Hacker News: user_accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=user_accountHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:11:56 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by user_account in "Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history"]]>Your "conveniently" makes it look like it was conditionally collected; it is easy to cherry-pick stories to retroactively justify tyranny.

]]>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:34:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796688user_accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796688https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796688<![CDATA[New comment by user_account in "Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history"]]>Microsoft products are truly an endless surveillance of nightmare. The data collected is unacceptable and will be used against you. Best scenario to target ads and train ai; worst scenario to handle you over to the government (any that Microsoft has an legal entity at).

]]>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:17:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788608user_accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788608https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788608<![CDATA[Microsoft collects passwords and scans password-protected zip files (2023)]]>Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-is-scanning-the-inside-of-password-protected-zip-files-for-malware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737964

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]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:09:34 +0000https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-is-scanning-the-inside-of-password-protected-zip-files-for-malware/user_accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737964<![CDATA[New comment by user_account in "DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices"]]>With MicroPython you can have C drivers and just do the MicroPython bindings. I do not see the benefits of having yet another interpreted IoT language and it does not make sense to do the drivers in the interpreted language itself.

]]>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:26:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256805user_accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256805<![CDATA[New comment by user_account in "DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices"]]>Do they really need to "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" micropython?

]]>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:22:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256754user_accounthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256754