I’m sorry you feel dumb, and you don’t need to - we all have our “whoosh” moments. I only intended to clear the air regarding my long time hero Weird Al.

I think they’re saying people want to cancel ai, not AL - and playing on how in most fonts capital i and lowercase L look the same.

Because “strong integrity” in that context just means “tamper resistant user data pipeline.” They don’t give the fuckidiest of fucks about app integrity, privacy, or security; they care that their ads get through to you, and every drop of your personal info and activity data gets though to them.

I’m glad to see it was ai translation hallucination, I appreciate you and others in the thread providing a much more accurate link.

That said, I wouldn’t be shocked if MS was behind an easily debunked and inflammatory article like this one. Then when they release their actual unpopular plan, people may say “well that’s not that bad compared to what that one article said they were doing.”

He doesn’t bite and he doesn’t squeal, he just runs around on his hamster wheel!

While I feel like your post was off topic, it was not kind of me to reply to you with such rudeness, and with the accusation of being ai. I should not allow my annoyance with the prevalence of ai in nearly every aspect of life lately to cause me to be kind to my fellow humans. I’m sorry for my attitude, and thankful that you and others contribute to the fediverse even when I don’t understand or misinterpret it.

If that’s not an AI response, then you really just took the time to write an essay answer to a completely different question than was asked…

Nope! 36,000 gross and 27%.

Most don’t realize they have it, or that they have a choice. It truly sucks is how few non savvy users realize that Microslop has removed their files and placed them on OneDrive instead (read “stolen.”) Between that and unannounced silent Bitlocker encryption, Windows has become more dangerous and destructive than any ransomware out there.