It's amazing how completely fucked normal people are when it comes to #Microsoft#copilot and understanding what is coming to their computers. This is an actual conversation I had today.
T: "I heard Microsoft has a new thing coming that takes screenshots of your screen called Copilot. Do I have that?"
M: "That's called Recall and I think it's only coming to Copilot+ computers."
T: "Well I already have Copilot. I think I have normal Copilot and Copilot for Office 365."
M: "Um I don't think its related to that. For some reason they're calling new laptops Copilot+"
T: "My son has Copilot from his programming class. Is that the same as my Copilot?"
M: "No that's GitHub Copilot which is a different thing."
You couldn't have done a worse job with naming if you tried. Hats off to Microsoft marketing for being so confusing it took a team of people walking through your marketing docs to figure out what unwanted feature is coming to who. #ai#llm
Microsoft Recall isn't just Microsoft looking through the window of your house, watching everything that you do from the outside. Microsoft is inside your house, taking a photo of everything that happens every 5 seconds.
People are mad about LLMs being trained on publicly accessible content. All of this Recall training is coming from inside your house. If any of your friends or family visit you inside your house, Microsoft will be there taking photos of everything you do together, every 5 seconds, learning, recording.
Do not forget that Microsoft is an NSA collaborator. Their behavior is abusive and untrustworthy.
Since #Microsoft#Recall will not record DRM'd content, maybe running a DRM'd movie in a small window on your PC will disable it from recording the entire screen/desktop?
Also, how does it work across multiple monitors? Take a shot of the entire desktop across all monitors? Or just the active monitor?
Da mein Kleinweich-Abo bald abläuft und ich keine Lust auf KI-gestützte Ausspähung habe, wechsle ich nach vielen Jahren weg von MS (mehrere Mailkonten, unterschiedliche Anbieter). Zudem möchte ich weiterhin OHNE Cloud meine Termine und Kontakte mit Android-Smartphone synchen können (hierzu FOSS im Einsatz, jedoch nur für OL kompatibel).
Über die Jahre kam immer wieder #Thunderbird in die Diskussion, was meint Ihr?!?
Lets say, I have a Teams call with someone who uses Windows, and has Windows Recall enabled. Am I going to be recorded by it on the other end? Am I going to be warned about this feature being on? Can I opt out? How does it affect my privacy? Is this in any way legal in the EU? What happens with calls between US and EU? Which legislation applies?
> disable OneDrive ages ago
> browsing web on side monitor before bed
> main desktop visible on main monitor
> all the icons flash and suddenly have green check marks on them
> wtf
> desktop flashes again
> all green checks gone
> mfw
I made a #powerbi dashboard. To view it and its data on other devices, I had to publish it. (To where? Some Microsoft server? Can I trust it?) To publish it, I was forced to migrate the data into the dashboard itself (rather than using a direct db query). The local copy of that published dashboard holds a lot more data than I expected, but not a huge amount. Only 12MB. And yet, PowerBI Desktop is incapable of opening it due to memory limitations... Totally unusable. Good going, #microsoft !
I see a lot of posts on here chiding people for suggesting #linux as a solution to the surveillance capital tool know as #Microsoft#Windows.
I understand their point to a point, however, the solution to windows spying is, ultimately, to not use windows.
If you would like to not use windows but don't know where to start, I'd be more than happy to have a chat with you to help get you started on your journey.
It's really not that bad, folks. If you're ready to stop paying hundreds of dollars for the pleasure of having all your data stolen, hit me up, and let's figure something out for you, today!
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Ich werde heute Abend wieder dort sein und neben dem spannenden Vortrag vom Timo Grossenbacher auch nette Menschen treffen. Wer nicht vor Ort sein kann, kann den Vortrag auch über einen freien Video-Stream auf @c3voc über das Internet verfolgen.
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