https://infosec.exchange/@winterknight1337/114906298563785317
here is the referenced article: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/
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Oh, yaaaay… Haha
This breaks a lot of org’s sensitive data policies. So I guess they’ll have to figure out a way to disable it or install Linux
So my org thinks since they have win 11 pro that all of this is disabled. I feel like they don’t know what theyre doing.
This is what they admit to, complete surveillance of your private computer. Imagine how long they’ve been doing this without telling us and what else they’re doing right now.
This. Independent of whether a local AI is desirable on your computer, an AI on someone else’s computer has no goddamned business with any of your personal data. That should literally be illegal.
Called it, knew theyd secretly switch it. Their entire buisness model with windows since 8 was collecting data from the user. They wouldnt be able yo help themselves from collecting this shit.
Hey, that’s funny. It’s almost like they know there won’t be any lasting consequences for them doing whatever they damned well please.
If you believed they will not send this to their servers I have a bridge to sell you.
I hate that I’m in the middle of editing a long video using an archaic Vegas release; I’m sure there’s great video editing suites on Linux but I’m a bit blocked from switching right now.
totally understand the being locked in. that being said, when you’re ready, check out kdenlive.
Agreed. There are other options, but I as a beginner started with kdenlive (something looked right about it, I guess) and I really like.
abandon ship? the ship called “we won’t spy on you with this close-source program that records everything you do ahaha why would you think that - signed, big corporation”? why did you get on that ship in the first place
To be fair, this is not Recall, as per the article:
While the screen snooping only happens when the user expressly activates it as part of a Copilot session, unlike Recall, which is constantly active in the background when enabled, it’s also designed to be more proactive than previous releases.
So… it’s Google Lens?
I don’t know, man, people keep telling me about all these Microsoft features and none of them ever show up on my devices. I think technically the next time I reboot my PC on Windows I’ll have the black blue screens of death, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Also relevant:
At the time of writing, Microsoft was only offering Copilot Vision in the US, with the promise (or threat) that it will be coming to very specifically “non-European countries” soon – a tip of the hat, it seems, to the European Union’s AI Act.
all these Microsoft features and none of them ever show up on my devices
Lemmy tells me I have a dozen Windows issues I don’t have. I should also uninstall a bunch of crap I don’t have.
Guessing most of the hate is from users with factory installed Windows on their laptops. Good god, the crap they throw on there. When I deployed company laptops it was easier to activate Windows, wipe and install from a vanilla ISO. No problem.
I’m sure the features do exist, but there’s a big mix of people being semi-disingenuously mad at features you toggle off on install and never think about again, features in preview buids and features that don’t quite do what people say they do.
That’s not to say I wouldn’t prefer many of those to… you know, not exist, but it’s also true that my copilot button does nothing (that’s a lie, it brings up the start menu), I don’t have Recall, there are no ads in my Start menu and the extent of my interaction with “Click-to-do” was accidentally stumbling upon the shortcut, turning it off and never thinking about it again.
I shudder to think how much development time Microsoft dumps into things that work that way for all of their tech-savvy users and only exist as gimmicks and adware for normies. It’s a dumb, dumb way to make software, but it’s much more manageable than some corners of the internet say it is, be it due to the ragebait economy or just how weirdly partisan and irrational the Linux rah-rah gets.
As a long term dual-booter the whole thing seems kinda dumb to me on all sides for different reasons. I’m mostly just annoyed that I can’t get Bazzite to hibernate properly and that I have to keep paying people to make my Windows taskbar float on the side of the screen like KDE does by default. And nobody is fixing either anytime soon because everybody is too busy being rich or smart or whatever other useless thing people like to be on the Internet.
It’s a very stupid century.
I was gonna say I hadn’t had issues with Bazzite’s hibernate function in a while, but then I remembered I turned it off completely.
As far as I can tell it’s turned off by default. It has a sleep mode, but in my PC it still draws too much power to leave it in that state indefinitely. Windows Hibernate is surprisingly good in my setup, and it allows me to start a session on Windows, go to sleep, boot into Bazzite, then switch to Windows and pick up where I left off.
It’d be great to be able to bounce back and forth, but… yep, Hibernation not working for me. I’m sure troubleshooting can figure it out, but I don’t have the time or energy at this point.
Last time I checked I found some info about it being an incompatibility with AMD CPUs that nobody who’s able to is interested in fixing. Or at least in my case that seemed to be it.
sigh
Well, I didn’t know about the specifics, but that kinda tracks, sadly.
I work at a bank, and the moment I saw this, I messaged my friend in IT. I hope to god they don’t let this through
SteamOS v1.0 when?
Bazzite today
I have not logged in to my Windows for ages. I feel like once I do, it will open a Pandora’s box.
The temptation to open it drops to zero once you realise the box is full of shit.
My housemate is resistant to linux. How can I convince them, or how can I make win 10(soon to be 11) safe to be on my network ? I have already Uninstalled all the MS software I can from their computer.
First I would try hypnosis, then putting a malware on their computer while muttering “I told you so” while fixing it, and then banning their MAC address if everything else fails.
