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68 points bitbasher | 4 comments | 15 Apr 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.832s | source
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tloriato ◴[15 Apr 25 07:31 UTC] No.43689972[source]▶
23:59: “No one donates money to OSS”

00:00: “You must leave the world’s biggest software website to go to this random Germanic non-profit because MS was bad 20 years ago”

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guappa ◴[15 Apr 25 09:29 UTC] No.43690705[source]▶
Microsoft was bad today as well. Or have we forgotten windows 11 sending screenshots?
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simonw ◴[15 Apr 25 09:56 UTC] No.43690849[source]▶
You mean Microsoft Recall? That never sent screenshots anywhere.
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1. nottorp ◴[15 Apr 25 10:59 UTC] No.43691166[source]▶
How do you know? It's closed source. And they're in an "AI" race where every competitor ignores IP law and privacy.
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2. simonw ◴[15 Apr 25 14:20 UTC] No.43693128[source]▶
How it worked was well documented last year.

It was taking screenshots and storing them locally - the (justified) anger about it was that anyone with physical access to your machine (eg an abusive spouse) could see what you had been doing, and it was to be turned on by default.

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3. nottorp ◴[15 Apr 25 15:39 UTC] No.43694391[source]▶
> was well documented

By trustable 3rd parties?

> last year

But this year it has MORE "AI" doesn't it?

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4. simonw ◴[15 Apr 25 16:37 UTC] No.43695286{3}[source]▶
> By trustable 3rd parties?

Yes, that thing was hacked to pieces by privacy researchers.

I haven't been following updates on Recall since June last year: https://simonwillison.net/tags/recall/