Post AxCnsfIOqPwfvG77Oi by ozzelot@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AxCnBkxVugiH2BssXg by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-15T20:44:19Z
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@prahou Change your profile pic to the old evil in order to express you don't want the new evil!Sincerely, Louis Teta Drogerie
(DIR) Post #AxCniKnQCstBRqhLG4 by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-15T20:50:15Z
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@EndlessMason @prahou "clippy used to be the worst" well, if we'd somehow were to achieve a reality where clippy is again the worst, would we be then inclined to change our profile pictures to some even older worst thing?
(DIR) Post #AxCnjhM3osVZhbYBua by anjune@chaosfem.tw
2025-08-15T20:42:31Z
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@prahou I don't remember anyone thinking of Microsoft as anything other than the evil soulless empire since about 1984!
(DIR) Post #AxCnjjPgAOai5PG6pU by kinderstampfer@mstdn.social
2025-08-15T20:48:10Z
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@anjune @prahou the only good thing M$ ever did, was being so evil and terrible that they drove me towards the unix world.
(DIR) Post #AxCnsfIOqPwfvG77Oi by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-15T20:52:09Z
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@apophis @prahou yep, once again per louis cringeman(he's got *a few* good ideas, and he is/was a skilled board repair tech, but that's as far as i'm willing to validate him)
(DIR) Post #AxCo5HpPPL04u5ZWPw by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-15T20:54:26Z
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@EndlessMason @prahou I shall, unless I forget
(DIR) Post #AxCoy5kc0qCBNDSfhY by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-08-15T21:02:59Z
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@prahou This is 100% true.Speaking with a senior MS computer scientist in ~2007/8 who was helping to lead their "Big Data" initiative, he freely acknowledged that they didn't see the academic/research cloud as ever being profitable. No, what they were after was (a) the legitimacy that comes from association with leading CS departments, and (b) leading CS talent to teach them how to convert the > 1PB of data collected about us each day (in 2008) into $$. I.e. Surveillance Capitalism.
(DIR) Post #AxD9oolZtB6L81KfB2 by Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2025-08-16T00:17:55Z
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@prahou
(DIR) Post #AxDAshbCZx2M0mtYe0 by travisfw@fosstodon.org
2025-08-15T23:01:40Z
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@anjune @prahou yeah, but I don't get why people bought Apple as if they were/are any better
(DIR) Post #AxDAsik6KLkXYg4B9c by anjune@chaosfem.tw
2025-08-15T23:02:40Z
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@travisfw @prahou They were the alternative i.e. the underdog (in a world in which nothing else existed in the public consciousness)Also quite a bit more tasteful
(DIR) Post #AxDAsk3HSWgZcS30gi by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-08-16T01:09:18Z
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@anjune@chaosfem.tw @travisfw@fosstodon.org @prahou@merveilles.townApple was good at the time — public consciousness or not, but getting a PowerPC Mac was the easiest (and cheapest) way to lay your hands on an architecture that wasn't Intel. Mac OS X was actually good and in addition to your favourite open source software it allowed you to run lots of commercial software, free software alternatives for which were not even remotely on par — compare Pro Tools, Live and Logic to free DAWs of the time. Some components of Mac OS X were open source, project like mac ports existed and Apple was investing into compilers heavily — LLVM emerged as serious alternative to GCC at Apple.
(DIR) Post #AxDBawevwkrfSgjlmi by TheSilentHolographer@techhub.social
2025-08-16T00:48:53Z
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@prahou "least bad" maybe ? Followed surprisingly by Meta, on the strength of being uncharacteristically humanitarian when it comes to giving nonzero feedback on job applications
(DIR) Post #AxDBaxP1BPjBlcIZcG by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-08-16T01:15:12Z
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@TheSilentHolographer@techhub.social @prahou@merveilles.townThey are also not as intrusive, I can avoid their "products" and they practically don't exist to me. Unlike GoogleShit™ which I have to deal with in every other open source project, FacebookShit™ is quite rare — besides unlike WebPee, Brotli and whatever else Google has barfed onto us in the past decades, Zstandard is actually good!
(DIR) Post #AxDHQG0QH9Ku0I4jom by TheSilentHolographer@techhub.social
2025-08-16T01:54:16Z
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@m0xEE @prahou I've been thinking lately about the things I used to use Cortana for, back in the winphone days, and how having a personality attached has made me reluctant to look for any of the same features in gemini/assistant (hands-free texting, geofenced to-do reminders/appointments). There are privacy claims too, but they feel retroactive.
(DIR) Post #AxDHQGuQuu8go0HT7Y by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-08-16T02:20:32Z
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@TheSilentHolographer@techhub.social @prahou@merveilles.townCortana never made it to my region, but voice commands worked reliably well in Windows Phone 8 — and I was actually using the feature, to me it felt more natural — it did support variations, so you didn't have to talk to it like to a machine, but you didn't have to pretend you've been talking to a person either, like with Siri and friends. And modern assistants — I'd avoid them at all costs 😅
(DIR) Post #AxDV6j4tsIt7jhkbhY by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-08-15T20:45:29Z
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@prahou Fair enough. The biggest difference is just that back then it would not have been tolerated. Even just a rumor that they were considering it would have resulted in a major backlash.Today: a collective shrug for the most part. We're in the minority sadly.
(DIR) Post #AxDV6kVsXU3wBfNfOK by alice@mk.nyaa.place
2025-08-15T22:46:00.059Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @prahou@merveilles.town why do you think it wouldn't have been? other shady practices were tolerated just fine, like how they used to shove IE down everyone's throat much of the same way they are doing with LLMs now, to the point they almost completely pushed Netscape out of the market
(DIR) Post #AxDV6lQx7HiT2g5FLs by alice@mk.nyaa.place
2025-08-15T22:57:50.059Z
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@prahou@merveilles.town @nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social like - why does EU care so much about default browser selection? If you've only seen it in late 2000s or later, it may seem silly, but the thing is that back in Windows 98:- IE was integrated with [file] explorer and unremovable - incl. the favorites menu actively ignoring your default browser- IE was integrated into start menu - the favorites menu will show you IE bookmarks, tho it will at least open the default browser- IE was also integrated into the actual desktop - Active Desktop that nobody actually used- It also used to show you ads right on the desktop btw (channel bar, see screenshot)- It was also available for Win95 - if you install IE 4 on Win95, it would permanently alter the system integrating IE into everything and make it unremovable without reinstall- They also paid Apple to include IE as the default browser on Macs as well - all the way until Safari became a thingThe result was that Netscape went from 90%+ of the market share to almost nothing in just a couple years. And then MS just stopped updating IE and that's how the IE6 nightmare happened, where it was shipped by default but horrifically outdated - yet people kept using it because it's the default, and I'm not sure that damage was ever fully undoneMS claimed that IE was an essential part of the windows 98 experience and removing it would hurt users - same as apple is whining about EU regulations nowAnd - the public at large never really noticed (aside from switching to IE). Some people did scream loudly about this - same as now about LLMs and everything, but in general - nope, people very much tolerated it just fine
(DIR) Post #AxG78hC42NBn2rO67c by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-17T11:12:05Z
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@prahoucan a labubu run archlinux@anjune @travisfw
(DIR) Post #AxG7OMllk1hWKmYp5E by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-17T11:14:54Z
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@alderwickThe XP hills were so quaint they drove me to Ubuntu@prahou
(DIR) Post #AxGHLrifDGUgzqYR28 by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-17T13:06:31Z
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@prahou @anjune @travisfw i want to believe
(DIR) Post #AxGIJsPVlx7wVzDBHk by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-17T13:17:21Z
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@prahou @anjune @travisfw o fug they time travel apparently
(DIR) Post #AxGaYi805CRY8wFBya by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-08-17T16:41:44Z
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@prahouWhy are they revealing themselves, they had it good@anjune @travisfw
(DIR) Post #AxJFEkr8iP95FVsdoe by eris@p.enes.lv
2025-08-18T23:26:54Z
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they saw their ancient arch nemesis the skibidi toilets take over the world by revealing themselves so the council of labubus went public as wellCC: @prahou@merveilles.town @anjune@chaosfem.tw @travisfw@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AxJFQXwOYkhGfUxezo by nosdregamon@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-16T11:15:38Z
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@prahou I thought the point was, that everyone hated Clippy, even without him stealing our data. And if we were pissed about Clippy, we should be even louder about Win11 and the ever increasing data-scalping and invasion of "AI" in our privacy.
(DIR) Post #AxmD2xqc1Qmlk5io1A by untsuki@udongein.xyz
2025-09-01T22:48:57.940439Z
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@alice @prahou @nazokiyoubinbou I think the reason why one may think it wouldn't be tolerated, is that another desktop assistant, BonziBuddy was not tolerated and is historically known as spyware for doing basically the same stuff that today every app is expected to do.Though I guess the difference that it was very obnoxious and popped up ads and unwanted features, acting more similar to some bootleg pirated software with injected ads, when big companies would be a lot more careful... And they were, as they now get even more private information for advertisement purposes, while using a thin veiled excuses to downplay that.