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> On the surface, this sounds like a cool feature It really doesn't. Not a single person I've spoken to likes the idea of this, at all, and I'm not talking jus
by ToucanLoucan 2y ago
> On the surface, this sounds like a cool feature
It really doesn't. Not a single person I've spoken to likes the idea of this, at all, and I'm not talking just tech people. Every last person I've spoken to of all ages and from all walks of life at best is like, "I can turn that off, right?"
- bitwize 2y agoMy wife's jaw literally dropped when she first heard from me about the kind of fuckery-duckery Microsoft is trying to pull here. She's been an Apple girl since forever, no fan of Microsoft, and not particularly tech-savvy, but she knew exactly the implications of Recall and immediately figured out that it was a whole new level of awful, even for Microsoft.
- DEADMINCE 2y agoKind of hypocritical of her then isn't it, given Apple has a horrible history of collecting data also?
- CSDude 2y agoI have been using Rewind.ai on macOS and this company got a crazy investment. Many people like the idea. Many just don't trust Microsoft.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI don't trust Microsoft or anyone else with unfettered access to my screen. 1-800-FUK-THAT
- bitwize 2y agoI'm gonna go ahead and invoke the Juicero Rebuttal -- the standard rebuttal to the idea that large VC investments into an idea mean it's a good idea.
- max51 2y agounless this startup manages to get OS vendors to bundle it with their OS install and turn it on by default, it's not a good comparison.
- visarga 2y agoI for one built something like this on Linux. It takes a screenshot every few seconds, when there is recent mouse or keyboard activity. Then applies OCR on the screen shots and indexes them. It was fun, but I don't want the overhead of maintaining it long term.
- skydhash 2y agoYour computer, your software, your data, your freedom. Now imagine a stranger doing this to you and it's not that different from a rootkit.