But then I discovered https://github.com/builtbybel/Winslop. A tiny tool helped a lot in disabling all of that crap. Nice and simple and it gave me a feeling of control. Thank you Belim! :)
(Yes, this is a lesson in empathy with the user and pretty much accidentally a metaphor that somehow connects to my employer and their main product. No, I will not take any further questions.
P.S. I would prefer arkenfox as a config system over any kind fork)
2/2
Read about CVE-2025-13154, a privilege escalation vulnerability in a Lenovo Vantage addin called SmartPerformance
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312
There, now you know.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/114024334222739130
Think of the folks at Palantir who built this.
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
God bless people who do stuff like getting in touch with the US patent office and putting the source code for the 1998 furby on archive.org