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If I was a malicious actor and I saw how vehemently people defended the usage of random scripts that claim to debloat Windows, MAN!
Some of them deactivate Windows Defender... UAC... It would be so easy as a malicious actor to get in on this recent trend...
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
Whatever OS you're on, don't run random scripts without reading and understanding them lol.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
When I was still using Win10 I used this to debloat it with the default preset.
https://ameliorated.io/
I thankfully don't need Windows anymore, cuz it just gets worse with every major release.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
AME is legit and all their stuff is open source. Would recommend if you have to use Windows.
@dushman I don't recommend running debloat scripts cause 90% of what people say about windows bloat know nothing about how services work
@dushman also this wasn't an invitation for you to give me your software recommendations.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
I'm not forcing you to use it. 
Maybe someone will see it and find it useful.
@dushman Unsolicited software advice is actually one of my biggest pet peeves. Please delete it.
Why would you even think that a post being critical about Windows Debloat Scripts would solicit "Hey, this script is good tho I promise!"
It's like selling snake oil to someone trying to raise awareness of the pseudoscience behind snake oil.
@dushman
Also if I was a malicious actor I too would've put the source code in public, but would implement malicious attributes in the provided binaries.
A project being open source means nothing in terms of the intent of the individual behind the project, it just means you have to be more clever with your implementation of the malicious aspects of the project.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
Well I never said open source software can't be malicious. Just more trustworthy since auditing is a whole lot easier.
would implement malicious attributes in the provided binariesLike yeah you can say this about any open source project ever. This one has been around for years and is quite popular. The devs never did anything sketchy.
@dushman I'd say Debloating windows is a rather sketchy business but it's a fool's errand anyways.
@dushman it's literally on the same level of snake oil that "download more ram" comes from, but instead of the idea that it's a failure on the user's fault for not having enough system resources, it's instead a failure of the software provider's fault.
I fail to see how they are any different except one is seen as a joke while the other is seen as a way to squeeze more performance (which the comparisons are almost always in the error of margin) out of your system.
