What? File History is a completely different system. System Restore makes occasional restoration points and is enabled by default, File History needs to be set up to use it. It’s disabled by default and Microsoft seems to be actively trying to hide it (try finding it in the Win11 settings screen; you won’t find it there) so people use OneDrive to back their stuff up instead.
Sure, but neither is relevant to the recycle bin.
I take it you don’t filesystem much do you?
I take it you don’t Windows much?
Windows moves the file from its current folder to the hidden system folder C:\$Recycle.Bin\. That involves copying file metadata, updating NTFS records, and possibly moving the file across volumes (which becomes a full file copy+delete).
Large files or folders with many entries take longer because NTFS has to record each move, update security descriptors, and maintain the Recycle Bin’s index.
If the file is on another drive than the C-drive, the system literally copies it into that drive’s recycle bin folder, then deletes the original.
Nobody said Windows did this stuff efficiently.
I’m practically certain that what’s slowing Windows down when sending something to the Recycle Bin is the background processing and data compression being performed by System Restore.
Windows doesn’t do any recycle bin data compression. And System Restore is a completely separate, unrelated system. So no it doesn’t do any of that.
Not on Windows, it actually moves your files to a special directory.
Shift-Del to delete files is usually much faster, though obviously this skips the recycle bin.
Those other absurd laws aren’t remotely relevant, hence the lack of acknowledgement. Many are irrelevant or very old. There is a large movement in the US that seeks to demonize trans people in sports, and this law isn’t that old, so in the current political climate there’s definitely a non-zero chance it gets acted upon.
And that the law allows you to correct your birth certificate does not mean that the law assumes your future to-be-corrected certificate is currently legally valid. I’m sure they’ll get it resolved eventually, but at that moment the school felt they had to apply the law.
The law does not provide room for the birth certificate being mistaken I’m afraid.
And yes, there’s a chance the state could come after them, or some other parent or activist group could citing this law. Hence them attempting to shut down this potential liability. They can’t risk enforcement, so they won’t.
I think the point was that “biological sex” is a legal term, not a biological one. Hence the application of the law here, irregardless of what this kid’s actual situation is. It’s a demonstration of why this law is stupid, and what stupid things a school board has to do to remain compliant.
They’re almost certainly not grouping the kid with the girls out of spite, but to avoid being liable for not doing so if someone were to find out this kid is, according to the law, “biologically female”. The school has to protect itself from this liability, and thus we get this extreme example of the law being stupid.
I’m fairly certain it’s easier in Croatia than in most countries.
To be fair, a lot of people reject military service, unless their country is attacked. Opinions tend to shift at that point.
Bitcoin doesn’t have the arbitration that banks can offer. Bitcoin also uses ridiculous amounts of energy, so much so that I don’t think the network could even handle taking over the volume that the banks currently handle. The idea that it is somehow a saviour for the environment is laughable.
Ignoring that the UK isn’t part of the EU, the EUs privacy laws extend to all European citizens, and it has treaties with most of the world (including the US) allowing it to enforce those.
The point was that they haven’t always held themselves up to those standards and have sometimes only used professionals espousing a single viewpoint (where multiple exist).
I should mention this isn’t bias, iirc the channel did release a video apologizing for some of the issues (though not all), so it wasn’t even up to their own standards by their own admission.
There’s a wikipedia entry listing some of the controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt#%3A~%3Atext=While+some+commentators+have+praised%2Cand+use+of+emotive+language.
Looking things up now, I see that the plagiarism case was slightly different: they had published a video on addiction, which was fairly explosive in its claims. Turns out it was citing basically just one fringe researcher who was also accused of plagiarism. The claims did not seem to hold up to scrutiny.
When another channel doing a series on how pop-sci influencers can sometimes spread misinformed ideas asked some questions to Kurzgesagt, they were immediately a bit apprehensive but agreed to do some interview questions, though with the caveat that they were busy with other things and needed a few weeks before it could take place. Then before the interview took place they suddenly put out their own apology video and took the addiction video down. At no point was it mentioned that another channel prompted this action, it was presented as some kind of inward reflection that they had come to themselves.
To be fair, the media usually does a real shit job of explaining it.
I mean there’s been some controversy surrounding a number of their videos. Some were under fire for poor research or demonstrating a singular, not widely-held view on certain topics. And I think for one video they were accused of plagiarism iirc. This was when it was still somewhat early days for the channel, haven’t followed them since so not sure what the state is now.
There’s at least two more votes at different levels before this becomes regulation.
Potentially, but I doubt Google would accept it.
Yes, that is what I meant.
Right I get what you mean now. “File History” =/= “Previous Versions”. But “Previous Versions” has been entirely replaced since Win8, so not entirely relevant.
It’s also completely unrelated to file deletions, because the VSS system both System Restore and Previous Versions use worked on the block-level, and as you already pointed out blocks aren’t written to when a file is deleted, it either gets copied over to the recycle bin or just marked as deleted, but neither affect the block contents (VSS works on a CoW principle, blocks are backed up only if written to, but live performance is basically unaffected by this unless you’re doing huge loads like big DB modifications or something.