Paxxi

poppastring, 24 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

Sobieck, 25 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

timnitGebru, 28 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

inquiline, 28 days ago to random

Sometimes I get real gems in my campus mail:

GossiTheDog, 28 days ago to random

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whitequark, 29 days ago to random

postgres is a great database engine :)

ricci, 29 days ago to random

am i the last person on earth without a podcast

GrimmReality, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago) to random

"A handful of cretinous shitsacks who fully legalized bribery in America because they hold to an ideology that insists rich, conservative people are inherently superior and should have carte blanche to rule unfettered by laws turned out to also take fuck-tons of bribes, dismissed every suggestion they account for that because those suggestions came from lowly pleb scum, and materially participated in an effort to end democracy in America" sure feels like a plot twist every last person with critical thinking skills should have seen coming.

thomasfuchs, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

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TheBreadmonkey, 1 month ago to random

I don't want to be that guy, but depicting a King in military uniform - head of the British 'empire' absolutely covered and dripping in red...... It's a little on the nose, don't you think?

inthehands, 1 month ago to random

This from @caseynewton brings to the foreground something that’s been eating at me:

What exactly do Google and OpenAI and Microsoft and the rest of the AI bubble think is going to happen here when LLMs disincentivize the creation of the data that feeds them?!

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

nikitonsky, 1 month ago to random

What if blueprints but for spreadsheets? Exists?

Last time I needed a spreadsheet it was very hard to get any derived data, even a simple map/filter, outside of trivialities like “sum this column”

vitaut, 1 month ago to random

Current status: debugging PHP code in prod using "printf" debugging.

ekuber, 1 month ago to animals

#dogsofmastodon #photography

brtkdotse, 1 month ago to random

A thing that’s holding .NET in a big way among non-corporate developers is that there’s no good self hosting story.

It’s Azure or “you’re on your own pal!”, basically.

Compare this with PHP/LAMP-stack that allowed for cheap, fun experiments with small side projects which resulted in a couple of pretty significant companies.

Paxxi, 1 month ago to random

I Dunning-Krugered the shit out of this wall 😀

vitaut, 1 month ago to random

Using modern C++ has never been easier

brtkdotse, 1 month ago to random

KathyReid, 1 month ago to stackoverflow

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

brtkdotse, 1 month ago to random

$120k car and they didn’t even fasten the bolt properly

https://x.com/garageklub/status/1788383093365375189

shafik, 3 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.

Paxxi, 25 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

Paxxi, 29 days ago to random

Load of top soil arrived yesterday, I'm going to look like the rock after this summer 😂