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If you're that paranoid, create new virtual machines (from some sort of template, so the each have differing MAC, TCP/IP etc. addresses), use each once e.g. to log on to Facebook etc., and then destroy it with a secure wipe.
You may get the governmental alphabet soup after you (FBI, CIA, NSA, GCHQ, Mossad, ...), but I doubt that Google et al. Will be able to track you... 
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In the Netherlands, and probably the whole EU, there are regulations that limit an employer's right to spy on their employees.
It's not illegal, but employees must be notified and it must comply with the GDPR.
An employee has a right to privacy, even on work-issued devices.
If my former employers did anything described in this article, I'd have a pretty strong lawsuit I think.
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True; but the article goes on. You could loose your work device if you get terminated or the company collapses. Or you may accidentally mail a work-contact some personal stuff.
..but here, this audience, will know about cloud services to store stuff, run VM's, and will be the type to already own one or two personal PC's, and some of those are more "server" than laptop. Not the kind that needs to use their work-lappie for personal stuff to save a few bucks.
We save a few bucks on the car, holidays, food - to get a better PC 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Not the kind that needs to use their work-lappie for personal stuff to save a few bucks.
This is exactly what I do
Never much of an issue with new laptops though.
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You don't work in corporate environment, you are your own boss... it doesn't count 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I always feel like somebody's watching me"
And I have no privacy, ooh ooh.
Great music aside, my response is "well, duh". I reserve any rights to watch pr0n, play games, install malware, visit shady sites, access the deep web and whatever I fancy with my personal computer. If a company ever forces me to use it for work, they know the risks. If they want to lock my computer, then they shall pay for it upfront and monthly for maintenance. Otherwise said PC will have a whole damn lot of blocking hardware / software issues, ifyouknowwhatimean.
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den2k88 wrote: I reserve any rights to watch pr0n
And my employer reserves the right to monitor at own risk.
I will not be held accountable for any or all damages, a quick rise in eye-bleach-related costs or declining employee morale 
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There seems to be a lot of confusion around the implementation of C++20 coroutines, which I think is due to the draft technical specification for C++20 stating that coroutines are a work in progress so we can’t expect full compiler and library support at this point in time. Yield to the partially completed feature!
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If Microsoft (among others) does it... why couldn't we?
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Being a global company has its perks. There’s a lot of money to be made overseas. But the biggest US tech companies are finding out that there’s also a downside: Every country where you make money is a country that could try to regulate you. It's expensive to be the king
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Every country where you make money is a country that could try to regulate you.
What IMHO is how it should have been from the very beginning.
Are you making money here? You should comply with local regulations and pay local taxes...
If good or not... that's another question.
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BlackLotusLabs reports that hackers have started developing and testing methods of using Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux, which offers a Linux command shell for Windows PCs, to compromise Windows installations. It's The Year of hacking Windows via Linux!
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What an exciting year to be alive!
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Surprise, surprise!!! 
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Dark energy, a mysterious force believed to be causing the universe to expand at an accelerated rate, may have been detected by scientists for the first time. "If you only knew the power of the Dark Side"
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Let's hope that they don't accidentally break something while trying to (ab)use it
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Nelek wrote: Let's hope that they accidentally break something while trying to (ab)use it
May we live in interesting times.
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den2k88 wrote: May we live in interesting times.
and survive them 
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I adopted the IED technician credo: "if it doesn't blow up it's no longer my problem, if it blows up it's no longer my problem".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: may
Or it may have been caused by a butterfly farting in the Amazon. 
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I've seen black energy in the mirror for years 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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We reported a month ago that Microsoft has just released Windows App SDK 1.0.0-experimental, a toolkit that empowers desktop app developers to build apps with a modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features. Now we'll actually be able to create Windows applications!
I'm too lazy to look into this to see just what the point is. Anyone care to inform me?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a toolkit that empowers desktop app developers to build apps with a modern Windows UI,
a.k.a. Rounded icons?
Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm too lazy to look into this to see just what the point is.
Not the only one  
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Windows 11 is no longer compatible with the immensely popular Oracle VirtualBox virtualization platform after Microsoft changed its hardware requirement policies for virtual machines. I expect a virtual lawsuit approaching
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I expect a virtual lawsuit approaching
Using Skype or Teams? 
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