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I think those guys somewhat overestimate what servers can do and the usefulness of those stupid ideas. It's fine to have a bunch of curious guys messing around with a dumbed-down version of ChatGPT, but what he allegedly said here is at a completely different level.

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My only worry is there's no other solid option for gaming. If there were I'd also jump ship.
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My thoughts exactly. Dual boot is also quite a pain to manage, thanks to dear Windows. For everything else, I'd be ready to switch permanently to Linux despite the glitches and a less mature GUI (though each version of Windows seems to regress since win7).
 
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How to play a multiplayer games without multiplaying (some of you haters may like this. Or perhaps not).

arstechnica.com

Microsoft Copilot will watch you play Minecraft, tell you what you’re doing wrong

Microsoft demo is like chatting with GameFAQs when you don't have a friend to hang with.
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An now for something different: pibbuR who considers getting a wife AI, preferably one he can tell (without hostile reactions) to shut up.
 
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danutz_plusplus said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1792680674060832829
View: https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1792680674060832829

arstechnica.com

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Recall uses AI features “to take images of your active screen every few seconds.”…
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How else can we fuck with windows and keep killing at the market share.
My only worry is there's no other solid option for gaming. If there were I'd also jump ship.
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I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing, there are occasions where it may be useful (to me at least). According to the link it will stay on your PC and will be highly configurable/deletable. Assuming you trust MS of course. There is of course also the risk of other people getting access (so that the mails you get from someone spied on your pornography use threatening to reveal it to your contacts unless you send them bitcoins may actually be an issue)

Another issue is of course whether that type of functionality should be part of the operating system or an independent app.

There is already a similar feature on Mac, Rewind. Anybody know anything about this?

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EDIT: Storing passwords? Ouch!! I regret my fanboyish post and hope recall won't remember it.
 
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pibbuR said:
I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing, there are occasions where it may be useful (to me at least). According to https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event it will stay on your PC and will be highly configurable/deletable. Assuming you trust MS of course.

There is already a similar application on Mac, Rewind. Anybody know anything about this?

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This is not a feature to allow going back on particular checkpoints of the state of the OS. This is a local LLM engine being fed screenshots taken regularly of your running OS, and then you're able to query it about what it learned.
Even ignoring all the huge privacy red flags and the fact that it will might capture sensitive information (like passwords, etc) I can't imagine a usecase where I want to use it.

Thankfully, it seems it's initially going out to particular PCs that will have an NPU (neural processing unit). So maybe that will be a prerequisite of being able to run that LLM engine, and maybe it might just die in the process of people just not being convinced to get another dedicated processor. At least for desktop PCs.
But you can bet MS will try and push it.
 
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One usecase may be if you like me, can't remember where you found some piece of information. But there are already ways of achieving that, by for instance keeping history in web browsers. A feature which I for the record already have chosen to disable. Meeting myself in the door, eh?

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I'm starting to get a bit fed up:

From today's news mail from CodeProject:

Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-...-your-text-prompts-and-doodles-190653716.html

Microsoft's new AI recall feature is being investigated by European regulator
https://qz.com/microsoft-ai-laptops-windows-recall-privacy-tech-uk-1851493114 (actually good news methinks)

Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161778/windows-powertoys-advanced-ai-copy-paste

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Wants Us to Stop Treating AI Like Humans
https://www.itprotoday.com/artifici...atya-nadella-wants-us-stop-treating-ai-humans

Now for some other news:

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Yesterday, Edge had updated and asked me a bunch of unskippable questions on whether I'd like to give out some private information (I didn't really read what), that I had to refuse for a few minutes. Then it displayed some thing about AI-powered browsing, which seems impossible to turn off since it's apparently on the server side.

I'm only keeping Edge because there's always the occasional website that doesn't work well with other browsers, but sometimes it's annoying.

I'm starting to think all that AI hype looks strangely familiar: it reminds me of the dot-com bubble, and I wonder when it'll collapse (and with what consequences). Can't wait, though.
 
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Sometimes, I wonder if those talks about safety are not just a publicity stunt. Anyway, it's not up to a company alone to manage product safety. Normally, their only role is to comply to regulations made by other authorities if they want to sell their product.
 
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Will our next Picasso be a Computer?
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The Arts in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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It will probably be available online some time after the meeting. For free,

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My thoughts exactly. Dual boot is also quite a pain to manage, thanks to dear Windows.
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Is it? I have laptop with win 11 and ubuntu. Windows installed from scratch after replacing disk. Ubuntu installed after windows, and grub takes care of the boot choices. So far I haven't noticed any obvious problems, but are there issues I should pay closer attention to? I don't have anything important stored on the thing.

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pibbuR said:
Is it? I have laptop with win 11 and ubuntu. Windows installed from scratch after replacing disk. Ubuntu installed after windows, and grub takes care of the boot choices. So far I haven't noticed any obvious problems, but are there issues I should pay closer attention to? I don't have anything important stored on the thing.

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I don't think so.

For the boot part, I think it's safer with UEFI than the old legacy MBR. Windows updates may reset the default entry to Windows, but it's possible to set it back in the UEFI boot setup. I'm not sure if it doesn't remove the grub boot files, sometimes (to check). With the legacy MBR, it was usually overwritten with updates and needed to be reinstalled manually each time. In any case, nothing serious will happen; at worst, you just have to put grub back.

It's the installation that bothers me the most. You must share the partitions between the two OSes, which is more annoying than a single OS setup. With many PCs having a special disk arrangement when Windows is preinstalled (even reserving a hidden partition to reinstall Windows), it's not always obvious what you must do. Since it takes the whole disk, you can risk resizing the partitions with the Linux installer, but I honestly don't know how well they supports NTFS. Then if it's a HD, you usually want your swap partition it in the outer cylinders, so at the beginning of the disk space... which is already occupied by Windows. I suppose you can move Windows' partition up a bit, but I've never tried.

It's not something that'd scare me, but it requires some probing. It's definitely not something I'd recommend to someone who's not comfortable with those procedures.
 
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