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Microsoft Edge is insane. The amount of privacy invasion it has by default, the constant nagging to re-enable and undo all your changes to the defaults, and maze of settings you have to disable is just crazy. Is there anything it doesn't phone home? Every image, everything you type, history, absolutely everything. I was interested in it initially but I 100% avoid this browser now. I feel like it takes 20-30 minutes t…
I mean is it worse than chrome?
This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default . Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there? As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry? Not only does this seem like a terribly…
Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.
It might be PII. It might be sensitive. But if it's not both of those, it's not HIPAA protected.
If you think about medical textbooks where there are pictures of patients and their maladies, but they are not identified this makes sense why both are required. Otherwise educating new doctors would be impossible.
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Exactly this. And with very little outrage that Google and others already do that same scanning, in the cloud, with no transparency.
I don't think Google is legally allowed to host child porn on its servers so I'm not sure why there should be outrage about that
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I got a laptop in from a user the other day, that shocked the hell out of me, that floating search bar thing. MS is downright creepy the way they slip things in.
With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar, this is something that came with a Windows 10 update. People really don't change defaults... I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust
I leave it there and I've been a SWE for over 20 years.
I just like seeing what the temperture is at the moment. So I know how to dress if I was dare to go outside.
The news being part of it though, on HOVER, is a nightmare. They need to stop that ASAP.
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Reminder that MS owns GitHub, LinkedIn, and Mojang.
to layer on top of those: half the modern developer ecosystem via VSCode.
Granted, there is a reason it got to that place.
It's pretty good. Otherwise it wouldn't have the userbase it has.
How that was pulled off in Electron is insane to me.
They took HTML, JS (well, TS) and CSS and sprinkled in some WASM (I think?) and you get that?
The result of essentially a "web app" is impressive, gotta give 'em that. And they started on it 12 years ago.
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Genshin Impact is basically a better version of BotW
And is also Gacha is it not? I'll take an up front cost any day over content gating/gambling/fomo.
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I don't know HIPAA specifics off-hand, but I would not be the least bit surprised if ephemeral pre-signed urls get generated for sharing HIPAA protected assets based on cookies/auth. If the URL is live for a time window and doesn't insta-expire on refresh, then it's conceivable that data gets leaked here.
HIPAA requires "reasonable" measures. Hilariously, you can't chuck a drive full of plain text PII into a dumpster in the back of your building... ...unless there's a fence around it. A lot of the nonsense around shredding hard drives is just the drive industry convincing people that they need to destroy perfectly good devices. Unless you're facing state-level actors a simple zero-out or pipe from /dev/random will suf…
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> See that’s on-brand with the cutthroat ruthless billG company Tangential, but this made me reflect on how "good"/"nice" Ballmer, and Ballmer-era MS, was in a very relative sense. This is slightly startling considering how my mental image of either Ballmer or MS is not great. But now looking back it does feel like relentless anti-competitiveness lessened a bit during that era, and lot of good stuff happened then. Wi…
I see the Nadella era rather as the triumph of PM culture, adapted/stolen from the seemingly more competitive Google and Facebook. It's all about demonstrating increased "engagement" and the ubiquitous A/B testing because new product deltas get you promoted. It's never about maintaining 'old' stuff or providing real value - only gimmicks to catch the eye of your half-wit leadership.
"The PM role is unique to Microsoft and was actually created in response to developing software that is more usable and at the same time pushes the state of the art of technology. So when we talk about PM at Microsoft, we're talking from a perspective of creating and evolving the role over the lifetime of the PC industry."
"Program managers got started at Microsoft while developing Excel for the Macintosh. [...] a new role was created in Program Management with the explicit goal of partnering with development and working through the entire product cycle as the advocate for end-users and customers."
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~xwangsd/courses/w23/readings/PM%...
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With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar, this is something that came with a Windows 10 update. People really don't change defaults... I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust
> With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar I leave it there and I've been a SWE for over 20 years. I just like seeing what the temperture is at the moment. So I know how to dress if I was dare to go outside. The news being part of it though, on HOVER , is a nightmare. They need to stop that ASAP.
Turning on 'reduce updates' just has the taskbar display the weather and not change to some random stock ticker of a company you don't care about or whatever other item of interest they feel like showing.