Jones Katzenwerfer

Easy Telemetry Disable for 10/11

Prerequisites

Upgrade to Enterprise edition of Windows 10/11 if you are running Home or Pro.
- You can do this through the Change Edition option in the Extras menu in MAS.

Disabling Telemetry via Group Policy

Open the Group Policy Editor. Search for "Edit Group Policy" in search or run gpedit.msc.

Uninstall Microsoft Edge

Important

Working on the latest supported Windows versions. Run Windows Update before following this guide.

1. Open Powershell > RUN AS ADMIN

2. Paste in irm https://gist.github.com/ave9858/c3451d9f452389ac7607c99d45edecc6/raw/UninstallEdge.ps1 | iex and press enter

3. Microsoft Edge will be completely uninstalled.

Discord Timestamps

Discord timestamps can be useful for specifying a date/time across multiple users time zones. They work with the Unix Timestamp format and can be posted by regular users as well as bots and applications.

The Epoch Unix Time Stamp Converter is a good way to quickly generate a timestamp. For the examples below I will be using the Time Stamp of 1543392060, which represents November 28th, 2018 at 09:01:00 hours for my local time zone (GMT+0100 Central European Standard Time).

Formatting

Style	Input	Output (12-hour clock)	Output (24-hour clock)
Default	`<t:1543392060>`	November 28, 2018 9:01 AM	28 November 2018 09:01

Disassemble and Modify an Binary To Change a Function

In this gist I show how to disassemble and modify a Linux executable binary to change the body of a function. This will allow you to control how a binary behaves, even when you don't have access to the source code and you can't recompile it.

In my case, I was asked to try and bypass the protection mechanism implemented. The protection mechanism implemented was meant to only allow a binary to be run in presence of a valid license.

So basically my activity involved:

Finding the function which performs the protection check
Disassembling the binary

Linux:

timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

Windows:

Navigate to the following key in the left pane of the registry editor:

	#s cycle tone-mapping
	#A cycle target-trc
	#a cycle target-prim
	## These kinda suck to actually use without macro pad
	Ctrl+! set vid 1
	Ctrl+@ set vid 2
	Ctrl+# set vid 3
	Ctrl+$ set vid 4

	F1 set vid 1

	/*=============================================================================

	ReShade 5 effect file
	github.com/martymcmodding

	Author: Pascal Gilcher / Marty McFly

	ReShade Motion Estimation Shader for dense 2D UV-space motion vectors
	Based on ReShade Motion Estimation by Jakob Wapenhensch
	(https://github.com/JakobPCoder/ReshadeMotionEstimation)

	<head>
	<meta property="og:image" content="GifToEmbedURL"> # Change the content to the link of a gif of your choice, which will be shown as the embed.
	<meta property="og:type" content="video.other">
	<meta property="og:video:url" content="VideoToEmbedURL"> # Change the content to the link of a video of your choice. Will work with videos over 50 MB, and even unsupported codecs such as AV1!
	<meta property="og:video:width" content="1920"> # Set this to the video's width and height, not required, but will show the video as intended if the aspect ratio and size is correct.
	<meta property="og:video:height" content="1080">
	</head>

	/*=============================================================================

	ReShade 4 effect file
	github.com/martymcmodding

	Rough port of CMAA2 to ReShade by Pascal Gilcher
	I do not claim any copyright to any of the work used in this product

	CMAA2 (Copyright (c) 2018, Intel Corporation) is licensed under
	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# vim: set ft=python:

	# see the README at https://gist.github.com/v-fox/43c287426c366679afc4c65eece60cbc
	# source: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/2149
	# source: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/566
	# source: https://github.com/haasn/gentoo-conf/blob/nanodesu/home/nand/.mpv/filters/mvtools.vpy

	import vapoursynth as vs
	import functools