• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Solution from the old ones: We used to replace the S with a $ sign in Microsoft (or Microshaft, or “Microfos” (Microshit) if you’re Hungarian), so if you’re writing it as Micro$lop, you get a few days evasion.

    (Reason behind the abandonment of Micro$oft/Micro$haft/whatever: Windows 7, Linux and its community was much worse back then, “maybe not all companies are bad” sentiment popular in the early 10’s, people suddenly thought all the crap Micro$lop did were conspiracy theories, etc.)

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      Not sure if it works on Discord but another old-school trick is Micro**slop

      italicizing nothing creates an invisible break in the word

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      Here in Italy we used the winzozz calssifier. A portmanteu of “windows” and “zozzo” “sozzo” that stands for dirty, unpolished or allusive. Have fun with this lore drop

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    Anything but address the core issue. Consumers overwhelmingly see almost no benefit from AI, are sick of it being stuffed into everything, sick of being forced to use it at work, sick of being forced to fund it in our retirement accounts, sick of our water being used for it in the datacenters they’re building, and sick of consumer products being out of stock or skyrocketing in price because of it… Banning a word won’t solve any of that!

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    LOL All they need to do is stop pushing what they call “AI” into everything they make, turn it into a opt-in only feature, allowing people to remove every fucking bit of Coslop from their PCs. They don’t want to because it would prove what they already know: Microslop is a Sloperator and admitting the truth would be temporarily painful to their earnings. Fixing things would take far too long, so Microslop would prefer to not do that work. Satya needs to get over it and admit defeat.

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    You know, the CEO could basically end “microslop” over night. Kill their AI division and investments and for the most part people would stop calling them microslop. They got the name after the CEO complained about the use of the word slop for AI slop.

    Idk, this is just me, some regular dude not being paid enough to own 7 homes and a vacation home for when I need to get away.

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    If Windows 11 detects that you said, typed, or thought of the word “microslop” it deletes all your data, and sends your personal data to the CIA Grok that then promptly sends you to your nearest gulag.

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    Well well well, if it isn’t Microslop suffering the consequences of its own stupid choices.

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    I mean, it really earned, that name, you know: MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP!
    Maybe their CEO Slopya Nutella should not be so thin skinned? He is to majorly blame for 99% of this MICROSLOP!

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        There’s a lovely browser plugin that automagically changes “Microsoft” to “Microslop” and “Satya Nadella” to “Slopya Nutella” and I’m never uninstalling it now!

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      This is almost certainly a work-related thing. Most people, even on Windows, hate Teams and don’t use it unless they have to for their job.

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        I used to think “Teams can’t be that bad” and then I had to use it for work. It’s astonishingly bad. I’m not sure if it’s just how they use it at this place, but it’s bad.

        Everything is a chat. There’s no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat…

        There’s no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says “Feature 1 has a bug” and someone else says “Feature-2 has a bug”, you can’t isolate them in separate threads. It’s all flat so they smash into each other.

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          It’s a good example of why no one ever tried to build an ‘everything’ app. It just doesn’t work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.

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          Every time I have to start a new chat it takes me 15 minutes to figure out how to do it. The Teams UI is positively hostile.