However. This is the holy grail of computer usage. A good version of this could be the killer app for modern AI. Because of that, ripple are going to keep trying to make this feature happen. There’s already a popular implementation on macOS. I’m excited for the end-state, but apprehensive about getting there.
i’ve seen this often and i’m trying to understand the issue. i have never wanted to go back in history or have a comprehensive history of all my actions. the only exception is the terminal and for that ctrl+r/history is more than enough. i learn, apply and move on.
what’s the use case for this recall thing?
Being able to search everything I've seen on my screen would address all of these. I think it would fundamentally change how we interface with computers, if we could do it reliably. Silos between applications can start to break down when you have sufficient intelligence about what's on the screen too, and that's a huge opportunity.
Surveillance, very obviously.
It'd be reasonable to see this as a waymark on a roadmap.
Which is why it makes little sense to users. Why it is counterintuitive in that it will drive people away instead of draw them to the product. And why it is being rammed out into the market regardless.
What's the waymark after this?
What the hell is the "wrong" way to use a computer? Emails, social media and doing your banking?
And why attack "moms and dads"? Speaking as a grandfather, I find it insulting, having used and programmed computers since the 1970s.
Searching for your bank's website rather than bookmarking it, and entering your credentials into the phishing site that's the top result.
Installing Anydesk or something for the "nice gentleman who called me from Microsoft to tell me my warranty had expired and he needed gift cards to pay for it."
Those are the two most obvious ones I can think of. There's a multi-billion dollar "industry" separating especially older people from their money using computers.
Frankly if you've even been around computers for 50+ years and haven't encountered the many and varied ridiculous ways people can use them "wrong," I have to wonder whether you've ever had to deal with regular people using them in the real world at all.
This isn’t wrong so much as a damning indictment of the tech industry’s inability to fix core issues despite having more money that god herself
Don't take so much joy out of the fact that youre currently the only member of your thousands of years old generic lineage that hasn't procreated.
One of the most common questions every computer user has at any given moment is some variant of "What/Where was it?".
I agree it's a holy grail, but it's also a road paved with good intentions.
Computers are the holy Grail of computers. Stop playing with fire. The tool is already here.
And with 'no time', with a delay of less than 5-10 seconds on creating/restoring a snapshot.
On search, as they stated, Recoll did it fine over 20 years.
When there is a will, there is eventually a way, for anyone with enough resources.
Sure, memory isolation techniques may serve as a deterrent with extreme care. But if Microsoft increases the attack surface by sloppily integrating that feature everywhere in Windows, the yet-to-be-implemented-if-at-all encryption is going to be ineffective. And that’s going to happen more likely than not.
Also, it should be clear by now that government agencies are going to demand access to this data once this becomes widespread. VMs aren't going to protect against further assault on our civil liberties.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...
https://www.techdirt.com/2016/02/16/no-judge-did-not-just-or...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-02/juniper-m...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1241YV/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/micros...
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=encryption%20ban
They even also do it without the companies' knowledge too.
https://archive.is/2023.10.31-203648/https://www.washingtonp...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/its-no-secret-governme...
Have you been living under a rock this past decade?
Please explain to me how anything achieved infallible nature. Consider the natural vacuum is space.
Malware can probably read most of the user’s data in RAM, but if OS components keep getting more isolated from each other, maybe that can be secure enough.
> A lot of Windows users just want their PCs so they can play games, watch porn, and live their lives as human beings who make mistakes
The vast, VAST majority of Windows users don't care about a feature like this. You might say "if we'd ask people what they'd wanted they'd have said a faster horse", but we've seen this play out time and time again since ~2014 where the tech industry believes some thing is going to be Next Big Huge, it doesn't stick, and Microsoft Office continues to make fifty billion dollars a year because, it turns out, we kinda solved PCs in the 90s and 78% of what We The Tech Industry has invented since then has a market 5% the size the hype would lead you to believe. Metaverse, VR, AR, Crypto, Decentralized Finance, AI, Voice assistants, tablets (what's a computer?), quantum computing, IoT (all consumers love our toasters connected to the internet, this is undeniable and people pay extra for this /s).
Sometimes people just want a faster horse; which in this case means "filesystem search that actually works". The techbro response to that is "well, you can have both" but there's fucking actually zero evidence of this, period, neither Microsoft nor Apple have demonstrated the capability to get the basics of their operating systems right anymore, We Their Customers should have zero faith in their ability to even get this right, as articles like this demonstrate.
> I used Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — which detected the off the shelve infostealer — but by the time the automated remediation kicked in (which took over ten minutes) my Recall data was already long gone.
This isn't a Microsoft problem; well, obviously it is, but its really an industry problem. Sorry for waxing abstractly here, but we've literally actually forgotten how to build software [1]. The smart & dedicated people have either left the industry or have been marginalized by MBAs, and the kids are rewriting the Windows Start menu in javascript [2].