Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 9

My company recently internally promoted using Microsoft Copilot for Web including to "Generate creative content (such as poems, stories, songs, and more).". I replied to the Slack message some snarky questions about author consent to have their work used by the LLM tool, after which I was directed to an internal feedback form about LLM usage.

I repeated my question "Do we have the details on the dataset Copilot was trained on and if the relevant authors were asked for their work to be used, especially for the “creative content generation” part?" and I received a personal response from the Senior Vice President of End User Technology & Experience that "No data is tracked, sent to LLM models and microsoft doesnt (sic) know what we ask and return".

I was initially only venting, but the escalation culminating in a non sequitur has made me even more frustrated.

#LLM #AI

Modern consumer-facing #AI products perfectly described in 1981 by Shel Silverstein.

♲ @japonmeneatout@piaille.fr: Shel Silverstein - The Homework Machine
(In A Light In The Attic, 1981)

Today I learned about the "Wife Acceptance Factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor" and I'm shaking my head at men again. #sexism

♲ @lori@hackers.town: Please don't write tech reviews like this

If you were wondering what playdates are looking like in Brooklyn these days, they consist in bringing your iPad to your friend's so you can play a Minecraft clone in Roblox online together in the same room while your iPad is plugged to the nearest outlet you can find, which means you may end up playing on the floor.

#Parenting

@Michael Vogel The wrong tracking probably led to the earlier revert, but I don’t think it has anything to do with the changed merge strategy.

I wanted to have @Tobias ’s input since he’s repository admin on GitHub so he could have changed a setting.

Combined answers from the Microsoft Community forum to the important question: "What's the maximum number of slides allowed in Microsoft PowerPoint?"

"Every slide is identified numerically by a Long number, meaning that the theoretical maximum is around 2,147,483,648"
"Personally, I make it a rule never to include more than 10,000,000 slides in a presentation. One slide a second is about all people can absorb at best, and very few audiences will sit there and absorb information at that rate for half a year."

I am increasingly displeased with my new MSI laptop's power management and I'm not sure if it's a Windows or MSI problem:
- When I enable automatic sleep while plugged in, it will occasionally stay stuck sleeping while the fans are screeching. Only a force shutdown will let me use the computer again.
- When I disable automatic sleep while plugged, the screen will never shut down, even after I manually lock the screen.
- Since neither the keyboard nor the associated SteelSeries software account for it, I had to create a macro to navigate the Windows menu to the Sleep function. When used, the Windows menu is still open when awakened.
- When manually put to sleep this way, the laptop will eventually hibernate by itself, slowing down the awakening cycle.

My previous Asus laptop running Windows 10 didn't have any of these shortcomings which makes me wonder whether it's another Windows 11 gripe or poor compared engineering at MSI or both.

This is me, including the secret panel on Tapas. The secret is to always lower the bar.

♲ @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social: Secret Panel HERE 🐢 tapas.io/episode/3095680

@A Sweet Gentleman Never mind:

08:27 AM
Good Morning,
As many of you have experienced, the NYC Public Schools accounts are experiencing a citywide outage. They are working on fixing and we will keep you updated as we have more information.
In the meantime, enjoy the snow!

People on the beaten path would also have had trouble this morning.

A couple months ago I wrote a rant about Chromebooks https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029-1965-563c-f1a7-909742834478 and how to enable my kid to use it.

Today it is heavily snowing in Brooklyn and so instead of a Snow Day during which schools are closed, we're having a Remote School Day and this means having to join a Zoom meeting. However, the Zoom meeting the teacher created requires to sign in to Zoom. We tried signing in my kid with her personal Google account, but couldn't lie during the birth year prompt, and were denied the creation of a Zoom account because our kid isn't 13 yet. Tried to sign in with Apple, but were also denied as the Apple account apparently provides the owner's age directly without prompt.

At this point, I assume New York City Department of Education-issued Google accounts also have a provision for underage Zoom accounts to allow students to sign in teacher-led Zoom meetings, but I absolutely don't want to test this theory as it would be relinquishing the rights to use a computer we paid for with our own money to the NYCDOE once again.

We ended up using my partner's account to sign in Zoom and let me kid in, which isn't ideal, but sheesh.

I am feeling extremely unreasonable right now. #Apple #Privacy

♲ @mysk@mastodon.social: In ads: Our apps mind their business. Not yours.

In court: Given Apple’s extensive privacy disclosures, no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple.

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #Apple #iPhone #InfoSec #dataprivacy