Windows Recall AI snapshots stored in an unencrypted SQL file in appdata. Apparently. Already there is scripts to install it on unsupported devices.

[mandatorylurk]

so when is it revealed it's also on 10, just in some different location?

 

[Cats]

when i was a little kid watching my mom using MS-DOS I thought there should be a menu. so i should be the billionaire

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

AI is the ultimate spyware, and that was obvious, you use it knowing that it's doing this kinda shit. Not to excuse it, of course.

 

[Prj4MW8iPT3vmFM2rzDc]

Categorically false.

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Gabe Newell has done more to make Linux viable for normies than any man alive or dead. Proton works flawlesly 99% of the time, and the 1% where it doesn't it's on games likely to not even run on modern Windows.

GabeN is to good to us.

 

[DickMain]

With Recall, you have an explorable timeline of your PC’s past. Just describe how you remember it and Recall will retrieve the moment you saw it.

Hilarious privacy issues aside, if this is how you're actually expected to utilize it then I can't imagine it being perfect, because human memory is extremely fallible and imperfect. A computer, on paper, could remember everything perfectly, or close to it; reproductive memory. Human memory on the other hand is reconstructive and I can guarantee your results on search are only going to be as good as what you can dig up in your own head. Why not just give me a brutalist list of captured states to look through on my own that the machine has perfectly captured (and you know it will be perfectly captured since microshaft probably wants those snapshots more than the average end user does).

As an aside, suck my dick, microsoft

 

[Samanthamatic]

I hate to burst your bubble but no you can actually open files in Linux too and the super user can read any file because that's basically the whole fucking point of a computer. It's more that wintards are so gullible they think that announcing if someone hacks into your computer they can read a file counts as some kind of expose. Just imagine the panic if one of them figures out said hacker can also access the things that are being screen grabbed.
Sure it's nice of M$ to expedite the process but security through the passage of time is really only a thing in bank vault design.

I hate to burst your bubble but linux doesn't have recall.

Linux has other issues like the recent zlib debacle.

 

[The Un-Clit]

I very reluctantly upgraded to Windows 10 from XP in the first place. No way in HELL am I using 11. If shit stops working for it, I guess it'll finally be time for teh linux.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

!Which reminds me! Some Steam games have a buggy/unplayable Linux version, is there a way to run the Windows version with Proton instead?

Most of the time Proton runs games better than lazy Linux ports.
1. Right click game
2. Select properties
3. Select compatibility
4. Select 'Force the Use of a Specific Steam Play Compatability Tool'

 

[Kazukifaen]

Gees, I'm horrified by this.

This makes me more determent to install Linux on my rig.

When support of Win 10 ends in October 2025.

Windows 11 is a rush job.

 

[DootSkeleton]

Anyway, I wouldn't mind a recall-like system if it had better security and ran 100% locally. Could be useful.

What you're describing actually does sound useful, which is why it'll never be made by a company like Microsoft.

 

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Hilarious privacy issues aside, if this is how you're actually expected to utilize it then I can't imagine it being perfect, because human memory is extremely fallible and imperfect. A computer, on paper, could remember everything perfectly, or close to it; reproductive memory. Human memory on the other hand is reconstructive and I can guarantee your results on search are only going to be as good as what you can dig up in your own head. Why not just give me a brutalist list of captured states to look through on my own that the machine has perfectly captured (and you know it will be perfectly captured since microshaft probably wants those snapshots more than the average end user does).

As an aside, suck my dick, microsoft
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1. The point of the 'AI' bullshit is to allow for some 'fuzzy' search. A typical Recall AI use case involves a typical user vaguely remembering that he found a great video on his new Surface Laptop on PornHub that he remembers as ten bears with the gift barebacking a twink, but searching his Edge browser history for 'ten' 'bears' 'bareback' 'twink' and 'HIV' doesn't find anything. He remembers the cool new feature that the streetshitters added in just for him, and asks Recall AI for "video with ten bears with AIDS barebacking a twink".
   
   The AI is able to do its sophisticated thesaurus-fiddling to realize that what he meant by the query was the video it spent several minutes screenshotting where the window title was "Twelve HUNG DADDIES with rawdog a bugchasing YUNG BOY". Truly a great advance for human science and technology.
2. The funniest part of all this is that MS is using hardware accelerated OCR on screenshots to get text scraped for this feature, when, because of government regulations about how computers have to be usable by Helen Keller, Microsoft already has accesibility APIs that allow directly scraping text for screenreaders for the blind and such. If they still had any human (non subcontinental) programmers they just would have used those existing APIs instead of taking screenshots and then pointlessly processing them.

 

[NaggotFigger]

Life sucks as a Windows 11 user...
When you do de needful the concerns about it if you debloat, disable Microshit's bloatwares and heavily modify your PC carefully to be more usable and secure saar. Just move to Linux if you hate dabbling in info-stealing Pajeets saar.

 

[Hyperbola]

We apparently live in an empire held together by blackmail. Blackmail is a serious threat, not just to people with something legitimate to hide, but to the innocent as well. It's a threat, because it turns large fractions of the public (and almost everyone in politics) into puppets whose strings can be jerked, and who will never dream of standing up to the blackmailers. Also, you can't prove you never did $thing with your computer and some intel spook didn't just plant it on your machine. IIRC, there was a journalist who had classified documents placed on her computer without her knowledge, a few hours before her door was kicked in. Because the people running the frame-job were morons, the documents appeared in the System32 folder, the working directory of their backdoor. Not sure if her having no idea what System32 even was was an effective defense or not.

If you somehow "don't have anything to hide", and don't care about the lies they will tell about you, you still have to worry about all the other people who do have something to hide, who can be flipped by a simple phone-call.

This is, IMO, just another brick in the panopticon hellscape that our rulers want to build.

 

[Mister Qwerty]

Microsoft Windows steals your data, Adobe steals your work.

 

[BubbleButt]

This just makes me miss Tay even more.

 

[Da Grim Reaper]

Microsoft Windows steals your data, Adobe steals your work.

 

[grocerygoblin]

What you're describing actually does sound useful, which is why it'll never be made by a company like Microsoft.

Q. The data is processed entirely locally on your laptop, right?
A. Yes! They made some smart decisions here, there’s a whole subsystem of Azure AI etc code that process on the edge.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

I wouldn't be willing to bet against you on that one. Even just learning entry level shit about data security, you quickly begin to realize just how unsecure everything really is and how little even a lot of big companies take it as seriously as they should. If you have a will and know-how, you will almost always find a way.

Plus at lot of this shit in general is also highly susceptible to social engineering, but that's a separate issue entirely.

No powerlevel, but you would be horrified how many anxious nepo babies run this shit that will give out your entire life history at the barest angry growl from an EU. I used to train a lot of people and a lot of them didn't make it because they'll get an email from "maangement" that offers them 12 free vacation days, then ask why the 12 free days didn't show up in their account after they typed in their work creds. Luckily, that all comes from up top usually to weed out tardos. But this is every single facet of tech, probably moreso at the really high "These people are in charge of my Social Security" levels.
And you'd be floored to know just how many of the business that are responsible for you as a person are running on XP because the one old guy that the insurance company hires because discount to do their IT doesn't want to relearn and have to buy new software keys for the new versions of what they're running. Shit, some of our nukes still run on punchcards.

 

[Lokenstien]

At what point does it become more worth it to do all my computing at the public library (assuming those even exist anymore)?

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

I'm very tempted to reformat my hard drive and chuck Linux on my PC now. Annoyingly, it's always that last 5% of games or software that makes you not be able to, plus it takes a while to get used to your OS. If my drive dies or I need to reinstall though, then I might use that as the chance to have a clean break.

GabeN is to good to us.

I will simp for Gaben all day if I have to. Man's been amazing for the better part of two decades and in the last few years, the Steam Deck and Proton have probably been the single biggest thing to ever happen to Linux gaming. We definitely lucked out that the biggest digital distribution platform ended up being led by him. I can't imagine how much worse off we'd be if it was anyone else.

When he kicks the bucket years from now, I expect a state funeral for him and a national day of mourning.