Windows are just the monitor that displays Linux, right?
Well yeah, but you gotta figure out if you’re going to use a Stacking, Tiling, or Dynamic window manager. (Unless you’re one of those CLI nerds)
I like my windows to be spread all over the place like it’s 1999. I lose windows more than I lose my keys.
Who’re u calling a nerd u nerd
This is still only being rolled out to copilot+ pcs isnt it? I know its shit for a bunch of reasons but Im mostly concerned with it ending up on the windows pcs I have to maintain that process sensitive information.
We don’t have any in our inventory yet but just in case I’ve already setup GPO to disable it https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/turn-off-copilot-and-aichat-functions-and-save-to/aae1a031-e416-4231-9fa9-1e4a2445e606
The fun part is they took so long that the feature made it first to Pixel phones (and I believe iPhones as well?).
I have to say, their claim that:
First, even if User A never opts in to Recall, they have no control over the setting on the machines of Users B through Z. That would indiscriminately hoover up all kinds of User A’s sensitive material, including photos, passwords, medical conditions, and encrypted videos and messages.
Which is based on a recommendation to not share those things with people who may be using this feature seems… understated. You should not share plaintext passwords or heavily sensitive information with other people at all unless you absolutely must.
I understand what it’s saying, though.
In the “old days”, when you sent someone a file, that file would end up with them on their computer, but generally nowhere else unless that person actively chose to send it somewhere else - which they generally wouldn’t as we are assuming they are a non-malicious human being who respects your privacy.
Nowadays, ending a file to someone usually means that file getting synced into their cloud storage, and now with things like recall, seen by some AI and used for whatever purposes, over which you have absolutely zero control.
Yeah, but as you say that’s not been the case for a while.
A trend I’ve noticed is that AI paranoia has raised alarms about practices that have been an issue for a while without much of a reaction. I choose to call that a good thing.
AI allowing for more surveillance? Meta spent most of the 2010s training facial recognition on all your tagged photos. Recall may see and parse things you send to a friend? Google, Samsung, Apple and Microsoft have been running object recognition on images and indexing on document contents for ages and a bunch of their apps back up incoming messages in their cloud services automatically. Microsoft implemented a version of Recall (based on metadata as opposed to pictures) all the way back in Windows 8.
I think a mix of the data being saved being so easily human readable and the terrible implementation of Recall on its first pass led to some hyperawareness, but a lot of this has been a gradually boiling frog for a while. And it will continue to boil, because Apple and Google implemented the exact same feature on phones already and nobody is freaking out unless it sparks the sense of recognition from it being called “Recall” specifically.
The endless shilling of AI features nobody wants has made me frustrated with a lot of the shills, but I have to say, also with humanity in general.
This makes me want to vomit
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Well, I have little sympathy for people who still choose to use this shit.
As with people who are still on twitter, they are the problem.
