Long ago I disabled automatic app updates on my phone bc of surprise “upgrades” that stripped out functionality I’d paid for but now require monthly/yearly subscriptions.
Since Microsoft seems to not care about the #Privacy impact that the #Copilot+ #Recall feature has, I am going back to #Linux as my daily driver. All my #Homelab servers run on Debian or its derivatives, work servers run RedHat or Windows, but I have not used a Desktop Linux for quite a while as a daily driver. I've been playing with Debian 12 with Gnome for the past few days, and next I'll be playing with Fedora, which I have not used since the early 2000's. We'll see how fast I can catch up.
BTW, since I work mostly in #VR using #Immersed, that is one of the first things I tested, and I got to say, their work to support multiple virtual monitors with #Wayland+#Gnome has really paid off, it works flawlessly in Debian! I need to test it in Fedora in the next few days. Can't wait for my #Visor to arrive. #WorkInVR#Immersenary
I'm still switching to #Debian as my primary OS and keep #Windows as a VM for some work applications, but it's good to see that MS is trying to make this controversial feature a bit more secure.
Ma soeur est victime de #windows#copilot sur #office365 au boulot : non seulement c'est un cauchemar au niveau sécurité des données etc, mais en plus c'est totalement nul comme outil de travail : ses chefs qui adorent lui ressortent systématiquement des vielles versions dépassées des documents.
Ce truc annihile des années de mise en place de politique de #versionning 🤦🏻♀️
The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).
@timonsku There's the actual statcounter source, however what I'm reporting here is an obvious trend that is visible if you search a bit on youtube, reddit, on various forums. The amounts of users switching has increased, and it has kind of taken a world of its own since last week, after MS' AI announcement.
and there are so fucking many things wrong with it
one of the most amazingly wrong things is that... they're already throwing "ai" bullshit at these screencaps they're doing every five seconds, right? that's what does the OCR and also does the LLM-driven description for the search functionality later
and yet no one
NO. ONE.
thought to tell it
"and don't save screens with the word 'password' on them."
YOU COULD DO THIS WITH GREP, YOU STUPID FUCKS, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! IT'S NOT HARD!
@joncruz yes but those are localisation issues which have been solved already for decades by a company the size of Microsoft, and I say that from experience of having been a dev there.
("grep" was hyperbole, not a serious suggestion. As I said, they're already using LLM shit upon which the entire feature depends. if their LLM can't find it to exclude it, then their LLM won't be able to find it to store it in plain text, either.)
Okay, but it is kind of funny that the big selling point of AI trash like Copilot is to (supposedly) avoid the tedious hellscape that corporations have created and could stop at any time, but they won't, because they can't envision corporate life being anything else.
Like, it says pretty much everything when the killer feature of your product is having it stand in for you on Teams meetings and give you a summary afterwards.
I can't imagine working without GenAI any more. I often write quick bash scripts to automate things, but for some reason, the syntax always falls out of my head and I'm constantly looking things up.
Now I just hit ChatGPT and ask it to write the script for me. With the latest version, is usually works perfectly the first time, so long as I craft a good prompt. This is a huge productivity boost.
Question of the day. Is the whole beautiful mass of free and open Internet knowledge now to be considered as the satanic mills of AI Gen Big Tech? At their mercy, to do with as they please.
@DrPen Yes, just as with humans, why should an algorithm not be allowed to use free and open accessible data , the concentration of power in big tech is the real problem not the free accessible data they can (mis) use
@ErikJonker Yes exactly. If, for example, we had technosocial contracts between cities or nations and global tech companies to operate for the public good, then the internet of knowledge could be a vast system of interactive learning networks, delivering knowledge in different ways to different search spec's through interoperable apps. Just think what that would be like.