this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    In a hilarious and infuriating side note, MS is obviously doing their absolute best to blame-shift here.

    It’s code. It’s a project someone made to graphically illustrate and demonstrate, in the wild, why the entire concept of MS Recall is an absolutely awful, foundationally-flawed idea. It is not a “hacker tool”. The MS c-suite and board members are just pissed that stock go down as a result of their stupidity, and they’re looking for people to blame who aren’t themselves.

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      5 months ago

      Where is the blame shifting? The article says they made no comment and the only MS quotes are just random pr feature blurbs

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        5 months ago

        Dude the headline:

        this hacker tool

        It’s absolutely not a “hacker tool”. It’s a proof of concept. It’s just code. The author and/or editor is leaning on ingrained negative kneejerk reactions from less knowledgeable members of the general public towards the term “hacker”.