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A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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I think it is pretty grandma-proof; less is more. Windows xp-like start menu with no web results or other nonsense there, just internet button, picture viewer, and solitaire. Updates can be automated and there's no easy way to break the ui, like accidentally removing the task bar.

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Space Cadet Pinball

Man, your grandma is cool.

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I'll sure accept help, if you're interested

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Those two are great, but there's a lot more out there!

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I just started thinking about demakes and other such things while going over my YT subscriptions for content.

But while this is not strictly limited to consoles and that era, I'm gonna say no; this is mostly about systems, and not the style.

I almost created the community at !cool3dtechnology, but didn't like the name for this purpose. I decided to maybe open it for shaders and graphics, from a gamedev-ish perspective. I think retro-lowpoly-graphics are cool and it would have a bunch of that.

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I know that problem too well, but working with old hardware or software is a very different thing to replicating the retro look.

What I might do to open it up, is to replace the mentioned console generations with a more generic "old". I remember someone did real-time raytracing on the PS3 CPU, which was pretty cool.

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You might enjoy !photoshop_nonsense

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I have never seen anyone make that claim.

Lots of arguments saying it's an improvement, but never that it magically fixes everything.

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I see pencil drawn traces are back on the menu

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But otherwise upgrade parts would be too affordable!

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AiCloud AiDisk AiProtection

That's a lot of AI shoved in a router.

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Guess they had some foresight with their buzzwords then.

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MacBook Air

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Yet.

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Oh this unlocked a memory of the hassle I went through trying to get rid of jpeg artifacts on my wallpaper on windows 7. It really pissed me off.

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But it doesn't always point to the destination. Instead, it points to another page that then redirects you to the destination.

Your browser does not know the address of the destination, only the addresss of the middleman tracking webpage.

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I'm sure they know and don't care. The gain in app installs from the users of this workaround would be nonexistent.

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Different model.

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They had signage saying tesla only, and the car was parked across two spots, so I can believe the owner looked like a massive dick without additional context.

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Well yeah, that's the additional context.

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If you're reading this as me defending the tesla owner calling cops, I'd just like to point out that I'm not.

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what does it mean to space somebody?

Some examples:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThrownOutTheAirlock

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Malware. Opera was bought by loan scammers so this doesn't surprise me one bit.

Edit: comment from an old reddit post:

From Kenya here. When you fail to pay Okash loan on time they will call random contacts on your contact list and tell them to tell you to pay your loan back

This is where Opera is now.

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Well this is absolutely horrible. Thanks.

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Seems like a jest about whether you live in EU or not.

https://suppo.fi/pictrs/image/0b487962-1d96-4a78-83a0-f14287a94a1f.jpeg

If you're not in EU and are not seeing a huge reject all button, it probably means that they are serving you a worse cookie popup because of location.

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No b*d words allowed.

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I already have an authenticator app. If some service wants to force me to install their own app for their login, they are indeed welcome to fuck off.

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Is this april fools or for real

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Oh no.

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You must be an Accelerated Learning Experience enthusiast.

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It is there and it's blocked.

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Great for drawing, but I would not edit images with it.

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Haven't watched it yet, but yes, absolutely.

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But also obvious disadvantages to the customer in cases like this. Why should the customer not have a right to refuse?

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Now this is what I signed up for.

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I don't think LLMs usually make this kind of mistake.
Maybe it's not written by a native speaker. Also it's a doge meme, it could be just slightly bad grammar on purpose.

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All EVs make some kind of ufo noise at low speeds as it's required by law. So I guess it makes sense to choose a "cool" sound.

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I somehow doubt they have the same people building online apps and the designing processors.

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That is entirely incorrect. Microsoft doesn't own the company and never did. MS bought the phone division and a license for the name to go with it.

I tried to look up what this notice is actually about, but there's nothing out there yet. So can't say much being a patent troll "arm" either.

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I would assume that these people are there mainly because they know what to do if something goes wrong, instead of sitting there for easily automatable tasks.

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The meme artist here is not thinking in enough dimensions. These constraints result in a tetrahedron. So you just need to stand in a triangle formation and have the last guy go in the center and float less than the average human height above ground.

Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)

It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

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I doubt GDPR can reach this in any way as it's foreigners' data collected and stored in a foreign country.

I'm not sure if it's directly EU-level, but unauthorized identity registries collected without consent are very illegal here; a certain religious organisation already got into trouble for keeping track of households that might want to talk about jesus. If this app is legal in US, the law really needs to be changed.

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Depends on how easy it is to jailbreak.

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*stand up*

MCDONALD'S!

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Apparently I don't own minecraft anymore.

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Maybe it's the proportions, but that thing does not look compact to me.

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