Stallman: “Oh man, not like this.”
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11·3 months ago“spying on you” sounds scary… Until you actually think about the person at the other end. A development team tracking a race condition. A mix of people from around the world doing text tagging on screenshots or transcribing voice recordings.
“Your operating system is spying on you” becomes just a dog whistle for “I’m the main character” types because it immediately fails when you start thinking about how it would have to work.
“But they have all this person information on me and they keep trying to sign me up to OneDrive! Any government could just bribe them and get access to it all!” Yes, and then need to recruit and employ thousands of government workers to sift through it looking for dissidence.
Far cheaper and much easier to go through already state owned information or bribe ISPs or just do what’s always worked and… Make stuff up.
The only real value to this information is trying to work out why the latest cumulative update has introduced a printing bug. Nearly all apps ask for you to turn this on and it’s not so they can get your browsing habits, it’s so they don’t have to respond to thousands of angry forum messages that something is not working and then guide every single one of them through the same 10 steps to collect log files and ask about what they were doing and their environment.
Coding is hard and telemetry is a good way to solve problems. I don’t know how you work on something as complex as an operating system without it.
It does not need to run at every startup, it just needs to run once.
AppXProvisioned packages are those into the system that which are available to install to each new user. I’ve just suggested “an option” which would be running it as a start up script the first time you provision the machine. I think it’s a much better option to use policy.
Updatss to both Copilot applications are performed based on the state of the appxpaclage.
I think thousands of mouse clicks, error messages and browsing history of tens of millions of hundreds of millions of people is a lot harder to use maliciously than people think.
You can see the starting points of the agentic OS, which will serve the vast majority of people. But it is frustrating to see how slow “do this task” prompts are going to progress just because there’s not a lot of good sources for prompts. Apart from asking people wheat prompt they would use and then asking for feedback of what should have happened.
Hi, actual Windows System Engineer here. Both the “Microsoft Copilot” and the “Microsoft Copilot 365”(previously Office Hub) apps have been removable by group policy or Intune configuration policy since mid last year. Previous to that they were also still able to be remove by running the Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage as a start up script, or remediation script. Fun fact, a lot of those “Debloater” acripts are running this command because the massive amount of engineering work done since Windows 7 to make Windows Components modular.
This is a non article.
81·5 months agoThe fact that if you die tomorrow it will actually impact very few people and you aren’t doing shit to change that
They’re going after him in his SAFE SPACE?!
7·5 months agoYou gotta remember, ALL of the chips are on this guy, the base hates most of the policy and could barely name any of the cabinet, they’re just there for the figurehead.
Literally just spends all day commenting hacker news posts
It’s Time Magazine, they’ve always had conservative slant and a habit of self owning
wordt parts of certain communist ideology
Oh no, I was talking about the “silent majority” wanting a leader who sells simple answers to complex problems, a national identity on the basis of a previous “great era” and bloodline as well as millions dying in famine
And I know leaders like Pol Pot and Mao haven’t been trying to save white men. It just seems in America’s case, that the main demographic that the right wing is chasing is a bunch of white men who love acting as victims in terms of having no spouse, job or hobbies.
It’s the Skully Gully I’m most concerned about
Everyone would live edit in nano if they weren’t cowards
oh but it doesn’t have macros
You will use your $1000 keyboard and you will like it
Absolutely insane that America has been taught to demand all the worst parts of certain communist ideology without any possible benefit under the guise of protectionism just so a bunch of white me can don’t have to confront the fact they have no personality or empathy and money doesn’t fill that hole
With the many attempts in Android to implement this it’s a little shocking that there hasn’t been more work in the open source space, but I guess Ubuntu mobile and Firefox OS couldn’t even make a dent and mobile costs so much to develop for
There’s just something about wheelbarrows which always gets me.
https://github.com/microsoft/edit