If you had told me ten years ago that Microsoft would one day become one of our best allies in the attempt to persuade people to use open source for their own damn good, I would probably have sarcastically replied something like "yeah and next you'll be telling me somehow Oracle will sour people on centralized social media too."

...Huh. What a weird timeline.

You can't make this shit up XD

Okay. So how often does it turn itself back on if ever?

For a second I thought this was The Onion. This is so dark and invasive but I can't stop myself from laughing. It's like they don't even care to pretend anymore.

Fuck everything about that.

Somebody got fed up they were only evaluated on "%of people who adopted AI". This feels very malicious compliance to me.

I am told that Apple, DropBox, etc. have done this for years, often in the name of "fighting CSAM" or "helping you organize your photos". https://support.apple.com/en-us/108795 Agree that its a very good reason not to touch corporate cloud services and to not let people take digital photos of your face even if they promise not to share them! I do not trust any company with physical assets in the USA not to be penetrated by three-letter-organizations and data brokers.