#GroupMe is such a magnificent web app...
Roknrol
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Maybe, but I did just also read that Microsoft is scaling back "AI" in Windows 11, possibly stripping Copilot out of Notepad and Paint. Between this and the new Firefox "Block AI" toggle, the message is hitting home. We want tools, not forced LLMs.
This is what happens when we refuse to be quiet. They are starting to realize "AI" is a privacy risk and a probably a bad for their market share.
Don't stop now. Be loud. Be a real pain in their butts. Make them scared to even mention it.
Kevin Russell
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@BuyFromEU
Would love to. How can I migrate to new device and buy apps on my phone without #Google?
Remember when #Microsoft got fined about only pushing one browser? Well, we are few years late with android lock-ins
Business Channel
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Microsoft has bigger issues to worry about than a new console.
AMD CEO Says Next-Gen Xbox Could Launch As Soon As 2027
Microsoft has bigger issues to worry about than a new console.
AMD CEO Says Next-Gen Xbox Could Launch As Soon As 2027
Switch today, choose European
@BuyFromEU
Would love to. How can I migrate to new device and buy apps on my phone without #Google?
Remember when #Microsoft got fined about only pushing one browser? Well, we are few years late with android lock-ins
Business Channel
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Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9X5YW9XTfY
Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9X5YW9XTfY
Elischeva
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Windows 11 speichert alle 5 Sekunden ein Foto von deinem Bildschirm.
Ob Bankdaten, die vertrauliche E-Mail an den Therapeuten oder sich bei der besten Freundin über die Arbeitskollegin beschweren.
All das könnte Windows 11 erfassen.
Möglich macht das die Funktion Recall.
Jasmin Ehbauer zeigt dir, was du dagegen tun kannst.
📝 Jasmin Ehbauer & Ramak Molavi Vasse‘i
📹 & ✂️ Marc Nikoleit
FinchHaven sfba
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The Wall Street Journal, from yesterday:
"Confusing brand positioning and interoperability problems have frustrated users, current and former employees who have worked on Microsoft’s AI products said. Only a small proportion of subscribers to Microsoft’s enterprise suite use Copilot, and the percentage who favor it over Google’s Gemini or other tools has decreased in recent months."
Microsoft’s pivotal AI product is running into big problems https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-s-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems/ar-AA1VBKdf #Microsoft #Copilot
The Wall Street Journal, from yesterday:
"Confusing brand positioning and interoperability problems have frustrated users, current and former employees who have worked on Microsoft’s AI products said. Only a small proportion of subscribers to Microsoft’s enterprise suite use Copilot, and the percentage who favor it over Google’s Gemini or other tools has decreased in recent months."
Microsoft’s pivotal AI product is running into big problems https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-s-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems/ar-AA1VBKdf #Microsoft #Copilot
Business Channel
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In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.
Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?
Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?
It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.
Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.
#PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole
In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.
Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?
Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?
It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.
Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.
#PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole
Cecelia
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Although my "main" computer is a Mac (and Apple is headed towards a vague, weird, #AI enshittificated future), every news story about #Microsoft right now is pushing me more towards Linux on the other computers in my house that currently run Windows.
Maybe I'm too old. I just cannot care less about "agentic" bullshit on my computer or in applications.
It's weird that I'm longing for those simpler days where we were just making fun of NFTs for being worthless. You know...three years ago or so.
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Il guasto di Microsoft Teams che ha bloccato le immagini nelle chat enterprise
Microsoft ha appena risolto un outage che ha colpito il caricamento delle immagini inline nei chat di Teams, riportando milioni di utenti enterprise alla normalità. L'incidente, identificato con il codice TM1226769 nel pannello admin di Microsoft 365, ha provocato ritardi o fallimenti totali nel retrieval di immagini incorporate nei thread di conversazione.
Impatto su utenti e workflow
L'anomalia si è manifestata su client desktop, web e mobile di Teams, interrompendo flussi critici per […]
olijo
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Windows 11 speichert alle 5 Sekunden ein Foto von deinem Bildschirm.
Ob Bankdaten, die vertrauliche E-Mail an den Therapeuten oder sich bei der besten Freundin über die Arbeitskollegin beschweren.
All das könnte Windows 11 erfassen.
Möglich macht das die Funktion Recall.
Jasmin Ehbauer zeigt dir, was du dagegen tun kannst.
📝 Jasmin Ehbauer & Ramak Molavi Vasse‘i
📹 & ✂️ Marc Nikoleit
Su_G
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🚨 New Video: AI Is Not A Tool. It’s A Weapon.
Silicon Valley is racing to automate your life. They want you to write without reading and code without thinking. They call it progress, but the reality is built on a foundation of theft, exploitation, and deceit.
In this video, I talk about why I refuse to use generative "AI" on Terminal Tilt. We look at the human cost in the Global South, the industrial-scale theft of creative work, and the environmental reality of a plagiarism machine.
100% Human made. No AI. 
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGD27wtF4Rg
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Su_G
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Lepää rauhassa, suomen kieli. Teknologiajätit ovat nimittäin tulossa: https://www.microsoft.com/fi-fi/translator/
> Microsoft Translatorin kone käännös palvelu
> Breaking kieli muuri kotona, töissä, missä tarvitset sitä
RE: https://masto.ahlcode.fi/@nicd/116011979666795578
The future of translation. This is Microsoft Translator's own page, and they've decided to machine translate it (and a bunch of linked pages) to Finnish. The result is something to behold. Nearly all compound words are separated, it's full of strange idioms, faulty inflections and broken grammar. Some links in the footer: Download center -> "Center of Espoo" (city in FI); Manage cookies -> "Uber-cookies"; ??? -> "Isn't".
Windows 11 speichert alle 5 Sekunden ein Foto von deinem Bildschirm.
Ob Bankdaten, die vertrauliche E-Mail an den Therapeuten oder sich bei der besten Freundin über die Arbeitskollegin beschweren.
All das könnte Windows 11 erfassen.
Möglich macht das die Funktion Recall.
Jasmin Ehbauer zeigt dir, was du dagegen tun kannst.
📝 Jasmin Ehbauer & Ramak Molavi Vasse‘i
📹 & ✂️ Marc Nikoleit