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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (16 children)

Don't forget to extract the product key before nuking it. For your Windows VM. ๐Ÿฅน

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (9 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

OK I'm a little shocked here, how does this work? Back in the day when licenses were harder to come by, we used to use cracks / activators that would patch some binary or exploit some bug to activate. Is this .. an open source version of that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Then it'll probably shock you even more when you realise that this thing is hosted on Github, a site owned by Microsoft... :)

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