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!
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.
»Medientalk: Wie verändert KI den Journalismus?
Wie soll der Journalismus mit den Herausforderungen durch künstliche Intelligenz umgehen? Die New York Times beispielsweise hat Open AI und Microsoft verklagt. Man will Schadenersatz dafür, dass man die KI mit Material der NYT trainiert habe. Und was machen die Schweizer Verlage?«
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 !
The hilarious thing about Microsoft going all in on AI with #CoPilot and #Recall, they threw Intel and AMD under the bus. The whole last year of "AI PCs" won't get features like Recall.
The consumer reaction to Recall has been overwhelmingly negative, but all these companies are afraid of shareholders and investors wanting more AI hype to make stock prices look good.
But #AMD and #Intel have all these chips made that are falling in price fast.
You can find some CRAZY deals on computers right now that WONT run Recall, but are over-kill powerful for home systems.
Mini PC's used to sell chips that were two or three years old. This Geekom is using AMD's current laptop chip, with 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage for $899!
It's a REAL good time to shop a NON Recall compatible PC.
i have been asked to explain #Linux: it's a fork of #Google#Android intended for virtualized use on #Apple#macOS and #Microsoft#Windows desktops, although lately it's seen some uptake in datacenter applications
Als ich das von #Microsoft#Recall zum ersten mal gelesen habe, habe ich mich gefragt, ob das ein verspäteter Aprilscherz sein soll? Mal ehrlich, das kann doch hier bei uns nicht mit geltendem Recht vereinbar sein, oder? Oder glaubt wirklich irgendjemand, dass Mickisoft sich diese Daten nicht krallt?
Gut, rein privat ist mir das egal, da ich seit 18 Jahren nur noch #Linux einsetze. Aber leider bin ich auf dem beruflichen Laptop meines Arbeitgebers gezwungen, Microsoft #Windows zu nutzen. Und somit bin ich automatisch in dem Spinnennetz dieses Unternehmens gefangen. Wobei ich mich ja echt frage, wie ein Arbeitgeber jetzt überhaupt noch in der Lage sein kann Windows auf seinen Rechnern und Servern zu nutzen. Da bin ich wirklich gespannt, ob da der eine oder andere Arbeitgeber einen Wechsel durchführen wird. Oder ob dies auch im privaten Bereich den Linux Desktop zu einem weiteren Aufschwung führen wird.
Aber vermutlich eher nicht. Oder bin ich da zu pessimistisch? Microsofts Recall läutet das Ende des Personal Computers ein
Why does #Microsoft want to implement #Recall? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.
The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.
Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's #GCP data (e.g. #STT transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.
But they can't model what people do on computers.
Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.
But they can't model what people do on computers.
Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.
But they can't model what people do on computers.
Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.
Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.
Microsoft wants #MicrosoftRecall data so they can model what people do with operating systems.
Then replace them.
Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.
That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.
My current workflow includes using a #windows Virtual Machine for the sole purpose of running #Microsoft Office and #OneDrive , and this clunky solution is still leagues better than actually running Windows on nearly every measure.
The pain the limited time I spend in that wee VM window underscores how bad Windows has gotten over the years.
☝️ Yes, the #Internet was not broken yesterday, only #Bing from #Microsoft and therefore these so-called alternatives, which apparently resist #Google. You should expand your naive belief and behaviour via #SearXNG, @Mojeek and/or #Stract search. You can find it by #search'ing for the corresponding hashtags in #Fediverse.
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This whole thread about the Recall feature on #Microsoft Copilot PCs is making me anxious about future workplaces that may supply a Recall-capable #Windows laptop, and enforcing it/the policy to be enabled.
You should never install personal stuffs on a work PC for privacy reasons, but doesn't this take it to a whole nother level where you couldn't/shouldn't even i.e. reply to personal messages on it cos it's all recorded? 😮💨
But meh, fuck employers that'd force you to use a certain OS anyway.
»Microsoft veröffentlicht Quellcode von 37 Jahre altem MS-DOS 4.0«
Es wird in Industrie und Firmen, je nach Gerät oder Maschine, immer noch das DOS-Betriebssystem benötigt doch dafür ist @freedosproject aktuell einsetzbar. Abgesehen davon, ist dies immer schon Open-Source Software und deswegen offen einsehbar, so wie wenn nötig korrigierbar.
So if you have #Recall installed, always make sure you have a media player window open, playing some DRMed content, I dunno, Disney’s Frozen or some such. Paused, perhaps, or you’ll start losing it. Then it won’t record you. #LetItGo#Microsoft#Enshittification