red_pigeon

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[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. A few questions, if I may.

Are you running ollama in the same system as the one consuming it ? If yes does it always run in background ? Does it impact performance of other applications when it runs in background?

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 29 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I’m not a windows fan boy, in fact I haven’t used one in years, and have no intentions to.

But this is a weird way of thinking about MS shenanigans.

  • Hate it or like it, windows update is still an update to your system, to fix security vulnerabilities even. I wish they had implemented it in a user friendly way. But it is NOT a thing that disrupts you with ill intent as you mentioned here.
  • That is a task manager running some process. But no indication on what the process is !
  • Enabled by default is an horrible design decision no matter who does it. I agree on that. But this is NOT unauthorised access. You signed up for it when you decided to use windows.

Again I don’t like MS. Hate them for their bad decisions, but don’t hate them by misrepresenting them.

(My comment is only about this screenshot posted here)

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Missed opportunity to re-brand clippy

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Deletor by created

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Honestly at first read, the paper feels like a bunch of whining text to prove a point the author believes in without any alternate proposal.

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Isn't web scraping copying ?

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Come on. Stop reading the comments. Go check the article.

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

No longer a minor, but still a kid for not understanding it !

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

What's the point of this feature ? If it were not evil, what problem would it solve ? How often do you go to your PC and think "what was that thing I saw but never thought to create a bookmark or save the link/image".

Even if people use it, it would be for something they missed because they thought it was unimportant or didn't interest them, which is a very rare use case.

And still it is a highlight feature !

I wonder if it is lack of ideas or lack of commitment to create a good idea , given a technology, when these kinds of useless features are launched.

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Also one or a few people turning it off doesn't matter much. The tech giants still get their demographic statistics from the ones who haven't (which is the larger percentage of the population). You could be spending money on things based on targeted ads for your demographic.

In other words, you are creeped out about wondering what they could do with your personal data if you turn it on. But you should be even more creeped out about how your daily decisions are already influenced by them using others data

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