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Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by es3n1n on Monday May 12, 2025 @04:49AM (#43960928)
This is a somewhat useful feedback, however I am not too sure how this can be fixed given the structure of my blog post. Do you think if I just add a line `*WSC is short for Windows Security Center` in the first paragraph this will be enough?
Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by magicalhippo on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:16AM (#43961071)
My suggestion:

In this post I will briefly describe the journey I went through while implementing defendnot, a tool that disables Windows Defender by using the Windows Security Center (WSC) service API directly.

Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by es3n1n on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:32AM (#43962226)
thank you! i changed the first paragraph to include these changes
Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by cheschire on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:34AM (#43964206)
Ah that makes sense. I saw this subthread and was quite confused because WSC was clearly and obviously defined in the first sentence.

Now I see why. Thanks for incorporating the feedback! It had a positive impact for me coming later to this article.

Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by Washuu on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:05AM (#43969763)
Appreciated, thank you!~ \( ̄︶ ̄*\))
Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by lawgimenez on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:40AM (#43961556)
Just wondering is this Slack? Just wondering what kind of logging flow you’re using.

https://blog.es3n1n.eu/posts/how-i-ruined-my-vacation/pics/p...

Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by GranPC on Monday May 12, 2025 @07:32AM (#43961864)
Looks like Discord.
Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by es3n1n on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:30AM (#43962205)
this is discord in "Compact" theme
Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by alias_neo on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:48AM (#43961239)
The typical solution, is to include the expansion in brackets after the first use.

Simple rule I learned on my Electronic Engineering degree (where we're guilty of many, many acronyms): When you write an acronym/initialism in a paper (or anywhere for others to read reall), assume the reader doesn't know what it stands for and include the expansion in brackets immediately after the first use.

EDIT: As my sibling comment also suggests, writing it in full the first time, and using the acronym/initialism in brackets is also acceptable.

Re:I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC by mdaniel on Monday May 12, 2025 @10:38AM (#43963513)
Or use the abbr (and its title attribute) that was designed for that purpose; no extraneous "flow" breaking required. Mobile people can long press on the indicator to read more, everyone who magically knew what WSC gets to continue to know what WSC means

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...