"Security patches are not available for AME, as this subsystem has been disabled. In order to secure the system properly, we revoke administrator privileges from all normal users, and activate the hidden administrator account. This will mediate approximately 75% of the critical attack surface, while locking down the system from most foreseeable major future threats."
If you for example consider a typical company security policy this is 100% less secure considering any vulnerabilities in windows itself minus the the attack surface of the different telemetry systems that have been disabled.
If you care not to report your usage to Microsoft or any agency that Microsoft would need to release data to this is 100% 'secure'.
Security has become the main argument for unwanted ongoing spying and patronising by OS vendors. Look at Google play services and/or safety net. It is like trust us or we render your system unusable it insecure. This amounts to blackmailing IMHO and regulators need to step in.
Blackmailing is screaming "yOuR sYsTeM iS nOt SeCuRe!1!!@1!1!#11$%$!" to anyone who shirks updates of any kind. As if the sky is falling if they so much as miss a single update.
To anyone who engages in that blackmail, and honestly gaslighting: Kindly fuck off. That argument has never been correct nor valuable information.
If you install AME on your Windows copy today? Probably not much. A year from now if you don’t update? However many critical vulnerabilities are found in a year in Windows.
Anyone from amerliorated.io reading this, the word 'Rigorously' is misspelt, it appears in a headline on the homepage as "Consistently developed. Rigerously tested".
Short of joining their Telegram channel I couldn't find another way of flagging this.
I don't know if this is the successor to https://ameliorated.info/ or an April Fool's joke, but it got pinned in the official Ameliorated Telegram group. I'm running Ameliorated 10 21H1 right now, and when I used to use simplewall it showed that Ameliorated is very quiet in nonconsensual network traffic, which I absolutely do not expect stock Windows 10 to be. (And hopefully the prebuilt Ameliorated ISOs aren't backdoored, though it doesn't seem to have any *obvious* C&C network traffic). Hopefully the new OS builder tool is open-source and can be audited to verify it doesn't inject backdoors.
The downsides are that the current ISO injects the creator's preferences in ways which are difficult to change (lock screen image, not being an admin account, VBScript disabled which breaks Visual Studio Installer, only one user usable, etc.). Additionally, applications (Visual Studio, VS Command Prompt, C# build tools even on Linux, vcpkg, Discord) invariably exfiltrate endless amounts of information, even if you clean up the operating system.
They link to an LTT video, but guess what? The video links back to another website: ameliorated.info. The source code linked by the website is also hosted on there.
For me it seems like someone is trying to revive an old project without approval from the owner. I'm not sure if you should trust it right now without more information
I'm not sure why Java would be an easier path than C#, the next paragraph is a little weird to read -
Native app
We did not take the easy path of writing our app in Java or a web-based Java-script heavy framework. Using C# and .NET allows us to craft an experience that minimizes resource use and is very fast.
All of this is really weird. C# is easier than Java, and it isn’t necessarily native code. They’re also using the old .NET Framework [0] instead of the modern .NET for some reason.
It's different because of it's a aprils fools joke I guess? Feels off to me - the password-protected playbooks, the empty git repo, and the timing is suspicious.
It's garbage. It claims to make your windows better... but then it breaks updates, and installs random software. Like VLC, OnlyOffice, Firefox, random wallpapers... What if you don't want those? Or what if it installs other malicious things?
A set of instructions, such as documentation defining what to do.
Or, more commonly these days: Ansible "playbooks" which run a series of idempotent scripts to bring a system into a desired state. (the terminology taken from the above).
Because eventually Win 10 will stop being supported and we'll have to switch to win 11 whether we like it or not. It's nice that tools exist already to get rid of most spyware.
Maybe it's time to ditch Windows once and for all. Put spywares aside, the reliability is ridiculous.
Bought a surface pro for kids, and had to clean wipe Windows 11 less than a week as they pushed an update causing external display to flicker, uninstalling the update screwed up the whole system and the system restore did not work at all. So had to spend half a day just to install Windows 10.
For my own laptop, mostly looked okay until a couple of days ago except a couple different minor issues got fixed now and then. All of a sudden, Edge became unbearably slow. Simply create a new tab or switching to another one could take a minute despite the cpu usage was less than 10% and over 32GB free mem available. Tried everything such as switching off hardware acceleration etc., none worked. Then I noticed that the URL inspection related fuction which was for sure turned off was back on again. Turned those off those, it got much faster but still slower than it should be.
That's the last straw. Installed Fedora and it looks great by default. However, I still need to find some substitution for the stuffs I use on Windows. Once that's done, Windows 11 can go.
I can only do my work on windows. Playstation/Xbox toolchains only work on windows, not to mention most of other video games development tools.
Besides, I honestly think Visual Studio(the full one, not Code) is the best IDE in existence for C++ programming, its tooling and usablity is second to none. Even if I wasn't developing video games I'd stick with windows just to use Visual Studio.
Yep, I get that lots of software are Windows only. I was super happy with Visual Studio until recently a couple of years, basicly when JS component started to replace those native ones. It took only 80MB of memory when loaded a fairly big solution. But now, a few GB just to load a tiny solution. Lots of functions I don't give a f*k about were added recently, but for those small little things indentation while formatting code etc.. are no longer working as what they used to be. And you just reminded me another bug of Windows 10. So on Friday, I was debugging something and decided to stop as I found what was wrong. Debugging stopped but the process did not and wasn't shown at all in the taskmgr, had to kill it using command line so that I could build the new code. Nothing big but super annoying.
my work software is not supported by WINE and honestly after like 30 years with Windows I will rather butcher windows than deal with Linux, which I tried every few years and still found it unusable for me even besides that one software I need
OP here. I am not affiliated with this project. Some people have questioned whether the new domain belongs to the original project or not, so here is how I confirmed that they at least cooperate or belong to the same project team.
The older .info domain also referenced by the LTT video links to a Telegram group, whose owners now link to the new .io domain of this post.
As to why the old website does not reference the new domain directly, I have no idea.
As always with scripts that modify your system in fundamental ways, please take great care and do your own research.
Is this page created by a buzzword-generator for April fools?
Btw: Have W11 fixed so that's it's possible to "ungroup" items in the task bar yet? I reverted back to W10 after a few weeks because it was absolutely unusable having all my open editor windows grouped to a single thing in the taskbar, making it hard to quickly switch to the correct one.
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