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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.




I've often used the verb "stallmanising" to mean being such a cunt about your perfectly reasonable cause that you actively turn people against it.


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.



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.

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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

in reply to Ben Zanin

Software being Free (or open source, or zero cost, or even "open core" (gag)) does legitimately help developers - those very few.

But there is another role: the folks who specifically assist others to navigate up knowledge and skill gradients, and who work to diminish those gradients: the distro maintainers, the package testers & integrators, the sysadmins, the community moderators.

It is fine to want freedom yourself but we *must* work for each other's freedom too.

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Oh boy, why nobody told me about this? friction.graphics/
in reply to Aleca

oh this looks cool! 👀

Too bad there is no macOS build. 😅 But all the more reason to fire up a Linux machine again. 👌



No one does the Qt 4 dance anymore, these days. This says a lot about society youtube.com/watch?v=NbTEVbQLC8…


All the members of my band are currently sick but it's too late to cancel the rehearsal room so I guess I'll spend the next 2 hours playing all the instruments and run circles around the drum kit


That you admired Richard Stallman when you were a young coder just entering the world of open source development is no mark against you -- abusers are like that.

Where judgment of you comes in is now -- you're an adult, you know your asshole from your elbow, and you have been shown evidence of who the man actually is. What you say and do in response to that -- that's what defines what kind of person you are.



The Ahem font is the best font and I won't be taking questions.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

I didn't know about it until this.

From the description it reads like the monospacest of monospace fonts, which sounds nice



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

#Birds #Birding



I just heard there's a virus making people forget 80s rock bands.

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The latest Glide demo video shows how it handles stairs, which I appreciate. Honestly, most of what Glide does sounds great to me, but I'm still concerned about how you'd manage stairs in some cases. Stairs with a railing are easy, but not all stairs have railings, and some stairs aren't consistent in height, distance apart, angle, etc. This stuff is trivial to manage with a cane or dog because of the constant contact, but with Glide, you would have to rely entirely on what you can feel with your feet for stairs. I'm sure it's possible, but I feel like it would be a lot slower and more awkward.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@technocounselor Then head over to England, where they have a spiral staircase fetish. And how does it work on escalators?
in reply to Jamie Teh

We're pretty sure if you mention that to them, they'd take that into consideration. They're always looking for feedback; that would be important for them to know. -T



ChatGPT for Windows is out. Alt + Space allows you to jump directly into ChatGPT. I was hoping we could change that keyboard shortcut as to not conflict with other functions for that keyboard combination.
in reply to Jeff Bishop

Eww, that's nasty. It globally overrides that keystroke. I guess most sighted developers now are unfamiliar with the normal function of that keystroke in Windows.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt all I gotta say is, clickable menu button collapsed subMenu clickable Attach files button section multi line editable Message ChatGPT out of section clickable Send prompt. :P


stále používam to "som" sa mi to nepáči
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Like, “three citizens united”? masto.ai/@rbreich/113319832058…


Well this is certainly interesting. On Series 10 #AppleWatch using #Voiceover, a two-finger triple tap seems to toggle speech, as well as a three-finger double tap. Is there a way to enable Voiceover Help like you can on iPhone with a four-finger double tap so that I can see what gestures are actually registering? I don't know if my fingers are just too fat and so magic tap isn't working or what. I have activated the hand gesture for this though, and it doesn't work either. So I'm just stuck. I love my magic tap gesture, and the fact I can't get it to work at all on the Apple Watch is really obnoxious.
in reply to 🌟Kira Aeva🌟

ahaha yeah that works on my series 9 too, and 4-finger double-tap does launch help, and it does say that 2-finger double-tap is magic tap. What's more amusing: You can even do 4-finger tripple tap for live recognition. Sure, a camera will also magically spring out of the top of your screen that wasn't there before and begin telling you what's around. In all reality though it could have used the iPhone camera but it does not appear to do so.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg Okay, I'll have to try that. The fact that two-finger double tap doesn't seem to be doing what it's supposed to do is maddening. So perhaps I can get the four-finger double tap to work and see if I'm actually doing the gesture right.



Woof. techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/elon…


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ľudia mi vravia že mám dvadsaťštyri.. to určitě :kekw:


Bitcoin price drops under $67K as investors chase profit in stocks - Bitcoin pulled back from its range high as investors moved to greener pa... - cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin… #securities #markets #stocks #biden #court #macro #jobs #tsmc #nvda
in reply to Crypto News

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!


Just got an idea for us freelancers. We should setup a system where we buy consulting capital. At a very very low price. Then we sell these bits of capital to the client to perform the consulting (work is done). This would be capital gain. Only 50% are taxable (below 250K), which mean you'd pay half the taxes than for the hard earned labour.

Let's game the system the millionaires abuse.

(don't take this as a valid thing)



As a #developer sometimes you'll see #code comments like this. Often, you'll be the one writing it. #webdev #memes #programming


As we all know, our leaders are very excellent at “informed decision making”. That’s great, because the research is very clear:
1. more destinations accessible by bike -> more biking
2. more safe infrastructure -> more accessible destinations
3. more bikes -> less congestion
4. removing car lanes -> less congestion
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in reply to Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD

2. Adding safe cycling infrastructure on arterial roads unlocks more destinations for more people, making practical cycling much more convenient and much more likely.

cbc.ca/news/science/pandemic-b…

in reply to Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD

3. The more people travel by bike, the less car congestion. Adding bike infrastructure need not increase congestion even in the short term!

civitas.eu/resources/walking-c…


in reply to Juan Pablo Ugarte

we’re missing a full taxonomy of roles and their attributes; right now, you have to go on the WAI-ARIA spec website and check manually which attributes apply to which roles




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.




Não coloquem os vossos NIF em sites para verificar se os vossos NIF foram comprometidos. Não coloquem os vossos NIF em sites para verificar se os vossos NIF foram comprometidos. Não coloquem os vossos NIF em sites para verificar se os vossos NIF foram comprometidos.Não coloquem os vossos NIF em sites para verificar se os vossos NIF foram comprometidos. Não coloquem os vossos NIF em sites para verificar se os vossos NIF foram comprometidos.


Coding pro tip: at some point add assert.fail() or however it works in your system (add a deliberate unconditional failure) and run tests. See whether tests actually fail. Test setups tend to be complicated and error-prone and you'd be surprised what's not actually being tested.