Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

• privatezilla

  19 2,950 3.1 C#

  👀👮🐢🔥Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10

  

  I recently used Privatezilla to disable automatic updates. Not sure if the same approach works on Windows 11, but you might find the relevant registry keys mentioned in the code helpful: https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla/blob/master/src/P...

• Windows11-Debloat-Privacy-Guide

  2 275 1.0 Batchfile

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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  Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

  

• Windows11-Debloat-Privacy-Gu

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• optimizer

  43 4,611 8.2 C#

  The finest Windows Optimizer

  first step after reinstalling windows is always flipping every toggle in:

  https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer

• hosts

  104 22,601 8.9 Python

  🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

       get https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts

• Scoop

  104 17,400 9.1 PowerShell

  A command-line installer for Windows.

  

  If you use chocolatey, you might want to give scoop a shot ;) https://scoop.sh/

• Atlas

  37 4,385 7.5 Batchfile

  🚀 An open and transparent Windows operating system, designed to optimize performance and latency.

  

  Anybody got experience with https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas ? Could be an interesting thing if it really is what it's promising.

• SonarLint

  www.sonarlint.org

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• syncthing-android

  574 2,385 6.9 Java

  Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  

  Not that it absolves MS, but this is the status quo, since broadband internet is widespread. Systems in general became very chatty over the net, and every proprietary system phones home for various functionalities, user conveniences and telemetry. And very few system is explicit upfront what gets communicated over the net and what not. Even private, open source software communicates a bunch by default, like Syncthing. This one specifically is peer to peer, and advertises privacy first thing on the homepage, but two instances, both behind NATs, still can't communicate without a third party that connects them at first - like STUN/TURN systems that they themselves host (stun.syncthing.net).

  https://syncthing.net/

• pop-os-rootfs

  79 2 10.0 Shell

  A pre-unsquashed, umodified popos rootfs

  

  Same, I started the process of installing Pop!_OS [1] last week. I hope all drivers and things like Fan control work will properly, so far it seems to work really well out of the box so i was impressed - but i haven't tested any games yet for example.

  [1] https://pop.system76.com/

  PS. I still can't believe Windows has declined so much, what the hell is happening at Microsoft?

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