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Updated! The debloat Gist for LTSC I created, now has check and uncheck items for what we turn off and on. 6 checkboxes so people can decide what they want. Adding more of these over time. Like now. I did add a 7th option for search tweaks.
gist.github.com/tgeczy/2d847e2…

Powershell script to debloat Windows 11 LTSC

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We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀

The Sovereign Tech Fund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical open source infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS that power the web—to strengthen digital sovereignty. Now we're in a pivotal phase of growth and scaling, and we're looking for an experienced leader for this key role.

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"We are hiring!" on a whiteboard, with the Sovereign Tech Agency logo in the bottom right corner.
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Ich möchte eine Empfehlung aussprechen. Ich habe mit StreetComplete eine App gefunden, mit der man auf einfache und spielerische Art und Weise zu @openstreetmap beitragen kann. Die App zeigt dir um deinen Standort herum an, wo noch Daten fehlen und mit der Beantwortung von einfachen Fragen kannst du helfen, die Kartendaten zu vervollständigen. Sehr cool! Und total easy.

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#openstreetmap #StreetComplete


Street­Complete | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Unterwegs kartieren für OpenStreetMap
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Also not everyone knows, but I have backups. Anytime one of these scripts nukes my system, a virus scan finds something, back to the clean set-up system image I go. Not everyone has or does this. But for me, squeezing my 30 GB fresh Windows install into a 13 GB back-up file with maximum compression works out.
terabyteunlimited.com/download…
What I did to run it and restore an image?
Simple! Copy your working folder of TeraByte from Program Files into a Windows 11 installation media that you know has audio. Then, shift+f10 into the command prompt of that booted image and run it. Restore your TBI file from the external or other drive. Simple, no fuss.
The file you need to run? Imagew64.exe. Sometimes the drive letter mounting can change, so just CD around until you find the folder you pasted at the drive root, and then run it. Trust me, it runs under WinPE fine without any dependency needs.

Downloads Image for Windows - TeraByte Unlimited

TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore suite download page including additional free languages, add-ons, components and resources.
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So on a fresh Windows 11 install, I would need to now run at least 4 GitHub scripts just to make it behave and tamed down to the process plus ram usage of Windows 10. Unbelievable. I'm going to provide links here, you use these at your own risk. I'm also favoriting this post for myself so this is a bit for me, too.
All of these require that Defender's "realtime protection" and possibly "tampor protection" stay off. Defender is very yelly.

First thing I do: github.com/ShadowWhisperer/Rem…
This removes Microsoft Edge, and I use the WebView remover. If you use JAWS, this one might not be for you, since I believe JAWS relies on the webView.
2. Spicy: Remove defender. Not for everyone, but if you have a 3rd-party scanner and AV you use that's light, or just want to manually scan files and do daily quick scans with a tool of your choice, it's good. Using WSL will reinstall the hypervisor bits. It does a lot, so be cautious.
github.com/ionuttbara/windows-…
3. New to the list: github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind… - for getting rid of all AI features. Again, large script, read and consult carefully.
4. My own quick debloat Gist for LTSC: gist.github.com/tgeczy/2d847e2…
This does a lot more plumming removal, and disables your search box, so don't be surprised.
5. For search box: Open Menu: github.com/Open-Shell/Open-She… - works really well.
Bonus: github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloa…


Powershell script to debloat Windows 11 LTSC

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@amir oh yeah, 32 GB is very respectible even now, I have 2 laptops here on Win11 with that amount. I think under 32, like 16, can also work because the OS scales back RAM usage a bit, by about 500-600 MB or more, so less aggressive caching policies on the 8 or 16 GB systems help mitigate anything you'd feel. Windows works in misterious ways. Ah wait...
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On my side Microsoft 365 generates NDR when I send the message to non existing email address using outlook online but does not generate NDR when sending a message to same non existing email address from thunderbird or other app sending emails through microsoft 365 SMTP server.
This sounds strange to me and I can't find a way to make it generate NDR aka bounce messages for messages submitted through SMTP.

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Why Moving Away from SPAs improves Usability, Accessibility, and SEO
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#webdev #webdevelopment #spa #usability #a11y #seo

Why Moving Away from SPAs improves Usability, Accessibility, and SEO - Innoweb: Innovative Web Solutions in Sydney

For years, Single Page Applications (SPAs) built with frameworks like React have dominated the web development landscape. They promised fluid transitions, dynamic interfaces, and app-like experiences.
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#a11y #webdev #usability #seo #webdevelopment #spa

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Thinking and dreaming hard about my trip to Vienna and Paris in March, to research late 18th century musicians Friederich Dulon and Maria Von Paradis. My colleague will be doing archival and historical research. I want to focus on the music scene today. I go to a lot of live music, and make live music with friends in Toronto. How can I explore the musical life where I’m going? If you have any recommendations or connections to the music community or the Blind community in Vienna or Paris please reach out. We’ll also be in Innsbrook for 1 night, for a Dead South show I’m thrilled to report!

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zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI. Aha, just what I neded, the actual Repo package for this thing. Now time to poke around whether it breaks things for Windows updates, not sure. But they have a Discord for this project? Really. Now I feel less alone. github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…
It says: "Prevent Windows Update from Reinstalling AI Packages" - so I guess it won't break them, but worth doing a backup or restore point anyway.
Ok, to back up mode start it: & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm "raw.githubusercontent.com/zoic…"))) -nonInteractive -backupMode

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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And don't even get me started about Microsoft bundling the Click to Do AI app for everyone, even if you don't have a copilot PC. Click to Do is now a baked-in system component, and on non-Copilot+ PCs it’s basically a decorative brick that throws an error. You’re meant to look at it and feel “AI future”, even if your hardware can’t use it. Wow Microsoft.
there’s no clean, supported “Uninstall” button in normal builds. So, S.O.L. Look at it in your start menu always and forever, or randomly brush up against it in search results. Yes, even on LTSC Win11. Yes.
Wow maybe not. Someone wrote a script. It's quite large. raw.githubusercontent.com/zoic…
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@amir oof yeah, sadly even with that start menu, it kept pulling it in. StartMenuExperienceHost.exe. 100 or more MB. So I nuked it. I said, enough is enough. xD What's interesting is, StartMenu.exe (OpenShell's) can still run without StartMenuExperienceHost, it's just that Windows would still keep pulling it up when I would press the Windows Key. By design, of course.
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Windows Health and Optimized Experiences service. Get rid of it from services.msc. Disable it in startup type, and stop the service. Now.
Here’s what that Windows Health and Optimized Experiences thing actually is, in plain language.
Short version: it’s a new-ish system service (whesvc) Microsoft is testing/rolling out. Watch system “health” and usage. Run little scripts that tweak performance, power behaviors.
It’s built on a tiny Lua runtime inside whesvc_assets.dll so Microsoft can push logic as scripts instead of shipping a full new binary each time.
It’s “smart tuning + health/telemetry/AI-adjacent fluff” more than a core OS pillar.
It exists to constantly “observe and adjust”.
And, bonus: it already picked up an elevation-of-privilege CVE (2025-59241) before it even earned anyone’s trust.
Good job Microsoft. If you're on Windows 11, get rid of this shit.
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This means "we know the true reason for this message, but we can't tell you the true reason for this message."

In most cases, the true reason is "your password doesn't match", but we will display the same message in other situations in which the login fails, e.g. trying to brute force a password and having your IP address blocked.

If there was a different message for that scenario, it would tell the attacker exactly when to dispose of that IP address and change to a new one. Having a single message for both cases makes a brute force attack a lot more complicated.

This is standard security practice.

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Google is baking Gemini into Maps. Would you switch to the fast, privacy- and battery-friendly Organic Maps? What’s stopping you from switching?

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Google Maps bakes in Gemini to improve navigation and hands-free use | TechCrunch

While driving, users can now ask Gemini to answer questions about places of interest on their route, return results about other topics (like sports or news), and even perform tasks like adding events to their calendar.
Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)

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End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

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A screenshot of support.mozilla.org Forum name: SUMO community discussions Title: End of Japanese community Text by user named marsf that reads: Hi, I am a locale leader of SUMO Japanese community. I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org. Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community. In October 22, the sumobot was introduced to Japanese KB articles. I cannot accept its behavior and no words. * It doesn't follow our translation guidelines. * It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost. * It approves its direct English MT immediately for All archived KB articles. * It approves only in 72 hours after its updates, so we lost our work to train new contributors. * It has been working now without our acceptance, without controls, without communications. * Over 300 Knowledge Base articles are overridden by sumobot. They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially. Therefore, I (marsf) declare: * I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org. * I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs. * I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs. However, individual Japanese contributors may want to work in their responsibility. It is their choice, we don't care nor support. Bye.

End of Japanese community | SUMO community discussions | Forums | Mozilla Support

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daniel:// stenberg://

@bitbraindev The script gets all release tags, then for each release it iterates over all source code files at that time and pipes them trough the pmccabe tool and counts the sizes of the different buckets and generates a CSV file with all that. In a final step gnuplot converts the data into a graph.

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stats/complex-dist.pl at master · curl/stats

Scripts for generating project statistics and for plotting them as graphs. - curl/stats
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Homebrew is planning to enable Apple's SecTrust use in #curl. Nice to see them bringing this to their users!

#homebrew

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curl: Enable Apple SecTrust support by ismail · Pull Request #253125 · Homebrew/homebrew-core

This enables native CA certificates support on macOS Have you followed the guidelines for contributing? Have you ensured that your commits follow the commit style guide? Have you checked that ...
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The most thought provoking article I have read this week:

A Norwegian bus company wants to know if their buses could be abused by China in the case of war.

So they drive two buses deep into a limestone mine to isolate them from the internet and forensically investigate how they work.

In the mine, investigators discover a Chinese kill switch which could destroy all Chinese buses.

In Denmark, that is 57 percent of the bus fleet.

Source (Danish):

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Dybt i et norsk fjeld blev en kinesisk bybus splittet ad. En status på vores frygt

En kinesisk bus blev nøje analyseret for mystiske signaler.
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The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful, least reported stories in development. data.worldbank.org/indicator/S…
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