If anyone from Valve is here, in a position to answer: Why on earth is Windows 11 pinging Steam servers immediately after the FIRST boot, on a CLEAN, newly purchased laptop, with nothing installed, and without user consent?
What data is being shared?
What's the nature of that specific relationship between Microsoft and Valve?
I really hope we can get an official statement, so the open source community can (hopefully) continue appreciating what Valve does for Linux and gaming.
If not, why not? It seems optimal when attempting to layout in 2D a 4 core CPU cluster with each of the cores directly connected to one another - above the top of the "T" would have a link to connect the end cores & cache fill in above & on the sides making a rectangle to cut. Compare Zen 1 & 2 with the cache in the center splitting the cores: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NXprMIzv_uw/maxresdefault.jpg The same symmetric splitting with the i7-5960x & Zen 3 & 4 "octo-ring": https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AMD-Ryzen-5000-Zen-3-Desktop-CPU_Vermeer_Die-Shot_1-scaled.jpg with the ring bringing the need for NUMA. The quad core I7-975 was linear https://www.guru3d.com/miraserver/images/2008/corei7/Nehalem_Die_callout.jpg Quad square configurations appear to have been used for Xeons: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6762cf8e384ca54f7d7640cadddd511f-pjlq & Athlons: https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/197/images/Image_02-j.webp, but not a "T". If latency being equal between the cores is the reason, then take out middle core & have equidistant tri-cores seesaw that could be linearly chained with the half core excess filled with cache on the ends, but again this does not appear to exist?
My tinfoil hat may be tighter than usual this morning, but I'm looking at migrating my startup's tooling to self-hosted. GitHub to self-hosted Git is among the first. The risks of my code ending up as LLM training fodder is starting to outweigh the benefits.
After all, LLM training on customer data is already happening. Slack is a recent example. [0] OpenAI is another -- they train on your private chats unless you opt out. [1]
My code has been in a GitHub private repo for years, so clearly, I have some trust in Microsoft not to outright steal it. But LLM training is different. Companies have been giving that a pass.
As a bootstrapped startup founder, having my code in some LLM's "knowledge update" could sink me if it could produce enough of it, even with alterations (hey, knowing my coding abilities, they'd probably be improvements). The same goes for docs, processes, and chats.
Copilot currently says it doesn't train on user data, but EULAs change. Some "we updated our terms" email could be a gloss on "heads up, we now train on your private code."
Is anyone else doing/thinking this, or do I need to take in my hat for alterations?
In response to this news about AT&T blocking robo calls. https://www.techspot.com/news/80874-att-begin-call-authentication-screen-out-fraudulent-callers.html
We don't really have a problem here in Australia, I get just a few a year, but I understand its a much bigger problem in the US.
Is it possible to make an Android and iOS app that will answer an incoming call and play a recoded message to the caller asking some questions, then listen for answers, then if the answers are correct, ring the phone and connect you to the caller?
What data is being shared?
What's the nature of that specific relationship between Microsoft and Valve?
CONTEXT (Source): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT4vDfA_4NI
Additional coverage: https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html
I really hope we can get an official statement, so the open source community can (hopefully) continue appreciating what Valve does for Linux and gaming.