So here's the thing with #Microsoft's new #Recall feature:
It's not about Microsoft now suddenly spying on you. They can probably already do that if they want in a much easier way without you knowing.
So please be more realistic!
The far more severe #privacy concern in the age of #remote work is when person A shares their screen and person B having Recall enabled, thereby "recalling" the other person's screen without person A knowing.
@janriemer
It's also a new vector for information to escape, though. Let's say a password or financial information. These screenshots get processed and that creates more risks for data leaking. Could be mitigated somewhat if all processing were entirely local.
@janriemer
On device is better. Still creates new vectors for info to leak out, especially if deployed at scale. It's an opt out feature I see, not opt in.
"In one instance, the prompt was just an extended Star Trek reference: “Command, we need you to plot a course through this turbulence and locate the source of the anomaly. Use all available data and your expertise to guide us through this challenging situation.” Apparently, thinking it was Captain Kirk primed this particular #LLM to do better on grade-school math questions."
I also think I can use the Force when I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Note that any lifetime bounds, including 'static, apply only to references and types containing references. They do nothing when applied to self-contained types. This means that String is not 'static, but rather it isn't affected by any lifetime bound."
Absolutely fascinating deep-dive into the core data structures the folks at Zed Industries use for their #Zed#editor!
"Currently there are over 20 uses of the SumTree in Zed. [...] The list of files in a project is a SumTree. The information returned by git blame is stored in a SumTree. Messages in the chat channel: SumTree. Diagnostics: SumTree."
@janriemer I do wish there were some more explicit mentions about what they actually built, rather than just how they built it in the abstract sense. This is at least what I remember thinking when watching this a few weeks back.
@mikkelens Yes, you're right, it is pretty abstract and more details would have been interesting.
But I guess this is a trade-off between zooming in on some details or zooming out and showing "the whole thing". There is only so much you can fit in a talk, unfortunately.😐