It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.
It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.
It's inescapable.
It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.
It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.
If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.
I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."
@foolishowl@SomeGadgetGuy@mountdiscovery >> Microsoft depends on institutional clients, especially government agencies, many of which have stringent legal rules about access controls. There's no way Recall can be compatible with those rules.
It’s incompatible with rules in the government and most regulated industries (including healthcare). It also screws with records management.
@foolishowl@SomeGadgetGuy@mountdiscovery I suspect that as far as institutional clients are concerned, Microsoft thinks it did its duty by making it so you could turn Recall off in Group Policy Objects. That doesn’t fix the problem of, e.g., random contractors’ computers taking Recall snapshots of PII, PHI, and other sensitive data.
I went out for fancy tea with my mother. We got a QR code instead of a check (which seems to be more and more common these days). I told Mom I don’t use those and always try to pay up front or something.
She tried it, out of curiosity, looking carefully at the charges and what was going on at each stage of the payment process. At the end this payment system tacked on a $5 “digital service fee.”
This was a dealbreaker for her and she requested a regular check. It took a while for her to come to that decision but I think it was a learning experience.
Anyway those “pay your restaurant check by QR code” things are sus and a scam, always request a regular check or to pay up front.
@irfan@ErikJonker@geopolitics The Republican-dominated congress invited Netanyahu to address them in…2014 or 2015 I think it was? Netanyahu did not even talk to President Obama on that visit because Obama wanted to condition military aid to Israel.
I know Althusser (caveat), but his insight that there is nothing outside of ideology (which for him is actions that support power, not beliefs) is undervalued. I'm so tired of obviously fascist patriarchal oppressors telling us they're "critical thinkers not ideologues" when they obviously do everything to uphold power as it is. You can't step outside of ideology without stepping into another ideological system. Better to know what system you are promoting rather than "unwittingly" back evil.
In any discussion of degrowth there will be at least one white man who brings up “overpopulation” as if degrowth isn’t about letting us all live on the planet with a sustainable ecological footprint.
Then the white man gets mad when you (well, I) bring up the fact that his line of thinking naturally leads to doing at least one U.N. definition of genocide.
@maruey@seanbala@collectifission I don’t know what interpretation your troupe is using and it’s been a while since I’ve seen Urinetown. But IIRC one reasonable interpretation of it is that using conservation as a pretext to restrict personal freedoms and serve capital doesn’t really “work,” as such, and will ultimately lead back to unsustainability/disaster again.
In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"
Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.
618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse
@Nonya_Bidniss@kevinrns That’s kind of frustrating and disappointing. States kind of screwed up with applications and benefits for COVID relief (not all of them, but many of them). It would be much better to have the Feds administer it
@Nonya_Bidniss@kevinrns I mean it may not be tenable for the federal government to administer it, either because Congresscritters plain don’t want it done that way or that setting up the citizen service capacity to do it is more expensive and time-consuming than giving the states money
For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.
From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."
Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.
@GossiTheDog@Laird_Dave So this is definitely geared towards not just middle-aged dudes but managers.
Like, can these people not just organize their emails into folders by topic? Microsoft could have re-worked the Outlook rules function to make this easier instead of whatever this is.
@Laird_Dave If @GossiTheDog is correct about who drove the decision to create Recall and why (and IMO it’s very plausible), then it means business leaders don’t talk to their legal departments, CISOs, records managers, or any of the other roles in their organizations that could have told them why this was bad.
@GossiTheDog@Laird_Dave Sure, I can see that. But Microsoft has a lot of enterprise customers with CISOs, legal departments, regulatory requirements, etc. for whom Recall is worse than useless. That actually describes most of their largest enterprise customers!
Do they even pay attention to their own customers at all?
Sure enterprises can use GPO to turn it off but why make something that most of your biggest customers are going to have to turn off?
The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.
@CedarTea@marwe@billiglarper@theluddite Whether you are talking about solar or nuclear, there’s waste material that needs to be sequestered safely for centuries or maybe millennia.
Or sometimes longer. There’s a lot of non-radioactive stuff that’s toxic forever, like arsenic.
@CedarTea@marwe@billiglarper@theluddite We manage long-term disposal of stuff like arsenic from industrial processes all the time though. Just sequester it and bury it in a vault below the water table. Which is the proper way to sequester spent nuclear fuel. If the spent fuel is reprocessed then what’s left over only needs to be sequestered for ~300 years.
@ArneBab@CedarTea@billiglarper@theluddite Solar got (and still receives) plenty of subsidies. I don’t know why people are hung up on the subsidies thing when every form of generation gets them.