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aiefel

@aiefel@mastodon.social

Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.

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aiefel, to random
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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, to random
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Dear Haribo,

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

aiefel,
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@seth careful, don't OD on those.

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

aiefel,
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@Viss it's going to be the day he decides to get another green card.

KathyReid, to microsoft
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Why does want to implement ? 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 data (e.g. 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 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,
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@KathyReid excellent points. I wouldn't count Google out on this market entirely as it has Chrome, Android and Workspace to mine but Microsoft has far more and an ability to get more on-device telemetry for sure.

aiefel, to random
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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, to random
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Coders of all kinds, I have a question.

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

aiefel,
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@raiderrobert Make it output "hello world."

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

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

aiefel, to random
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Make 'delete' mean something again.

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

aiefel,
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When you die, everything Copilot captured you doing passes before your eyes.

aiefel, to random
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"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,
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We need Tails to step up and make it easier for people to be okay with forgetting shit.

aiefel,
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@seth When I'm retired and have thrown my last devices into a cement mixer I will calm down.

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

evacide, to random
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"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.

aiefel,
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@evacide spicy!

futurebird, to random
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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!

aiefel,
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@futurebird impulse-buy cheese is the best cheese.

aiefel, to random
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"How to Remove Weeds Between Bricks (Without Herbicides) ... If you want the quick answer: there isn’t one."

[ Close laptop, go outside and mentally accept overgrowth and think of just rolling with the 'managed decline' aesthetic of Victorian cemeteries. ]

shanecelis, to random
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MICROSOFT: Wait, I can explain!

GOOGLE: You spy through the whole OS?? I only spy on the web.

APPLE: Your users know that you're spying?

LINUX: You guys are spying?

aiefel,
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@shanecelis NSA: you're all spying, you just don't know how much.

dangillmor, to random
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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,
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@dangillmor mix of reasons, but largely I think it's down to learned helplessness. There are still news people who will say Mastodon is somehow "too complicated." It becomes this un-interrogated mantra applied to why people don't switch from systems they allegedly don't like.

ayo, (edited ) to random
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Which CHAT protocol do you use more?

aiefel,
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@ayo Signal.

aiefel, (edited ) to random
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One outcome of this Tory government making it easier for the pre-retired to access their pensions early is now financial institutions are spamming people on how they can "help" them cash out and blow their retirement fund today. These people run the country like it's a Paddy Power gambling website.

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