Well, pretty sure the cops thought it was a great idea.

No, it doesn't mean they are going it "one way or another". This is an feature you can turn on or off in powertoys. And since it's open source, you can audit it yourself if you have doubts.

You mean the MS Recall that processes data 100% on device and doesn't send any of it to Microsoft? Now I have to ask WTF are you trying to say?

You just making shit up to strawman now?

Going back to this

The last line of OP's post is to a article titled "New Research: AI Is Already the #1 Data Exfiltration Channel in the Enterprise". So yea, I think they were implying data exfil even with local AI processing in the powertoy application (you know the thing we are actually talking about here).

Powertoys, Microsoft Foundry Local, and Ollama are all open source, so show us the code where they are 'still listening to and record [sic] everything':
https://github.com/microsoft/P...
https://github.com/ollama/olla...
https://github.com/microsoft/F...

That is exactly the issue this is solving for.

This is impossible for an AI or even a human to do. An AI will never be able to tell just from a photo if you glass has Coke or Diet Coke, if your dressing is full-fat or light, if that soup was made with cream or milk, or if your cupcake is made from fortified flour or a gluten free, unfortified alternative. Thinking it can is just a pipe-dream. But AI is hot so got to put AI in everything. I saw a post with an AI ready screen protector for a phone the other day. WTF?

What they could do is have AI identify how many main dishes and sides are in a shot, take general guesses as to what they are, then prompt the user for details. It might save a bit of time on the user's part, but probably not enough to be worth the time, effort, and inference cost to do it.

This.

My take on vibe coding is simple: Don't.

At least not the way most people understand it. I'm totally ok with having an AI do the tedious work. But only do it on stuff you could do yourself (i.e. you're just saving time). Because otherwise, you'll never be able to maintain it.

This, in general, is the whole problem: The entire "vibe coding" movement only worries about CREATING code. But in the real world, maintaining, updating, refactoring, reviewing, testing, bugfixing, etc. etc. are typically more effort than writing it in the first place.

ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and a bunch of others are down. The panic is hilarious.

They are cyborgs. There, saved you a click.

Fuck debit cards. A: no rewards. My current card pays a % of purchases back as cash. I'd literally be losing money if I swapped to a debit card. B: if the card number is stolen (and let's face it this day and age it will be at some point) it's MY money being stolen not the bank's. If you have a good bank they will fix it quickly but it's still a lot more hassle that if it happens with a credit card. If you have the means and discipline to pay it off every month, credit card is the way to go. Bonus: the card issuer will hate you for costing them money.

Real Life Lore did a video on it recently as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I use Firefox daily and have for several years now and I have never, once, run into this issue.

Been a while since I've flown a budget airline. On the normal flights I've taken, there's always a few people (usually older people) with paper boarding passes.

Sure, you just need to look for elevated gaydosterone levels.

I used to think this but given the number of people who put cloud enabled security cameras all over the inside of their homes, I'm starting to wonder if that's true.

So you concede you were talking out your ass when you said "Most of them have a 0-60 time of eventually." Got it.

I've been assured by the best non-experts in the world on social media that viruses don't exist. Personally I think it's caused by the body trying detox all those chemtrail poisons they spray us with.