Microsoft just announced that screenshots will become one of "Pro" "AI features" (why does it need ai?) as Windows transitions to a subscription model.

Ha! 😂
Good one!

It probably analyzes everything what is going on on the screen making it searchable. The indexing costs resources I suppose. I see Microsoft recall becoming a big thing actually.

Wouldn't surprise me

big brother is watching and cataloguing for the CIA

What is the source?

@whimsical I see people mass revolting against this feature.

But the way microsoft things is the same way all corporations think: psychopathically.

They think, fuck it the boomers will reject it, because they reject what they don't understand, but all the boomers will be dead soon.

Gen x will move to linux, but EEE will get them in the end.

Millennials would reject it, accept they'll all an hero, or are broke anyway, or will die in ww3, so they don't matter.

And gen z will embrace it because all the versions coming out as they come of age, will be subscription-based by default.

@Wisecrack bold of you to assume that capitalists are evern able to think that long-term. All they need is short-term megaprofits. "Make the line go up, Elon. Now."

If you say "well, let's prioritize long-term" or "short-term growth is not sustainable", they immediately eliminate you and appoint new CEO that says "yes, I can make the line go up".

We completely and irreversibly destroyed our planet, but for a very very short time, we made very very big profits for the shareholders.

@kiki btw government by law says a publicly traded company must make as much profits as possible. they can't not do it by law

@jestdotty @chatgpt does the US law says that publicly traded companies must make as much profits as possible?

@kiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

ha they think it's misinfo now. but if everyone believes it then everyone follows it so it doesn't matter. and saying "well we can't uphold it really" is lazy excuse. now the legal profession is making excuses for itself (at least on Wikipedia). that's concerning

@jestdotty 1:1 map of the world is as large as the world itself

@jestdotty the corporations lobbied for those laws if those laws exist at all.

The solution is to get those precedents reversed.

The other solution is to get rid of the governments and corporations enforcing the status quo, but thats a bit extreme, and naturally I list it here only with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek!

@Wisecrack Ah yes I also like [new government] more than [old government] ;P

Or the big orange needs to pass an executive order like he did for debanking recently

@BordedDev bandaid on a bullet wound.

Ostracizing subsets of the population millions strong is how you get fighting in the streets eventually.

And as I have too many friends on both sides, I naturally mourn the death of casual political dialogue.

@Wisecrack Agreed on the dialogue, but let's not get it twisted families/friends breaking up over politics is a tale as old as time, it's one of the reasons it's considered taboo in the workspace to talk about (or was at least).

The ostracising is true though, that's why there is such a political leaning swing happening in voting

@BordedDev I wanna go back to apolitical workplaces. now it's HR pushing it

BUY CANADIAN

@jestdotty but dotty, theres no canadians for sale!