Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.
Make Mario my desktop background and stay protected forever by the holy power of Nintendo’s lawyers.
Can you add a banknote or EURion symbol somewhere to dissuade image-processing software?
Kirbo will step in with Luigi with a cross.
If the data stays on a local device why is drm protection even necessary 🤔
Always keep Netflix open and playing to stay safe?
I think only the player is blocked, and would be shown in the screenshots as a black rectangle
So it’s not a new feature. Since windows 95 print screen can’t screenshot videos for technical issues. Instead of fixing the bug they’re promoting it to feature
It’s not a bug, it’s 110% intentional and not only for the windows default screenshot utility. The whole pipeline is built in such a way to prevent you from taking screenshots or capturing video of a DRM protected player.
Even in Linux, afaik, you can’t simply take screenshots or record a Netflix movie playing in the browser. Yes there are ways, but not with the default applications (you need to break the encryption)
I remember that in the windows 9x age I tried taking screenshots of the matrix avi and all I got was a black rectangle. I assumed that it was how the graphics worked as when pasted in paint it would act like a “hole” where if you moved the window it stayed in the place of the video player. Like if it’s not in the graphic buffer because it’s an accelerated directx video or something like that. Not an expert and also more than 20 years passed and my memory is wonky
That’s precisely how the old ATI TV tuner cards worked. They masked part of your display and any pixels that were the mask color became the video player, because the decoding and injection into your video signal was happening in hardware on the tuner card, not on your regular graphics card.
This allowed you to do dumb stunts like scribble hot magenta areas anywhere on your screen with MS Paint and the scribbled areas would magically become video from the TV tuner.
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Source: DUH!!!
Another study:
Peer review
the only irl person I know says it like: “no, shit-sherlock” and that’s just how I read it in my head now
Imagine trying to use Wireshark on windows to debug or look at some service.
Just an avalanche of packets going to 20 different domains on idle.
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Sounds like the way around this is to make swap space take up the drive up to 24 GB. Then trim the swap space as you need it.
I know it says “to enable” but let’s be real here. It’s going to be a placebo switch.
I’m pretty sure Windows doesn’t have fixed-size swap. It uses pagefiles.
Edit: apparently pagefiles can be given a static size as well.
This can be specified manually to be static
Oh, neat! I had no idea. Still, the term “swap” would be incorrect.
A “swap” file is for holding pages of memory that have been swapped from RAM to disk.
That’s a quite normal PC right? Not that I want it though lol good heavens.
When I think about it my daily only have 4 cores, oh no cant use it (I’m on Linux too, so sad ).
Or am I missing something with “copilot pc”, does it have to have som special hardware? Asking out of morbid curiosity.
Yeah, it has to have certain specific types of CPU. They’re making this a requirement for all Windows 11 machines if you want to keep receiving security updates. It’s going to create a mountain of e-waste.
They’re not amazing specs. All but the most budget of PCs sold in 2024 would have those specs.
It’s notable as a required minimum though. There’s an implication (not necessarily true) that at some times this feature may require a significant portion of those resources.
Like if your browser was burning away on 8 cores using 16g of RAM you’d notice.
At least hopefully companies will stop selling laptops with 8Gb of soldered ram.
Wait for them to find a way that everyone will run out and buy 1k+ laptops now. Disregarding privacy, most people only need Chromebooks nowadays.
I’ll just stick with my 4-core cpu then… Edit: is logical both core and threads?
Yes. A CPU has both physical cores and logical threads. These are both considered logical CPUs.
For example, if you ran cat /proc/cpuinfo on Linux you would see something like this (First processor is processor 0)
processor : 23
model name : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
So your 4 core CPU likely has hyperthreading and would meet the requirements for Microsoft recall
Kinda funny, not too long ago it was a fun mental exercise if you were paying attention to the tech industry to try to think of the ways in which Google or MS could fall.
Now, AFAICT, neither are falling any time soon, but there certainly seems to be a shift in how they’re perceived and how their brand sits in the market (where even so I’m still probably in a bubble on this).
But I’m not sure how predictable it would have been that both would look silly stumbling for AI dominance.
And, yea, I’m chalking recall up to the AI race as it seems like a grab for training data to me, and IIRC there were some clues around that this could be true.
So Windows 11 has a built-in keylogger!
If only that. This is much more invasive
Who even wants this? What good is it? I see no use case.
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There’s a lot of negatives such that I certainly would never want it, but the ability to search everything I’ve ever looked at would be handy.
People keep years worth of browser history, until finding something in there becomes harder than searching the web. I see no use for that either, but everyone I’ve asked insisted they need it. They couldn’t really spell out why either
For me it’s nostalgia and being a sucker for statistics, mostly.
Same. I think it’s neat. But not “Yeah I trust you Microsoft” neat.
I love the idea of exo brain/second brain where AI helps me keep track of all of my stuff and recall stuff.
But I want to extend myswlf not assimilate to the Microsoft Borg collective lol
Audit trail in a corporate environment maybe. Assuming non-Microsoft admins have access to that data, it could be a benefit.
Can’t imagine the risk it introduces though.
And resource usage overhead.
investors. c.f. enshittification
I would 100% use this. I have ADHD and having the ability to recall something I did days or even weeks ago and query things I did in the past is amazing.
“Hey, I messed up my home assistant automation and can’t remember what my old automation was that was working. Can you find it?”
“I had a meeting a month ago with my boss Collen and he showed me a deck about this or that data point. Bring that power point deck up”.
The use cases are endless. This is literally a game changer.
yes, but it should be opt-in not opt-out. It should not exist in my os unless I install it myself.
I could apply this line to so many things microsoft put into windows since xp.
There is an opt out option. You even get 50gb of space back when you do. You can even set which apps can or can’t be part of the recall program. You can delete all the data like how you would delete browser history.
I think the main thing is that you’re in control of the data.
I also have ADHD and would benefit from it just like you said, however, I wouldn’t trust Microsoft with anything related to privacy & security based on their track record. This is going to be the last piece in a huge puzzle that makes me switch to macOS confidently.
Very fair.
i can’t wait to show it my nuts
“Sorry, Microsoft cannot recall your nuts. We haven’t developed the technology to zoom in to that level of details.”
Sorry for that. It was just too easy to pass up.
thank you Steven
If it was local only, and more security focused I would 100%.
My ADHD. brain needs an AI assistant.
Great for mining data to use in the next iteration of ChatGPT
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I use Linux for work and windows for home. I will be swapping to Linux full time when win10 eol
I miss when Microsoft was just evil and greedy and not stupid.
Is it stupid? I doubt MS cares about the absolutely miniscule amount of people who will care enough to complain about this. Those people would probably just turn the feature off, or use a different OS, anyway. Catering to that audience isn’t something MS cares about.
The average user won’t do a thing. MS gets to outsource the computational work of all this spying to their users and then hoover up the data at the end. Microsoft stands to gain a lot from this in the markets where it will be allowed to fly.
Microsoft claims it’s offline, but how sure can we be? I smell what the rock is cooking.
Even if it was 100% offline. For how long? Microsoft can change that with a patch at any time. Suddenly all your personal files are being fed into GPT with no consent.
No more windows for me. I’ve been back and forth with windows 11 and Linux but been on Linux for awhile. Last windows I used full time was 7
Doesn’t matter. If your PC is ever compromised, that feature is a one stop shop for stealing everything you have ever done on your computer.
Bye bye windows
it’s a penis in the door 🚪
It’s using a snapdragon elite specific chip that can handle the AI offline.
While we don’t yet know if it can be a hackers wet dream, we do know that there are use cases for it
Yes I can agree there can be positive uses for AI, but I don’t really see any transparency from current AI companies to trust them.
Unfortunately, that ship has already sailed. AI will be a disruptor. You not using it won’t change anything. Only laws and legislative action will fix things.
FTFY: Windows
feature that screenshots everything labeledis a security “disaster”I hate this feature but if that UI is real it’s beautiful
How many screenshots of security “disasters” does a person really need?
Microsoft: trust us bro!
How does this make Microsoft money? What’s their path to selling the result of this feature?
Probably targeted ads, since they claim the data doesn’t leave the device, they get the AI to figure out what type of ads to show.
This. The answer is always ads.
And they get it for free, using your electricity and hardware for the AI and also avoids some liability that comes with your personal data/EU compliance.
