aiefel

aiefel, 3 hours ago to random

Calling these groups "anti-government" is to still buy into their BS. What they have in mind is just a very different kind of regime, it's not anti-government, far from it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/people-rights-network-oregon-elections

KathyReid, 3 days ago to microsoft

Why does #Microsoft want to implement #Recall? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's #GCP data (e.g. #STT transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants #MicrosoftRecall data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

aiefel, 23 hours ago to random

Good write-up of the absolute failure of StratComs in Georgia. Not surprisingly the NATO-funded project — that looks as anti-democratic as the Russian influence it was attempting to counter — appears to have been designed in UK.
You don't win by copying them, that just make their case for them.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/nato-helped-georgia-counter-russian-trolls-then-the-strategy-backfired/

aiefel, 1 day ago to random

Reporting by @zack on how Modi's regime is "pushing the world’s largest democracy toward an authoritarian future" and targeting its critics at home and abroad... https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24160779/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans

Viss, 3 days ago to random

the 4th of july is a funny time for the uk to have an election, isnt it?

aiefel, 1 day ago to random

Encouraging to see that efforts to hold those in the Assad regime still persist.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-the-assad-regime-finally-facing-some-justice-trial-of-syrian-officials-in-paris/

aiefel, 2 days ago to random

Occasionally I look at Facebook via someone else's account and I see how much it's continued to slide and I can't fathom how people still live like that.

seth, 3 days ago to random

Dear Haribo,

I’d pay handsomely for a bag of just the pineapple bears. Please make it so.

dangillmor, 7 days ago to random

Social media disappointments:

1. Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.

2. Reddit got away with stomping its volunteer moderators and users, and its execs are cashing in on an IPO that in a more just world would have flopped.

3. Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Some people just don't have the microplastics it takes to make the hard calls.

I gotta hand it to you, that took a lot of microplastics.

You got a lot of microplastics comin' back around here after what you pulled!

raiderrobert, 4 days ago to random

Coders of all kinds, I have a question.

What is the minimal amount for someone to "know how to code"?

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Everyone in the next video meeting point your camera slightly at an angle so no one looks like they're breaking the fourth wall.

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Antony Blinken always looks like he's one of the sales guys at the bottom of the board in Glengarry Glen Ross.

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Emory University is dealing with AI about as well as the rest of the world, only in reverse. We find companies misusing it and give them a pass. Emory boldly inverts the model...
a) give students a grant to make an AI thing.
b) suspend the students for making it.
c) admit there was no evidence that anyone ever misused it.
https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

"Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research. Despite encryption and local storage, the new feature raises privacy concerns for certain Windows users."

Concerns. You don't fucking say.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

And on the seventh day, The Lord ran package manager updates.

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

Make 'delete' mean something again.

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

"There is a global cost to opposing the International Criminal Court. With U.S. and European support, the court is seeking to prosecute President Vladimir Putin for alleged crimes in Ukraine. The court promotes the global interest in accountability for the worst crimes under international law. Attacks on it only benefit those who, like Mr. Putin, seek to delegitimize its existence." — @davidkaye
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/palestinians-israel-international-criminal-court-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.RuRe.Zj-X3_rEG1nS&smid=url-share

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

Copilot recording an endless series of me pasting text, clicking undo, and then doing paste special > unformatted text.

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

Zoom decided to be worse than 2012 era Skype or something a goal.

evacide, 6 days ago to random

"I'm not listening to any more Dune takes from a guy who can't tell CHOAM from the Landsraad!" is a perfectly normal thing to yell while making brunch.

futurebird, 7 days ago to random

This is the kind of thing I always imagined a husband would get when grocery shopping before I had one and, lo, it’s the sort of thing they really do come home with.

Just… just random cheese—

can I complain though? I think not!