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   Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 22:33:25 JST Seasons of Jason

   For anyone who still hasn't found a compelling enough reason to switch to #Linux, may I present:
   https://youtu.be/FCfwc-NNo30

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 23:02:51 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Dave :steamdeck:

     @Mundon by the gods, I wish it WAS a Rick-roll.

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     Dave :steamdeck: (mundon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 23:02:52 JST Dave :steamdeck:

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     @killyourfm
     First off honestly I was expecting this to be a rick-roll...I guess the internet has ruined me for that.

     Secondly...so it's spicy Cortana, the thing everyone turns off when setting up their Windows computer. Not a fan...

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     Wiredfire :BA: (wiredfire@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 23:07:56 JST Wiredfire :BA:

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     @killyourfm copilot feels like one of the less crowbarred uses of LLMs to me. For many a PC is still a complicated thing. If this can make (comparatively) complex tasks easier to access for the very non-technical person then there’s a real use case here.

     The whole idea of asking Excel to cut a complex bit of data is alone a compelling scenario.

     It looks.. actually useful dare I say. Nothing that calls to me, but I’m not the target market for it.

     That said I’m not getting Win11 so it’s moot

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 23:07:56 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Wiredfire :BA:

     @wiredfire the promising use-cases are numerous! So are the privacy concerns.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 23:09:50 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Charlie

     @cdp1337 no one says they’ll do that on purpose. But equally damaging mistakes have happened with Windows. (I’m recalling a nasty bug around 2018 or 2019 that just wiped out entire documents / photos folders.)

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     Charlie (cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.com)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 23:09:51 JST Charlie

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     @killyourfm

     Microsoft: "We're going to integrate ML into our public search engine, then upload all users' private content, tax returns, and homemade "movies" into that same ML system"

     Yup, wonderful idea. This _definitely_ won't go sideways immediately after roll-out.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 00:04:15 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • M. Forester

     @mforester They WHAT???

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     M. Forester (mforester@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 00:04:16 JST M. Forester

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     @killyourfm they took away fucking Windows Terminal!!! 😱😱😱
     Nothing is holy anymore. I would so love to ditch Windows (and any other Microsoft product) entirely, but my work won't let me. 😩
     At least I found a suitable replacement for Windows Terminal.

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     Caleb Maclennan (alerque@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:30:50 JST Caleb Maclennan

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     @killyourfm Presented without comment.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:30:50 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Caleb Maclennan

     @alerque Literally. Haha!

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:32:32 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • M. Forester
     • Kristof

     @mforester @sobfly If that was just a coincidental error, it's one of the creepiest I've ever seen....

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     M. Forester (mforester@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:32:33 JST M. Forester

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     • Kristof

     @sobfly
     I also had a real creepy experience today. I chatted with a coworker via MS Teams. To any chat message, Teams will generate three quick replies. In this case...all three of them Spanish. My coworker has the least Spanish sounding name possible (his parents are German), but indeed he spent most of his childhood in Spain. I speak zero Spanish, and we never chat in Spanish...
     He was as freaked out as I was. 😱
     @killyourfm

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     M. Forester (mforester@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:32:34 JST M. Forester

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     • Kristof

     @sobfly
     https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/github-copilot-will-bring-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-terminal 😩

     I saw this yesterday and was too frustrated to even read what they are planning. I've switched to wsltty, which is derived from Mintty. It doesn't have tabs, but I (re)familiarized myself with tmux and it's fine. I think even a bit better than before. Not sure yet. 😅
     Wsltty doesn't integrate with PowerShell, Cmd or anything else, but when I'm being honest: I spend most of my time in WSL anyway.

     @killyourfm

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     Kristof (sobfly@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:32:36 JST Kristof

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     • M. Forester

     @mforester
     😲Wtf...since when!? And what is your replacement?
     @killyourfm

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 02:36:39 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • M. Forester
     • Kristof

     @mforester @sobfly Truthfully, this seems like an opt-in experience. Unless you explicitly sign into and use GitHub copilot, it PROBABLY won't make an appearance?

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 04:21:59 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • byteseb

     @byteseb agreed.

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     byteseb (byteseb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 04:22:00 JST byteseb

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     @killyourfm I don't really like the idea of giving Microsoft your personal documents and let the AI read them. That's definitely a privacy nightmare

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 18:56:49 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Professor Code

     @ProfessorCode @wiredfire Likewise, I agree with you.

     I bet we'll see it as completely optional for the first year or two. Then the ability to opt-out will become more and more hidden, until finally it's just a "feature" that's locked in and permanent.

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     Professor Code (professorcode@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 18:56:50 JST Professor Code

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     • Wiredfire :BA:

     @wiredfire @killyourfm I quite agree with you.

     The real issue here is the lack of transparency and possibly user choice. If anything, it's very likely this will be enabled by default and impossible to opt out of.

     I do think this will definitely become an integral part of the "Windows Experience" rather than just being a gimmick, though. It's quite powerful to be able to change system settings or crunch data by just asking Windows Copilot.

     It's amusing how Windows as a platform is changing.

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     Wiredfire :BA: (wiredfire@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 18:56:51 JST Wiredfire :BA:

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     @killyourfm it’s the lack of transparency around privacy that bothers me. I have a gmail, so I’m clearly ok trading some level of data for service, but I doubt many will have that data harvesting aspect put front and centre when agreeing to copilot.

     I’m not fully anti-data-snaffling, per se, but the EULAs long as the bible written in legal technobabble make it functionally impossible for folk to make an informed choice much of the time.

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 22:25:49 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Professor Code

     @wiredfire @ProfessorCode Play the native Linux build and you're good to go.

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     Wiredfire :BA: (wiredfire@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 22:25:50 JST Wiredfire :BA:

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     • Professor Code

     @killyourfm @ProfessorCode though that said, I might like to keep my options open for playing Left 4 Dead 2.. shall have to look if that has Linux support on Steam 🤔

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     Wiredfire :BA: (wiredfire@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 22:25:51 JST Wiredfire :BA:

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     • Professor Code

     @killyourfm @ProfessorCode not unlike how signing in to Windows with a Microsoft account has become increasingly difficult to avoid.

     Thing is, I LIKE a lot of Microsoft things. I have an m365 sub that is fantastic value.. but I’m actively experimenting on a spare laptop about getting OneDrive working nicely on Linux Mint. Once I’m happy with that I’m likely going to hop back to The Penguin.