What you have heard about is a feature called “Recall”, which is something that has not actually rolled out and will only be coming to PCs with specific neural processing units. Other windows users will not be affected (although of course that will change over time as old devices are replaced with new).

Is it possible? Yes, of course it’s possible. You could say that about pretty much any operating system - including Linux distros - if the functionality turns out to be popular.

However, to be 100% clear, this is functionality that the user can disable (either entirely, or on an app-by-app basis). And data is never transacted to the cloud or with Microsoft. What’s on the device does not leave the device. It’s also really not in Microsoft’s own interest at all to try taking on that responsibility… How would they know if you paid for an app/game/song or not, even if they wanted to?

But back to your question: yes, of course it is possible. This type of technology has already been prototyped in different ways (e.g. Apple have done work about identifying CSAM on the iPhone, although not implemented).

Yes, Linux gives you a lot more control. If you were to make the switch, I would list a hundred other reasons that are far more compelling than this storm in a teacup.

They said, there’s absolutely no reason a Linux distro couldn’t also bring the same functionality, if there is superior for it.

If you are looking to truly make it “impossible”, you need to air-gap your machine and not connect to the internet anymore.

In defence of the author, there is absolutely nothing about the term “AI” that just means “LLM” in an academic context. And the words “machine learning” are literally front and centre in the subtitle.

I don’t see how anyone could misunderstand this unless it was a deliberate misreading… Or else just not attempting to read it at all…

It stems from an old proverb: “there is naught so queer as folk”, essentially meaning “people are strange”. The meaning of “queer” has shifted and narrowed over time to refer to sexuality, but kept its ties to this idiom, resulting in the TV show “queer as folk” and the generic phrase “queer folk”.

There is nothing especially pretentious or mythical about the word. It may just be your own assumptions/interpretations of it. Far more people have an issue with the word “queer” than they do “folk”. If you don’t like it, don’t use it, but you should also aim to shake the stigma from it, as it’s not what 99.9% of people mean when they use it.

qld.gov.au/…/school-zone-speed-limits-and-signs

In short: if you don’t know if it’s an “active” school zone or not… assume it is and just slow down. General sentiment with many road rules is “ignorance is not an excuse”.

In practice, most patrol officers would probably exercise some discretion (e.g.: were there lots of children around? Was the school visibly “open” in an obvious way?). But technically, they could pin you if they wanted to.

If you were to appeal it, you might be able to argue your case on mitigating circumstances.

But again, the default position is “ignorance is not an excuse”, and if you’re operating a vehicle that can kill someone, your responsibility is to err on the side of caution.

It would depend exactly how big/substantial this ‘gathering’ is, but I could imagine that “Grove”, “Stand” or “Thicket” might be appropriate.

What about a “social climber”? Someone whose friendships are based on calculations about who can help them succeed in other ways?

I replied to you you elsewhere in this thread, but they never claimed to be getting 28% CTR. They only claimed that this format performs 28% better than alternatives.

If a different ad format was getting 1% CTR, then a 28% improvement is still only a total 1.28% CTR.

Careful, they didn’t claim to be getting 28% engagement from users… Just that this ad format performs 28% better than other as types. We have no idea (from this article, at least) how that translates to actual usage.

Oprah did a very controversial, very public show about mad cow disease, implying it was in America, and led to a big lawsuit.

There are multiple sources of info, but for some easy listening, checkout the podcast ‘Maintenance Phase’ which did a 2 part feature on it.

In case you’re not aware, the latest version of Excel absolutely DOES have that seeing (mentioned elsewhere here in the comments). While it’s wild that it took so long, it’s now a solved problem and everyone should know about it!