@nixCraft why? Yeah, I understand the purpose and commercial possibilities.

But why the convoluted way of taking screenshots? Doesn’t the OS draw the screen? Doesn’t it have access to all data already? Even more than is on the screen?

This sounds like a lazy beginner programmer way of solving things.

‘I don’t want to get into all the APIs and stuff, I just take a sceenshot an run in through AI’.

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@nixCraft yeah, only think I'm sure, is that it will be used for reselling very precise data about users. They just want excuse to hoard it in such a scale.

"Microsoft cares about your privacy"

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His YouTube videos are good.
https://youtu.be/rXHu9OmLd8Y

@nixCraft good ol hidden features of windows, iirc this behavior is ONLY in task manager.

@nixCraft I learned that from @JenMsft Whish Taskmanager would've told me so by itfels. :D

@nixCraft I know it is a joke but... Come on! GPT4-turbo would never do that mistake. GPT-4o (the new model that now even unpaid customers can use) neither. To get that answer you must chose GPT3.5 that is now #29 on lmsys bechmark.

Go with llama 3 70b. You can even install it on your laptop if you have a good one.

@nixCraft @hannu_ikonen I’d always wondered

@nixCraft OK, that just means that it's calculator only does 12 digits.
3.14159265359.

@nixCraft Referencing Threads aside, stricter regulations won't necessarily change their mind.

Enforcing near-bankruptcy-inducing penalties for violating said regulations, however, might. Perhaps adding an extra couple zeroes and threatening their corporate ability to exist next year would encourage them to stop selling PHI.

@nixCraft therapist: why do you say you have trust issues?

@nixCraft this is insane. These people should be in jail.

@nixCraft :holdthepain:

@nixCraft pass me the Trenta of that 20 year mortgage.

@nixCraft (meme indicating for professional psychological help)

F

@nixCraft yeouch.

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How high would her word count have to be to go beyond the capacity of a resonable usb pen drive? We are not talking about 8k video files here. Backing up important work has been drilled into me from IT class day dot. To trust so much to something completely beyond her control is just daft.

@nixCraft This is why I use LibreOffice, running on Linux, on my own hardware AND make regular backups.

When my work goes online, its through Draft2Digital, for publishing. Works in progress (WIP) do not get put online.

Reminds me of a critique exchange with another writer. I was super angry when I found out they put my work in Google Docs and then shared a link back with their notes as comments, because I don't post WIP online.

Google Docs has always been a problem in search of a solution.

@nixCraft sad storey. But it could happen today with Win11 and Word too.

@nixCraft I never expected to get paid for my SO answers. I wrote them so freeloading developers could freeload on me. I always expected SO as a site would make a few bucks to run the show. My answers were my donation to the universe. What’s the problem here again?

@nixCraft a potential alternative is Codidact, which is essentially a Stack Exchange clone only open source and run by a not-for-profit. It was started up a few years back by ex StackOverflow moderator Monica Cellio (who was fired by SO in another one of their faux pas moments).

https://codidact.com/

@nixCraft :q! Is your friend

@nixCraft@mastodon.social i am a Novice Linux user who got stuck after reading documentation.

@nixCraft Think I'll just colon q myself out of this date

@nixCraft he joined Goosle !!!

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Did he move to a remote town in a small valley where everyone is more or less friendly, there's ample fishing, a hat-selling mouse, a wizard and plenty of mines to explore and everyone is just a bit suspicious of the big corp?

@nixCraft very @trib areas :D

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Oh my, that is going to be kept near to my heart.

@nixCraft brilliant, I have to add this to my go-to reactions

@nixCraft It obviously hasn't helped them get off Xitter.

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Yes, saw them as well on my end. Tried contacting them and not much of a response yet. We should feed them digital rubbish, so their products will output 🤡💩
@securingdev

@nixCraft Well done to the @linuxmint team for finding and blocking this Ai scraper 👍

@nixCraft Dang, I actually somewhat enjoyed using Claude, for all its limitations.

@nixCraft [X] Watching Windows Users' Heads explode when working on the shell

@nixCraft I'm used to it and can generally support it myself.

@nixCraft Ummm... E) All of the Above.

@nixCraft It is a good thing, that programming was invented in the English language world.

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Oh man, now you can compile this

@nixCraft No such thing as an evil programmer!
Oh, wait...

@nixCraft i thought the same thing the other day. when they want to steal our work, that's totally legal, when we want to fair use their shit, we're criminals.

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"There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

-Frank Wilhoit

@nixCraft Did OpenAI just admit that most companies building AI tools are criminal enterprises?

@nixCraft So he just tell that they have layed off on money without checking the consequences … hope they go bankrupt…

@nixCraft We tech folk don't generally like doing the "work around the work", that's a thing either organically necessary to the work or imposed by managers who never want to hear the details and just want us to pump out code 24/7.

You can't just arbitrarily reduce headcount and think that represents any improvement.

@nixCraft It's always strange for me when "share jumps" seem to be better than real benefit in such articles...

@nixCraft I remember buying it every week. It lasted 11 issues, I think ?

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Having purchased a Penguin Computing system back in the day, I have the mouse pad:

@nixCraft this art is so viziepop coded 😭

@nixCraft Wow. *golf clap*

@nixCraft 🤦‍♂️😹

@nixCraft the funny thing is it seems like the only time I have to think about drivers these days is on windows. Downloading them from a website like a barbarian.

@nixCraft IT ME!! (well, would be, if it were viewable from here;)

@nixCraft funny 🤣😂