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[–] slazer2au 180 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Of cause they will have permission. It's in the TOS and EULA if you don't want to have them doing it you will have to use something else.

This is 100% a core feature and will break windows if you disable it. You know, until Europe says we have to let people disable it then we will only allow European versions disable it.

Unless you are an enterprise than you can flip these 2 registry keys and that group policy to disable it, but we will revert that setting every time we update the software, which will be about every month.

[–] Carighan 56 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Hey, nobody is stopping your country from enforcing things like the EU.

[–] gAlienLifeform 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Gerrymandered Congress, no campaign finance laws, bought and paid for judiciary - Allow us to introduce ourselves

[–] trolololol 3 points 6 months ago

Buahaha

[–] then_three_more 26 points 7 months ago

Cries in Tory Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Yes, but only if you don't count the billionaires: Elon Musk VS Brazilian Judge

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

enforcing things like the EU

You mean like "client side scanning of all media you send via any (chat) app before encryption and sending all media that might trigger $algorithm to the police"? Yes, it happens only if you consented to it, but good luck using those apps without giving consent...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Our dear leaders are okay with it as long as it's a USA company doing it

[–] Ptsf 8 points 7 months ago

Why do we live in this hell? Fuckin end users man, let me roll Arch.

[+] IsThisAnAI -24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

All of this is blatantly false and easily verifiable.

Is there a verb for this? Can we call these types of statements trumping?

[–] slazer2au 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Clearly you haven't been in the tech space long enough to see how this is a thin edge of the wedge.

[–] victorz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Both of you are just saying "you're wrong and I'm right". Oh, who to believe...

[–] slazer2au 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No one. It's the internet everyone lies. Even me, right now.

[–] victorz 4 points 7 months ago

Good point.

Wait...

[–] Ptsf 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They've literally done this. Perhaps you haven't dealt with the shitstain that is IE11, windows apps "Bing, Cortana, Xbox gamebar, etc" but they 100% had massive issues very similar to the above description with all of those rollouts and features. My end users are lawyers and I can't tell you how many times I've had them bitch about candy crush being on the start menu before they rolled the reg key to rip/remove it, and that's from Win10 Enterprise ltsc.

[–] stanleytweedle 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yay another feature I have to figure out how to disable.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

i wouldn't trust a company who would enable this by default to allow users to TRULY completely disable it. much like how you can only opt out of the telemetry options they allow you to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a windows user, but I've heard windows enterprise has a lot of the annoyances enabled. Also linux, but I'm guessing there's a reason you don't use that already.

[–] stanleytweedle 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I use linux at home but manage windows and linux at work so I'm pretty much stuck with having to deal with MS bullshit for life.

As much as I'd love to work in a linux-only environment they don't really exist in my area so I'd have to move or take a remote job that's radically different from what I'm accustomed to. And despite the MS annoyances I like my position a lot so I'm satisfied with fussing about MS online.

That said pretty pissed about the last 3 months of patch tuesday fuckery. KB5037765 ruined my week.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It could be fun to implement this under *NIX for fun

cronjob to take screenshots, some OCR, throw it in a database...I'd never want to use this "feature" but as an academic exercise it could be a fun project.

But having it implemented by my OS, and not by me...yikes. No thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Cron sadly does not offer precision in the seconds range.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Any context?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago

Microsoft implements screenshot malware as Windows core feature that cannot be REALLY disabled without breaking the system.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-ai-will-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-freaky/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#faq2

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

The only silver lining is that it might be relegated to ARM systems initially, so we've all got time to figure out a plan to shift to Linux.

[–] Voyajer 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Having Windows installed on your PC counts as permission right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That is certainly what MS will claim within their TOS. Best solution when possible, is to not use Windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Any serious country should banish Windows completely, and mandate everyone to only use Linux. (kinda but not actually sarcasm)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Anyone know when it's being implemented?

[+] IsThisAnAI -29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, with permission. It's insane how many of you fundamentally do not understand how it works.

[–] slazer2au 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds.

The minimum hard drive space needed to run Recall is 256 GB, and 50 GB of space must be available. The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB

Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers.

you will see the Recall taskbar icon after you first activate your device.

Do you want more red flags? Or don't I have permission?

[–] victorz 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It needs a tenth of my drive pretty much? WTF is Microsoft doing?

[–] slazer2au 8 points 7 months ago

Microsoft being Microsoft.

[–] then_three_more 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So would partitioning your drive so windows is on less than 256 GB work to make it not run?

[–] Restaldt 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Correct that will eventually cause windows to break

[–] then_three_more 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jesus. How heavy is windows now?!

[–] marcos 2 points 7 months ago

When installed on a SSD, it can weight up to 150g.

But seriously, I have Win10 in a VM here using 73GB on disk.

[+] [email protected] -36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Acutis was beatified by Pope Francis in October 2020 after a first miracle was attributed to him, involving a Brazilian boy born with a pancreatic defect who said he was healed after praying to Acutis.

According to Vatican News, the news portal of the Holy See, the second miracle involved a Costa Rican woman whose daughter had a bicycle accident and was given a low chance of survival by doctors

Has the bar for "miracle" always been that low? People don't die around me all the time, can I be sainted?

[–] RustyNova 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lost?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bot responding to the wrong article? The saint one was nearby.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm... genuinely confused. My comment was definitely on the right post yesterday. I've never seen this thread. I blame kbin shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Interweb goblins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Saint IGNUcius did it https://stallman.org/saint.html

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