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“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by defjm »

st_goliath wrote: post #28
ralferoo wrote: post #20

Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.

If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites. On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.

You made me laugh, thanks.

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Post by bombcar »

kotaKat wrote: post #111
bartread wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan Do you work for Microsoft or something? Please do do not give them ideas.

“Featuring a partnership with Kohler Health and the Dekoda toilet camera and Withings and their UScan piss sensor…”

“Please drink Exlax verification can”

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by Zigurd »

lunias wrote: post #62

Tells you a lot about where their focus is at as a company.

It's kind of interesting that Microsoft is deemphasizing if not exiting making products for individuals to decide to buy. Contrast that with Google, who have to actively cultivate individual customers in order to have a large and reliable audience for ad based monetization of search, maps, and other free at the point of use products.

There are good and understandable reasons to not want to be in the games business. Game studios are frequently a hot bed of sexual predation and just horrifyingly bad management in general. But it's a business with a large customer base that wouldn't be customers otherwise.

Microsoft has spent tens of billions of dollars acquiring game studios and their IP. They're going to have to make a decision to cultivate growth in that business or sell it for whatever they can get for it. Neither of those choices will be easy to execute well.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by poly2it »

avhception wrote: post #80
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd imagine that there's some discussion about how to make the most out of the tool as well as discussion of experiments and capabilities. I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore because of the multiple rebrands, but having a place where you can discuss exploring plugins and other adjacent features seems useful. Not quite the same, but recently I was recently looking around for communities…

> [...] I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore [...] Watching from the sidelines (not a Microsoft user), I've completely lost track. Between this, the Azure 365 cloud whatever stuff, I have no idea what many of the products even exactly are any more.

Seriously? Does anybody know what Copilot is? I don't think I have ever seem a "Copilot user", so I don't know what it looks like. Is it the little macro key on new laptop keyboards? The chatbot you get in Bing? A technical philosophy? Or is it in essence just copilot.com, the mediocre chat interface which you used to get free GPT-4 three years ago?

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Post by kibwen »

DrBazza wrote: post #103
Maken wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would anyone use Teams?

Because it comes 'free' with an Office365 subscription. Embrace ( It's usually 'management'. The same management that won't pay for developer tools (including Slack) because 'why do you need that when you can do 95% of your work in VSCode?' It's also usually the same sort of management that can do 95% of their documents in... VSCode and markdown. Or LibreOffice.

Microsoft products are only free if your time has no value.

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Post by kibwen »

mpalmer wrote: post #123
stephc_int13 wrote: post #109

They are back in their villain arc. For a while now.

Our vocabulary is so stunted. Has no one else noticed that we increasingly talk about the world like it's fiction playing out in front of us?

It's not a vocab problem. It's inherent to the human brain, which appears to be fundamentally designed to prefer to view the world in terms of stories, with heroes, villains, and a narrative arc.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by zelphirkalt »

bartread wrote: post #74
Havoc wrote: post #40

Don’t they have better things to do? Maybe vibecode a taskbar that moves when you try to move away the mouse over it or perhaps a windows 12 installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan?

> installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan Do you work for Microsoft or something? Please do do not give them ideas.

"Only for your own good!™" or alternatively: "Security next level! Fingerprint was yesterday. The future is Microsoft's new iris scan." and then it is built in a way, that you can simply hold up a photo of someone's iris and unlock the device, or trying to prevent that, works so badly, that half of the time you cannot unlock your own device.
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