MacNCheezus

MacNCheezus , vor 13 Tagen

For regular PCs or laptops, which generally have at most one of each type of adapter, I don't see any reason not to.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

In order to be certified for running Recall, machines currently must have an NPU (Neural Processing Unit, basically an AI coprocessor). I assume that is what makes it practical to do by offloading the required computation from the CPU.

Apparently it IS possible to circumvent that requirement using a hack, which is what some of the researchers reporting on it have done, but I haven't read any reports on how that affects CPU usage in practice.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

Llava and Bakllava are two Ollama models than can not only extract text but also describe what's happening on screen.

Using tesseract-ocr, as the other guy suggested, is probably simpler and less resource intensive though.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

It appears to be as simple as tesseract <infile> <outfile>. Possibly could even pipe (or tee) the screenshot straight into that and save both an image and a text file in a single command line.

So something like this should do the trick:

gnome-screenshot -f - | tee /Microsoft/yourPrivacy/$(date +%s).png | tesseract - /Microsoft/yourPrivacy/$(date +%s).txt

Skip the database, just use grep to search that directory if you need to find anything. Voilà, homemade Recall.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

I’m sure there are many ways to improve on this solution, but they would all require significantly more effort (ElasticSearch isn’t exactly trivial to set up).

This is really just a proof of concept, the most minimal viable implementation that gets you something similar in terms of functionality.

For instance, Windows Recall stores OCR content tagged by app, this solution doesn’t. Also, as others have mentioned, a practical implementation should likely check if anything has changed at all and discard any screenshots that don’t have any new data.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

I hate how long it took me to figure out the intended meaning of this tweet.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

So you're saying there IS a chance...

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

I find it hilarious that Linux users STILL continue to hate on Windows Update when memes like this exist.

In my experience, Linux wants to update itself far more frequently than Windows (which is really generally no more than once a month these days), and it DOESN'T EVEN OFFER THE OPTION of automatically postponing it to a more convenient time. Yes, you can always say "not now", but then it'll just keep bugging you again until you say yes.

Ironically, at this point, updates on Linux are basically everything that Windows used to get made fun of in the past (for good reason!), but while the situation has actually improved on Windows, on Linux it's only become worse as distributions grow and updates become even more frequent.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

Technically correct. The registry was introduced in Windows 95. But ever since then, fucking with it has been a thing.

MacNCheezus , vor einem Monat

Or messing with text configuration files in various different formats

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

If you could shitpost on Lemmy but no one was around to upvote it, would you still do it?

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

On vacation, I assume?

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

Thots will literally cease to exist if no one validates their presence for five minutes, everyone knows that.

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

For men.

For women, it’s to brag about it and make all their friends jealous.

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

Haha, nice.

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 12 years and this sounds really comfy tbh

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

Depends on where in Russia you start. Going from Moscow is gonna take a LOT longer than from Vladivostok.

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

I mean, not flying over other countries actually makes sense in this case because we’re talking about military aircraft. Flying those into another country’s airspace could be considered an act of war.

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

Using Chinese characters instead of Arabic numerals is the equivalent of spelling out numbers in English.

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

Technically, they already did that once, back in 1861...

MacNCheezus , vor 2 Monaten

I'm sorry, what is the problem here exactly? Are there default pinned app from their partners (I think I see Disney+) in the start menu, because I certainly don't see any advertisement banners.

FWIW I'm on Windows 11 and have the latest update installed (just checked, nothing new there, but I recall installing one a day or two ago), and I'm happy to report it did not make any changes to the apps I had pinned. All available space was already taken up by my own pins so that might have something to do with it, but I definitely don't feel like they've been trying to push something on me that I didn't ask for.

As far as Edge goes, I don't really care what they do to that because I simply do not use it.

MacNCheezus , vor 3 Monaten

That’s a long time ago. Didn’t that happen in the 90s?

MacNCheezus , vor 3 Monaten

My brother in Christ, I don't know what planet you live on, but here on Earth, that was 30 years ago no matter where you live. And to my knowledge, none of the games and/or bands actually got cancelled because of it except on an individual basis (i.e. if you parents forbid you to have them at home). But in that case, we simply went to a friend's house to play or listen to them there, so I'm not sure that this is really something worth getting all worked up over.

MacNCheezus OP , vor 4 Monaten

Perhaps. I'm honestly not sure how this kitchen could have cost anywhere near 15 grand. The cabinets are all just repainted and the stove doesn't look particularly extravagant.

Maybe if the floor is real marble/granite?

MacNCheezus OP , vor 4 Monaten

Yeah, at this point in time I basically just assume everything is fake until proven real.

And I've been around some of these house flippers, they love to brag in public about how much money and effort they're spending to renovate these houses but in private they always brag about how much money they're saving by cutting various corners and getting everything done on the cheap.

MacNCheezus OP , vor 4 Monaten

Do it. Do it now.