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Your old pal, Catbus from Online shitposts, shoegaze, cinema '24 presidential platform: 'Feed Them All to the Wicker Man'
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GMcatbus.bsky.social

i'm so old i remember when we called this shit 'spyware'

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new windows AI feature records everything you've done on your pc
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playon.bsky.social

JFC, is there a way to turn that off? I'm a Linux user so don't have to use Windows too often thankfully.

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Ssarcasmorator.bsky.social

It is difficult for me to imagine a feature (INCLUDING generative bloo-blah assistance, which I despise) that I could want less

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MPlizdamnit.bsky.social

@ingforart.bsky.social remind me to investigate options to windows.... by the time my current machine craps out, god knows what features these will have.

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Jdazerla.bsky.social

I believe you can turn it off, and it's supposed to be opt in not opt out. Also according to them all the data is supposed to be stored locally. God's only know how much space that will take.

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Ccdpositive.bsky.social

Link please? Thx!!

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ATn5iln.bsky.social

But now they’ve found a way to market it as a feature.

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CCchimerachimera.bsky.social

Never expected to feel forced into Linux instead of being something to use as an enthusiast, but here we are

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dwalin.bsky.social

📌

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Ggrumace.bsky.social

I wonder if this is legally actionable. This is intrusive in a way that could actually set some precedent for AI data capture

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Bbritehope.bsky.social

that's gonna slow everyone's computers down so damn much

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Garth Mahrengi's Catbus
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Your old pal, Catbus from Online shitposts, shoegaze, cinema '24 presidential platform: 'Feed Them All to the Wicker Man'
14.1k followers937 following36.6k posts