It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.
It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.
It's inescapable.
It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.
It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.
If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.
I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."
@nixCraft I side-graded to Linux. Not all my favorite software works, but I don't feel like a faceless corp is monitoring me to figure out how best to monetize my use of a computer.
@kde@kde I've been using Plasma 6 as my daily driver for three weeks now, and it's really good! I'm grateful for all the time that developers, testers, and doc writers have spent on this project. I decided to ditch Windows after getting yet another nudge to "please create a microsoft account".
Among other things, it really shows how reasoning about computer programs is not intuitive to people, even people who've had years of training (the class is an optional class mostly taken by 3rd/4th year CS majors, with 10% grad students)
@danluu This is interesting but it would be even more notable if this was done with different languages. I agree with part of the conclusion that if the majority of programmers converge on a certain misunderstanding, maybe we should change how the system works. Kind of like changing an API after working with it for awhile and realizing it's not ergonomic.
@mcc I think the banned people are in the right, but how did OpenAI not already scrape stack overflow? I've seen samples of ChatGPT's slop that told me the exact same wrong answers that were available on stack overflow (and its sister sites).
I wanted to test it and they reverted one of my protest edits almost immediately by Progman
@gamingonlinux Gotta wonder how big the CSS class names were if they had a material impact on the package size. Maybe autogenerated names like class="big_hero_unit_for_game_id_858588333_aka_half_life_3_oops_we_cannot_put_this_here"
@gamingonlinux I'm new to linux gaming (been playing Elden Ring pretty seamlessly) - is this release turning the "experimental" branch into the official 9.0 branch? Like, right now is there a difference between 9.0-1 and experimental?
Edit: to put it another way, if I had a game that only works with Experimental, will it work with 9.0-1 now?
@dangillmor I've started using the date filter to make my searches only return stuff from before 2022 or 2023. The web was already getting spammy with SEO nonsense but now it's 10 times worse.
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