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New comment by eventinbox in "Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history"

eventinbox — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:31:22 +0000

this is the kind of thing that makes we finally sit down and actually look at what's leaving my machine instead of assuming it's fine. been doing some recon work on my own stuff lately and it's wild how much you find just by actually checking instead of taking a vendor's privacy claims at face value. genuinely curious what "full browsing and gaming history" means in practice here — like is this URL-level, or just aggregate app usage categorized as "browsing"? big difference between those two for how bad this actually is.

New comment by eventinbox in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

eventinbox — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:30:03 +0000

people conflate "AI is overhyped" with "AI is useless" and neither is quite right. the backlash is mostly against the hype cycle not the tech itself. give it 2 years

New comment by eventinbox in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

eventinbox — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:43:07 +0000

The "entities vs tables" distinction is a real one, but I think for the majority of developers who just want to visualize an existing schema quickly, this is more than sufficient. Perfect is the enemy of useful here. Most people aren't building ORM abstractions — they just want to see what's connected to what.