derickr

capital, 19 days ago to random

Microsoft recall is fucking insane.

Recall snapshots are kept on Copilot+ PCs themselves, on the local hard disk, and are protected using data encryption on your device and (if you have Windows 11 Pro or an enterprise Windows 11 SKU) BitLocker.

Your doing what? Microsoft wh-

Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds. [...]

[...] The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB, which can store approximately 3 months of snapshots. [...]

WHAT WHY NO ST-

Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry.

Microsoft please... th-the tech support scams... think about what happens if this gets bre-

Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions...

Oh, okay I guess that's san-

...in Microsoft Edge.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It treats material protected with digital rights management (DRM) similarly; like other Windows apps such as the Snipping Tool, Recall will not store DRM content.

Ah, but of course. The DRM is protected...

kboyd, 19 days ago to random

Good morning, and welcome to Enshittification Tuesday. We've got quite a selection for your perusal today, and shockingly it isn't all related to AI.

We've got:

• Microsoft adds AI spyware at the OS level

• iTerm2 adds AI spyware at the Terminal level

• FireTV interface has been sneakily tweaked to automatically subscribe users to new services when downloading certain apps (yes, there's a confirmation screen, but blink and you'll miss it & might get double-subscribed)

thomasfuchs, 19 days ago to random

“Everything I don’t like is Hamas”-challenge 2024

https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190

derickr, 20 days ago to random

This is such a bullshit anti-pattern.

It's a ducking keyboard app. And it keeps popping up until I pick one. Guilting me into clicking "Yes".

#AntiPattern #enshittification

katiefenn, 20 days ago to random

Open AI asked Scarlet Johansson for her voice, and when she refused, they stole it anyway.

Gross as hell. What a slimy company.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johansson-openai-altman-legal-action

catileptic, 20 days ago to CSS

Google announced client-side scanning for Android. I don't think there's any point in calling it otherwise, or discussing the alleged "usefulness" of this technical implementation.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/

#CSS #ClientSideScanning

@Mer__edith very aptly reminded, in her reaction, that the AI-powered scanning is proprietary and it's within Google's discretion what type of communication is flagged as problematic. Scams, today. What next? Reproductive rights? Labour organizing?

organicmaps, 21 days ago to random

The May 2024 Organic Maps update supports bookmarks and tracks sorting by name, paved paths are white, and unpaved ones are brown. And there are so many other changes and fixes, thanks to our contributors! Update and enjoy, and don't forget to update maps too. And donate to support the open-source, community-driven, privacy-focused maps project! Get the update at https://omaps.app/get and read more details about the improvements here: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-05-19/the-may-2024-organic-maps-update-bookmarks-and-tracks-sorting-by-name-gpx-fixes/

OM HTML list description
Improved paved/unpaved paths
OM sorted bookmarks

matdevdug, 21 days ago to ai

One thing that’s funny about #ai and #programming is I keep hearing the same thing. “Oh I use it for generic snippets, just common tasks and functions”.

The amusing thing about that is when I first started working with a #php app years ago there was already a solution to that problem. It was called “the PHP Cookbook” published by O’Reilly. I was told “oh we buy you a PDF copy and you just search for whatever you are trying to do and use that code. It saves a ton of time for junior programmers.”

Not only was it true, it did save me a ton of time and headaches, but we didn’t need to steal anything. The authors got paid, it worked offline, it didn’t require scraping the entirety of human knowledge to write or nuclear power plants worth of energy to distribute.

It also helped me learn. Since I would have a solid foundation to the solution, I felt more confident experimenting. I always had a known-functioning standard library solution as my base. So when something broke I knew where to start debugging.

Just an incredible thought that instead of paying $20 for a pdf once we decided this was the way to go.

timbray, 22 days ago to random

Yeah, I uninstalled Telegram a while back, and recommend doing so. I don’t think it could compromise my Android device but there’s good reason to think it might try.

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112465003153698905

sundogplanets, 23 days ago to random

Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

grmpyprogrammer, 23 days ago to random

Seeing that Slack is gonna slurp up all their customer’s data to train ChatGepetto systems and making you opt out via email is :chef’s kiss:

IRC never betrayed me like that

ocramius, 23 days ago to random

It's time to stop even following links to it:

ottermiemuis, 23 days ago to random Dutch

Scherp gezien.

mastodonmigration, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

So, over in the astronomy world there is some consternation about a tweet from eminent satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.

Apparently "Starlink Precipitation" is now a thing. And yes, you got that right, Starlink precipitation is pieces of Elon Musk's fucking internet satellites raining down from space.

See also this post from @carlysagan: https://mastodon.social/@carlysagan/112448150797509408

davidallengreen, 24 days ago to random

How the Good Friday Agreement checks and balances the UK government

With the disapplication of the Rwanda policy in Northern Ireland, we can see how the 1998 treaty practically limits the power of the UK executive

New, by me

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/66236/how-the-good-friday-agreement-checks-and-balances-the-uk-government

carlysagan, 25 days ago to random

“Starlink precipitation” should not be allowable as a term - I’m sorry, what?!

netbsd, 25 days ago to random

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

phpday, 24 days ago to community

"What's new in PHP 8.3" is Derick Rethans' talk.
@derickr is an independent contractor and consultant on PHP projects.

#phpday24 #phpday #community #PHP

saramg, 24 days ago to random

Friends in the UK, please sign this petition. Everyone deserves health care, even if you don't like them, they're still people

Though, like, wtf is with not liking trans people? That's fucked up. What is wrong with you?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

adambienkov, 25 days ago to random

Rishi Sunak is accusing his opponents of 'emboldening' Vladimir Putin.

Since entering Government Sunak's party has

• Taken millions from Russia-linked donors
• Ennobled the son of a former KGB agent
• Covered up details of Russian interference in Britain

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/15/rishi-sunak-conservative-party-russia-vladimir-putin/

grusp, 25 days ago to php Italian

📣 Less than 24 hours to the 21st edition of @phpday ! It is the oldest php conference in Europe!

:elephpant: Last chance to get your ticket, online or in-presence!

➡️ https://2024.phpday.it/tickets/

🇮🇹 See you tomorrow in Verona, Italy and online!

#php #conference #phpday #event #tickets

lowqualityfacts, 26 days ago to random

2024: OpenAI releases a free virtual assistant with a weirdly flirty voice.

2025: Millions of men become emotionally attached to the AI.

2026: OpenAI threatens to delete your virtual girlfriend if you don't pay a monthly subscription. You must also buy her digital flowers or she will hate you.

thomas, 26 days ago to random

Also, whoever added that Larry AI bullshit to Laracasts that just posts bad info on every question, please know that I almost completely ignore anything from that site now because of how worthless those bot responses have made it.

katiefenn, 26 days ago to random

An encouraging argument for generative AI peaking and plateauing.

TLDR: Because generative AI models are trained by data, and the size of the training data sets is not continuing to grow at a consistent pace, we may not continue to see big advances in terms of what generative AI can do.

Good. Then we can get back to paying artists, writers, composers, photographers, designers…

https://youtu.be/dDUC-LqVrPU

ciaran, 26 days ago to random

A UI bugbear of mine is stuff like this.

Accept the input and regex the letters away!

Same thing when phone numbers aren't accepted with hyphens, or financial numbers aren't allowed to contain commas