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    My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I’ve picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.

    Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.

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        Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.

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          Yeah keep the law around in case you need to weaponize it against an individual, but ignore it for corporations. The modern solution!

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            Yep. Waiting for the day I pull up to the dispensary to find it surrounded by ICE vans.

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        At some point, all that juicy sweet medical data will be worth the 8 figure bribe to several congressmen to allow thebsale of access to the data for ‘research’ use to amazon and google.

        All that data is private, until it isnt.

        Dont be so innocent to think that hipaa data will never be sold, it will be eventually

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      I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I’m sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn’t locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.

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        I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they’d just “yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me”.

        They’d get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.

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      One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.

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        Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn’t given me any issues in the past 5 years or so

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          Just make sure to unplug all non-Windows drives when installing Windows. Otherwise it can do weird things like making unilateral decisions on which exact drive it shoves its bootloader on. I’ve wiped my Linux drive when changing to another distro aaaaand the Windows bootloader was gone too. It really shouldn’t have been.

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            Yeah whenever I set up a computer with dual boot it’s always Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it’s the only OS that exists so if there’s something else there it just ignores it and writes over the boot thingy. Linux actually bothers to look for anything else that’s installed and works around it.

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          Same here. I have Windows 10 on a separate physical disk (sdb). I have Linux and GRUB on sda, so Windows has no idea that it’s not the only OS on my computer.

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      I had this happen before but not in recent times. Not sure if others have experienced the same.

      For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven’t had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.

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        It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.

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        I’ve read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I’ve had my share of them.

        Now, if I’m doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I’ve not needed Windows for a couple years.

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    Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.

    Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:

    DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh

    https://youtu.be/O7BI4jfEFwA

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    Um, just in case, I’ll have you know that I name all my folders “trans porn”. It doesn’t mean anything in particular.

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      A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named “trans porn” would mean that there isn’t a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.

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        New organizing system just dropped. It’s just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.

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            I think I could honestly get away with 128 deep paths. I don’t use more than twenty unique folders in my day-to-day computing. It might be difficult to get the various programs on board with my trans porn name for each folder, but that’s what tinkering is for, eh?

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            Did you post the wrong link? Yours is about “Maximum Path Length Limitation” and the number 128 doesn’t appear anywhere on that page. The max path length is 256 characters.

            Where did you read that “you can now have 128 files in your filesystem?”

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              If you want to encode information into only the depth of your recursive identically named folders, you have 128 different depths, one character for the name, one for the slash, per level. Yields about 128 possible levels. Leave one off for the last filename, 127.

              If we want to name our folders something longer than a single character, we can store less files. If we want to store our files on linux, by default we get 4096 characters to play with, so about 2k levels (unless we compile our own linux kernel with PATH_MAX set for this very specific purpose). If we run CIFS we may be able to reach up to 16k levels.

              That was my interpretation of OPs (admittedly bad) idea. Personally, I try to avoid implementing inodes as Church numerals.

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      I think I may have caused some confusion and after some research I can see why.

      Naturally I was referring to transistors and transformers, and pictures thereof. Ha ha lol guys can we forget this now?

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    What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?

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    It’s kind of amazing how much they’re willing to tear down in hopes of this “” incredible “” AI vision

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    Planning on spending a months wages building a monster rig that runs Windows 11?

    Cool. When it’s done just take wake whatever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.

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    Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.

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    How long until we can trick the Ai into deleting the System32 folder?

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    Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don’t know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.

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    I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn’t even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge as much as you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.

    Edit: 2 things too. Violating user privacy could carry a risk as far as attorney-client privledge goes because attorneys work on 11 from home. So just ransaking all data could cause that right to be waved. Subpoena much?

    Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.

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      Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren’t editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It’s the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.

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      They can’t do that. They have all of their money riding on AI. They can’t possess any data that might show the all-mightly Shareholders that they bet wrong.

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      Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.

      … If people were willing to pay for it, which is a tiny percentage of the small percentage of people that want AI on their windows. Even the people that are all in on chatgpt will very rarely accept paying a cent for it (and it must be a bargain considering that openAI said a few months ago that the average premium plan is a net loss for them due to the server costs)

      The way things have been going it’s more likely that the AI-free version will be the upsold luxury