Molly Whiteback in my day we called this spyware
"have you ever wanted to install a keylogger to spy on your spouse or kid? well have we got news for you"
sͧb̴ͫƸ̴gͬᵉ@molly0xfff I can also hear workers unions and GDPR lawyers *screeching* over this one.
On the upside, it would be cool to get to do a full enterprisewide Windows-to-Linux migration for an org before I retire.
marco_m_aus_f@subm3rge @molly0xfff Chances for a full Windows-to-Linux migration are good, at least in Germany.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community has been working on openDesk for quite a while. Federal offices run Windows in a VM on secured Linux hosts and mostly anything important is a webapp running on Linux anyway. LibreOffice is the default in Schleswig-Holstein now(~30k desktops).
See a lengthy list of Linuxy things at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Source-Software_in_%C3%B6ffentlichen_Einrichtungen#Deutschland
This will not end well for M$
Luna chan@subm3rge @molly0xfff Linux as desktop has gotten good enough and Wine runs a lot of Windows programs now
Nico Jensen 
@nyansen @subm3rge @molly0xfff
There are a few solutions.
But lets be honest Windows is dead for anything remotely secure if this spyware can't be easily removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfx8MXkExLk
Kiudecan@subm3rge
The entity I work in makes such a transition, on a voluntary basis from the users. Ho boy, M$ is making recruiting volunteers for migration easy !
@molly0xfff
The entity I work in makes such a transition, on a voluntary basis from the users. Ho boy, M$ is making recruiting volunteers for migration easy !
@molly0xfff
Patrick Zauner 
@subm3rge @molly0xfff No. The data remains on device, so why should this be an issue regarding the GDPR?
Chris Ferdinandi@molly0xfff HOLY FUCKING SHIT
royal@molly0xfff
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Alexander Bochmann@molly0xfff "That's how we are monitoring our employee PCs anyway, and now you can do it to yourself."
manchicken moved!
Kris Sargent, MD@molly0xfff "Finally got root access to your target, but don't want to bother doing your own logging or checking multiple applications for valuable data? How about one easy database that has everything available in plain text?"
cameronbosch 
@molly0xfff Or most anti-cheats for games.
Tom EastmanGenuine question: who is *asking* for these features? Is there any consumer/user of windows who's been requesting this?
@tveastman i'm going to go with "microsoft execs desperately trying to justify all the money they're shoveling into the AI fire"
That's truly all I've got too... I'm looking for some kind of counterfactual but it really seems that cynical so far.
Lyall@tveastman @molly0xfff As I understand it, there is a belief at the business strategy level (VC/shareholders/Cxx) that authentic user activity is the new commons which needs to be enclosed.
The old Internet, pre-generative AI, is gone and when a meaningful use for LLMs coalesces whoever controls the source of new training data will win at capitalism.
Claiming that data scraping is a feature which serves users is just a way to manufacture consent.
Glad to hear any less cynical explanations.
M. Shaw@tveastman @molly0xfff yes, their highest-paying customers (namely the police and the military) are absolutely wild about it.
Cat-a-clysm @molly0xfff Smh old boomer who can’t get on with modern tech
(for obvious reasons this is a joke)
gh0sti 
@molly0xfff free update though…