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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Had no idea Antarctica had this little land. A lot of flow paths for melt to the ocean. Greenland on the other hand, can have much of its galcier melt into inland lake.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

it's specifically saying that "one day" it will be made untrustworthy.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So uhm, copilot just told us not to use these new copilot features.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I asked copilot...

How would Microsoft loyalty to US or other government's national security possibly compromise a user's PC if that user gives copilot permission to operate their PC?

How national-security or law-enforcement demands could lead to compromise

  • Compelled access to data Microsoft controls — If Microsoft stores or indexes any of your Copilot data in the cloud, Microsoft can be required by lawful process to produce that data to U.S. or other governments with legal jurisdiction.
  • Compelled changes to services — Governments can issue orders that require providers to change logging, enable access, or install monitoring in ways that may be secret or accompanied by gag orders.
  • Access to telemetry and diagnostics — Diagnostic or telemetry data that Copilot or Windows collects can include evidence of your activity and may be producible under legal request.
  • Local features that capture content — Features designed to assist (for example, an automated “Recall” that snapshots screens) create local records of sensitive material that increase exposure risk if accessed by an authorized party.
  • Remote-control or agent capabilities — If Copilot is granted elevated permissions (input control, script execution, system configuration), those same capabilities could be exercised under legal compulsion or via back-end access mechanisms.
  • Software updates and maintenance — Lawful orders can compel vendors to ship updates or config changes that alter how a product behaves, increasing access to user systems.

Practical ways those legal obligations could manifest on your PC

  • Production of synced or cloud-stored Copilot logs, prompts, or screenshots to authorities.
  • Microsoft being required to provide live access or historical logs from back-end services that the Copilot agent uses.
  • A secret court order or national security letter forcing Microsoft to enable additional logging, monitoring, or remote access for a targeted account or device.
  • Disclosure of keys, tokens, or server-side records that tie on-device events to your identity.

Why elevated permissions matter

  • Read access to files and memory lets an agent capture documents, credentials, or keys.
  • Input/automation control enables actions on your behalf (open files, send messages, change settings).
  • Persistence (services/agents) makes it easier for any compelled access to be effective and harder for you to detect or disable.

Risk-reduction steps you can take now

  • Limit permissions: Grant only the minimal Copilot privileges needed; avoid giving input control, admin rights, or system-level automation.
  • Disable features that capture content: Turn off any screen-snapshot or automatic indexing/Recall-like features if you don’t need them.
  • Avoid cloud syncing for sensitive data: Keep sensitive files off services that sync or index them in the cloud.
  • Prefer on-device-only models: Use local-only AI modes when available so prompts and context do not leave your machine.
  • Use full-disk and file-level encryption with keys you control; avoid storing keys where the vendor could be compelled to retrieve them.
  • Harden account security: Use strong, unique passwords and MFA on accounts tied to Copilot or Microsoft services.
  • Audit logs and telemetry: Review and reduce diagnostic/telemetry settings; regularly review logs for unexpected activity.
  • Segmentation: Use a separate machine or VM for highly sensitive work so a general-purpose Copilot-enabled device doesn’t hold those secrets.
  • Legal & contractual protections: For high-risk contexts, seek contractual commitments, data residency options, or legal counsel about how a vendor handles lawful demands.

Quick practical checklist

  • Turn off automatic screenshot/Recall features.
  • Remove admin permissions from Copilot agent.
  • Keep sensitive work on a non-synced, encrypted volume.
  • Use local-only AI options where offered.
  • Enable and monitor endpoint and network logging for unusual remote access.

Short conclusion Allowing Copilot to operate your PC raises the surface where lawful government demands or compelled actions could expose data or enable access. The likelihood and scope depend on which features you enable (especially cloud sync, screen capture, and elevated permissions) and the legal jurisdiction over the vendor or the data. Minimize permissions, disable content-capture features, and isolate truly sensitive workflows to reduce exposure.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

There is a systemic gender advantage of opposite gender wanting to be your friend more than the other way around.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago

I don't know what the manosphere is. PUA/Andrew Tate try to elevate men's self esteem. Whether denying men's insecurities is targetting them is grey area. Incels as a defeated group moaning to each other about defeat, get piled on with a lot of supremacist hate, mostly from women/women's groups.

Where is the "bully like" fashion? It can't be "acting like a role model".

Chritofascists, who primarily serve Zionist supremacist establishment, or Feminazis, lie to their audience, but aren't bullying their adherents. They are boosting their "deserved supremacism" by diminishing the rights/humanity of their "inferior" enemies. Supremacists sell "you too can have my advantages if you join us". It can be wrong without it being classified as bullying.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Even if you normalize the supremacist right to diminish Russia, and the usefulness of pig vermin nazis paid to destroy Ukraine to engage in your supremacist vision, such idiocy is entirely and purely for selling out Europe to US dominance. Origins of war were about nordstream, and EU energy capture, even as EU did good job transitioning away from extortionist energy. The CIA stooge NATO members have as only purpose to deliver US miltiary subservience.

Even for demonic supremacists, as their unquestionable nature, whether Russia can be diminished instead of strengthened should be a key decision factor. Certainly more terrorism inside Russia is more Russia diminishment, but it's only hatred of Ukrainians that justify it, and hatred of low European Sievert counts to justify Tomahawks. Supremacists lose wars when they overestimate their supremacism, believe their lies, and pretend their lies have any influence on the enemies they hate. While west just kept lying as a strategy, Russia increased military production 30%+ per year.

Even if you want Russia to do as poorly as the US has made NATO members do poorly, the best strategy is to force it to transition to a peacetime economy.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (15 children)

weird take. There's certainly a feminist supremacist sphere active in demonizing and diminishing "less attractive" men, and women, feminist or not, have always enjoyed the privilege of men seeking their friendship with more passion than other way around. Friendly women of low attractiveness levels have more opportunities to have their sexuality validated.

This is just a supremacist take on demonizing men further.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

CIA stooges look out for each other.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well past time for Ukrainian nazi regime to fall, and Europe to seek new leaders not beholden to past CIA agenda with political capital tied into Hitler/Napoleon suicidal fantasies, gaslighting their people into supremacist Russophobia, and denying their support for provoking and perpetuating this war. UK general published "capitulation on this demonism is national security interest."

Ukraine lost any right/entitlement to enslave Donbas in 2014, and Russia's proposal to just withdraw from Donetsk is a compromise/softening of their demands in April. Weekly Russian progress on the ground, will gain their territory demands and more within a year, but it is Ukraine's forever terrorist ambitions (Tomahawks) that must be exterminated/denazified for peace.

This is also very important in liberating Europe. 5% of GDP on US weapons with austerity to impoverish the entire continent, while being subject to continuous economic threats from US that only intensify as response to sycophancy, and military threats after Greenland invasion, needs guillotines to deal with the traitorous rulership that agree to the submission. Peace with Russia means not needing militarism and not getting annihilated/nuked for militarism.

This is same peace proposal as Alaska summit. The demonic CIA/NATO EU minions STFUing this time instead of submitting to US trade deal in hope of destroying Europe makes an end to war on Russia very likely.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

There are a lot of videos on this renaissance. Maybe an advance in electronics will make it worthwhile in hardware.

One area ternary is investigated is LLMs/classification. Bitnet was the pioneer model..

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

no no no... just for today... this is shit on America day.

 

On desktops, I have seen problems (not direct experience) with getting full speed from 4x64gb ram sticks. Will 5600ddr 2x64gb sodims be stable on a budget (BOSGAME 7840hs) mini pc?

For use with LLMs, I doubt the 780m can have great (usable?) performance for models that would need 128gb (with context for coding). 96gb is decent price/size value. But is 64gb simply enough for what you would practically use?

 

For coding AI, it could make sense to specialize models on architecture, functional/array split from loopy solutions, or just asking 4 separate small models, and then using a judge model to pick the best parts of each.

 

video covers general science and tech as well.

The lawyer focus of US is an interesting angle. Fails to mention the corruption of political system/discourse to protect the "innovator's dilemma".

Kodak was not able to buy the entire political and information system of the US to block digital film. The Oil industry is able to ally with enough influencers/donors to control world in ever more desperate means.

innovation (disruption) is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity.

OP avoids saying that the US no longer has freedom and is doomed to collapse, but the above quote used to be pro-American.

 

Can't find the source from google or Janus. Likely suppression. Survey results are fairly early in video.

These numbers are up since July and August. Zelensky cannot hold onto rulership/war with elections.

 

Carney a disappointment in terms of US/alternative relations progress, but somehow economic forecasts for Canada are better than the US.

 

Bitcoin is a better gold than gold. The US is officially exploring how to start a strategic bitcoin reserve without debt. The clear and obvious solution is selling its $1T in gold reserves before every other country, to buy into bitcoin, getting in ahead of other countries, and creating significant profit for treasury and insiders who front run treasury plan.

 

Underlying the baseless murder of a boat near Venezuela, the narco government of Columbia, BFF with US empire, is responsible for the source of drugs.

Direct US war crimes is providing cover/distraction for US supported Israel war crimes

 

A murder has been committed against a group of citizens using lethal force,” added Cabello, questioning how the US could determine whether drugs were on the boat and why the people were not instead arrested.

This part is naive. A drone/plane just bombed a boat that looked suspicious. Technology to surrender to planes/drones has not yet been developed.

BUT....

The drone/plane was able to find heading/position of this boat, and that information would have helped a coast guard/navy ship able to go and investigate its activities.

Murder/war crimes were cheaper, but to the point, more distracting from other 30 scandals.

 

Europe doubles down on its propaganda self diminishment by praising its democratic processes. Germany of all places "one of most successful democracies in the world"

CDU deeply devoted to least democratic nations of US, Ukraine, and Israel, with Zionazi supremacist law enforcement, effectively AfD policy agenda (AfD bad, CDU good because CDU is pro NATO), pure demonic lies in warmongering against Russia, complete support for terrorist origins of Nordstream, Austerity for warmongering for ultra sycophancy to US.

As the US agenda clearly is the economic destruction of Europe, Europe/Germany is buying US weapons to gift to nazis for war on Russia. Romania was not allowed to have an anti-NATO party. Atlanticist/CIA/NATO media not only needs to lie to citizens about the prosperity of suicidal defeat to Russia, it needs to praise itself for democracy.

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