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“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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

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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?

Combine fingerprint biometric with fecal samples for a convenient "fecalprint" button. The user doesn't even have to go into the bathroom! It can be microslops version of Apple's TouchID.

You're absolutely right! It's not just a fecalprint button, it's a feces platform!

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

#152

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> [...] 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?

The copilot button isn't even a "button" in a traditional sense, it just maps to win+shift+f23

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

#154

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insult (verb): to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive Corporate personhood at its finest.

People do work at Microsoft though and they're probably aren't very happy when their work is called slop. You could even say they are feeling insulted or offended.

See, that requires the code to be written by an actual human being, who has agency and a sense of pride and ownership about their work.

Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten about that still operate like that, but judging by the way the user-facing parts of its products have developed, the mass firings, and the pushing of AI-driven development by upper management, it seems very clear to me that there's very little risk of insulting anything anyone actually cares about.

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

#156

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> 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.

Maybe facebook can ride on this and let you share your feces with your friends family and groups of strangers from the internet! They can run models that predict what you ate and show relevant ads.

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

#157

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.

Don't forget Windoze.

in Italy it was WinZozz (zozzo = dirty)

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

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Is "Microslop" really insulting , though?

I think the most important question here is this: Are users who post the string "microslop" generally desirable participants that will contribute in a productive manner? I suspect not.

An even more important question is: why does Microsoft care so much about a handful of people using that term that they are willing to risk getting Streisanded over it?

Nobody cares about banning the few idiots who do nothing but spam "MICROSLOP SUCKS MICROSLOP SUCKS". But banning the entire term "microslop", just in case someone might use it? Well, what kind of response were they expecting?

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

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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?

> a fecal sample

a micro shit (tm)

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