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- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 2 days ago:
However, the device to which this is applied must meet the following criteria: it must have both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot installed on the system; the Microsoft Copilot app wasn’t installed by the user; and the Microsoft Copilot app wasn’t launched in the past 28 days. This means that even though admins can now remove the Microsoft Copilot app, users would still have the Microsoft 365 Copilot app installed on their system. The former is the free app preinstalled on Windows 11, while the latter is a paid service included with a Microsoft 365 subscription.
It’s still quite a long way from “if you don’t like Copilot, just uninstall it.” They’ll let you install one Copilot app if you have another Copilot app installed.
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 5 days ago:
They didn’t open-source it. They released an API spec.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 5 days ago:
But think of the innovation: in those days there was no way they could get you to install their buggy, insecure software so they could track you and push ads to your desktop. And mice didn’t even have batteries that would fail after a year or two, forcing you to get a new mouse. Those were dark days.
- Comment on Mosquitoes' stabby suckers may find use in high-res 3D printers 2 weeks ago:
For their study, the researchers obtained euthanized laboratory-reared female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, stored them in a freezer, then dipped them in a solution of 80% ethanol to sterilize them.
Next, the soft protective outer sheath of each insect’s proboscis was detached and discarded. An ultraviolet-curable resin was then applied to the now-exposed rigid section of the proboscis, and hardened by exposure to UV light. The resin-coated proboscis was then cut off of the mosquito’s body with a razor blade, forming a nice little rigid tube.
I can’t see it scaling very well.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
Tankies are typically authoritarian communists, not Nazis, and antisemitism isn’t usually a part of their outlook. You’ll find far more fascists on other social media platforms.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 weeks ago:
If you avoid one or two instances you rarely encounter tankies on Lemmy.
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 1 month ago:
It’s a good time to preserve old hardware and software that will run on it. If all these price crunches have a silver lining, I hope it’s that they motivate people to resist the pressure from tech corporations to be constantly upgrading.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 months ago:
despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
Not despite, because of.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 2 months ago:
He does a difficult job of spouting the most vacuous bullshit possible while other people rake in the money for him.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 months ago:
I just hammer my brain with melatonin on top of alcohol and extreme fatigue. It’s nature’s solution.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 months ago:
I have to do a couple of hours of multiple choice tests every year asking questions like “Is ‘password’ a good password?” But because that’s a bit high level for many people, it is all presented in the form of “amusing” animations and skits with the questions at the end and no fast forward button.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 months ago:
If this is a joke, well done. If it’s a troll, please don’t. If it’s a true story of how you use computers, may God have mercy on your soul.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 3 months ago:
Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 4 months ago:
You’re probably right. LLMs specialize in spouting bullshit, which seems to be the main requirement for a CEO too.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 4 months ago:
It’s also disappointing as some rival smartphone makers address battery health concerns by offering more durable batteries. For example, Samsung’s top phones can withstand 2,000 charging cycles before dropping down to 80% effective capacity, while OnePlus and OPPO’s lithium-ion batteries offer 1,600 cycles before reaching 80% capacity. So there likely wouldn’t be a need for a Battery Health Assistance tool if Google’s batteries had similar longevity.
Sounds like they could just use better batteries but they’re too cheap. It is Google after all, just a small company without much money to spend.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 4 months ago:
Armstrong was shocked at the thought. “I went rogue,” he said, and posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel. “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”
At the meeting, some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation, Armstrong said.
“I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn’t [have a good reason]. And they got fired.”
Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people in the company who “didn’t like it.”
So he has poor planning skills, he’s impatient with terrible impulse control, he’s unable to motivate people (probably because they know he’s an intolerable ass) and his big idea is “do what everyone else is doing, even if you don’t know why.” Sounds like CEO is the only job he can do. What a fool.
- Comment on One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday 5 months ago:
If we know about these attacks, then the bad guys know too. Even if they weren’t given the details they’d be able to figure them out. Why then would they wait until Wednesday to start attacking?
Besides, the author of the research says that the vulnerabilities have been disclosed to the CDN providers and patched already. So the headline is doubly silly.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor 5 months ago:
A huge loss to the world of technology. What on Earth will we do without it?
- Comment on Users claim Discord's age verification test can be tricked with game characters 5 months ago:
The 2019 video game also comes with a picture mode, which allows the player to change Sam’s facial expression, allowing the user to bypass a secondary check which requires a person to open and close their mouth to make sure they are a “real person.”
Surely someone will develop an app to create a face and animate it in just the ways these checks require. And then we’ll be into another arms race, but the kids will still have access to adult websites. This will just enable surveillance of anyone hapless enough to upload their actual ID.
- Comment on US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library 5 months ago:
I hope they have an overseas mirror beyond the reach of the censors.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 6 months ago:
Now I’m the first person to agree that X is a Nazi site run by a Nazi, but it’s conspicuous how the prompts have been removed here. Without the prompts this doesn’t prove much.
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 6 months ago:
10 felt good compared to 8 and 8.1. But that was a very low bar.
- Comment on Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping 8 months ago:
This, surely, is the revolutionary technology the world needs today.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 8 months ago:
Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 8 months ago:
Ssshhh! Don’t let the Americans know we can do this.
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 9 months ago:
a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union.
By making encryption weak. What a duplicitous use of language.
- Comment on Towards a World Wide Web powered by generative AI. 10 months ago:
I’m struggling to think of many use cases where that is what you’d want. “We couldn’t find that image so here’s one we drew” doesn’t seem generally very desirable, even for purely decorative images on the web.
- Comment on Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples 10 months ago:
The link didn’t work for me but this one did: www.theregister.com/…/internetnz_constitution/
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 11 months ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 11 months ago:
“The only good backdoor is my backdoor.”
Oh, that sounds worse than I meant it to.