@datarama Yeah really importantly once Microsoft's "AI" has normalized this level of surveillance, the generation of stalkerware tools that come after it are going to be even worse. You won't be able to point at it and call it hacking tools or whatever. It's just going to be the same thing Microsoft's commercial operating system does
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Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391@datarama "Oh, but we *didn't* send the Recall screenshots back to our servers! We only sent anonymized training data weights, as described in our privacy policy*."
* "Microsoft uses the data we collect to… improve and develop our products". There you go, disclosure responsibilities discharged
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Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391Similarly, it won't be enough for Microsoft to claim the data their "AI" surveillance features collect is kept local. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume Microsoft will eventually silently turn a local query into a network query without telling you. And even local storage can be accessed by malware, employers, or family members.
There is only one way, *only* one way, to prevent data being leaked or misused, and that is to not collect it ( see: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475323390645896 ).
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Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391My experience with Windows 10 was me turning off the "Bing" features, and one day turning on my computer and discovering overnight with an automatic update Microsoft had turned them back on, and everything I typed into the Start search was being forwarded to a network service. This happened more than once.
It won't be enough to turn Windows 11's "AI" surveillance features off. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume a feature you turn off today will be silently turned on later.
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Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgr...Current status: Apparently the claims it supports Python 3.9 or lower actually means "supports 3.9 or lower on linux". If you want to run it on Windows you need Python 3.7 or lower. OK
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgr...That thing I just said sounds illogical but IME it is highly predictive
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgr...Like, I saw a post complaining that everyone simultaneously loves Firefox's pure-local translation library but everyone is also complaining about Firefox "refocusing" on AI, and that is a fair point, but also to me if a company/org announces they are going to focus on "AI" that is a statement that they are only going to be exploring the least useful, most damaging forms of "AI". If they intended to do something good, they'd probably call it something other than "AI"
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgr...Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it
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HOW TO USE GITHOW TO USE GIT
SOME SAMPLE INVOCATIONS
`git submodule update`
Do nothing.`git submodule update --recursive`
Do nothing.`git submodule update --init --recursive`
Do nothing.`git submodule sync && git submodule update --init --recursive`
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Okay I have a question for the French people reading this (like, from France).Okay I have a question for the French people reading this (like, from France).
To you, which of the below items is a "Beignet"? Just one? Both? Neither? Or would you not use this word to describe either thing?
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I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten *massively* worse about. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it wo...I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten *massively* worse about. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"
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OMG KORG RELEASED WHAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bi0V6TgB5M@polotek It's a little handheld synthesizer / guitar-pedal-like audio filter, but it has two interesting features:
- In addition to the builtin filters/synths, you can upload your own C plugins you wrote yourself.
- It has a two-dimensional touch surface, like a trackpad. (The previous version had only a 1-D touch strip.) Korg's previously shown you can do really expressive performance stuff with a 2D touch surface like this wired to an audio filter. And now you can run it with your own code
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OMG KORG RELEASED WHAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bi0V6TgB5MOMG KORG RELEASED WHAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bi0V6TgB5M
This makes so much sense! Looking at this I feel like this is what I've been Actually wanting from the moment they announced the NTS-1 I just didn't know it
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Rust's "Cargo" has a feature named "Features" and a feature named "Examples" and there is a feature where an Example can use a Feature and this is incredibly, incredibly hard to google for. So far I've got as far as finding examples of Features, but no...Rust's "Cargo" has a feature named "Features" and a feature named "Examples" and there is a feature where an Example can use a Feature and this is incredibly, incredibly hard to google for. So far I've got as far as finding examples of Features, but not as far as finding examples of Features of Examples.
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Just discovered a new YouTube cheat code: Search for the seemingly nonsensical phrase "biodata sonification" and you will be rewarded with a wealth of incredibly weird shitJust discovered a new YouTube cheat code: Search for the seemingly nonsensical phrase "biodata sonification" and you will be rewarded with a wealth of incredibly weird shit
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Well.Well. I guess that's it then. https://antabaka.me/@mochi/112412569121873646
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I order some Products from the United States.An interesting consequence of the move to voice recognition systems for customer service: Somebody sent me this blog post about how to avert UPS broker fees:
How to Avoid UPS Broker Fees From Online Shopping.
If you're in Canada and you've ordered anything from the United States, chances are you've been blindsided by a broker fee. The UPS guy shows up at your door and says you owe UPS what amounts to close to what you paid for the item in the first place. DON'T PAY IT. You can avoid broker fees if you "self clear" the item.
The Art of Doing Stuff (www.theartofdoingstuff.com)
The first step in requesting "self clearing" they describe is to call a particular UPS service number and press "3".
But, of course, you can no longer press "3". You can only speak, and then the machine ignores what you said and responds with what it wishes you said instead.
AI as a mechanism for denying service.
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I order some Products from the United States.I call UPS's "international shipping support" to ask if I can appeal this fee. The robot says it cannot connect me with a representative unless I provide an "account number". I say I do not know my "account number". The robot says my "account number" is at the top of my invoice. There is no account number at the top of the invoice. I am not a number. I am a free woman. The robot says "thank you for calling" and disconnects my call.
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I order some Products from the United States.An awkward thing about buying things mail order from USA in Canada is you don't actually wind up paying the import fee. Instead, the shipper has a "broker", who stands there at the border when the package passes over and negotiates a reduced import fee. Then you pay the broker fee. As far as I know, this fee really is reduced *usually*. But it means you never have any idea how much import you'll be paying, and sometimes something bizarre like this (near 100% import duty) happens.