Unsere Privatsphäre wird beim Desktop-Computern bald drastisch eingeschränkt. Manche Leute glauben, die Lösung sei ein Open-Source-Betriebssystem, aber es ist nicht Linux.
https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/saving-the-desktop?
Unsere Privatsphäre wird beim Desktop-Computern bald drastisch eingeschränkt. Manche Leute glauben, die Lösung sei ein Open-Source-Betriebssystem, aber es ist nicht Linux.
https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/saving-the-desktop?
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People have grumbled and put up with Big Tech privacy invasions before, but I wonder if this time is different. [Microsoft’s plan for Windows with AI sounds deeply unappealing](https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-recall-ai-feature-uk-investigation). The idea of an AI tracking everything you do on your computer might be a red line for many people. Microsoft promised that they wouldn’t harvest or use the data, but that promise has been broken so many times by Big Tech, that many have lost trust.
This article is an interesting look at an alternative path for a private open-source desktop OS. Interestingly, although it’s Linux-compatible, it’s not Linux, and OP says it’s superior.
I suspect lots of people will do more than grumble this time around, and the backlash against AI, data harvesting, and the loss of privacy will grow.
If only we knew of some imminent attack on our country in advance, then let it happen, then instituted a Patriot Act that was thicker than a telephone book that completely takes away our rights while simultaneously using propaganda to convince everyone that if they didn’t support it, it must mean they have something to hide, and secretly hate their own country. Only then could private companies use their connections to our government via previous secret research projects to then farm our data, sell it anyone willing to buy it, use it to craft marketing campaigns to trick us out of our money, continue to let the government spy on us, and oh yeah, save our desktop documents for us. Yay technology.
They seem to know what they’re talking about, but I would really like a bigger breakdown of why truly the entire Desktop Linux ecosystem is something we should just drop.
TBH I’ve been running Linux Mint for like a year and had not a single issue, despite running multiple machine tasks simultaneously like LLMs and stable diffusion. It’s pretty much stable AF. No crashes or anything.
I feel like as it is, the Linux ecosystem is already constantly lagging behind, I don’t see how a migration would be worth the effort.
That being said, I would be interested to see how that would go. I sometimes suspect it wouldn’t be that hard. Like finding stuff can be sparse on linux already, and stuff gets abandoned often. Maybe a big migration might create enough excitement for people to really fill that out.
Be amazing if this triggers a death spiral for Microsoft
Their reasoning for for dismissing Linux as a good alternative is laughable. They boast their computer prowess but yet fail to use a simple web search to learn and solve their problem? They also fail to give an actual example of something to give their claim credit. Like what quantum mechanics level of a problem did they need to solve. My in-laws are no computer geniuses, but 12 years ago I installed Xubuntu on their PC and they’ve been using it ever since. Are they sys admins now? Absolutely not, but they use it the same way they would have used Windows.
If anyone is wondering: the article says its Haiku, the open source BeOS.
At this point, even if they walk it back I’m just going to assume they’re doing it anyway. Hell, I’ve had tape over my webcams ever since the Snowden thing.
I really believe in the idea of collecting your own data and being able to meaningfully use A.I. with your own defined objectives (not just maximizing your time spent on a screen).
However, I believe the code doing this full time recording should be open source and the data should be under the complete control of the user!
Checkout [rem](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem) for mac and [hindsight](https://github.com/cparish312/hindsight) which I built for Android
“Windows is the only one of these OSes to be developed “sui generis”—by itself, with no precursor.” I’m not sure what the author means by this. The first version of Windows was a graphical shell for DOS. Windows was DOS-based right up to WinMe. Windows NT was birthed as a revamped version of IBM and MS’ OS/2, later reworked to use Win APIs instead of OS/2 because of Win 3.0s success. Modern Windows is NT based since Windows XP. All that to say that the lineage can be traced from both DOS and OS/2.