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- Hacker News
- This is slop (derogatory)
It's missing quite a few things. Not exactly a ringing endorsement for claude
Afaik, this is illegal under GDPR, as an IP has been classified as a personal identifier.> Court reporting in 2026 established that Microsoft held a GDID-to-URL/time/IP association in one investigation.by exceptione- FYI this contains major red flags.
Degrading the MS sign in and other features is not sustainable.
If you truly want to get away from GDID and all the other Windows nonsense, start using Linux Mint.
- <Gov AI> this user keeps hitting our instances with no GDID, better look into it.by IronWolve
- Windows has a hardcoded list of Microsoft domain names that entirely bypass the hosts file. I see nothing about this, so I would assume there is no countermeasure here. Curiously, this approach appears to have been tested as working anyway.by LoganDark
- Wouldn't it make more sense to instead use the same GDID on thousands of hosts?
Or a random GDID on each read?
No GDID sounds like it sticks out a lot more.
by hypfer - "The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"?
WTF.
That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavour of article-spun SEO spam and those shady fake research papers with "tortured phrases". What causes this obfuscated writing style?
by userbinator