Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 6 days ago:
Put a banana in your ear!
(A banana in my ear?)
Put a ripe banana right into your favourite ear!
It’s true!
(Says who?)
So true! Once it’s in your fears will disappear!
This is what I got from memory. Haven’t seen the video in about a decade.
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Could you post some recommendations?
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
everybody also “knows” that the Facebook app listens to you
estiponagroup.com/…/shhhhhh-facebook-actually-lis…
As for China - THIS the bog-standard procedure for any tech-related company when an employee has to travel to China. Give them a burner phone and laptop, zero company data on them, zero access to critical company data, after they return, just throw the gear away.
I honestly don’t now what other proof would you need, when we know them spying on regular people has been happening for decades.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
New cars are pretty much computers on wheels that collect data
There’s a difference between what telemetry a German car gathers, and what a Chinese car gathers. And where is it sent.
The data from EU companies is anonymised and private. The data from Chinese companies is always available to their government.
I mean, fuck China and the genocide of the Uighur. It’s terrible. But I’m pretty confident that capitalism killed a whole lot more people throughout history
Ah, I guess it’s fine then. Since throughout history more people died because of capitalist policies, then we can support China with a clear conscience!
I do 100% agree with this, though:
Ignorance is bliss I guess?
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
The evidence is in the fact that it’s a Chinese company. They are required by law to provide the government with all the data they collect (and we know they collect data).
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
Every new car is a piece of shit spy ware device that collects and sells your data
Fuck me, it has to be sad living in this paranoid state…
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 week ago:
Lemmy is weird. As long as you’re on the dogpile against the current “big bad” of the week, you’re good to go. Fuck Tesla? Then let’s buy Chinese products.
It’s insane, but it’s where we are.
It’s authoritarian spyware, period. There are more options than these two - ww don’t have to choose the lesser evil.
Let’s not forget that they are actively committing genocide against the Uighur. I don’t think they are the “lesser evil”.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
an obscure clause in TOS won’t be a small print of an evil villain speech exposing their plot in clear wording. what it would be is something worded vaguely enough to make things seem like the end user technically agreed to what was being done
That means nothing. Illegal terms can’t be enforced in contracts or terms of service.
it’s always going to be a technicality that in case of a lawsuit would be a valid defence in the eyes of law
No. Written law always takes precedence. If they spied on your data stored in OneDrive, they’d lose by default the moment the case hit the courthouse.
As for your second paragraph: yeah, I agree. If they did that, the damage would’ve already been done. But it would kill the business once found out. The benefit is not worth the risk.
For example: you’re saying that they would use it to train AI, right?
They don’t train AI. They get a trained model from OpenAI.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
There are only two possibilities here: either they were trying to access these files offline on a different device, or they had their storage completely full.
In the latter case OneDrive will kick out the oldest files to Online Only, so that you still have space to save newer stuff locally.
Oh, I guess there’s a third option - they were using some obscure third party cloud storage. Something that’s not Filen, OneDrive or DropBox.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Could Be Getting A Sequel Or DLC 1 week ago:
Our of curiosity - are you getting involved in the dialogue/story or are you there mostly for the mechanics/combat?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
You’re right, my bad for misunderstanding.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
Well, “save” and “autosave” are two very different features.
Autosave, yes, that’s a OneDrive specific feature.
Which also has nothing to do with what the article is about - they’re talking about Cloud locations of the user’s choosing, which means it will try to default to things like DropBox or Filen just as much as OneDrive.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
I think I accidentally posted that on the wrong comment. My bad.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
they’re probably already doing that to a smaller degree, and slightly protecting themselves with an obscure clause in their TOS
As soon as you find proof, you have literally free money up for the taking at any court.
you only lose lawsuits if you get caught - and churning things through AI is a great way to erase any fingerprints that identifies stolen data
That’s… not how any of this works…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
Right? People have such immensely weird notions about Office, Microsoft and telemetry, as if they stopped using computers in the 90s and then just read some rage-bait headlines for the last 35 years.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
WTF are you talking about, mate?
I’m using Office daily at work. I save data locally non-stop.
I swear to God, this community should be renamed from “Technology” to “Technologically Illiterate”…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
“Access” as in: have anything to do with them? Then why tf are you using Word on Windows?
“Access” as in: be able to read them? That would be super illegal for them to do and the easiest class action lawsuit win in history. EU fines would eat them alive.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
I have never seen a setup where that’s not the case.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
I’ve yet to see a cloud storage solution that doesn’t have offline-storage.
Like… WTF is going on? This is the Technology community, and yet you people come here and comment like you’ve only dealt with computers in the 90s…
The file is saved locally, then - as soon as there’s a network connection - gets uploaded to the Cloud and remains in both locations. You can access it from both “ends” - if you edit it in the Cloud or on a different device, the changes get sync’d down, etc.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
Cloud storage has nothing to do with anything/anyone reading the contents of your files.
It’s absolutely mind boggling to me how many completely ignorant people are on the Technology community here.
Just imagining the fines from the “won by default” lawsuits that MS would suffer at the hands of their EU users makes this whole notion hilarious!
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
What an ignorant thing to say…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
That’s not how cloud save works!
The files are saved to local storage that then gets sync’d up to the Cloud. The files are available both on- and offline.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
It didn’t remove anything, they’re just changing the default save location. You can revert it if you want, it’s all in the article…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
They’d break SO MANY international and data security laws if they tried breaking into people’s OneDrive, it’d be hilarious to see the number of lawsuits they’d lose by default.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
Auto save on cloud sucks
Why?
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 1 week ago:
I think it would be infinitely better for an LLM to walk a user through the use of the formula in their specific use case rather than do it for them
The one time I used it (via the Microsoft 365 Copilot), that’s exactly what it did. It only created the table in the spreadsheet that I wanted and then explained how to do the formula, explained the bits and bobs of the formula, showed me the code and told me where to put it.
Sure, if I was lazy, I’d just copy-paste without thinking, but the information was there.
but that won’t sell as well because most people don’t want to learn to use a spreadsheet they just want to do a thing and move on to something else (…) with an asterisk and fine print stating that it’s for entertainment purposes only and that whoever isn’t liable for any false information
At the same time, you could be arguing that calculators should be teaching people how to do maths, instead of just giving them the result, right? It’s actually a bit similar to LLMs, because, well, if you don’t know how maths and calculators work, you can get a result that’s horribly wrong (try
3+2*3on any simple calculator and you’ll get15).I just had my place of work upgrade me to Windows 11 this week (…) I was directed by Microsoft to download the “Office 365 Copilot” app which downloaded the office installer
So, first of all, it sucks that your IT didn’t have the tools to handle this for you in the first place.
Secondly - that’s just Microsoft being Microsoft. They love changing names and making things as confusing as possible. Although now Copilot is part of that app, when they originally introduced the new name, it was just a rebranded Microsoft 365 App. We were joking that it was done by some middle manager so he could boast that “100% of Office users now utilise Copilot”.
Last time I tried to use it I was given hallucinated nonexistant python modules and powershell commands that wasted my time
I haven’t yet seen an LLM that didn’t invent PowerShell modules, although recently Copilot’s been pretty good.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
Well… Yeah, I get what you mean, and - in general - I agree.
However, to me it’s also a bit like criticising the use of hammers because a lot of idiots hit themselves on the heads with them. Or, even worse, hit others on the heads.
AI/LLMs are a tool, and just like any other tool, they can be misused. That doesn’t mean the tool is bad, or immoral, or whatever, to use.
That’s why I hate the today’s discourse of “anything that has AI is shite be default” that so many people online have.
Let’s laugh at obviously bullshit attempt of shoving AI down consumer’s throats, but when it comes to actual, proper implementation - like in the case of baking Copilot into Excel - it becomes yet another optional tool at users’ disposal.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re completely missing the point here.
I’m not great at Excel. That doesn’t mean I can’t do basic math, it means I struggle designing an
xlookuporhlookup.If AI does that for me, I’ll be a happy bunny. And then run a dozen different iterations of data to verify that the results I’m getting are correct.
This is what this integration is for - it’s not a replacement for a human brain, it’s an assistant. As are all LLMs.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about using it when you’re “not great at Excel”, not when “you can’t do basic math”.
Always verify the results given to you by LLMs.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
Any time, nutsack.