dungeon meshi my beloved

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.

I also made a PDF version!!

For comprehensive deets, tomshardware explains

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some rogues and gambit for my friend @zinomorix <3

they make me start frothing at the mouth and punching drywall thanks for asking <3

forever thinking about how the subtitle translation of this scene misses the element of choice present in what waymond says the official subtitle translation for the line is

In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you

which works and is super memorable/catchy (if the many fanarts I've seen where people use that line is something to go off of) but what he says originally is

如果有来生，我还是会选择和你一起，报税，开洗衣店

which translates more directly to something along the lines of

if there is a next life*, I would still choose to open a laundromat and do taxes with you

*next life, based on the assumption that something like reincarnation or rebirth is possible which sounds far less... romantic/poetic (forgive my amateur TL) but I am a little sad that the element of choice is lost in the official translation :') the fact that he says that he would choose the life that main timeline evelyn and waymond have just feels really powerful and important to me... especially because it's business ceo waymond saying it to movie star evelyn, where they're both successful in a more traditional sense because they decided to not have a life together... and after hearing about their difficult laudromat owner life what this waymond says is essentially that he would still choose to be with her???

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1