12mo ago

Screenshots Rule.

Context - https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

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This is what tipped me over the edge to run Linux on the desktop full time. Bye bye, Microsoft!

Is that legal?
- Anything is legal when you force the customer to agree to it or not use your product. They can say whatever they want in the ToS because it's 365 pages long and only attorneys can understand what is actually being said.
  
  You can turn this feature off without any problems.
- I will make it legal.
  
  Darth Stiffneckedppl could detect the clever movie references of others, but could not get other people to recognize his in turn.
  Ironic.
- Something tells me they'll need to do some fix in the EU version and who knows how Cina will react. We'll see.
  
  The feature as advertised would be completely fine in the EU because none of the data leaves the device.
- The feature as advertised would be legal, since they are claiming it'll only be stored and processed locally.
- I’ve been thinking about all of these major companies sending data by default and how this can’t be good for government contractors and the like.
  I imagine accidentally (or someone who doesn’t know any better purposely) clicking an AI assist option and sending military or aerospace prints or medical records to an outside party. I know Adobe Reader has this built in now. How long before they’re processing classified documents?
  
  There have already been issues with HIPPA violations due to pretty much all software being spyware now.
  
  There's a reason large parts of the government are still running Windows 10/Office 2016, with all the cloud features disabled. This shit is absolutely not secure enough to meet national security standards.
- You can disable it.
  
  It shouldn't be enabled-by-default in the first place.
  
  And Microsoft will eventually release an update that resets to the default enabled state.

at this point i believe that MS is using the FOSS/gaming enthusiast community as free marketing. perfect ragebait content to get people talking about their product and this entire platform is playing right into it.
- Quite a shitty marketing if i may say so.
  
  no such thing as bad publicity, idunno my guy

All this could have been solved if you'd simply invested more money in Bored Apes.

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