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."
> Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. 🤖 See how GitHub’s AI-powered platform vision evolved into a new reality for the world’s developers, and find out everything we announced at this year’s #GitHubUniverse. https://nitter.net/github/status/1722309261680607674?s=20
For years I've been saying that using Microsoft GitHub to host #FLOSS code is dangerous and would backfire. :blobcatcoffee:
An artificial intelligence engineer at Microsoft has warned the company of the dangers of its image-generating system Copilot, referencing the ease in which the technology produces disturbing images that anyone could stumble upon. According to the engineer, Microsoft has failed to address his concerns, leading him to write public letters and flag the issue with U.S. senators.
Wysłałem propozycję, by zakazać użycia "#AI" w #Gentoo, do "tworzenia ebuildów, kodu, dokumentacji, wiadomości, zgłoszeń błędów, i tak dalej". GitHub #Copilot też byłby zakazany.
Propozycję motywuję w oparciu o trzy punkty. Po pierwsze, prawa autorskie: LLM-y trenowane są z całkowitem olewem na prawa autorskie, i sytuacja wygenerowanej treści jest niejasna. Po drugie, jakość: LLM-y tworzą wiarygodnie wyglądające bzdury. Po trzecie, kwestie etyczne: marnowanie energii, wykorzystanie w służbie obsrania Internetu, zwolnień, wyzysku, tworzenia spamu i oszustw.
Nie chcę, żeby Gentoo było kojarzone z czymś takim. Wręcz przeciwnie, chciałbym, żebyśmy wprost powiedzieli, że Gentoo jest "tworzone przez prawdziwych ludzi".
Noticed that developing with access to my personal data is dangerous, given random dependencies and auto-updating Code extensions…
Set up a nice local #nixos container for dev stuff…
Hoped to keep all tokens and keys out of it (would run git push outside that container)…
Only to notice that #Github#copilot only works with a full-access github token… sigh.
Anyways, still an improvement. Blog post to follow.
In a new podcast, Linus(Tech) said that with the upcoming #Windows#AI bruhaha, a lot of users are going to move to #Chromebooks. But just today #Google announced that AI is coming on their #Chromebook line too. Maybe just a chatbot for now, but eventually, it'll be more integrated. The only option (for those who can't stand #Apple), is #Linux, on their existing, older PC. That's why distros running in low RAM are important.
Early access on Patreon! Geekom's new mini PC is a MIGHTY MOUSE at a great price! https://www.patreon.com/posts/geekom-a8-mini-104755258
This tiny PC is now packing the most powerful laptop chip AMD makes!
Funnily enough, Microsoft threw AMD and Intel under the bus.
NONE of the current selling "AI" PCs qualify for the "CoPilot" branding.
Who knows, maybe you don't want that new Microsoft Recall feature on your system anyway?
Microsoft #Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'.
The UK data watchdog says it is "making enquiries with Microsoft" over a new feature that can take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds.
#Microsoft says #Recall, which will store encrypted snapshots locally on your computer, is exclusive to its forthcoming Copilot+ PCs. #news
You get spied on by Microsoft, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a Distro with a 25 year reputation, an indestructible economy shitbox laptop, you update once a week and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants to install malware, fuck you! Own your laptop. Have a couple flatpaks. Dont drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level." #linux#debian#copilot
AI is not a passing fad, just like cloud computing wasn't. Yet they seem to be going through pretty similar hype cycles, a decade+ apart.
When Satya Nadella mentions #Copilot 3 times in his first 7 words of a social post about #msbuild2024 announcements, I can't help but be reminded about the classic #Dilbert cartoon.
If you hire a consultant to help evolve your products to age of AI, surprise them by saying "Copilot, Copilot, Copilot" at the start of your workshop.
The #Windows11 era:
We decided to ruin our image and any reputation we had as an industry standard operating system in the name of innovating with #AI and "changing the way you compute" (or something like that) #Windows#Microsoft#copilot#recall
Diese Nachricht ist nicht für Microsoft bestimmt und darf nicht auf Windows-Rechnern mit aktiviertem "Recall"-Feature geöffnet werden. Datenschutzauskunfts- und Löschungsersuche hierzu bleiben ausdrücklich vorbehalten.
I've used their operating systems for more than 30 years. And I've used their development tools and databases for more than 25 years.
I haven't been enamored with them since they went all out with Azure. I've found no value in any of the Azure offerings. In fact, they've made my professional life much more difficult. Now they're cramming AI and CoPilot in, up, and down every one of our orifices. I don't want any of it.
It's become difficult to think of them as a technology leader. There's very little coming from MS that feels innovative or that makes life better for me or my customers. The persistent feeling I get is that they're looking for every angle they can find to monetize their relationship with me and other customers and end users.
It took me several years to fully divorce myself from Google.
It's looking more and more like a divorce from Microsoft is imminent.
If the Microsoft Windows 11 PC (which I am forced to use for client/work) is any proof, every Microsoft AI feature added to the OS is subtracting 15-20% of the productivity from your employees. 🙄
@ai6yr I have a Win 10 Pro machine. When clicking search I kept seeing an offer to try CoPilot, I OFC ignored. Then I found that I could use group policies to disable Copilot. User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot > Turn off Windows Copilot. Machine keeps naggin me to update for free to Win 11 but so far I have resisted. Need to figure out if I do that if I can still disable #Microsoft#Copilot and IF they are going to give me Win 11 Pro not home...