nixCraft 🐧Nov 24, 2024
Microsoft Connected Experiences means they collect your Word and Excel files for AI training. Why not call it AI training? Why use such words? This is an unethical practice followed by a trillion-dollar corporation. How is this even legal? I am so glad that I don’t have Windows OS or MS office.
Tertle950Nov 24, 2024
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And some of you laugh or call me paranoid when I say I use Linux, and it sometimes takes days to get wifi working on Linux, or I don’t trust the cloud, or get angry when I say billionaire brats and AI companies are predators. See, they don’t even have the guts to call “AI training” AI training because they know the negativity around that term. It is all a race to the bottom now; meanwhile, our politicians are super busy throwing mud around and working with billionaire fuckwits.
Nov 24, 2024 at 3:17amWeb
Show threadnixCraft 🐧Nov 24, 2024
If I worked for Microsoft, OpenAI, or any other predatory AI company, I would be ashamed to admit it to all of you and my friends/family. These third-rate companies trick people into giving away their personal data, and despite having trillions in assets, they can't afford to pay out for AI training. I'm really glad I don't work for them. I would rather choose a horrible death from illness and die than work for these companies.
Show threadrouxdoo √Nov 24, 2024
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I suspect that there are very few who work at these "AI Companies" and there is not guilt to be found among the handful of workers there...that is the whole point of these endeavors - to do away with actual people in the mix. The few who tend the power supply of the machines have no investment in the outcome or output of the sausage grinder they feed.
Show threadGrum999 Nov 24, 2024

@nixCraft at the office, there was recently an update of MS Outlook 365.
Now when I type an email, Outlook is doing some automatic proposal about next content I'll maybe about to write...
Meanwhile, security require us to flag all emails with "personal", "internal", "public", "confidential" or "secret"; I'm wondering where all sensitive data are going 

The funny thing, I'm working in a place where IT security is totally in paranoid mode; it's harder and harder every day to be able to do simple everyday common job tasks.
But they're also putting everything on MS cloud: Office, Outlook, SharePoint, One Drive, ...
It's totally crazy 

Show threadLondon Eastfield 🇵🇸Nov 24, 2024

@nixCraft "I would rather choose a horrible death from illness and die"

A variation of this was what I said to my boss when he asked if I would help out with AWS.

Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 18, 2025

@LawmanLungis @nixCraft +9001%

I quit a fmr. employer when the CFO actually suggested using #aws as that would basically result in paying to get spied upon.

#CorporateEspionage

Show threadAndy HJan 18, 2025
@kkarhan @LawmanLungis @nixCraft Genuine question if I may? How does using #AWS mean you get spied upon, and by whom? You have me worried. Thanks
Show threadLondon Eastfield 🇵🇸Jan 18, 2025
@ToshInMacc @kkarhan @nixCraft My aversion to AWS have nothing to do with privacy & integrity. It has *everyting* to do with Amazon being (arguably) the worst currently existing company.
Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 18, 2025

@LawmanLungis @ToshInMacc @nixCraft and also said employer was a direct competitior to #Amazon and that alone makes it a bad idea to use them for services...

Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 18, 2025

@nixCraft +1

Show threadDraken BlackKnightNov 24, 2024
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The wifi thing is one of the reasons why I use Linux Mint. It's basically Ubuntu without Snap, telemetry is stupidly easy to disable, and nearly everything I need has either a repo to add, a .deb package to install manually, or a Flatpak.
Show threadTipNov 24, 2024

@nixCraft

Dear reply-guys,

"and it sometimes takes days to get wifi working on Linux,"

He was making a joke. Please look at what the post was really about.

Show threadWindgottNov 24, 2024
Well, all my wifi problems on Linux came from dual-booting windows... Universal tip: it's fast boot, always fast boot. (also yes shame on me)
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Show threadUser01Nov 25, 2024
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I feel the same way. I only run Linux. The stark difference between Windows and Linux is very easy to see. I can't surrender my rights to an end user license agreement. This is MY computer, and I'm not giving up my privacy to their cloud platform running on my hardware. No thanks.