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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

with all the tech ceos suddenly "sounding the alarm" about the AI bubble bursting and shoveling "bloatware/spyware" into all thier devices and softwares its not really surprising.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

You have been warned. We're still doing it, but at least we did warn you. The fuckery of MicroShit knows no bounds.

[–] ProjectPatatoe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for reminding me to block this feature at work.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Um … no thanks.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Where are the techbros that warned me of malware since W10 is EOL? Do you like your new AI built-in malware, cunts?

God, I gotta switch to Mint for good...

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 5 points 8 hours ago

i hate this so very, very much

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.

Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:

DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh

https://youtu.be/O7BI4jfEFwA

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

So going forward, social engineering will also be applicable to some computers themselves instead of just the users.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 18 points 14 hours ago

Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

windows 11 big button status confirmed.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 15 points 16 hours ago

What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 27 points 19 hours ago

Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be killing that service asap

[–] tym@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Bold to assume your registry won't restore last known 'good' config. Linux mint with quickemu is a great way to use Windows if you have to.

[–] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Meanwhile I am rather happy that my older (gaming) PC is not suitable for Win11 anymore, due to TPM (first I was rather disappointed). For my daily stuff I use a MacBook Pro and the old Windows PC will eventually become a Linux PC.

The only problem is my work PC/Laptop, which runs on Win11 (my company wenn "all in" MS-Cloud and stuff), and which I occasionally also use to access some private files (which rest in an encrypted cryptomator vault, when not used).

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 18 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Um, just in case, I'll have you know that I name all my folders "trans porn". It doesn't mean anything in particular.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

I think I may have caused some confusion and after some research I can see why.

Naturally I was referring to transistors and transformers, and pictures thereof. Ha ha lol guys can we forget this now?

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Transporners, more than meats the eye

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named "trans porn" would mean that there isn't a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

New organizing system just dropped. It's just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

I think I could honestly get away with 128 deep paths. I don't use more than twenty unique folders in my day-to-day computing. It might be difficult to get the various programs on board with my trans porn name for each folder, but that's what tinkering is for, eh?

[–] incompetent@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Did you post the wrong link? Yours is about "Maximum Path Length Limitation" and the number 128 doesn't appear anywhere on that page. The max path length is 256 characters.

Where did you read that "you can now have 128 files in your filesystem?"

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

If you want to encode information into only the depth of your recursive identically named folders, you have 128 different depths, one character for the name, one for the slash, per level. Yields about 128 possible levels. Leave one off for the last filename, 127.

If we want to name our folders something longer than a single character, we can store less files. If we want to store our files on linux, by default we get 4096 characters to play with, so about 2k levels (unless we compile our own linux kernel with PATH_MAX set for this very specific purpose). If we run CIFS we may be able to reach up to 16k levels.

That was my interpretation of OPs (admittedly bad) idea. Personally, I try to avoid implementing inodes as Church numerals.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 41 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I've picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.

Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I'm sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn't locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.

[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they'd just "yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me".

They'd get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

I have to use TaskManager now to disable co-pilot

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I guarantee you they will solve it by lobbying to get rid of HIPA

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

At some point, all that juicy sweet medical data will be worth the 8 figure bribe to several congressmen to allow thebsale of access to the data for 'research' use to amazon and google.

All that data is private, until it isnt.

Dont be so innocent to think that hipaa data will never be sold, it will be eventually

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 12 points 20 hours ago

Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Planning on spending a months wages building a monster rig that runs Windows 11?

Cool. When it's done just take whatever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.

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