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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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Big Sister is watching … what could possibly go wrong. She’s so compassionate, Right?
Only for those stupid enough to have it on their PC.
There are virtually no machines in the wild right now that meet the specs to run it.
I have a feeling that in the future processors after the Spectre/Meltdown hardware fix (8th gen/Zen 2) but before the introduction of NPUs are going to be the hot ticket in the geeky retro market.
For many of the required websites of today’s existence like online banking, and gov’t required sites to do your online taxes, register certain items…
There will be a list of requirements needed to sign in, like your email you’ll confirm identity with, and which OS you’re using so as to ensure the gov’t you’re using a “secure connection”.
When the gov’t decides you’ll be using whatever common Microsoft OS will have Windows Chatbot in, then you’ll be part of the 90% who are in the club.
The easiest way to deal with this is to update your .hosts file and use it to block access to certain MS addresses that are spying on you now.
Add the following lines:
127.0.0.1 data.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 msftconnecttest.com
127.0.0.1 azureedge.net
127.0.0.1 activity.windows.com
127.0.0.1 bingapis.com
127.0.0.1 msedge.net
127.0.0.1 assets.msn.com
127.0.0.1 scorecardresearch.com
127.0.0.1 edge.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 data.msn.com
The downside to doing that is you can’t access msn.com but I don’t have a problem with that.
…and use wireshark for time to time to check if MS added another.
Why worry? Bill Gates wears cardigan sweaters and goofy glasses. He’s nice.
Hahahahaha/
I run a Pro version of Windows at home, specifically so I control what goes in (no choice with the Home version). Yet it dumped Copilot into my system (and changed the settings to run it on MS Edge, which I fortunately don’t use very much) without so much as a by-your-leave. I noticed it right away and disabled it as soon as I could figure out how. Now I just have to make sure it doesn’t sneak back in.
Maybe I’m too simple, but the stampede toward AI bots by the general public just amazes (and confuses) me. I guess it’s what happens when people a) are crap at risk assessment, and b) have zero idea how their daily technology works, and c) cannot comprehend that there are malignant actors in the world (including and especially governments), and that they might actually be targetted by them for some reason.