May/June 2025 Readings

I decided to change my goal to 50 books this year since I have already surpassed my 20 book goal this year (yippee!). I have a job now (double yippee!) that involves looking at a computer screen all day so I will likely be reading more on my spare time (tripple yippee!). I'm also getting a Kobo Libra Colour soon (quadruple yippee!) so I can read a little while working at home, so who knows? Maybe I'll surpass my 50 books goal soon.

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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There's a way to remove it~

Go into the power shell

then paste in:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1

like this

Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

Because this has mostly been talked about with Windows 11, heads-up that this installed itself on every Windows 10 computer in our house with this week's update.

What's really funny to me is that this is advertised as "using AI" but nothing that it's described as doing here actually requires AI. This kind of spyware is a completely deterministic algorithm that doesn't require any learning functionality whatsoever, and in fact, adding any AI into this would actually make it worse at what it does. They really do actually believe that if they describe everything as "AI" people will just uncritically embrace it