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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 183 points 3 months ago (1 children)

NoPilot

I like it, I like it.

[–] BryyM@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

Thank you for pointing out this clearly superior word, you expanded my vocabulary!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 114 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the time when Disney allegedly* sent a memo to workers at Disney Land and Disney World telling them that, if they didn't stop complaining about the abysmal working conditions by calling both parks Mousewitz, they'd be fired.

Within the hour, workers started calling it Duchau in stead.

*read: probably

[–] lornosaj@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I get the Mousewitz part but what’s the reference to Dachau about? Duchau read like Duckau as in Donald Duck?

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[–] Aberration13@lemmy.world 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 101 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Good old roflcopter.

Wait, this a picture? Seriously? Here's some ascii art ones: https://gist.github.com/MatthewRalston/3f529c819e4976c7e6572f5682c8959f

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Making me wanna put the old lollerskates back on or perhaps pet my dear old cat, roofles tenten mayo.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago

Oh Microslop... throwing tantrums like a 5 year old brat

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 66 points 3 months ago

Why would Microslop do this? Aren’t they proud of the slop they are filling everything with? Or is this just a simple insecurity thing? Want us to call you Macroslop instead?

[–] Dentzy@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 months ago

I loved the:

Of course, the internet rarely leaves things there.

There are many things wrong about the current Internet, but the pettiness against any affront (real or perceived) won't ever die, and I think that's good.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Am I the only one questioning why Microslop has a Discord server? Don't they have a chat product?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Hello I'm [generic person 2387362] and I'm the community manager for [generic corporation/tool/product 1892873]! I just started a few weeks ago and I'm so excited to announce that in the interest of [generic engagement and advertising], we'd started a discord server! We [positive transitive verb] our community, and want to bring them together so they can share some of the [productivity success stories] they've had or ask the community for support! Remember, while this is an official [generic corporation] channel, by joining this community you agree to [27 pages of legal terms about them owning your messages and data farming you]."

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You son of a bitch I'm in!! Where do I sign up?

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

They do, but have you ever seen a party that everyone knows about but no one shows up to? That's Microsoft's non-paid chat service.

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[–] NavySqueal@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah microslop kicking themselves for not buying discord

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They would have run it into the ground with mismanagement and a new chat application would become the popular choice within a year, while Microslop's new acquisition fades into obscurity, eventually to be depreciated and shut down my Microslop themselves.

As has happened multiple times already in history.

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Microslop needs to ask Copilot about the Streisand Effect. As someone not chronically on social media, I hadn't heard about this term yet. Now, it's one of my favorites.

Funny enough, I've been experimenting with Copilot at work and it does have some genuine uses for looking up information quickly. Especially when trying to troubleshoot Microslop products. Between the disaster called "Windows 11", the cluster-fuck which is New Outlook and the complete shitshow which falls under the umbrella of "Defender", it's obvious that they have stopped investing in QA and testing. At least Copilot can help me find the right document to quickly tell me that I can't do something I used to be able to do in the old version of Outlook. Or, that Defender is incapable of doing things which even Symantec Antivirus had gotten right in the early 2000's.

[–] BryyM@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please edit your post to add Nopilot instead of copilot, its the superior word

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tempting. though I might have to go with FauxPilot.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Things must be rough for the AI fandom when a Discord made for CoPilot is unsustainably critical of CoPilot

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Who else would even join except bots?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Idk Microsoft, maybe fix your AI so it doesn't recommend Microsoft products that are either ~~depreciated~~ deprecated or don't exist.

It's pretty embarrassing for you.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

If it was the only bad thing about Microsoft, it would be pretty great though.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's a bit weird. They didn't get this worked up about being called "Micro$oft" or something. This is probably hitting the nerve in a completely different way!

[–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

They're proud capitalists, so it never bothered them. They aren't proud of their slopware though

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Microsoft has over 200k employees, and the people (person?) managing the discord are probably at the bottom of the totem pole. I doubt they put more than 5 seconds of thought into this.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago

Microslop should ask their own NoPilot about the Streisand Effect.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 26 points 3 months ago

I hate this timeline, but I do enjoy the small moments of absurdity when I can.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft is tired of Microslop? Weird, that.

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[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Go to microsoft dot com. Click their chat help bot. Ask "What is microslop?" get told, sorry, I cannot help you with that and turns itself off.

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 19 points 3 months ago

I just did that..and it said....''it would seem you are referring to Microsoft'' So all of your hard work was not in vain. It is now self aware

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

🎶 Barbra Streisand 🎶

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wanna join the server just to look at the absolute loser shit that must be going down in the "Aha AI Moments" channel

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[–] teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

20 years ago (yes, I'm old) we called it Microshaft Winblows. Perhaps it's time to resurrect that.

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[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Losers, and on top sore... :D

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Microslop really should know better than to cry about it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Love how every social media site is becoming more and more like /r/Conservative.

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

They essentially ARE. You can also throw in all major broadcasting networks in that bucket as well. Everything is pro Israel and they are all trying to justify their genocide to their dumb fuck base.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's how any absolutistic regime acts.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Which companies always are.

Look into how companies are actually managed. It's almost always an absolute dictatorship under the complete control of the owner and/or CEO, who gets the last word on everything and can fire anyone at will. Sometimes you'll have a board of directors or something acting as a check on the CEO's power and able to replace them if necessary ... but even then, that pretty much never actually happens. Their power is pretty much never actually checked.

Which is why I think "workplace democracy" should be the phrase leftists rally behind. The right has put a lot of work into poisoning and slandering the terms 'socialism' and 'communism', but 'workplace democracy' hasn't been attacked like that. And it sounds very good to workers. If you get to vote on what your country does, why shouldn't you get to vote on what your company does? After all, your company actually has a lot more effect on you and power over you in your day-to-day life. Why should some out-of-touch rich guy (probably a pedophile) get absolute control over the whole thing based on his fucked-up whims and vibes? Instead, we should have workplace democracy, where all employees get a say in how the company is run. (And then, without propagandized workers even realizing that they've done so, they've taken control of the means of production and enacted a form of socialism.)

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