Some footage of tesla’s full self driving disagrees.

Firefox has a tendency to embed optional extensions as impossible to uninstall core features these days, so it would not change much.

Sure you can. You can also spend time disabling intrusive telemetry, you can also spend time reverting half the UI changes (not the other half though), you can also spend time removing integrated services you don’t use but are still running, you can (regularly) change back some settings that gets reverted every once in a while, you can also block some IP to prevent intrusive ads, you can toggle off part of the “user experience” that bloat the lockscreen…

Or you could, I don’t know, not have to do any of that and still have a working system that’s not trying to bend you over.

Great, another victory of people keeping IP in closed box away from the public at the small cost of culture disappearing.

I believe the appropriate, corporate-friendly answer in this case is “go fuck yourself”

Oh, yeah, thanks for these researchers to have provided insightful feedback such as “don’t record private activity”, “don’t store data in a plaintext user-accessible sqlite database”, and “don’t do that automatically to everyone elligible, what are you thinking no stop”. No way anyone could ever figure these out beforehand. Microsoft was totally stumped when these showed up and most certainly is very honest when they say they’re reworking it now, and not at all abusing the PR outrage to slip us something as bad in the meantime.

Interesting, we get to either hate them for going full big brother, or hate them for going full adobe in the first place. It’s nice to have a choice sometimes.

The “solution” is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it, and ultimately still gets accused of tailoring the results and censoring stuff.

Let’s put that toy back in the toy box, and keep it at the few things it can do well instead of trying to fix every non-broken things with it.

What a coincidence. I had to install a W11 machine for a relative. The amount of backward decision in the first 20 minutes of checking the settings is mind boggling. Really? Can’t open the start menu on “all apps”? Not even an option?

“Freeing up memory and eliminating unused apps and files” sounds like the kind of bullshit app we have on Android already. Why bring that to PC.

My music library is hosted on my server, automatically synced locally on fixed devices and played from local files most of the time. Streaming services combine the advantage of sometimes disappearing, altering, removing content with the other advantage of needing an active internet connection at all time. That’s neither a good thing nor an efficient thing when the alternative is cheap and works all the time from everywhere.

Of course, I know this is not the most common use case; most people usually don’t care about any of this (and usually complain when something break). But it exists.

A few months ago, I had trouble with Firefox on Android, so I started looking again in the settings; something you really rarely do in a browser. Finding a few things like data collection, usage data, marketing data, and “occasional studies” being all enabled by default sure reminded me that Mozilla isn’t what it used to be.

In addition to being able to run the exact same thing on that phone you already have, too.

Their device does not have any specific hardware for their usage. Even if Google and Apple don’t bring any improvement to their own solution, soon enough someone is bound to just provide an “assistant AI app” with a subscription, proxying openai requests and using the touchscreen, camera, micro and speaker that are already there instead of making you buy a new set of those.

I’m sure these “engineers” were confused everytime they saw an elevator door not mercilessly crush people.

And nothing of value was produced.

Exactly what people want: more ads.

It’s not a matter of excusing it. Distribution of someone’s picture without their explicit consent, and anything like that, is inexcusable. But we’re talking about the generation of said content, which technically can’t be stopped without seriously restraining everything.

Any of these large business coming out to explicitly say “this will not happen” is concerning.

Well, it would not be fun if people suddenly voted against themselves just to do the right thing for everyone.

If there was a fiable framework for that in use by most applications, it’s fairly safe to say it would still have exceptions for the OS’s provided apps, “to improve the user experience”.