#SamAsh is closing their stores nationwide. I only learned this today when heading past the one in King of Prussia. and I decided to buy myself a viola for $35. Now to figure out my neighbors' work and sleep schedules so I can figure out when I can try to learn to play this thing without driving them nuts.
Snapshots are encrypted by Device Encryption or BitLocker, which are enabled by default on Windows 11. Recall doesn't share snapshots with other users that are signed into Windows on the same device. Microsoft can't access or view the snapshots.
Soooo just Bitlocker then? Like disk encryption? That means the snapshots aren't encrypted while the machine is up.
Anything with high enough permissions (like, say security tools) will have the ability to read these snapshots, if I'm reading this right.
You might be tempted to read the Supported Browsers bit and think Firefox is invisible to Recall, but I don't think that's right. On the contrary, Firefox will show everything to it, and you can't filter anything out.
In two specific scenarios, Recall captures snapshots that include InPrivate windows, blocked apps, and blocked websites. If Recall gets launched, or the Now option is selected in Recall, then a snapshot is taken even when InPrivate windows, blocked apps, and blocked websites are displayed. However, Recall doesn't save these snapshots. If you choose to send the information from this snapshot to another app, a temp file is created in C:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\Temp to share the content. The temporary file is deleted once the content is transferred over the app you selected to use.
So if I write a piece of malware that kills Recall and relaunches it, the resulting screener will not be filtered at all? And I can just grab that temp file immediately?
Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol
I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money
@sue I couldn't agree more with all of this. Also frustrating are the "this has existed for years" comments. Like...if that was gonna work, it would have.
There is never going to be a GPG/PGP renaissance. People will not suddenly flock to this hard-to-use tool en masse. Please stop pushing it as the solution to things. We've tried. It didn't take.
many years ago, and i can't recall why, i predicted that because of surveillance and other dumb nonsense, the "real internet" would become very similar to tor - opaque, hard to track, p2p, and 'kinda underground', and the 'main internet' would be basically like the inside of a mall. mall cops, store fronts, expensive useless crap, lots of ads.
if you need to 'buy stuff' you go to the 'real internet', but your friends, your hobbies, the stuff you like, is on the 'private internet'.
Actually it's not writing. It's neon letters directly wired to a fusion reactor.
The internet you knew? It's gone. There is no recovering it. There's too much money and incentive behind the idea of making the entire village into a strip mall run by LLMs. Your gardens are forfeit.
I don't know if a #hardfork is possible, but even if it isn't, we gotta get to work building the intentional, human web. The one that rejects generative content, the one that verifies humanity through mutual trust, the one that takes privacy and safety of our neighbors as the highest value.
There are many tools available, but united effort must join together around them. Carefully, intentionally, we have to start moving what matters away from the polluted land.
@smxi The idea that discoverability is achievable at scale in this era is rather fraught. Is an unsolved problem that I believe requires new ways to explore the Internet.
All this LLM crap, especially the latest from Google, has me really bummed out. I did not sign up for a life of avoiding lies from the literal lying machine being shoved down my throat.
But now, I am apparently forced to fight a war against these things, in defense of whatever is left of fact.
@johnelamb LinkedIn has this godawful new thing where they have prompts for an article, then they ask people to enrich the components written by an LLM.
And I'm noticing that almost all the replies are LLM-generated.
@Viss@hrbrmstr This is a cool thinkpiece, but I'm fuzzy on why insurers would take on the burden of litigation when they could simply have policies that do not cover things like ransomware in the first place, or at least make it very hard to accept the claim. That's what Lloyd's and others have done.