Anyone with a Windows 11 machine will have noticed in the latest Windows Feature Update the arrival of this new extremely powerful, extremely invasive AI chatbot called “Copilot” (Which is a considerable step up from older virtual assistants such as Cortana, Siri and Alexa)

Without going into the technical details it will integrate itself with other onboard Microsoft products such as Edge/Bing, Teams and 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook etc). And then move into the realm of computer games, simulations and eventually high-end manufacturing technologies involving engineering, medicine, biofoods, security and healthcare.

One of the benefits of Copilot (CP) according to Microsoft is that it will help you prepare Word documents or Excel spreadsheets by you simply asking it to prepare a formal business proposal. CP will then use the notes and data you have already prepared in basic form and will turn it into a professional looking document on your behalf.

The same principle applies to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook emails and so on. It is basically your own Personal Assistant with intelligence.

However, you will notice CP is already on your Windows 11 taskbar, with the letters “PRE” underneath. This means it is not a fully operational “live” version, but a Beta. Which means it is still under development. Which suggests it is not as secure and bug-free as MS are claiming.

AI generally, is going to be more and more invasive with the apps we use on our phones, tablets and PCs over the next few years. And as a consequence there are major concerns about security, hacking, privacy and how much control Microsoft will have over your device.

CP is very much aimed at businesses, but home users are also included. Unfortunately you cannot uninstall it, although you can disable it (see link below), which is something I would strongly advice – at least until it has been fully tested and that the major anti-virus developers are ready for it in order to protect you.

Not only is this app unfinished it is quite resource hungry, especially on older PCs and laptops, more so when it caches and analysers data from various dependent apps such as OneNote or Word.

Best not to get sucked in with this AI hype. It is unproven and full of risk, just like those AI Self-Driving Tesla cars. Critics suggest it will make humanity even more impotent in terms of having to think about things when something like Copilot will anticipate exactly what it is you’re after based on a few words. (Imagine the days before calculators and you had to do sums in your head or on paper. Now you don’t have to think about how to do it. CP is the same but on a far larger, broader scale)

The concept looks nice on a piece of paper or a PowerPoint demo, but quite another kettle of ballbags when put to the test in the real world.

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HowToGeek

Nominated by: Technocunt

DPD are cunts, with a side cunting for Sharps Brewery.

My middle nephew ordered some beers for my birthday and, needless to say, the delivery guy kept coming while I was at work. He (the nephew) therefore cancelled it and sent me a £25 voucher for Sharps brewery instead.

I bought a crate of beers which DPD have managed not to deliver another two times. I therefore paid an extra £4.99 to guarantee delivery today (Sunday) between 12pm and 6pm.

I thought I’d check my email to see if the delivery twat had come before then and found an email saying that my delivery will now arrive on Monday, when I will be at work.

Useless fucking cunts.

Trust Pilot

Nominated by: Dark key cunt

As I’m approaching 70, I’ve had an invitation from the DVLC, to renew my Driving Licence.

Well, I’ve never had one of the new plastic credit card ones, my old fashion paper one is, apparently, no longer valid.
Anyway, in for a penny, I go on line. Do I want my passport details, including photo to be used. Clicked yes.

Anyway, two days later I have a valid DL, which will be useful when I’m tearing round in my modified old person chariot. I shared this with Younger, who says she’s been using her DL photo to update her passport and vice versa for 20 years.

Which leads me to the point of this cunting. If I can do it, and Younger can, how many younger brothers/cousins have walked in here, using an older brothers passport, with a photo that’s 20 years old?

Government Website

Nominated by: Jeezum Priest

World War III is about to break out. Putin keeps threatening it. China keeps sabre-rattling about Taiwan. Pakistan and Iran have taken to lobbing missiles at each other, with the latter saying that it wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth to boot. War and civil war rages across the Middle East. Fat fruitcake Kim Jong-un keeps threatening to nuke South Korea, or the US. Or somebody.

We’re on the brink of holocaust. I know this for a fact because various experts and commentators keep telling me this is the case. The Doomday Clock stands at ninety seconds to midnight. Military chiefs inevitably talk of ‘being prepared’, which is Newspeak for ‘give us more money to pay for bigger bangs’.

I’m fully expecting a nuclear war to start tomorrow, when some local madness spins out of control and some mad cunt finally presses the button. Or maybe it’ll be next week. Or in 2030.

I’m mentally prepared, simply because THEY have been readying us for it ever since 1945. I can just remember the Suez crisis. I well remember all the Arab-Israel conflicts, especially Yom Kippur, when Golda Meir apparently seriously considered dropping the Big One. There was Korea, and Vietnam, and who could ever forget all the high jinks of the Cold War, especially the Cuba crisis, when it could have been curtains. Yes the Cold War was always going to go hot at any minute, yet somehow it never quite came to it.

The fact is, I’ve been expecting World War III ever since I can remember, and it’s never actually happened. I’ve been terrified at the prospect since childhood, but I’ve now reached the point where I simply can’t be arsed with all this perpetual sabre-rattling and scare-mongering any more. Fuck ’em all.

So World War III gets a definite maybe from me. It might happen. It might not; in fact I reckon that it actually won’t. Anyway I refuse to worry about it any more. I’m now completely blasé on the matter, for the simple reason that there’s absolutely sweet fuck all I can do either way.

Time for a gin and tonic.

The Messenger

You Tube

Nominated by: Ron Knee

And to continue the happy vibe, here’s this from OpinionatedCunt

The looming prospect of WW3 is a cunt.

Now, I don’t know whether WW3 will happen or not – there’s a few other things that have to happen for that, and there’s an argument to be made as to whether a large conflict could even be sustained in the present world.

However, I have never seen so many people and organisations (NATO, the Chief of Staff, the German and Swedish Defence Ministers, Schapps etc) come out with the kind of rhetoric they have been espousing in the last few weeks.

Obviously, all of them may have agendas. NATO may be attempting to galvanise its members into providing more funding for Ukraine, the Chief of Staff may be attempting to get more government money to combat the army’s recruitment crisis, the respective defence ministers may be trying to shore up public support or distract from scandals.

However, these are starting to feel like very, very dangerous times, and I’m starting to get a wee bit jittery. Maybe I’m overthinking things – I certainly hope that’s the case. However, there’s a nagging feeling there that something will pop off eventually.

The Standard

Couldn’t find a link for this, so maybe one of you guys may be able to chip in,

I would like to nominate the makers of Not Foodle, sorry Pot Noodle and their horrendous adverts and of course product.

Just saw an advert with some slag sucking up a whole pot of the boiled powder and toe nail clipping that make up a pot of this shit and there is a whole shock and awe ad campaign coming our way apparently.

So the way I see it, Not Foodle is for slags, fags, tramps and scrotes going from their ads, honestly what kind of message does this send to kids ffs.

So Nott Foodle you are cunts, your advert makers are cunts and the cheap nasty people who exist eating this shit are usually cunts.

Honestly cut out the middle man and just pour it strait down the fucking toilet, there is probably better health benefits in the fucking plastic pot it comes in….

You Tube

Nominated by: Fuglyucker

With supporting link courtesy of Jeezum Priest