Earlier versions of Windows (98? 95?) also used to share things like drives (C$, D$) and printers with the dial-up connection by default.
I remember connecting to a printer of a classmate over the internet and printing a page, to his surprise. All you needed was the IP, which was trivial to get from ICQ, back in the days.
There was a time when you could SMB mount shares from servers at MS over the public internet (and e.g. do things like download alphas and betas that were not visible on the ftp server).
I remember early Bitcoin exchanges that had everything stolen because they left all of their unencrypted private keys on SMB shares that were left visible to the Internet. IIRC this is what finally took down MtGox, almost 20 years after the release of Windows 95. Some people never learn.
What was more fun when the spammers figured out 'net send'. I showed that to one guy I worked with and that thing had a nasty bug. If you got one of the parameters wrong it would send a message to every computer on the domain. He had to explain to the top guys why they had funny messages on their screen.
"Furious attack" - Just goes to show that it was the right decision by the UK. EU should have done the same. I personally don't want all my games to be linked to a Microsoft account in a few years. There's already too many monopolies. It's bad enough they want to force you to use an online account for the operating system.
It's frightening how Microsoft, a company well known for decades of history of being anti consumer and shady managed to get a large vocal part of the internet to vocally defend them going for a monopoly in video game editing. As if them already having monopolies over so many major tech markets wasn't bad enough.
To be honest, if a company owns at least one computer and is the target of a decision made by any european country, you'll find HNers complaining about it.
Microsoft isn't even the worst company to get defended this way, the same happened when Uber started illegal services in Europe.
To me - I’m seeing this as a bit of a goading on to the EU to be sure they make the ‘correct’ choice, unlike those foolish, anti-progress, anti business Brits. Not totally sure it’ll work.
It would also be much more bloated (and not feel native) on Windows. Qt is what now? 30 or 50 MB? GTK probably much better these days. For that size you can almost go to Electron and get better look and feel (at the cost of RAM) ;-)
Given that OP's username starts with Olivier, I assume they're French. The French name is Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données. You just get used to your native language's abbreviations.
My guess is they are a native speaker of some Romance language, and that is the acronym in their native language, perhaps French based on username and what little I know of French.
It's not only the French, would be the same for the Portuguese, for example. English is an official language of only two EU countries, if I'm not mistaken.
Isn't it inconvenient and search result partitioning to use this? I haven't come across/noticed it before. In English for example we use the French order acronym UTC, not UCT or CUT. (Though to be fair in the UK outside of a computing context we mostly use GMT.)
It's my understanding that we use UTC because it favours neither the english nor the french. English wanted CUT, french wanted TUC, so UTC was chosen to favour neither.
I generally prefer when we agree on a spelling, even if it isn't in English. CERN is a good example of this, no English speaker in their right mind would call it ECNR.
