I’m a multi decade Linux user but I’m mostly an advocate for people using the software they want to use be it Linux, Windows, whatever. I don’t care what you use.
This is an indefensible nightmare, however. What the fuck.
My recent choice to FOSS-ify my whole computer is paying dividends every day.
Personally, I don’t even know that much about how computers operate and using the terminal feels like witchcraft, but ever since taking my chances and jumping ship to Linux Mint I feel like I actually own my own computer.
Imagine if the shipboard computer in Star Trek was constantly hallucinating and the crew spent half of their time working with it just trying to keep it from doing that.
it kinda does do that a lot tbh
this is just Holly from Red Dwarf
Now that hallucinating at work is OK are they going to stop making us pee in cups?
No, now you’ll have to pee in twice as many cups because the drug-checking machine now hallucinates false-positives 50% of the time.
I’m still on Windows 10 for my main computer but I will be jumping ship before I ever switch to 11. I’ve been using Linux off and on for years but it’s time to never look back.
My uncle runs IT for a big legal firm and this is such a headache for them. Lawyers are suddenly having confidential client data scraped automatically by windows to train their AI.
The IT team won’t even be notified about it until someone asks if they can use the AI option in Notepad or Outlook or something then they have to go and manually block the connections across the whole network.
This is gonna be such a privacy and legal clusterfuck once someone figures out how to extract this training data
My employer’s IT department has to keep reminding people not to use any “AI” not developed in-house due to IP leak. They were successful in keeping Copilot out of the Office suite for a while, but now it’s wormed its way into it again.
Yep, it’s a game of whack a mole. If it wasn’t Microsoft doing this, it would be considered a major national security threat or published as one of the most successful data breaches in history.
Talking about it like that would reveal that AI is just a name for intellectual property and data theft at a societal scale though and since the entire economy is now floated by the hype…well that’s not gonna happen
Got a good bleak chuckle out of me realizing how fucked everything connected to the internet is gonna get to the point it might motivate people to either disconnect or build a dual-power alternative
Hey, maybe that’ll teach the useless Western left something about dual power. Which I know gets ragged on as an anarchist tactic these days, but it’s literally how the Bolsheviks made the Petrograd Soviet happen, so. I’d say it’s a valid Marxist-Leninist tactic.
Who the hell calls dual power building an anarchist tactic? It literally has historical precedent across the world in both socialist and capitalist states
I may have run into some… sectarian nutcases.
