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Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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290 points XzetaU8 | 2 comments | 23 Jul 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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LooseMarmoset ◴[23 Jul 25 11:21 UTC] No.44657920[source]▶
Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place?

And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes?

EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.

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firesteelrain ◴[23 Jul 25 11:23 UTC] No.44657932[source]▶
It seems it enables Copilot to assist the user in finding things on their PC.

Somehow find . -iname has worked for years in Linux without AI

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thombles ◴[23 Jul 25 12:00 UTC] No.44658232[source]▶
At least on OneDrive for Android, a bizarre thing is that search is _not_ equivalent to find . -iname. It is able to find search terms in the _content_ of documents but not their filenames.
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Ballas ◴[23 Jul 25 12:07 UTC] No.44658275[source]▶
Well, you can have the same functionality with find if you want it:

find -type f -exec grep -Hn "_content_" {} \;

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rovr138 ◴[23 Jul 25 13:23 UTC] No.44658977[source]▶

  grep -RHn "_content_" .
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1. dotancohen ◴[23 Jul 25 13:28 UTC] No.44659027[source]▶
Though I much prefer this solution, the GP solution is better when there are non-text documents in the directory tree. Find is nice and that you can narrow it down by file name or file extension, without relying on bash globs.
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2. rovr138 ◴[23 Jul 25 13:58 UTC] No.44659309[source]▶
Yep

I just did it more tongue-in-cheek like the unneeded cat commands.

There’s definitely use cases. If you want to search for a keyword on the file name, that one’s great.