Microsoft has recently announced Windows Copilot, an AI-powered assistant for Windows 11. Windows Copilot sits at the side of Windows 11, and can summarize content you’re viewing in apps, rewrite it, or even explain it. Microsoft is currently testing this internally and promised to release it to testers in June before rolling it out more broadly to Windows 11 users.

Oh my God, they’re bringing back clippy.

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Cory Doctorow wrote a pretty good short story about this.

I’ll admit this part did go a bit over my head.

It’s referring to a strategy more commonly called ‘triple e’ or ‘embrace, extend, extinguish’ pioneered by Microsoft in the late 90’s. The gist of it was that MS would adopt open standards and create proprietary extensions to the standard that were only usable on their platform. This would break the ability of users of non MS software to communicate with those in Microsoft’s ecosystem and push users off those platforms.

Njalla is pretty nice.

Battle for Wesnoth is really good.

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That’s true. I don’t personally post photos of myself online, but I suppose other people have probably put up pictures I’m in at some point. I don’t think it would need to be all your photos, though, just a large enough number to poison the dataset. I could be wrong about that, though.

I do wonder if adversarial manipulations will become a service offered by image hosts, similar to stripping metadata in the future.

I wonder if adversarial attacks would work to counter this.

I really like the group readings of plays that they have. Here’s a couple that I really enjoyed:

• The Duchess of Padua
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• An Ideal Husband