have left for bluer skies

For BlueSky?

Hey Copilot, what happened to Cortana?

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It won’t make a difference.

What other projects they abandoned do you see as so critical that it would break Microsoft?

“With Gaming Copilot (Beta)” you can let the AI play the games for you. /s 🤡

All with your permission and built upon the security of Windows 11.

So I can decline. Good.

You’re always in control of what Copilot Actions can do. Copilot Actions is turned off by default and you’re able to pause, take control or disable it at any time.

I could start a comment saying “As a woman” or “As a feminist” that would polarize readers before stating a point.

That’s one of prejudice though, not of communication form and written language. It’s polarizing for its content, not its form.

I did find it interesting, and an interesting thought, when I first looked up what this thing was about. I still find it hard to read every time I see it.

We get so many free digital services from mega corps. If it weren’t for the physical costs involved, we’d already be getting physical goods like that.

Imagine a possible future of Meta, Google, and Microsoft shops. Selling under cost to bind customers.

Sounds like it wants you to ask about it and then wants to write fan fiction for you.

If you don’t check their name - Darwin - on Wikipedia, where do you check it? A random AI? When you’re on Facebook, their AI? When you’re on Reddit, their AI? How trustworthy are they? What does that mean for general user behavior in the short and long term?

When you’re satisfied with a soccer match score from a headline, fair enough. Which headline do you refer to, though? Who provides it? Who ensures it is correct?

Wikipedia is an established and good source for many things.

The point is that people get their information elsewhere now. Where it may be incomplete, wrong, or maliciously misrepresenting or lying. Where discovering more related information is even further away. Instead of the next paragraph or a scroll or index nav list jump away, no hyperlink, no information.

Personally, I regularly explore and verify sources.

I doubt most of those visits to Wikipedia were as shallow as finding just one name or term. Maybe one piece of information. Which may already go deeper than shallow term finding, and cross references and notes may spark interests or relevant concerns.

They said for at least a couple of years that they want to expand to other phone models or that they’re partnering with a major OEM?

The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.

For DHH context, I’ll link this open letter

An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) has publicly published writings that make clear he holds racist and transphobic views, as well as a number of other traits undesirable in any figurehead and community leader.

We, the undersigned, call upon the Rails Core team and the wider Ruby community, to:

• cut ties with DHH and his work from this point forward
• hard fork Rails and associated projects to a new name and development free from his influence
• adopt a modern Code of Conduct with suitable community governance

It has three source links on ‘racist’, ‘transphobic’, and ‘undesirable’ if you want to form your own opinion.

Related to DHH, there’s also been controversies on Omarchy/Hyprland recently (post from 8 days ago). That source has a lot more information and historical/personal experience on DHH.

You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.

if it stops you from sharing in the discourse you must not have had much to say in the first place

Their writing style being hard to read doesn’t say anything about what would or could be said in response. “blocks yourself from having real conversations” is a fair assessment. They’re not blocking themselves fully, but from conversations with those who can’t or are not willing to read the unnecessarily inaccessible comments. I’ve certainly stopped reading/skipped many of their comments many times. And that says nothing about what their comments say, my interpretation of them, or what I would have to say about their content.

They’re free to continue. But you can’t not expect criticism for it on a discussion platform, and it remains a fact that it’s a barrier to accessibility.

The vision of an AI PC, where it may or may not launch the app you tell it to, where one plus one may or may not be two, where deleting a file may delete the file you see, or a random different one.

Sounds great! /s

Imagine the cost of cloud AI on PCs. That only works too some degree for cloud data and being even more wasteful for the rest.

Every document you have, legal and medical, finance and personal, will all interface with the cloud. With numerous parties en route, visible and hidden, and a massive system you may or may not trust.

Symbolism is a very important aspect of public protest and the consequential reporting on and influence of it.

Actually, I don’t think I get the point of this whole thing at all. They’re not rallying against climate change or fascism, it’s just “phone bad”.

I didn’t read the article in full, but it was pretty clear to me right away from the top. They’re saying: We as a society should prioritize real human connection over consuming big tech platforms.

Is it a troll attempt though? Moreso than any activity they do? They’ve always been boasting about their supposed achievements. Posting a highlight reel when joining a platform alone doesn’t seem indicative. What else are they gonna do. Join with no introductory post? Join and be self-critical?

Not every public opposition is about changing the message targets opinion. Calling those who are willing to invest in making opposition visible idiots…

If you ignore toxicity in communities it festers and poisons the communities.

Tesla should be fined and forced to change when saying or responding with “despite its name self driving is not self driving”. They continue to lie. With continued consequences. At the cost of others and the public.

Them responding as such is absurd. Them getting away with that even more so.

By changing one pixel it’s no longer signed by the original author. What are you trying to say?

The “Use the selected profile without asking at startup” checkbox in the dialog is not there on mac?

The screeshots shows functionality that the current profile/profile launch UI already has. Choose, create, ask on startup.

Right now it’s hidden behind a startup parameter. But honestly, I would prefer a UI between the current one and the new one. That screenshot looks like it would reduce usability through big spacing and suboptimal alignment. At least judging by my preferences.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles?redirectslug=profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles&redirectlocale=en-US#w_start-the-profile-manager-when-firefox-is-closed

I guess adding a picture is nice. But does it have to be that huge and prominent?