tedu comments on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements

Technology

43,242 readers

2,468 active

135 users here now

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.

Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.

Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

founded 7 years ago

moderators

[+] tedu@azorius.net -9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah, so if they have the code, they could run it...

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 35 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

That's not how code of this magnitude works off the cuff GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory() and GetPhysicalDiskSize()) aren't defined and might exist in a file they couldn't access. It's also in C++ so you'd have to compile it first no one's going through all that for a visual screenshot of a watermark at this stage

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wow that's some crappy C/C++ code, there's even a goto 😁

But whats the 0i64?

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

They kinda don't have the sources there. That's a decompilation by IDA in that image.

But nevertheless they could run it if they set up an arm64 machine, technically.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

If you want a serious answer, you could theoretically disable all security checks on Win11 so you could hex-edit patch it to run, but it would be (1) a lot of effort and (2) probably show that it's nowhere near finished, because it still misses UI integration for example

permalink

fedilink

source

parent