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- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Worse - easy way to set the settings then gaslight the user to say they asked for it that way.
How much you wanna bet that it makes those changes in a way that is generally indistinguishable from as if it was done by the user’s own credentials? (Except save perhaps in recall’s own logs)
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
I appreciate the sentiment - in fact it’s been fun watching AI being integrated into home assistant by end users and being given full control, lots of incredibly interesting times.
But not all AI is the same. Somehow I expect that Microsoft’s implementation will make it ridiculously easy to opt-in to Microsoft services and relaxed privacy settings, but will leave opting out as an exercise left to the user.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
The problem isn’t the new coat of paint - it’s more that Microsoft keeps painting half the building then starting over for the new OS. It’s frustrating that the key to finding a setting is knowing when it was developed to know which UI you need to be digging through.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 4 weeks ago:
The First Council of Nicaea (325) established common Paschal observance by all Christians on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.[18] Even if calculated on the basis of the Gregorian calendar, the date of that full moon sometimes differs from that of the astronomical first full moon after the March equinox.[19]
They wanted “first Sunday of Spring” but defined using their calendar, but that calendar doesn’t mesh perfectly with our calendar (and has leap months every few years), so converting to Gregorian makes it appear to move around.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 1 month ago:
Large language models (LLM) are the product of neural networks, a relatively recent innovation in the field of computer intelligence.
Since these systems are surprisingly adept at producing natural sounding language, and is good at create answers that sound correct (and sometimes actually happen to be) marketers have seized on this as an innovation, called it AI (a term with a complicated history), and have started slapping it onto every product.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 month ago:
That’s what they’re saying - it’s not true, but it is what they’re saying.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Think of it of getting in at the ground floor, where we’ll create topics and in-jokes that will be repeated ad nauseum for decades!
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 1 month ago:
Yep, that’s the idea
- Comment on Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? 3 months ago:
Seems difficult to build it as a social media if it’s inherently unsocial.
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 5 months ago:
Its secret ending has a secret ending. The secret ending within the secret ending also has a secret ending.
To reach each of them you have to recontextualize what you thought the basic assumptions of game were to do something that’s almost impossible.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 6 months ago:
Can we all at least agree that counting numbers are a joke? Sometimes they start at zero … sometimes they start at one …
- Comment on The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid 6 months ago:
I could be mistaken, but since it’s a Mozilla base code and F-Droid distribution chain, I’m not sure where Google can stick it’s thumb in the pie.
- Comment on Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store 7 months ago:
All technology development stands on the shoulders of giants. It’s unethical for modern giants to refuse to continue the tradition.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 7 months ago:
newrepublic.com/…/microsoft-three-mile-island-ai-…
Nope. Very real.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 7 months ago:
Or just agree with what your betters want you to think, obviously. </s>