managed Windows networks for 20+ years and if I was running the company I wouldn't use Windows either nowadays. MS don't care what you want any more, you get what you're given. For 10 of those years, I was self-employed and used Linux, OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), other OS equivalents etc. as my primary desktop both in work and at home.
NextCloud installs are - as far as I'm concerned - the Google Docs / Google Drive / etc. without the "Google" factor. Hell, it does a pretty good job of just being a media center / "YouTube" by throwing MP3's and MP4's into it, even auto-converting them and pulling metadata and media info, and that's a long way outside its intended usage.
Nvidia patches 29 GPU driver bugs that could lead to code execution, device takeover
UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites
Friday 25th November 2022 15:04 GMT
Re: Good idea anyways
Don't allow devices that are plugged into random publicly-accessible network ports to be on your network and connect to the Internet when it's not necessary for their primary function.
Applies to any device, of any type, from any manufacturer.
At minimum, stick them on a closed-off VLAN, it takes about 10 seconds extra per camera to do so, and a multi-home config on the NVR box.
But they should be firewalled off, denied outgoing traffic, denied cross-VLAN access, and the ports they're on should be authenticated or forced to a VLAN.
Home users might want to use a zero-config fancy cloud app without having to port-forward, etc., businesses should be far more careful.
Also: Printers. Phones. If you're not already doing this for THEM as well, they are just as at-risk (especially as most IP phones just TFTP request firmware insecurely, and thus in theory their entire internal "OS" can just be flashed by any network user able to pretend to be the TFTP server to do whatever they want with it).
OpenSSL downgrades horror bug after week of panic, hype
Vodafone and Three's UK arms locked in merger talks
Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months
Thursday 22nd September 2022 07:43 GMT
Re: Look to Dinorwig
Sounds like you need a small battery pack capable of powering for 30 seconds, and something far, far, far, far cheaper to actually take over.
Not difficult. Standard practice in IT datacentres, for example. UPS in racks and in the aisles, just enough for the generators to start up and stabilise.
This is like suggesting you have enough UPS to just run the whole place for an extended outage, which is a bit ridiculous from a cost, maintenance and value point of view.
Microsoft rolls out stealthy updates for 365 Apps
G7 countries beat UK in worldwide broadband speed test again
Tuesday 6th September 2022 13:24 GMT
I've been on 4G for four years, the entire house. Because the broadband was utter tosh, and I can throw a stone from my bedroom window and hit a major London town.
BT offered me only a guaranteed FOUR Mbps. I told them to stuff it, never even bothered to activate the phone line. Literally no other suppliers of service available.
Been running off 4G ever since, including IoT, streaming media server and CCTV.
BT guy knocked on the door a few months back and promised me that everything was upgraded now and I could get "up to 50Mbps". I did a Speedtest, from my mobile, on my phone's 4G and then did it again on my house Wifi, which was running off a 4G stick. Beat them both times.
"Oh, but usage..." - unlimited.
"Oh, but cost." - £18 a month, barely more than your most basic line rental, let alone broadband package.
Someone needs to properly kill off the Openreach/BT monopoly, because it's still around and holding everything back still.
Moving to a new house the other day - same. I just have 4G both ends until I complete my move and watch the cameras of one place while I'm at the other place, and stream content from my media player from the old house every night. And that's actually a very rural place.
I was seriously considering Starlink if that wasn't going to work, but it has to be bad to make me use a Musk product by choice.
Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting
Friday 12th August 2022 12:42 GMT
Sounds like their usual quality, to be honest.
I hate Outlook with a vengeance, it's not even a particularly great email or calendaring client and it really only has two things to do: email and calendaring!
I don't get the obsession with it and I would be happy to never have to manage it again and haven't used it personally for years now.
The whole profile-on-the-local-machine thing is so archaic too, it really needs to just die and become nothing more than a small cache of the server content that in the case of problems, one click and you start afresh from server-only data.
And programs that forcibly integrate with it or MAPI should be shot on sight. It's the only kindness you can afford them.
Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install
Tuesday 26th July 2022 12:12 GMT
'Tain't broke, don't fix it.
More surprising is that chiark as a naming still goes to just one server, rather than some kind of DNS round-robin even if it incorporates the earlier names (referring directly to a server is generally a bad idea if that server then dies...)
But, again, I suppose that it's working so why play with it?
I always have a dedicated server to do my stuff, only ever cheap junk from OVH or Kimsufi - lets you have an outside server to test things from, lets you provide services acts as a proxy in many regards (my websites are mostly reverse-proxied from that well-known, static IP, always-on server back to an (isolated) internal network over VPN so that you don't need hole punching and port-forwarding and TLS/SSL and other things, for instance Let'sEncrypt on my internal servers would be a nightmare to configure, but if I have the dedicated server LetsEncrypt and reverse proxy, then there's always a server online to handle all the renewals for everything, but the back-end is also encrypted and secure without having to pass ACME tests directly), and just keeps going. They usually get to about 5 or 6 years old before there's some cheaper deal involved and I migrate and upgrade across to the new server, but otherwise I just leave them running. Things tend to just keep running nowadays, I have to say.
I'm not sure I'd be doing that level of constant upgrade because problems do creep in and I've done it several times (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04 -> 20.04 in stages) and run into problems half-way through that take an age to resolve, and at that point I'd rather clean-install and prove to myself that I have everything that I need properly recorded to recreate the configuration from scratch anyway, rather than just rely on constantly bringing forward some archaic config that I don't remember how it worked or what insecure old defaults it may still be using.
Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement
Thursday 9th June 2022 13:54 GMT
Re: I loved the Opera mail client
Same.
I championed Vivaldi purely because they were supposed to be doing the email client, and it's just far too late.
For the majority of that 7 years there was NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of it, even when asked.
I'm still not even sure whether/if it can import my old Opera mailboxes properly with 20+ years of email in them.
But having had to find an alternate for SEVEN YEARS, it's really too late now.
But, hey, in that time they updated the application icon for Vivaldi about 6 or 7 times and kept adding junk nobody wanted to the Start Screen, and took years to get to the point where you could drag-drop bookmarks around in it.
Irony is: 7 years ago I would have PAID for what current Vivaldi is, with the Chrome engine of that day, and an email client even vaguely usable at that time.
Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London
Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication
Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment
Inkscape adds multi-page support with v1.2 update
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
Wednesday 13th April 2022 11:15 GMT
I ran a Linux desktop for 10 years, ironically while managing Windows networks for a living.
I stayed with Windows for 7, 8 (yep, even 8) and now 10.
And I look at 10 and what 11 is becoming and am seriously considering Linux again.
The only real reason I've found to stay on Windows is games. And Steam Deck / Proton are currently proving what I've known all along - Linux can run "Windows-only" games faster than Windows can, and in a much simpler fashion and without being weighed down with a ton of legacy junk just to run a game. We just finally have the tools and hardware to prove it, and that's coming from someone who's owned copies of Crossover Office for as long as it's existed.
My next desktop "move" (which doesn't happen often in my personal life) will likely be to Linux again, and then virtualising Windows, the flip of what I currently do and harking back to the past.
I actually used to use Slackware as my desktop and Ubuntu on servers... because of the reasons hinted at in this article... Slackware does exactly what I damn well tell it, but Ubuntu just made it nice and quick to get something secure and working when you want headless setups.
Windows 11 is literally pushing me off Windows, and Steam Deck / Proton are pulling me towards Linux again.
Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice
Monday 11th April 2022 14:15 GMT
Nobody wants Edge.
And as Edge is effectively Chrome nowadays, why do you care, Microsoft?
Just take the damn order I gave you and stop trying to persuade me to use the one app that's pre-installed and which I automatically totally ignore and install an alternative IMMEDIATELY and SPECIFICALLY to replace it instead.
Take the hint. It's my damn machine. And I don't want Edge.
Microsoft hikes prices for non-profit customers, ends on-prem software grants
5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say
Saturday 15th January 2022 01:21 GMT
Re: Told to turn off?
If you had to rely on individual passengers turning off their phones in order to not crash the plane, there's no way you'd be allowed to have a phone anywhere near a plane and you'd be scanned for them before you set foot near them.
The interference is minimal and fleeting and non-critical or it wouldn't be licensed in the first place.
Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court
Friday 7th January 2022 13:45 GMT
If he's just a single person:
I would hazard a guess that rather than having a publicly-known and well-advertised Bitcoin wallet, so everyone in the world was watching what you spend it on and where it goes, that someone like Nakamoto would have instead created a far more anonymous and private wallet at some later point (probably the point that Bitcoin looked like it was about to take off, rather than the day-one test of the software when they made Block 0 or whatever), been mining to that wallet for a long time as well, and would have been living off that since 2011 when they realised it was more than enough to live off for the rest of their life.
2011 is, oddly, when Bitcoin was worth exactly $1. How many wallets had, say, 100,000 BTC in them by 2011? You could live a few years off $100,000, especially if you kept mining and then stayed living like that until the price went insane you become a millionaire anyway. I don't know how many large wallets there would have been at that point but I would reckon it would be far easier to be lost in the noise by then, and just transfer funds from some earlier wallets, say, to a new anonymised one and spend as required without the world watching what you're doing.
At least, if he is a person, and had any sense, that's what I would have done.
And if you're already a multi-millionaire, basically retired and able to do whatever you like, and you know you have "emergency" access to billions upon billions if you ever desperately needed it... I can see why you wouldn't want it to be well known, why you wouldn't want to be tapping away at developing software any more, wouldn't want to be in the public eye, and wouldn't really care about having to access those billions unless you absolutely need to.
Chances are he quietly cashed out and retired in 2011, having literally years worth of head-start on every other Bitcoin miner that existed, and the cash to buy hardware to literally become one of the largest casual miners for over a decade, undetected.
Spar shops across northern England shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities
Tuesday 7th December 2021 10:25 GMT
Re: Cash Is King
Something like 45% of people using cash during the pandemic in the UK were refused at some point.
Sorry, but your paper money is not the solution.
The solution is a robust electronic system with - shock, horror - a failover system that can process payments, your ONLY source of income. Your most business-critical system. Your bread-and-butter.
But no, rather than issue stores with a bunch of iZettles for use in such circumstances, even if it costs you an extra % on the processing fee, Spar would rather be entirely offline whenever their system is down and unable to serve a single customer.
Electronic money is all there will be in the future. Money laundering laws have seen to that. Put cash under your mattress and then try to pay it into your bank in bulk? They legally need to know where that came from, which means you have to prove it.
Given that 90% of your bills will be direct-debit or card-based anyway (unless your really do walk up to British Gas counters and try to pay in cash still), I'm afraid you're already entirely reliant on electronic banking, and it will only ever "get worse".
I live a cashless life, and I've given my daughter (who lives in Spain) a child's credit card. Everyone laughed. Pandemic hit. They can send her money from another country, we can track her spending from across the continent, and her Christmas gifts are basically impossible to send her without - as happened on her birthday - almost €300 of collective customs charges, or an awful lot of disputes and hassle. This Christmas, she's getting electronic money on her card from all... including the stalwart grandparents who keep hoarding their cash thinking that helps them.
My daughter is not going to understand people using cash in her future. You're literally in a technological dead-end, like lamp-lighters, horse-drawn-carriages and faxes. You can admit it, or you can pretend it hasn't already happened. Because unless I'm very much mistaken here, I bet that the majority of your gas, electricity, telephone, Internet, rent/mortgage, council tax, entertainment, car tax, car insurance, etc. are done electronically. I bet you even use card when paying for your petrol, because I see vanishingly few people ever using cash.
Galileo satnav system gets two new somewhat confusing satellites
Assange psychiatrist misled judge over parentage of his kids, US tells High Court
South Korean telco goes down, blames DDoS attack, later admits its BGP broke
WhatsApp to offer end-to-end encrypted backups in iCloud, Google Drive with user-managed keys
Saturday 11th September 2021 21:01 GMT
Cool.
Tell me when they honour my data opt-out for sharing my stuff with Facebook which I do not want to ever happen, even briefly.
Their only option for me when I complained to them officially was "email us - to an insecure email address - the exact data that you don't want us to store to prove that it's you".
I have a complaint in with the ICO about it.
At that point, I'll think about giving them my Google account tokens/data.
Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets
Thursday 5th August 2021 19:40 GMT
I have a 21 year old printer. I use it a couple of times a year.
In work, I am the IT Manager. I print once in a blue moon and ALWAYS for other people.
I see no reason to be printing this amount of stuff, and for COVID we eliminated huge rafts of paperwork and literally nobody cared that we'd done so. It's all now recorded electronically, so you have far better proof and ability to process and forward the forms that would normally have to be paper. The paper went, people thought it worked better, now people don't give it a second thought. We could have done that at any time.
Same as working from home.
In terms of stuff I receive on paper at home, I literally get one paper form from my local council a year, everything else is junk mail. No bills, no statements, etc. It's all electronic. Filed. Stored forever. Easily comparable. Easily available any time I like.
It's time we just owned up to it and stopped printing, because we only print because OTHER PEOPLE think they must have it on paper for some reason.
Early Skype developer Jaan Tallinn splashes cash in latest funding for Matrix-based instant messenger Element
Tuesday 27th July 2021 15:07 GMT
Re: Fizzled out
At that stage, you're either a) in a legally-unenforceable area or b) already in an inescapable dictatorship anyway.
I can't get in trouble for having uTorrent on my laptop any more than this software.
And, if it's done anywhere vaguely NEAR sensibly enough, it will be virtually impossible to distinguish the traffic from any other HTTPS session (and likely nodes will be running on things like AWS which means even trying to block the major endpoints will be useless).
I have no fear of someone making a piece of software that would be "illegal" to have on my laptop. There are no laws for that whatsoever. It's the actions you use that software to do that matter.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
