Okay I knew Opera browser was bad but I had no idea how crazy the situation was until reading this.
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Okay I knew Opera browser was bad but I had no idea how crazy the situation was until reading this. Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default. From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers." Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.
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@GossiTheDog gotta train the AI. Nothing is now important to MS than AI. Gotta create that corpus of data to sell to other AI companies. The products are no longer for us, we and its behaviors are just data to save and sell. @GossiTheDog The solution is simple and has been around for decades: Use Linux. I don't understand why people bother with Microsoft and Windows at all anymore. Positive side effect (out of many more): I don't even remember the last time that I've installed/used an "anti virus" software. I've written up my thoughts on the Copilot Recall feature in Microsoft Copilot+ PCs I think it will enable fraud and endanger users, and is not the sign of a company who are committed to security first. Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
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@GossiTheDog And of course they're not explaining *how* they're going to implement those "controls". @GossiTheDog @Quinnypig or as I've been doing for years, opt out of Slack. I'd say go with something like Jitsi/Matrix but that's not for everyone. Good news everybody, companies can now place adverts in your Start Menu that lead to executable code. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138949/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-recommendations-setting-disable
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@GossiTheDog *sigh* So now I need to put Linux on the one computer I had set up for casual use. More work for me, yay 😞 @GossiTheDog The absurdity of this manufactured society never stop to amusing me. Thankfully we have great minds and open source.
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@GossiTheDog @wdormann Several linux distros have already investigated how they're impacted by this (thanks @mgorny and @VoidLinux). Any takes on this from @almalinux and @alpinelinux? @GossiTheDog Debian Sid's and testing's liblzma has the backdoor, although it looks like it was reverted already. I don't think any official releases of Debian or Ubuntu had the compromised packaging. https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.6.1+really5.4.5-1_changelog Tabletop scenario: you lay off lots of IT staff to pivot to AI and automation with a goal to cost cut, and then your remaining IT staff, who don’t understand what they are doing due to lack of institutional knowledge, deploy an automation that breaks a critical business process and plunges the business into chaos.
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@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes the "onion is no longer satire it's prediction" but for "tabletops I don't want to be real but are going to become real" @GossiTheDog Taking shortcuts and conning people is capitalism 101. With technology that doesn't really work, or doors start falling off airplanes mid-flight. This is what happens when all you have is a degree in business with no knowledge of what your business actually does.
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@GossiTheDog Also adding "Taiwanese" as Language or "Taiwan" as favorite cuisine / tourism destination may also work... ^^ Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).
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Welcome to Taliban IT services. If you're part of a minority, press 1. Otherwise press 0. A customer representative will be available shortly. @GossiTheDog "who owns or controls the registry for the TLD" seems a fairly important consideration for domain names, tbf @GossiTheDog i mean it's a cool tld but come on, once the Taliban took over the country the writing was on the wall. 2025 spoiler: middle managers at large corporations sucking up the water supply of Finland to use Copilot AI to generate PowerPoint pressos about their fake green initiatives.
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@GossiTheDog we ain't got that much water :blob_smile_sweat: It's super odd that I never see in the news how much natural resources and electricity all AI stuff actually use. Most people I've talked to have no idea. @GossiTheDog and the UN climate conference will be hosted by an oil corporation ...oh wait that was already 2023
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@GossiTheDog I assume they did the ACME bit from somewhere else or the MITM box and then just MITMed the rest of the ACME flow that should’ve gone to the actual VM? Back in the 90s, when I was 11, I had a conversation on Usenet with this dude called Todd Howard, who said he wanted to make a space RPG. I am 41. Today, it arrived.
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@GossiTheDog I don't think there has been a game this hyped ever. Even cyberpunk seemed less (and that literally had fanboys saying 'this will change gaming forever' until it was released and they actually saw it..). Random bit of Microsoft telemetry dropped in this WSJ piece, good to know they’re tracking key presses.
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@GossiTheDog What is the benefit of knowing when people are typing a lot? @GossiTheDog i wonder how they are using this data internally other than for marketing. @GossiTheDog Up 72% seems a lot... I’ve found a way of tracking the number of Threads users. It is explosive. https://www.threads.net/t/CuWxvwXNZzV #Mastoadmin, there’s a pretty serious security vulnerability due to be announced this week. Make sure you apply patches when released on Thursday. If you’ve never patched, get the process down beforehand. Mastodon has a few structural weakness when it comes to security vulnerabilities: - if you can get RCE, you can suspend every federated instance. That forces remote unfollow of all users. Restoring your server from backup doesn’t fix that. - there’s no auto update feature and/or one click upgrade for admins - admins have bolted on patches galore - eg search patches, UI changes etc - which makes upgrading more complex Can’t wait for Twitter to get fixed on Monday and for all the journalists to return to write how Mastodon is doomed.
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@GossiTheDog I can't see anything fixed, still 'try again' stuff, and besides that a bunch of Blue got flagged as bots by a bot, and they can't contact support and they whine in API development forum
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@GossiTheDog "it's the engineer making $250k, that's where all our money's going" -a guy who's making $55m @GossiTheDog Just like in every other company including the German publich railway! lol, Parler has shut down. Calls itself "uncancelable" while being cancelled. https://parler.com/
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@GossiTheDog it sounds like...they were better at selling time on their cloud resources to other people instead of running their own product on it? @GossiTheDog Is it just me or can I not find ANYTHING about starboard.co formerly olympicmedia.com or their respective business entities? Like they have a few business index entries (Olympic does) but they're listed as a few dozen employees, a few hundred $k to a few million in revenue. Doesn't seem like a "huge conglomerate" to me. Seems more like someone bought a legit but unknown, lowkey existing corporation to fold a social media company *into*. Did you know Tesla has cameras both on the outside of vehicles and the inside, and everything is uploaded to Tesla? Anyhoo they’ve been exporting the videos, making memes of customers and then posting them on chat rooms. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
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@GossiTheDog have you seen this @Tupp_ed ? Surely it's a GDPR breach if they're doing it within the EU? 12
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@GossiTheDog Wait till you learn about Brave!
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I would have never used Opera due to it not being FOSS but it's always nice to have more reasons.
@GossiTheDog Opera Mini for java phones will randomly redirect you to full-screen ads instead of whatever link you clicked on.