ArcaneSlime

@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.

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ArcaneSlime,

Ubuntu uses Gnome now, not Unity, right? Mint would be better though I do agree.

ArcaneSlime,

Good.

ArcaneSlime,

Ok whatever, but does Ubuntu use Unity or Gnome?

ArcaneSlime, (edited )

Not that it solves the problem, but since I’m not the King of M$ this is about all I can do: you could easily get around all that by turning off secure boot and booting into a persistant live-usb containing a linux distro of your choice (Tails for extra privacy/ease, if you can use Tor) to do all your secret agent computing needs. The host PC can’t see shit of what happens on Tails.

Edit: lol you downvoted me because I can’t singularly change an entire corporation’s mind and instead offer workable solutions that you could make within the next 30 minutes to mitigate the problem until such time as your plan for Microsoft domination comes to fruition and you can change it back?

Ok I guess, “chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get no help. Jive ass fools ain’t got no brains, anyhow.”

-Barbara Billingsly

ArcaneSlime, (edited ) 

<span style="color:#323232;">Q. The data is processed entirely locally on your laptop, right?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. Yes! They made some smart decisions here, there’s a whole subsystem of Azure AI etc code that process on the edge.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. Cool, so hackers and malware can’t access it, right?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. No, they can.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. But it’s encrypted.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. When you’re logged into a PC and run software, things are decrypted for you. Encryption at rest only helps if somebody comes to your house and physically steals your laptop — that isn’t what criminal hackers do.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For example, InfoStealer trojans, which automatically steal usernames and passwords, are a major problem for well over a decade — now these can just be easily modified to support Recall.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. But the BBC said data cannot be accessed remotely by hackers.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. They were quoting Microsoft, but this is wrong. Data can be accessed remotely.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. Microsoft say only that user can access the data.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. This isn’t true, I can demonstrate another user account on the same device accessing the database.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. So how does it work?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. Every few seconds, screenshots are taken. These are automatically OCR’d by Azure AI, running on your device, and written into an SQLite database in the user’s folder.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This database file has a record of everything you’ve ever viewed on your PC in plain text. OCR is a process of looking an image, and extracting the letters.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. What does the database look like?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A:https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1796218726808748367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1796218726808748367%7Ctwgr%5E2eccf634534245a77c4f931d8722f1b8c6f23595%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FGossiTheDog%2Fstatus%2F1796218726808748367image%3D
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. How do you obtain the database files?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. They’re just files in AppData, in the new CoreAIPlatform folder.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. But it’s highly encrypted and nobody can access them, right?!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. Here’s a few second video of two Microsoft engineers accessing the folder: https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/535/509/719/447/038/original/7352074f678f6dec.mp4
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. …But, normal users don’t run as admins!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. According to Microsoft’s own website, in their Recall rollout page, they do: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*WGE1jcRzhe6WAGQS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">In fact, you don’t even need to be an admin to read the database — more on that in a later blog.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. But a UAC prompt appeared in that video, that’s a security boundary.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. According to Microsoft’s own website (and MSRC), UAC is not a security boundary: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*TTjYNH15IoP_d8JhhG3cEA.png
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. So… where is the security here?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. They have tried to do a bunch of things but none of it actually works properly in the real world due to gaps you can drive a plane through.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q. Does it automatically not screenshot and OCR things like financial information?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A. No: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*OZMjujpALL3IfAQYT64x7Q.png
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

Do I have to continue or do you think you could actually read the article for the rest? It’s clearly a bigger deal than “linux users mad because windows better” and your poor excuse for a troll just makes it look like you’re too stupid to read the article laid out in front of you. Well, now you have no excuse so get good.

ArcaneSlime,

Lol you’re hopeless.

ArcaneSlime,

I mean, I literally can’t. I barely used W10, I just flat out am unable to provide tech support, you might get lucky and I’ll figure it out but that’s the best I’ve got.

ArcaneSlime,

He could mean a big 'ol hole, which, tbh I’m not a scientist and it could be that jamming the biggest bad dragon you can find up there may affect it in a similar way a similarly sized baby would, BUT also the absolute classic movie Mean Girls leads me to believe that some people just naturally have “a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina.”

ArcaneSlime,

I’m making progress, personally, and I doubt your assumption that I’m better or more capable than most. Maybe, but I know me and that doesn’t really check out, most things that I can do, others can also learn to do even if it doesn’t just come naturally.

ArcaneSlime,

Of course, the BPD women are love bombing you as a technique to manipulate you specifically, so in the end it really isn’t that good. I’m working on it too, so I’m gonna say “we” here, but we have to work on retraining our brains to not need that intense feeling anymore if we expect to have a normal healthy relationship again.

ArcaneSlime,

I mean sure, you could succumb to your base desires, or you could rise above for your own betterment and to avoid being trapped in the same cycle of abuse. Up to you really!

ArcaneSlime,

Yup, but of course according to the selfish they don’t deserve tips for that. Personally I think we should all just stop delivering and force everyone to pick up. People clearly don’t appreciate it, why put wear and tear on your car and soul for people who actively hate you, y’know?

ArcaneSlime,

regardless of their financial situation

I’m too broke to order for delivery and tip and all that. Do you know what I do? I pick up, or cook at home. I don’t engage with the service that would expect me to tip, because if I’m too poor to spend $5 on not being a huge cunt I’m too poor to spend $20 on a pizza, I’m gonna cook a damn $5 Red Baron, or $7 worth of pasta and sauce for the next two days.

If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford the menu price either. Source: I can’t afford the tip, and while I may have the menu price on me rn I truly need to save it because there’ll be something I need it more for later than momentary endorphins released by melted cheese.

ArcaneSlime,

Yes and you not tipping makes a difference how exactly? By making sure the exploitative business gets enough money to keep exploiting their workers for $7.25 instead of $2.13? You’re doing great sweaty, keep it up. Don’t bother boycotting businesses as that would inconvenience you, better to help exploit the worker and then get mad at them about it, that’ll help!

Fuck outta here with your high horse.

ArcaneSlime,

Why is this so difficult for people?

Because, for the people who refuse to “get it,” it isn’t actually about exploitation or whatever other lip service they give to make themselves seem magnanimous for not tipping, it’s about the fact that they don’t want to give the delivery driver a penny and have to lie to you and themselves so they think they’re good people. They’re not, though. If they were they’d see it like you do, they’re just selfish and deep down they know it so they concoct their lies to defer blame from their conscience.

ArcaneSlime,

No shit? What’s the word?

ArcaneSlime,

I feel like if you say “yes this is from all the cocaine I’ve sold” it might cause other legal problems, even though you won’t get Al Caponed there are also plenty of people in prison for trafficking.

ArcaneSlime,

You think drug dealers in some of the largest criminal gangs around are poor? What, you checking their tax records? They don’t report black market cocaine sales to the IRS and even if they did the money would have to be laundered. Guarantee at least half those dudes are richer than me with my menial “not crack selling” job.

Furthermore, “self defense only for rich whities who can afford the tax” isn’t the win you seem to think it is.

ArcaneSlime,

Making 40 clove chicken?

ArcaneSlime,

The reboots don’t ruin anything about me, they barely even ruin their source material, they just usually end up being bad and not worth watching.

Look, if y’all can’t come up with an original idea for your movie or series, just turn to creator owned comics for your source! 90% of it is laid out for you, just follow along and figure out some cool ways to depict the panels and the correct medium for your adaptation. See: Invincible.

ArcaneSlime, (edited )

Ok this is kinda unrelated but the phrase “looking back on my life” triggered a meta-memory of one of my favorite lesser known Green Day songs from my adolescence, and I’ve decided to subject you all to the lyrics of the first verse/chorus.


<span style="color:#323232;">Looking back upon my life and the places that I've been 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Pictures, faces, girls that I've loved, I try to remember when 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Faded memories on the wall, some names I have forgotten 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">But each one is a memory, I look back on so often
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I look into the past 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I want to make it last 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I was there 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I was there
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

Thanks, hadn’t heard that one in a while.

ArcaneSlime,

Gotta let the dough proof! Few hours if warmer, overnight if in the fridge. First ball it up and get out all the bubbles before that, then stretch it once it’s proofed. And invest in a pizza screen and bubble poker!

I didn’t work in pizza for over a decade and become neurotic about it or anything, no!

ArcaneSlime,

BRUH, Bunk Couches?! Genius.

ArcaneSlime,

Now THAT’S a Big Iron!

ArcaneSlime, (edited )

One of my favorite superheroes, Low-Poly Man! With the power to lower your resolution!

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