YurkshireLad, to random
@YurkshireLad@mastodon.social avatar

Wow is junk. I keep having a problem where it’ll start but it won’t be usable. I have to reinstall or reboot to fix it.

gadgetero, to ai
@gadgetero@mastodon.social avatar

😱 Microsoft Says New AI Shows Signs of Human Reasoning - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/microsoft-ai-human-reasoning.html

MediaActivist, to random

NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month: Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/05/18/nhs_england_extends_microsoft_deals/

ruialves, to ai

ChatGPT-4 has been granted access to the Internet! Are we one step closer to the AI Apocalypse?

https://medium.com/the-generator/bot-or-the-beast-openai-unleashes-chatgpt-on-the-internet-69e975d82b56

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@ruialves

(7/n)

...have guessed it, it is also making big strides, one company being...(Bingo!) yet again, :

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110129405482528991.

I do not want to enter in systems theory and the like here (see link at the end), but while it is nice and correct to call for

"Developers have the responsibility to ensure that systems like are developed ethically, with safeguards in place to prevent any misuse or harm."

This, I am sorry to say, is wishful thinking...

fell, to random
@fell@ma.fellr.net avatar

After discovering that the default launcher on my Pixel 4a does not let me change the search engine to anything else than Google, I tried the launcher. Which isn't bad at all I have to say, until I saw my logs. Holy moly, it attempts to contact Microsoft almost every minute!

Thinking that this can't be good for battery life, I searched @fdroidorg for an alternative and settled at (https://lawnchair.app) I'm very happy with this one. Thank you for reading.

randomgeek, to random

Looking up "Drupal" and "Notion" and I'm finding how to integrate with the Notion API and I'm like you don't understand I didn't want to work with Notion I wanted to reimplement Notion.

It's okay the urge passed. Just one of those ADHD "I've got a brilliant idea" moments

mjgardner,
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

@georgeharito @randomgeek @codinghorror Oh, that was just the wake-up call that the script kiddies needed adult supervision. got it in the form of being bought by -owned . Careful what you wish for.

The punchline is that @isaacs wrote npm in reaction to how “terribly” ’s and ’s did package management.

Natureshadow, to random

I feel seriously betrayed by .

They promised a free and open, completely self-hostable development platform.

Now they are, without consent, transmitting my data to from my self-hosted GitLab 😡.

To avoid that, do not use the new Web IDE, which is Visual Studio Code in your browser (cool), sending data to Microsoft servers (very much not cool).

kuketzblog, to random German
@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de avatar

Jedes Mal bevor ich eine Software/App von Microsoft teste, denke ich an: Überwachung, Rechtsbruch, Bevormundung, Habgier und Umweltschäden.

Und wenn ich dann mit der Analyse fertig bin, werden üblicherweise alle Vorurteile durch Fakten bestätigt. 🙎

HeiligerBimBam, to gaming German

Bad news for gamers. We'll see more exclusive games in the near future, I guess. I don't give a shit on Microsoft's promises.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/15/23723703/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-approved-eu-european-commission

itnewsbot, to random
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware - Enlarge

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939441

jann, to random
@jann@twit.social avatar

THIS has to be a zero-day somehow! There's NO for this on the ! If is using one, it's a backdoor that MUST be closed!!! A sending an is one step from a virus on doing something to ALL your !

@leo: Does Steve (GRC) have any inkling as to the severity of this?

https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/110374771216441202

gamingonlinux, to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar
itnewsbot, to gaming
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Microsoft’s purchase of Activision gets the OK from the EU - Enlarge / Just a few of the Activision franchises that will become Micr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939342 &culture

chikorita157, to random
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threatresearch, to random

Well, apparently now has the ability to scan inside of password-protected zip archives.

How do I know? Because I have a lot of Zips (encrypted with a password) that contain malware, and my typical method of sharing those is to upload those passworded Zips into a Sharepoint directory.

This morning, I discovered that a couple of password-protected Zips are flagged as "Malware detected" which limits what I can do with those files - they are basically dead space now.

While I totally understand doing this for anyone other than a malware analyst, this kind of nosy, get-inside-your-business way of handling this is going to become a big problem for people like me who need to send their colleagues malware samples. The available space to do this just keeps shrinking and it will impact the ability of malware researchers to do their jobs.

itnewsbot, to random
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

EU Approves Microsoft's Deal To Buy Activision Blizzard - European regulators have approved Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activisio... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/05/15/1617220/eu-approves-microsofts-deal-to-buy-activision-blizzard?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

sharan, to random
@sharan@metalhead.club avatar

So, has given a green light to to purchase .

sharan, to random
@sharan@metalhead.club avatar

Does anyone knows is there any flash sale for OEM keys? There was a great price at KeyFan.com, but not anymore.

And no, I can't use Libre Office or similar open source solution. Thanks for thinking about it.

fell, to random
@fell@ma.fellr.net avatar

Attention 10 users: Be ready when clicking the update button this month.

It took my Gaming PC (12 cores, 32GB RAM, SSD) 45 minutes to get this far.

kurtsh, to random
@kurtsh@mastodon.social avatar
glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

EU approves ’s takeover of Blizzard - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/15/eu-approves-microsoft-takeover-activision-blizzard-call-of-duty interesting in the light of UK's decision to block...

boilingsteam, to linux
@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud avatar
GottaLaff, to random
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Approves ’s $69 Billion Deal for

The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/technology/eu-microsoft-activision-blizzard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

chartier, to random
@chartier@toot.cafe avatar

In case anyone needs Office 2021 for Mac or Windows, it's on sale for just $30 at Stack Social. It's a daily discount/sale site like Meh or... that one Amazon bought.

I just bought the Mac version, Microsoft validated the code, installer downloaded. Seems legit. I found the deal via and they're solid folks: https://www.imore.com/apps/productivity-apps/get-lifetime-access-to-microsoft-office-for-mac-for-just-dollar30

Jess and I still run into enough situations where I find $30 to be worth having it aorund.

chartier,
@chartier@toot.cafe avatar

Somewhat related: Why is OneDrive, a mere cloud storage client, the largest install out of all these apps?

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