That doesn’t at all match the documentation.

The organization will configure a list of Wi-Fi SSIDs. When your device connects to one of those, the Teams location would be updated to “in the office”.

That’s it. No complex triangulation, no pinpoint locating. Just “are you connected to the office network or not”.

Also, if you don’t want to be tracked in this way, just don’t participate. If your organization sets a policy to opt you in automatically, click the option to opt out. If they give the offer to opt in, just don’t.

I know it’s hip to hate on Microsoft, but we should at least discuss things based on the truth, not wild assumptions and misinformation.

Oh, that. If you read the article, you’ll see that the “toxic waste” was really just used water from the deluge system. Think of it like rinsing off your car and the runoff getting into a river. A good chunk of the water was collected too, so the actual discharge was much less. On top of that, it was later clarified that SpaceX could continue the operations while the permit process was sorted out, which happened a few months after that article IIRC. It was basically a nothingburger that a few commentators tried to blow up.

I’m gonna need a source for that. I follow SpaceX fairly closely (as a fan of the engineering, not Musk), and I can’t think of where this could possibly be happening, even through a wild misunderstanding of a situation.

The lack of a source in that article led me to go looking for something official. Here’s the MS article on the feature: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/places/configure-auto-detect-work-location

What jumped out at me (called out twice in dedicated boxes):

By default, users are opted out of work location detection. Users are prompted to provide consent for automatic location detection in the Teams desktop client on Windows or macOS. It is not possible for admins to consent on users’ behalf.

This just doesn’t seem like as big of a deal as some are making it sound.

They probably replaced HR with AI too, and it messed up the org chart.

Just a few trillion more dollars, bro. We’re almost there. Bro, if you give up a few showers, the AI datacenter will be able to work perfectly.

Bro.

It sounds like the Teslas are breaking just fine as it is.

Article in 2027:

Keyboard prices soared this month, as tech giants pivoted from failed AI projects to employing hordes of monkeys typing randomly. One CEO was quoted as saying, “Just a few trillion more dollars, and I think our random typing model could reproduce the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria.”

This sounds like any website suddenly becomes an app store as soon as it starts distributing software for a mobile device. So (ignoring my following point), if I suddenly post my new APK on my personal site suddenly it’s an app store!?

I think so. The intention is probably to have the law cover any method of getting your hands on an app, not just what we typically know as “app stores”. Otherwise, it would leave a loophole.

This sounds like it includes laptops but not desktop computers.

I thought that at first too, but I think the part at the end about “handheld electronic devices” is what limits it to not include laptops.

Ah, thanks, I wasn’t aware of that.

Is it really a coup if they’re already in power? It’s a heavier grade of authoritarianism, but I don’t know if there is a single word that encapsulates it.

…and Perplexity’s scraping is unnecessarily traffic intensive since they don’t cache the scraped data.

That seems almost maliciously stupid. We need to train a new model. Hey, where’d the data go? Oh well, let’s just go scrape it all again. Wait, did we already scrape this site? No idea, let’s scrape it again just to be sure.

That jumped out at me too. Giving the benefit of the doubt, it could be that this “snapshot” includes a very large amount of data that could be problematic if stored locally for longer. In reality, they probably do it this way for exactly this type of situation, so they can retain full control of the potentially-damning data.