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Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension (www.pcworld.com)
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  • A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
  • The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
  • Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
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[–] multiplewolves@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Micro$lop, why not both

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

It was (and is) spot on but Microsoft won the war for minds and lots of people in the Linux community started using Microsoft products like vscode and calling them good guys because they were running Linux datacenters and making kernel contributions. Microsoft employed some really good people working on some cool things. You were called out for being immature and holding outdated grudges if you used slang terms and you couldn't participate in conversations and be taken seriously.

Meanwhile Microsoft was still being Microsoft. They bought the defacto town square - github - in an attempt to control the platform. Then they mined the content to train LLMs. Now the LLMs bombard open source projects with crap. Even as Windows is dying they are trying to drag us down as well.

They are a big company and big companies sometimes do good things. No hate on their engineers. But Microsoft have always been the enemy and they will always be the enemy. It is their nature.

[–] multiplewolves@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Spot on, no notes

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Probably lost favor due to keyboard types, lots of folks type exclusively on digital phone keyboards where the $ is a bit more mechanically awkward than shift+4. But hey we still have Michaelsoft Binbows.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 0 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't work anymore because "money = good/powerful/special". You use Linux because you're a cheapskate, not because Microsoft is shit. Etc.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago

I definitely started using linux because I built an HTPC, realized I didn't have a spare windows license and didn't want to pay for windows.

[–] stewarpt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

I use it for both