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#microsoft recall. - Da kann's einen nur noch schütteln. - Ich bin raus. -

Bisher jahrelang Linux für Alltägliches nur in Virtueller Maschine. Funktioniert einwandfrei.

#Windows 11 kommt nicht mehr auf den Rechner. Neue Hardware erspare ich meinen Geldbeutel und der Umwelt. - Linux sei Dank!

#datenschutz

golem.de/news/umstrittenes-mic

Umstrittenes Microsoft-Feature: Recall im Dev-Kanal nur Snapdragon-Notebooks verfügbar - Golem.deGolem.de

Apparently, #microsoft has identified the change that borked outlook webmail, teams and more and is rolling it back. No effects so far.

One can only wonder what the heck someone did. This will not exactly make the anti cloud/MS people in our organization happy. #365

Wenn du die neuesten Datenschutz-Skandale von Microsoft siehst und jemand antwortet mit »Ist mir egal, ich benutze Linux«, mag das zwar stimmen. Aber nutzt auch deine Arztpraxis, dein Therapeut oder dein Familienmitglied, das dir eine persönliche E-Mail in Word schreibt, ebenfalls Linux? Es geht nicht nur um dein eigenes System, sondern um das gesamte digitale Ökosystem.

#Datenschutz #Digitalpolitik #Microsoft

Microsoft Word is using you to train “AI”

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog

osnews.com/story/141196/micros

#Microsoft

Microsoft Word is using you to train “AI” – OSnewswww.osnews.com

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft

YMMV, but if you use Microsoft Office and are concerned about its AI and use of private documents for AI training, I’ve happily used @libreoffice’s Writer for years, exchanging documents with Microsoft Office users.

It is available for Windows and macOS, as well as Linux.

You don’t have to uninstall Microsoft Office to try it - the two will run side by side just fine.

libreoffice.org/download/downl

#AI #Microsoft #FOSS

Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoftwww.libreoffice.org