CIRCLE WITH A DOT

They only use Claude for reviews, and it is because Meta gave them API tokens for free.
They don't use generated code unless someone else contributes it.

@fun @justsoup

I do not count telemetry as spyware, but it also appeared in Win8 (Win10 has application that will show you all the data it collects: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-data-viewer-overview) though I would agree that Cortana is spyware and it appeared in Win10

@elly

> online accounts/ads started in Win 10

oof no, they were already in Win8/8.1, Win10 only inherited the metro squares in menu and account bullshit

@elly

@elly what has started? AI and recall wasn't a thing 11 years ago and they didn't remove any UI functionality in Windows 10 afaik (maybe except old msthemes)

5 years of bullshit, removing features and implementing spyware

we're loosing users

panick

witch-hunting is the norm here unfortunately

@cas

@merlin source?

@fun IMO, the KDE bloat comes from the vast amount of applications and specific services (*looks at akonadi/baloo*) and not exactly from the core DE itself (kwin/plasma)