Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs / Microsoft’s groundbreaking new AI-powered tool can search and recall anything you’ve seen or done on your PC like a personal historian. - Upgoat

Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs / Microsoft’s groundbreaking new AI-powered tool can search and recall anything you’ve seen or done on your PC like a personal historian.
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to technology 1 yearMay 20, 2024 15:52:28 ago (+7/-0) (www.theverge.com)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event

Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.

The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more. All you need to do is perform a “Recall” action, which is like an AI-powered search, and it’ll present a snapshot of that period of time that gives you context of the memory.

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[ - ] Tallest_Skil 10 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 15:55:10 ago (+10/-0)

Yay! Total and perpetual surveillance, performing a psychological and ideological analysis and mapping of every single person that uses the software, sending it to the government, and allowing them to predict your beliefs, behaviors, and actions therefrom! Where do I sign up!

[ + ] dosvydanya_freedomz

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 3 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 15:57:56 ago (+3/-0)

it is exactly as you say but you know what the goy will lap it up

[ + ] Indoctrinated_USA

[ - ] Indoctrinated_USA 1 point 1 yearMay 20, 2024 21:36:28 ago (+1/-0)

If Linux could get it's shit together in the graphic environment, I'd be there right now.
I used it for a couple years in a server environment and hated every minute of it, now even getting things like security keys to work in desktop is a nightmare if you're using anything but yubico.
Stepped in to Mint a year ago just to see and just setting up my rgb keyboard took 41 steps.
Nope.

[ + ] dosvydanya_freedomz

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 0 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 23:51:06 ago (+0/-0)

If Linux could get it's shit together in the graphic environment, I'd be there right now.

m2, there's a linux distro for gaming called chimera OS but like you say it has issues with nvidia drivers so until that improves i will have to deal with windows. for all its faults, gaming is way more stable playing in this environment than on linux proper.

hey with so many nerds that exists out there i'm suprised that there isnt another robust operating system similar to both linux and windows.

i know that mac OS is sort of a rival to windows but it employs the same anti privacy crap.

how hard it is to create an OS from scratch?

[ + ] Indoctrinated_USA

[ - ] Indoctrinated_USA 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 01:48:51 ago (+0/-0)*

I imagine it's crazy hard, but Linux has had decades and they can't seem to figure it out.
Linux is the absolute mandate moving forward but currently it resides firmly in the headless OS enthusiast niche - and that's not something that works for over 96% of the pc userbase.

Like I said, my inability to get my security keys working was a non-starter for me... You would think that security would be a foundational aspect of Linux, but it's just not there yet.

I hope they pull it together but ever since Indians took over Microsoft, it's become an aggressively invasive, hostile, environment. Ten was bad, Eleven is worse... I'm afraid what a nightmare Twelve will be.

[ + ] PotatoWhisperer2

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 04:40:45 ago (+0/-0)

how hard it is to create an OS from scratch?

A modern one? Several hundred of the brightest White software engineers of the modern era paid unholy sums of money for a couple of decades might get something off the ground that could rival Windows. You'd have to protect them from continual attacks from TPTB of every sort.

Or you could go with technojank Terry Davis' TempleOS. Which is actually kind of fun to play around with in a VM.

I mean, there's no real OS that does everything well.

[ + ] BrokenVoat

[ - ] BrokenVoat 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 06:58:52 ago (+0/-0)

No idea what world you live in but linux debian is easier to install than win11. Linux install is like installing win95 in the 90s. Microsoft has made winfows products much worse than open source.

[ + ] Indoctrinated_USA

[ - ] Indoctrinated_USA 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 07:44:31 ago (+0/-0)

I live in a literate world, it's the same as the regular world but in this one, words matter.

Installing Linux was effortless, I didn't claim otherwise and so your first point is moot.
Windows 11 is a shit show and I fear Twelve will be worse; I already said as much - second claim reached and still no valid point to be found.
And as I arrive at the end of your statement I find not one aspect of it worth having read...
Yes, Microsoft keeps making worse and worse products - which I said right up above, just one post back.
It seems we agreed on every point prior to having wasted each others time with your reply.

Despite it all, Linux desktop commands less than 4% of the pc OS market, so while it might be technically superior in some aspects - it's clearly not better.
If Linux is ever going to succeed, it must become better to a significantly larger demographic than it commands right now.

[ + ] PotatoWhisperer2

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1 yearMay 21, 2024 04:43:52 ago (+1/-0)

There's no real reason to use such a tool for anything other than total surveillance. If you keep a tidy file system you don't have to "replay" anything. You already know where everything is. Everyone knows how to properly do backups, and if you don't there's software and videos to walk you through it.

This is the most thin excuse for the most big-brother shit I've seen yet.

[ - ] Prairie 2 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 20:07:21 ago (+2/-0)

So basically they're letting us use the tools governments have had all along?

[ - ] CowboyHenk 2 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 16:23:50 ago (+2/-0)

They should call it Total Recall.

But jokes aside that would be awesome tool, IF implemented locally and properly secured. I assume it would need to store a complete render or maybe a datastream of every website visited, and make some keyword index.

Local cache of all viewed images and videos would also be nice, provided a sufficient disk space. Have any of you Goats seen such a piece of software? I think I once saw something that attached to chromium browesers that could record all data from remote servers in a database, and could replay it at will. Thus you could visit websites without accessing the original servers, but only within places that you clicked. Nice, but I think it could be done better, maybe with some kind of MITM proxy?

[ + ] RevengeOfNeri

[ - ] RevengeOfNeri 4 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 16:27:32 ago (+4/-0)

Implemented locally snd properly secured. LOL, are you on crack!

[ + ] dosvydanya_freedomz

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 3 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 16:29:40 ago (+3/-0)

yeah no everything will end up "in the cloud" servers at utah

[ + ] oyveyo

[ - ] oyveyo 2 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 17:05:35 ago (+2/-0)

Thinking ANYTHING is secure on a modern computer is hilarious.

[ + ] CowboyHenk

[ - ] CowboyHenk 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 00:34:32 ago (+0/-0)

Well, I guess you're right, IME and all. I was thinking more along the lines of such a system being secured against simple threats, such as snoopy spouses, their lawyers and pigs. I assume that higher echelons of enemies already have something similiar in place. We're fucked.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 1 yearMay 20, 2024 22:53:56 ago (+1/-0)

I'm still waiting for Johnny Cab

[ - ] ClaytonBigsby313 1 point 1 yearMay 20, 2024 19:53:38 ago (+1/-0)

I'm joining the amish community. Later guys/

[ - ] Jimmycrackerson 1 point 1 yearMay 20, 2024 17:16:13 ago (+1/-0)

Let's market this as a tool I'll be able to use that is super duper beneficial to me.

When in reality it will only be used against me. People never fucking learn.

[ - ] SecretHitler 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 02:56:50 ago (+0/-0)

I was ready to switch back to Linux anyway.

[ - ] NoRefunds 0 points 1 yearMay 21, 2024 01:05:46 ago (+0/-0)

As a guy that does DR, this isn't really possible.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 22:53:21 ago (+0/-0)

@greensaints fucked.

[ - ] AnonymousLex 0 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 17:53:50 ago (+0/-0)

I've been doing this manually for about 12 years or so, it is nice to have activities sorted by date as I can see where I was at and what I was doing but there's no way I'd ever allow a company to automate that for me

[ - ] 2plus2equals5 0 points 1 yearMay 20, 2024 17:19:33 ago (+0/-0)*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberstalking is a bad thing, m'kay?

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act for copying (stealing) proprietary data without paying for it.
$250k fine and 5 years in prison for each incident.
Doesn't even have to be for commercial or financial gain.

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