Erik Uden 🚩Jul 19, 2023
There's this dangerous open source code I need to warn you people against. There are so-called Microsoft Activation Scripts capable of activating Microsoft Windows and Office without a license key which I must heavily warn against. The pain programs like these evoke in me torrent into my body every time I hear about them! As a cybersecurity researcher it is important for me that the software industry stays alive, especially big tech such as Microsoft who built the foundation of our electronic frontier when it comes to develognument.
GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.

Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

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Show threadmoved to @[email protected]Jul 19, 2023
@ErikUden thank you for telling me, these poor, poor companies getting their millions of dollars stolen each year and none going to their massive pile... such a shame we live in a world where nobody realizes how truly important it is for so called "greedy corporations" to exist.........
Gray 🩶Jul 26, 2023
Show threadErik Uden 🚩

@sneexy big tech is the reason you can access the internet! A non-profit version of online social communication without ads, data harvesting, or algorithms is unthinkable and quite frankly I believe impossible!

Under no circumstances would a non-corporate internet be capable of even existing! We should thank Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, the founding fathers of our internet!!!

Never take money from corporations. It's theirs, and their monopoly position is necessary to keep the internet running. A people built alternative maintained through collective code contribution in open source platforms is frankly utopian and will never be real or easy to use.

Jul 19, 2023 at 5:53pmWeb
Show threadloko :infinite_money_glitch:Jul 19, 2023
@ErikUden @[email protected] Take Apple for example. From time to time I'll see a real apple and an Apple device next to each other and it's really confusing, like which is the real Apple in this situation? It hurts my brain. That's why Apple can eliminate this confusion by using their monopoly power and trademark real apples and stop apple production. They really care about us. Who eats fruits anyway in 2023. I'd use the apple emergency function if i ever consume too much copium anyway.
Show threadtom w wolfJul 19, 2023

@loki @sneexy @ErikUden

(following everybody in this thread)​

Show threadCielaJul 20, 2023
@ErikUden I am asking this legit, are you trolling? Or is this some kind of unlimited bait works.
Show threadJulian GroßJul 26, 2023
@ErikUden @sneexy I love this because any time our corporate monopoly ISP causes downtime, I switch to the non-profit non-corporate #Freifunk network.
Considering they aren't bound by contract and receive no money, their service is really good. At the very least they have much higher uptime than our local corporate monopoly.
Show threadT_XJul 30, 2023
@ErikUden @sneexy the "A non-profit version of online social communication [...] I believe impossible" sounds a bit funny when written from a #Mastodon account :-). But I guess you mean the full stack, from layer 1 upwards. #WirelessCommunityNetworks, like the #Freifunk which @juliangro mentioned (and OpenSource in general) is one step in that direction. Unfortunately, #OpenHardware is even less prevelant. But this concept exists, too.