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GossiTheDog, 3 days ago to random

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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tristansnell, 1 day ago to random

On paper — FBI authorized to use deadly force at Mar-a-Lago

In practice — FBI was afraid to force open a closet at Mar-a-Lago where more documents were kept

Donald Trump continues to get special snowflake treatment at EVERY step of these prosecutions

kennwhite, 14 hours ago to random

I'm so old I remember when Google said their mission was to organize the world's information.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

Patricia, 15 hours ago to random

I think this book affected me in a completely opposite direction of what was intended. I am extremely motivated to make monolithic apps now.

Brb gonna write a blog post on my distributed app hosted in a single process doing synchronous message passing through compiler generated stubs (cough function calls) and how running my “distributed app” in the same virtual memory space lends itself to improved performance, monitoring and debugging. Imma call it Virtual Distributed Monolith. Pay me to be your consultant 💰

I’ll just write bs blog post like: “Real Time Audio with personalized addressing system allowing instant multichannel audio collaboration”

Patricia, 1 day ago to random

Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.

Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.

Patricia, 1 day ago to random

People who think I was hash against the book should read it. But then really, actually read all of the words, and not give up, skim and start just looking at pictures and headlines.

Paxxi, 22 hours ago to random

Rewatching dune before watching dune 2 and it's dumber than I remembered it.
The dumb shields, the hand to hand combat, the supposedly best military in the galaxy being surprise attacked by a flying small moon

josh, 2 days ago to foss

The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁

Let's not squander it!

A sold out #PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.

Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.

Who will it be? 👀

#HealthAndSafety #FOSS #OpenSource #PublicHealth

ndw, 2 days ago to random

If someone wanted to play with running some JavaScript code inside a JVM application, is there an obvious right JS implementation to choose? Nashorn is deprecated (I think). I see Rhino and Javet and maybe others. #lazyweb

poppastring, 2 days ago to windows

About #Windows 11 Recall

TL;DR;

• If you reset the PC, you delete all Recall snapshots
• Recall only works with supported web browsers (Chromium-based)
• Organizations can simply disable it
• Can’t save snapshots of InPrivate windows
• Supports user-facing settings for filtering
• Feature can be disabled during setup
• Delete snapshots at any time
• Everything Recall does stays on your local #Copilot+ PC
• Data is protected by full-disk encryption (a requirement)

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/302928/windows-11-recall-is-not-a-privacy-concern

gsuberland, 2 days ago to random

fucking hell. if you decline optional cookies on screwfix's website they set the basket cookie expiry to a couple of hours and force-refresh your checkout page after a timeout, which causes you to lose everything that was in your basket. what a user-hostile design.

Paxxi, 2 days ago to random

Microsoft reading the news, seeing all the hate against lgbtq kids being abused by their parents and thinking, hey that's a great business opportunity for AI!

#recall

Sobieck, 2 days ago to random

On a recent episode of Behind the Bastards, the host talked about how abusers were able to infiltrate the left in Germany after the war. They were able to hijack a good movement that was antifascist. They warped it in the worst possible way.

I know a lot of the privacy violating shit in tech is just on accident. But I wonder how much of it is just shitty dudes thinking of new ways to sneak in shit to abuse their partner and kids more effectively.

#recall

Paxxi, 3 days ago to random

Is it just me reacting to the use of "women and children" used to describe civilian deaths in wars?

There's plenty of women in modern militaries so it's a weird phrase to use

timnitGebru, 5 days ago to random

"Leike had said that OpenAI's "safety culture & processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" in recent years, and that his team struggled to obtain the resources to get their safety work done."

Lol. But there never was a "safety culture"!

The founding of OpenAI was premised on "existential risk" of AI to "humanity," the new grift white men created to siphon even more resources for themselves under the guise of saving all of us.

https://mashable.com/article/openai-sam-altman-greg-brockman-respond-to-jan-leike-resignation

shafik, 2 months ago to random

Consumers, if you are tired of inflation this article tells you what you need to do: https://stocks.apple.com/AH86fsRXnQEuaNThCXOkhIw

• Drop brand products that have weak competition

• Swap products that have off label competition

We have the power but we have be willing to make those choices. If we don't then they will keep raising prices b/c they can.

Long term we need more competition but that will take time. You need to write to your representatives and tell them we need less mergers and more break-ups.

"The more ingredients in the product, the more pricing power you have typically," Sundaram said. Retailers, including Target and Kroger, have rolled out new private brands to better compete with national brands and undercut them on price. Earlier this month, Target debuted Dealworthy, a brand made up of products including dental floss, paper towels and shampoo. Most of the new brand's goods sell for under $10. By stealing away sales, retailers can pressure national brands to lower an item's price, introduce a cheaper version or offer a discount. Some industry watchers expect a meaningful wave of price cuts as food makers struggle with weaker demand and lagging sales growth. A number of food suppliers reported shrinking volume in North America in their latest quarters, including Kraft Heinz, Pringles maker Kellanova and PepsiCo's food divisions. Volume excludes pricing and currency changes, giving investors a more accurate view of demand.

inquiline, 5 days ago to random

Sometimes I get real gems in my campus mail:

GossiTheDog, 6 days ago to random

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has apparently crashed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-69035051

whitequark, 6 days ago to random

postgres is a great database engine :)

ricci, 6 days ago to random

am i the last person on earth without a podcast