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GossiTheDog

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Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.

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Using Copilot to make songs to win elections ✅

Listen: https://sl.bing.net/e2xMzvw2nVA

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Using Copilot to make a song about Mastodon ✅

Listen: https://sl.bing.net/jVxYgYkMdQy

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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.

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@guacamayan yeah, there's a valid question about deleting data which nobody has asked yet. It doesn't delete the snapshot (which is really just a screenshot).

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Copilot+ Recall feature pop quiz:

You deal with a sensitive matter on my Windows PC. E.g. an email you delete. Does Copilot Recall still store the deleted email?

Answer: yes. There's no feature to delete screenshots of things you delete while using your PC. You would have to remember to go and purge screenshots that Recall makes every few seconds.

If you or a friend use disappearing messages in WhatsApp, Signal etc, it is recorded regardless.

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@guacamayan it's not out to general public yet (lands next month on supported devices), will be able to turn it off in Settings -> Privacy.

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It comes up a lot as people are rightly confused, but if you wonder what problem Microsoft are trying to solve with Recall:

It isn't them being evil, it's business leaders who are middle aged and can't remember what they're doing driving decision making about which problems to solve.

A huge amount of business leaders are dudes who have no idea what the fuck is happening. This leads to the Recall feature.

Microsoft exists in and is driven by that bubble.

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@Laird_Dave it's real time searchable as everything is OCR'd. So if you get called into a meeting about SHITSTICK, you just search Recall for SHITSTICK and it spits out any prior contact you had with it.

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I asked Microsoft Copilot to write a song about Copilot+ Recall.

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@UncivilServant Microsoft wouldn't be the people storing anything, as it's done locally. That's the play.

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@MisuseCase @Laird_Dave the thinking may well be that it's not Microsoft's liability, as the AI processing is local on the device. Part of the play with pushing AI to the edge is they pass the legal etc issues to their customers.

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@MisuseCase @Laird_Dave you could say that with a lot of things they've built lately, e.g. Copilot in Edge, Office etc (as it's just mass copyright theft).. but... uh... a lot of enterprises won't turn it off (and instead will pay for it).

I barely saw customers mentioned while working at Microsoft, in fact I remember meetings where people laughed at how stupid the customers are (e.g. the MS Exchange ones around ProxyLogon). Enterprise customers are just cows to milk for shareholders.

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@AthanSpod screenshots are OCR'd and text -> database

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@AthanSpod yep

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