Being able to replay a cutscene would also be nice.

I agree that you’re right. My thought was it was more likely that they socially engineered their way into getting invited to the chat.

This is why I said that a lot of people are the weakest link in their own secured communications networks.

Yeah. I dunno man. I’m sorry.

But like. A lot of the time security/privacy fails like this are user-inflicted. Either because people don’t understand the apps and services they use, or because other people aren’t as vigilant about auditing their networks (the people, the hardware the software).

That’s why I said an app like signal. People assume that every app works the same. Telegram had issues with encryption where all parties didn’t have encryption enabled but one or more of the parties involved assumed the chat was still encrypted.

However I should probably change that to read more along the lines of: know the features and settings of your app and ensure that encryption settings are set to maximize the protection of privacy.

I’m gonna have to workshop that. It’s a mouthful.

Either way, thank you for pointing that out.

I don’t know who still needs to hear this, so I’m going to say it again for the people in the back.

Assume every form of communication you have is being spied on.

If you’re using an app like signal or similar, make sure you and everyone else in the chat has encryption enabled.

Verify the other users in the chat.

Do not plan any activity that could be considered a criminal enterprise on an electronic device with a connection to the internet.

The court ruled that cloudflare made it too easy to register an account and create a domain. And that they didn’t do enough to prevent those domains from being used for piracy.

Apparently under Japanese law that’s the barrier of proof they needed to cross.

We’re not talking about firing up chat gpt in a web browser here. Microsoft is installing “agentic AI” on windows machines regardless of whether or not customers want it. They don’t have a say in the matter except the more tech savvy of them who will find ways to edge around the restrictions on how long you can delay downloads or whether or not certain features get downloaded at all.

Saying otherwise (that it’s just consumers deciding to use this “feature”) is as disingenuous as your first bad analogy about the lock. Especially since you haven’t explained what function this AI performs. The lock performs a singular function adequately enough for the risk involved for most people. And it does it passively. The AI is not the same no matter how often or how hard you try to shoehorn it into your silly analogy.

You explained your doubling and tripling down quite adequately when you said you work in AI. It would be helpful to this conversation if you could stop drinking the flavorade for five minutes and just think about the fact that people don’t want this and Microsoft is saying that they know it’s problematic but they are forcing it on people anyway.

This conversation is over though because you want to be right more than you want to be logical and correct and so now you are neither. Have a nice life.

To be fair (even though I also am both happy and relieved to see articles like this), just because you convert to Linux, that doesn’t mean everyone else will. I have used so many guides to help debloat windows computers, and turn off nonsense I don’t want (mostly so I can use proprietary software for work). My choice to not use windows in my personal life on my personal devices doesn’t really change my situation with needing those guides to help others circumvent windows BS.

I wish we didn’t have to live in interesting times and all that, but the guides are helpful.

It technically shouldn’t happen unless you don’t create a separate EFI partition for your Linux install.

It is generally recommended that you create a separate EFI partition for Linux specifically so that windows cannot mess with your Linux install when it updates.

I could see a bios update having some affect though.

But it can let in a burglar who can find your credit card inside and do the same. And why are you giving AI access to your CC#? You’d better post it here in a reply so I can keep it safe for you.

You aren’t giving your door lock access to your credit card information. And it didn’t “let the burglar in” so much as it has a failure ceiling. Meaning that there is more of a chance that a burglar can get in than zero, but less of a chance than if you didn’t have a lock at all. An outside party is circumventing the protections you put into place to protect your credit card number. Or perhaps (possibly) you are circumventing it by accident by leaving the door lock unlocked.

However, in both those cases, the door lock is not doing anything of its own volition, and won’t be doing that outside your control. The AI LLM is doing stuff both of its own volition (perhaps within parameters you set, but more likely outside of parameters you set, but within parameters the company that makes it set and only that to a degree).

You don’t do any banking except in person? Any shopping except in person with cash? Because that’s what you’re suggesting when you say things like “why are you giving it access to your credit card”.

Microsoft is suggesting that they will run “Agentic AI” on the windows 11 computers of hundreds of millions of peoples personal devices in the background without their direct input, and that this AI may download malware or be a threat vector that malicious apps, services, etc can take advantage of. But they’re going to do it anyway.

Microsoft is not installing door locks in my house, and if they tried I’d kindly escort them off the property, by force if necessary.

The negligence lies in marketing a product without considering the implications of what it can do in scenarios that would make it a danger to the public.

No company is supposed to be allowed to endanger the public without accepting due responsibility, and all companies are expected to mitigate public endangerment risks through safeguards.

“We didn’t know it could do that, but we’re fixing it now” doesn’t absolve them of liability for what happened before because they lacked foresight, did no preliminary testing, and or planning to mitigate their liability. And I’m sure that sounds heartless. But companies do this all the time.

It’s why we have warning labels and don’t sell specific chemicals in bulk without a license, or to children etc. it’s why, even if you had the money, you can’t just go buy 20 tonnes of fertilizer without the proper documentation and licenses, as well as an acceptable use case for 20 tonnes.

The changes they have made don’t protect Monsanto from litigation for the deaths their products caused in the before times. The only difference there is that there was proof they had knowledge of the detrimental affects of those products and didn’t disclose them.

So I suppose we’ll see.

I like your username, and generally even agree with you up to a point.

But I think the problem is there are a lot of mentally unwell people out there who are isolated and using this tool (with no safeguards) to interact with socially as a sort of human stand in.

If a human actually agrees that you should kill yourself and talks you into doing it, they are complicit and can be held accountable.

Because chatbots are being… Billed as a product that passes the Turing test, I can understand why people would want the companies that own them to be held accountable.

These companies won’t let you look up how to make a bomb on their LLM, but they’ll let people confide suicidal ideation and not put in any safeguards for that, and because they’re designed to be agreeable, the LLM will agree with a person who tells it they think they should be dead.

This is just a poor analogy.

A door lock can’t buy up Amazon’s entire stock of tide pods on my credit card.

A door lock can’t turn on someone’s iot oven while they’re out of town.

A door lock can’t publish every email some journalist has ever received to xitter.

A mechanical door lock doesn’t hallucinate extra fingers, and draw them into all the family photos saved on a person’s hard drive.

This comment has Bender “oh you’re serious” energy and I love that about it.

My experience was pretty simple. But you will have to make some decisions.

If you just want to blanket install Linux over whatever you run currently (and wipe out windows or whatever), that’s honestly the easiest way in my opinion.

You don’t need things like gparted or other utilities to partition drives or anything. You burn a bootable USB stick with the Linux distro of your choice, go into bios and select it as the boot media, and go through the prompts to install once it boots.

This has been my experience with bazzite on both a handheld and an older windows desktop PC.

There are so many helpful guides out there.

Your use case will determine a lot of things. If you just need a PC for media watching and web surfing, out of the box, simple immutable Linux distros will likely give you what you want.

If your needs are more complex (video/photo editing, sound production, CAD, or something) you’ll need to research what distro fits your needs.

By asking them to verify their age via selfie. We live in the worst time line.

They assume they can keep the class war going forever and ever. After all, it’s worked so far.

Nah. You still need poors. For everything that the robots can’t do.

The short answer is that the wrong people are seeing decreased birth rates.

Religious and poor? To them that equals easily led under-educated, and easily controlled. They need this subset of the population in order to continue to extract wealth.

Wealth from the private prison system, wealth from the military industrial complex, wealth from the predominantly labor supported industries that prop up energy, housing, transportation, and other blue collar jobs. To them, more poor babies means more essentially slave or low wage labor.

The only value poor people have to the rich elite is to do the labor, make the money (so that the wealthy can take the lions share), and spend what little money they have left so that the wealthy can take most of what’s left by selling baubles.

And everyone else’s. People don’t go elsewhere because the creators they like are on YouTube. Speaking as someone with Peertube and Nebula.