Evgeny Morozov

PowerShell installation fails on Windows 7 (PowerShell 2.0) with "Invoke-WebRequest is not recognized"

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Run > (new-object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filipw/dotnet-script/master/install/install.ps1") | iex on Windows 7 Pro SP1. An error occurs: > The term 'Invoke-WebRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,...

Downloaded file differs from original

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As a test, I tried to transfer https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone/releases/download/v0.3.1/Dangerzone-0.3.1.msi to myself using https://file.pizza/ in Firefox 115.21.0esr on Windows, with the receiver tab in a Private Browsing window, and found that the...