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Re:Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM by j-bos on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:23AM (#31559284)
Revit installs are the worst. Iused to freelance for an engineer and once I moved on from that it was amazing how much cruft from Autodesk was left on my machine. I'm guessing most of it was based on anti piracy measures. I often wonder how much overlap there is between anti piracy, ani cheat, and "productivity" measuring tech.
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Re:Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM by pessimizer on Monday May 30, 2022 @11:19AM (#31559957)
> I often wonder how much overlap there is between anti piracy, ani cheat, and "productivity" measuring tech.

I've never heard it put this succinctly. Are the same companies doing all of these things because the expertise transfers? Do they have journals and conferences together?

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Re:Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM by vagrantJin on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:49PM (#31562267)
Reminds me of Adobe. The sheer number of dubious services and "stuff" and god awful updates is insane. All this just for Acrobat.

Using Firefox to read PDFs now and its a pleasure. Its blazingly fast and does exactly what I need.

Adobe can jump off a cliff.

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