Gregory's Server"have you ever wanted to install a keylogger to spy on your spouse or kid? well have we got news for you"
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 @molly0xfff I can also hear workers unions and GDPR lawyers *screeching* over this one. On the upside, it would be cool to get to do a full enterprisewide Windows-to-Linux migration for an org before I retire.   @subm3rge @molly0xfff Linux as desktop has gotten good enough and Wine runs a lot of Windows programs now  @subm3rge @subm3rge @molly0xfff No. The data remains on device, so why should this be an issue regarding the GDPR? @conamara @molly0xfff If your question is serious: The data will not stay on the device. The second law of therminfodynamics makes it so. @molly0xfff I humbly suggest you put up a chronometer on your blog to see how soon the first personal information security fuckup will happen due to this vendor endorsed mega-keylogger.  @JHB17 @molly0xfff that is the most obvious route but the first publicly known information leak will need some, presumably short, amount of time, right? Also besides passwords, everyone will know exactly what kind of porn you like.  @molly0xfff Somehow I feel this is pushed by the surveillance desires of governments. Can only hope I could be wrong here.  @alanb @helma @molly0xfff It could almost be viewed as Intentional sabotage of the "AI isn't a cartoon" myth that's zombified the Internet and half the planet π€ @alanb @helma @molly0xfff  @helma @molly0xfff Not even joking, and watch who keeps trying to justify using spyware casually everyday.  @helma @molly0xfff Whatβs up with #KOSA these days? They want to make VPNs illegal but if they canβt but they can use this to see everything you do anyway. @maggiejk @molly0xfff In the EU same. Just another name. They push for full surveillance in the name of kids safety online. It is a distraction. It will not be effective. There are other ways. They know this. But it is cheap for all kinds of #FunctionCreep surveillance options, apart from the initial security problem (from which politicians of course want to exempt themselves, which will technically be impossible). @helma @molly0xfff Or the surveillance desires of companies bigger and more powerful than most states? @molly0xfff i guess thinking in a bad day many of us would have at lest once, the problem is when you pass to the act of betraying the trust of your loved one by doing it β¦.   @cferdinandi @molly0xfff but no one will stop using windows. Next time it will be enough maybe... @f4grx 3 years and 5 months since I stopped using #Windows @Chris @molly0xfff @libreoffice @cferdinandi i think I started using mint as a daily driver in 2013. Not it's just debian. @f4grx and many more could follow likewise routes I did. Whatever they did in December was the last straw for me. I did leave dual boot on my desktop "just in case", but haven't actually booted windows since.  @EricLawton @f4grx @cferdinandi @molly0xfff I have not needed to boot my windows virtual and just removed my second graphics card I used for a gaming Windows 10 virtual with pass through. The AMD RX6800 is great on Debian. I can play all the games I want now without Windows, hopefully Microsoft doesn't have enough incentive to make breaking changes in Windows 11 and Wine / Proton keeps working as great as it is. It'll work at least for a decade from now with the compatibility cycle in mind. I'm only using Windows at my day job. My party laptop runs another OS, and I know better than to party on my work laptop.  @molly0xfff @cferdinandi @f4grx The problem is that we live in a world where they make it easy for you to be spied upon, but hard to get privacy  @hugoestr @molly0xfff @cferdinandi @f4grx They tell you that being spied on is what information security looks like. Only Microsoft's paying customers can look at your data, that's how you know it's secure. π They want to confuse the ideas of privacy and security so people simply won't think about this  "Today, I want to talk about something critical to our companyβs future: prioritizing security above all else." β Satya Nadella, May 3, 2024 π€‘  @molly0xfff "That's how we are monitoring our employee PCs anyway, and now you can do it to yourself." @molly0xfff "Finally got root access to your target, but don't want to bother doing your own logging or checking multiple applications for valuable data? How about one easy database that has everything available in plain text?"  Genuine question: who is *asking* for these features? Is there any consumer/user of windows who's been requesting this? I'd really love to see that demand though. Because if it's just about "spying" you actually WOULDN'T ever want to feed it to a learning model, you'd just want to keep the recordings. @tveastman @molly0xfff unless you want to use this data to train it to do the jobs the humans are currently doing.  @tveastman i'm going to go with "microsoft execs desperately trying to justify all the money they're shoveling into the AI fire" That's truly all I've got too... I'm looking for some kind of counterfactual but it really seems that cynical so far. @tveastman @molly0xfff As I understand it, there is a belief at the business strategy level (VC/shareholders/Cxx) that authentic user activity is the new commons which needs to be enclosed. The old Internet, pre-generative AI, is gone and when a meaningful use for LLMs coalesces whoever controls the source of new training data will win at capitalism. Claiming that data scraping is a feature which serves users is just a way to manufacture consent. Glad to hear any less cynical explanations. @molly0xfff Smh old boomer who canβt get on with modern tech (for obvious reasons this is a joke)  |
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