AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents
If you have a subscription to any of these cloud services or want to continue using them, setup rclone with crypt (cryptomator is a more popular option it seems but paid) to locally encrypt files before uploading and shift all data to be uploaded through them, of course though only do this if absolutely necessary or free since of course one should not be paying these companies in the first place.
Cryptomator is FOSS.
True but it’s currently developed by a private company and the mobile apps are paywalled, there are workarounds since it is FOSS but a bit of a hassle, it does seem easier to use though so good option for those who have the money and are willing to pay or trust and can utilize the workarounds properly, rclone has more features and more seamless after setup but is a bit harder to initially setup and needs a 3rd party GUI for Desktop and Mobile since it’s CLI only.
Time to upload the Epstein files onto one drive!
C’mon do it!
Teach the big machine that all the billionaires are pedos.
The Register asked Microsoft about the privacy implications and what happens to user data while an agent does its thing, but other than acknowledging our question, the company did not respond.
Microsoft: That’s a great question. Thanks for asking it.
“Good question. Next question…”
We recognize your willingness to have rights, and wish you the very best!
I’m sure it’s in the TOS somewhere. You use the microslop, you agree to the microslop.
Hey, mine is empty. Can anyone recommend something I could put in there to poison it?
Epstine files
Not a bad idea
Hey, mine is empty. Can anyone recommend something I could put in there to poison it?
A couple hundred million 0kb files?
That won’t poison an LLM exactly.
Theoretically this is a place to start. They probably have mitigations for many of these.
Interesting. Imagine if OneDrive users did this with the trigger phrase as the word “and” or some other general conjunction that is required for language to work.
They probably have mitigations for many of these.
Have you seen the state of testing for Microsoft products nowadays? Or rather the apparently complete lack of testing.
I found this study, it looked promising but I think it only works on the one LLM they were targeting. Also they seem to be working to protect ai models so results they find will probably be implemented as ways to protect against poisoning. I guess intentional dataset poisoning hasn’t come as far as I hoped
A ton of folders
zip bomb
You could have a really simple Markov chain generator fill a gigabyte’s worth of .txt files with nonsense sentences. At least that’s “content” they have to parse.
All of my zero one drive files? heckin shoot
They’re stealing your nothing!
Yup, there it is. I’ve been saying it.
Everyone from individuals to Fortune 500s are storing their data on OneDrive and SharePoint in the cloud.
ML models (not necessarily LLMs) are incredible at finding patterns and targeted data points in huge data sets.
I wonder why they need all those data centers for all the AI workloads that barely anyone is using, or wants.
Hmm. Hmmmmmm. 🤔
The government, including the military, uses OneDrive and SharePoint too.
I am so happy that Windows has become such shit that it made me, one of the most “lazy” people I know, switch to Linux. I hope they crash and burn but our society has done a good job not educating people on the tech they use every day. Tech illiterates don’t really have options do they.
If only Linux wasn’t shit when it came to DX12 on Nvidia gpu.
I mean yeah gamers still will have a harder time because some games won’t work but that is dodgeable with dual boot, virtual machines or a dedicated gaming PC where windows slop can do less harm.
If only Nvidia wasn’t shit when it came to linux support*
Don’t post your cries to random forums that can do nothing about it, send them directly to Nvidia at info@nvidia.com or call 1-408-486-2000 and tell them you’re a loyal customer who wants linux support or you’ll go to AMD who does it well. The more that do that the more likely you’ll actually get support for your hardware.
So, just need to prompt for a person’s name and get to find the contents of all the files with that name in it?
It’s like grep but it’s killing us as a bonus.
It’s also less accurate and will make up results. So it has that going for it.
Surprise!!
as somewhat ai curious person, in my experience, with at least small local llm (40-80b) they are absolutely shit at working with large texts, at best they can make a passable summary, contradictory information is ignored (if it’s in two documents), document citations are pulled from the ass 1/3rd of the time (and the pulled info is equally dodgy, if it’s pass/fail type on exactness), is copilot better than this?
Rufus let me install windows with a local account and debloat scripts let me nuke/hide OneDrive.
And, INB4 anyone says “switch to linux”, I’m sorry but it just isn’t viable while maintaining the same seamless experience for what I need. I hate Windows, but I also value my time.
Use what you gotta use.
All good mate, we will be here for you when you are ready to take the plunge.
I’m 8 distro attempts in so far and have yet to not sink substantial time into driver and general usability issues.
In another life I’d be happy to sacrifice productivity to grind on fixing the issues, but presently it has real costs.
For now, I run Proxmox and a slew of linux containers and VMs - but still unfortunately use windows as my primary :/
My use case for Linux is very minimal, so I can’t say I know your particular use case, but what drivers do you have issues with? Purely out of curiosity.
Mouse drivers, CPU something, USB issues, and Bluetooth.
It varies between my different servers and systems. It’s just one of those things where like, yeah, maybe I can solve it, but it’s going to take hours and I need to be able to constantly move forward.
If I didn’t have to work 12+ hours a day it might be different. So I don’t necessarily fault the landscape, it’s just that I can throw Windows on any system and it works and I can RDP into it and it works and it adjusts DPI and such automatically.
What hardware do you use? I have used aspires and dells and never an issue. I use zorin but its just an ubuntu lts respin. Heck I use zorin because im to lazy to download all the apps I need and it comes with a lot out of the box. so I don’t even want to spend time on that. I have a long term plan to move to something like bazzite but its already been a year out on that. Although I think I have the app thing worked out.
Custom built desktop so we can get into that if we want
Minisforum MS-01 running Proxmox
Minisforum S02 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy Book…5?
Surface Laptop something with the Snapdragon elite X or something
I need them to all be able to easily and quickly integrate and interact.
Ok yeah. It sounded like you had thrown some stock distros and had issues but it sounds like you use things, I assume, that heavily modifies windows and you have to do other heavy mods in linux that break things but windows handles the mods. You hear 8 distros and driver issues and start to think there has to be hardware issue. I have a pretty simple setup overall and even I have a old laptop running windows although its mostly due to laziness and cost. I know what I have to do but have been lazy about doing it plus I need to buy a new drive.
If you value your time you should switch to Linux. Yes there’s a brief adjustment period, but especially now, that period is very short and well worth the initial effort. It’s not 2005 anymore, Linux has less jank than Windows or Mac OS now.
It isn’t just an adjustment period, it’s that some things straight up don’t work though.
Happy to be proved wrong, but I’m not exactly a novice.
Nobody can prove you wrong (or right) about “some things” not working. What things?
xrdp or a usable alternative primarily
tried rustdesk, AnyDesk, parsec, nomachine - also no go.
Bluetooth issues as well, mouse and keyboard issues. Bluetooth earbud issues in meetings where I keep cutting out or audio is distorted.
Those are the two biggest, a lot of other minor things
Yeah bluetooth sucks everywhere. I have a Bluetooth mouse that works fine on Windows and Linux, but macOS just can’t handle it. Pairing any kind of controller with Windows that isn’t specifically certified by Microsoft can also be a nightmare. Don’t even get me started on Bluetooth headphones paired with an iPhone and the weird shit that ensues when you try to answer a phone call five hours after you happened to listen to some music.
I can’t speak to whatever your field-specific desk-apps are, I’m not in the desk carpentry business.
I just really need the seamless experience of running a new debloat script every month to stop whatever new spyware Microsoft is pushing. I value my time so much that I want to waste it fighting my operating system at every turn.
It’s not that hard to stop windows, there are programs that block internet access by process, and windows only has so many of them. One drive doesn’t boot on my PC, and if edge tried to open it auto-fails because edge is offline.
“I deliberately broke the dogshit default browser because I’m not allowed to uninstall it” isn’t the flex you think it is.
Im saying it’s easy and not a thing you have to repeat. I’ve disabled the windows shit the same as every other process that likes to just drain my internet as it feels.
