Disabling #Windows #AI features organization-wide using #GroupPolicy.

This will turn off #Recall (the periodic screenshot service) and #Copilot (the AI assistant service).

1. Download and install the Windows 11 24H2 administrative template files: microsoft.com/en-us/download/d…

2. Add the files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows 11 Sep 2024 Update (24H2)\PolicyDefinitions to C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions on the domain controller.

3. Start Group Policy Management on the domain controller.

4. Create a group policy object with these values:

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows AI > Turn off Saving Snapshots for Windows = enabled

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot > Turn off Windows Copilot = enabled

5. Link the group policy object in at an appropriate level in your domain.

Ta-Nehesi Coates conversation with Peter Beinart:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

If you are like me and can never do podcasts, you can read the transcript on the link above.

"The clash between the stories we tell & the reality of life on the ground"

Podcast Episode · Occupied Thoughts · 10/17/2024 · 40m

^{Apple Podcasts}

stallman-report.org/

The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.

And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.

And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.

And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.

But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.

I was reading and thinking about a post discussing the Stallman Report¹ and a section leapt out and resonated for me:

"My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals."

And it crystallized a thought that has been knocking around my mind for months: …

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¹: todon.eu/@carmenbianca/1133247… / @carmenbianca , ht: @mos_8502

Also this Tuesday morning up at Whiskeytown, a Steller's Jay combing the moss on an oak tree for stashed acorns.

#Birds #Birding

I would encourage every Fediverse software project to implement a “dead-man switch" on registrations: if nobody with moderator permissions has been active in the last week, then disable new account creation.

The Fediverse has a significant number of abandoned instances that are used by bad actors to create accounts and send spam.

We implemented this in Mastodon (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…) and it has been highly effective.

Automatically switch from open to approved registrations in absence of moderators by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #29318 · mastodon/mastodon

This is not meant to replace #29280, but supplement it to avoid unmonitored servers keeping open registrations indefinitely. Automatically switch away from open registrations if no user with the pe...

^GitHub

Does anyone remember the old toys for the 80s and beyond?
Does anyone like old toys that they would like to hear again but also would like to have the chance to hear them in an entire new way?
Introducing the electronic toy lib!
The electronic toy library or TETL; is a passion project by a group of people that love the old toys and the fantastic sounds they make.
From direct recordings of toys that had a headphone and connectors on the boards, to recording via coils and even things like making direct boxes to directly record the toys and making recreations of what the toys would have sound like if different situations were to be in effect!
Also called the electronic toy archive, get ready to go down a wonderful adventure back to the past with: chips; tunes; and little speakers as you take a trip to the toy world!

youtube.com/@TheElectronicToyA…

#Nostalgia #Toys #Fun #Electronics #Electronic_Toys

The Electronic Toy Archive

We are a small community that enjoys electronic toys, most of which are not meant for our age group, (most of us are in our late teens to 20s), but we still like them for some weird reason.

^YouTube

My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.

Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.

The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.

"The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

#Poet #DarkPoetry #ChildrensLiterature #Symbolism #MaryHowitt
#TheSpiderAndTheFly #PoemsForHalloween #Poetry #Poem #Octobereen #Macabre #Literature #Art #Performance #PoetryReading #Halloween

youtube.com/watch?v=37uYq10YpK…

"The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

A cautionary tale for children

^YouTube

We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it.

We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.

Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/macos-sometim…

macOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.

^{Mullvad VPN}

you've heard of Cython now get ready for CYthon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

welsh python was not one of my greatest ideas i now realise

Looks like my next read. THe attached audiobook sample contains ... a lot of swearing.

"What would happen if you crossed the high fantasy of Wheel of Time with the irreverent comedy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"

Meet Your Maker is a comedic, epic fantasy series that asks the questions: What is fiction? What is reality? And does it make a difference, when everyone and everything is trying to kill you?
Bruce created this world. Now he has to survive it.

Meet your Maker by Seth McDuffee.
seanrandall.me/recommends/1039…
#Bookstodon

The G7 countries had a meeting on disability and inclusion for the first time ever.

These groups should really take the next step and add ableism to the meeting topics as it is where lack of inclusion stems from.

g7disabilityinclusion.it/en/g7… @disability #Ableism #Economy #Disability

I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!

The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.

All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!

rabbitwaves.ca/

WordPress retaliation impacts community

Link: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 2 added apps:

* MockTraffic: a random DNS, HTTPS internet traffic noise generator 🛡️
* Fossify Launcher: a customizable homescreen app to complete your green Fossify collection 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Thank you, McSweeney's, for perfectly capturing the CoinDesk endorsement of Donald Trump I wrote about last night

McSweeney's: mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-…

Newsletter: citationneeded.news/issue-68/

#USpol #USpolitics

liquid swords

#unix_surrealism #9front #cirno #comic

Got two blocklist updates today, and a non-update with private visibility. First, a FediNuke/tier0.csv transparency update:

I override-added an instance to FediNuke using my documented override process: caekis.love.

Was already near consensus, and the admin was already in receipts for the gleasonator.com FediNuke entry.

See the many receipts for caekis.love in my receipt archive. The severity was enough to warrant inclusion.

#FediNuke

My Fediverse blocklists

Documentation on which Fediverse blocklists I offer, how they are made, their differences, their caveats, and their intended use.

^{Seirdy’s Home}