Madrigal

No shit. Even opening a Word document now requires me to close two separate Copilot interfaces that open automatically and capture focus: one that auto-summarises the document, and one that wants me to use it to edit the document.

This is at work, of course. At home I switched to Linux rather than “upgrade” to Win 11.

Bug fixing is not a reason to enable massive privacy violations.

That much is true.

you can send it to a server

Yes, because web browsers, under current web architecture, allow this.

This is entirely my point.

That can all be done 100% client side. The server does not need this information.

Here’s the information a web server needs to deliver content to a browser:

• The requested resource
• An IP address
• User credentials (sometimes)

Everything else is a fucking security hole. There’s no good reason for servers to know what extensions you have installed, what OS you’re running, the dimensions of your browser window, where your mouse cursor is positioned, or any one of a thousand other data points that browsers freely hand over.

Still don’t really understand why browsers expose this data to sites.

Web browsers are just such a massive security hole.

Given that Microsoft’s own people are publicly using the phrase “Garbage In, Garbage Amplified”, perhaps garbage amplifiers is a suitable term for these products.

Doesn’t look remotely like the guy in that original mugshot they were flashing around.

This shit pre-dates “AI”. AI just lets them do it faster and cheaper.

Stop feeding it.

Your money, or your personal data, used for whatever damned purpose they choose.

That’s really the choice.

It was the last version I needed. Six months gaming on Linux and I haven’t looked back.

The way I see it, they think GenAI is the new portal to information, the way search has been for the last 25-30 years. They want to control that portal, because it’s worth trillions over time.

This is why they’re cramming it into everything and worrying about use cases later. It’s a land grab.