That's the start of the end of Windows. People don't want getting spied, and Linux is ready.
Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's hilariously tone deaf that travel booking and shopping are the two examples of "agentic" AI that keep popping up.
searching for a flight and booking it is legitimately one of the most painful online things that exists. it's like the booking industry is feeding on suffering
It’s intentionally obfuscated because the product developers don’t want to share profits with brokers. They also do not want to compete on in the open because that too lowers odors Otherwise, we would have a system where it would be insanely easy to monitor and alert for price breaks. Hidden cities is probably the best example of how it could work and easily presents the price charts over time. Yet they too were cut off from some providers.
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#183Imagine a new version of Windows being released called "Windows Optimal" In addition to Home, Professional and Pro you get to buy Optimal. The catch is that it is priced 4x the home version. You wonder why? Optimal is exactly what you think it is. A ground up 0 bloatware, 0 telemetry, 100% easily tweakable privacy and performance settings from a single screen with 0 AI features, 0 Edge and 0 games. Imagine getting yo…
Well you can get closer with custom build tools and tools to gut features. Ms is acutely aware of these third party efforts and they are working diligently to stop them from working in each release. They are not interested in making a prosumer release, but harvesting the customer. One of you is the matrix and the other is the human battery. I leave it to the reader to determine where they fall in those categories.
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#184Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#185A secret agent running in the background, with my data stolen from the foreground? How queer! I see the battlegrounds shift from large networks to the personal computer, where malware, hand in hand with AI will steal the virtual crown jewels day after day, slurping and leaking PII data non stop.
AI will be baked in so deep into the Windows eco- and subsystem, that it's a wet dream come true for hackers and nation state adversaries. It's a huge win for everyone selling hacking and security, virtual cops and robbers, black hats and white hats: only the end users and already piss poor facilities will suffer, but they're just collateral damage in a war of numbers and terabytes of leaks.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.
Maybe it can finally get the new lines correct for a given application? ;-)
A choice of line endings was one of the few good things they did to Notepad, but that was in the Windows 10 era.
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#187>For example, if you ask ChatGPT’s Agent to book a travel, it’ll open Chromium on Linux in an Azure container, search the query, visit different websites, navigate each page and book a flight ticket using your saved credentials. An AI Agent tries to mimic a human, and it can perform tasks on your behalf while you sit back and relax. Big tech has repeatedly shown that they are not good stewards of end users' privacy a…
I think it's hilariously tone deaf that travel booking and shopping are the two examples of "agentic" AI that keep popping up.
Probably high priority because the dev and literally everyone else is sick of microsofts selfservice platform for travel.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#188Imagine a new version of Windows being released called "Windows Optimal" In addition to Home, Professional and Pro you get to buy Optimal. The catch is that it is priced 4x the home version. You wonder why? Optimal is exactly what you think it is. A ground up 0 bloatware, 0 telemetry, 100% easily tweakable privacy and performance settings from a single screen with 0 AI features, 0 Edge and 0 games. Imagine getting yo…
You can try playing with WinPE.
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#189This is why I format any Windows 11 pre-installed machine and install Windows 10 on it (Windows 10 is much leaner and has less bloatware than Windows 11).
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft once pushed an update that started uploading my data to OneDrive. I had no idea until I was kindly informed that my cloud storage was out of space. At this point I would ALWAYS assume that anything I do on a Windows system is not completely private, and the only true way to make a PC secure from Microsoft is to air-gap it. Also, this is completely ridiculous.
You basically have to treat all components of Windows as malware. Your personal threat model needs to include Microsoft as an attacker.
Microsoft's threat model seems to include the user as an attacker, so that's fair.