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The trend of "non-functional software" is happening everywhere. See the recent articles about Copilot in Notepad, failing to start because you aren't signed in
by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
The trend of "non-functional software" is happening everywhere. See the recent articles about Copilot in Notepad, failing to start because you aren't signed in with your Microsoft Account.
We are in a future that nobody wanted.
- dylan604 8mo ago> We are in a future that nobody wanted. Nor deserved.
- heliumtera 8mo agoThen why is it the future we have?
- its_magic 8mo agoIt was a complete accident. Nobody could have foreseen it. We are currently experiencing the sudden discovery that Microsoft is an evil corporation and maybe putting everything in the cloud wasn't the best move after all.
- zx8080 8mo ago> Sudden discovery Sudden for 15-years old's only.
- johnisgood 8mo agoSome people, sure. I never thought that putting everything in the cloud is the best move, but I guess N=1. In fact I was shocked to see that so many allegedly tech-literate people were so blindly pro-cloud (and they still are).
- timacles 8mo agoLet’s just say there are a couple of guys, who are up to no good. And they started making trouble in our neighborhood. jokes aside it’s all because of hyper financial engineering. Every dollar every little cent must be maximized. Every process must be exploited and monetized, and there are a small group of people who are essentially driving all this all across the world in every industry.
- boppo1 8mo ago>small group of people who are essentially driving all this all across the world in every industry. The federal reserve?
- michaelcampbell 8mo agoMS PM's wanted it, got their OKR's OK'd, got their bonuses, and moved on.
- habitable5 8mo ago> We are in a future that nobody wanted. some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolkien fan.
- cyanydeez 8mo agoRent seekers paradise (ft copilot)
- markus_zhang 8mo agoIt’s just feudal with Capital.
- b00ty4breakfast 8mo agothe irony of Tolkien being associated with a techno-dystopia makes me nauseous
- xeonmc 8mo agoSci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
- flyinghamster 8mo agoIndeed, a theme throughout his works to the point of directly saying it was to beware things that are of a deeper art than you possess.
- b00ty4breakfast 8mo agoHe was also pretty openly anti-industrialism in the Victorian tradition of guys like John Ruskin and William Morris.
- tayo42 8mo agoWho is it?
- amarant 8mo agoNot quite everywhere. There's a common denominator for all of those: Microsoft. Their business is buying good products and turning them into shit, while wringing every cent they can out of the business. Always has been. They have a grace period of about 2-4 years after acquisition where interference is minimal. Then it ramps up. How long a product can survive once the interference begins largely depends on how good senior leadership at that product company is at resisting the interference. It's a hopeless battle, the best you can do is to lose slowly.
- Andrex 8mo agoThings don't always ramp up after 2-4 years. Sometimes MS just kills the project or company after that period of time. See also their moves in the gaming industry.
- amarant 8mo agoHeh, I was working at 2 of those gaming companies when they were acquired by m$. I almost fear taking another job in the gaming industry, there seems to be some kind of bastardised version of Murphy's law that any gaming company that hires me will be acquired by ms 6 months later. I mean, that's obviously not the case, but it's weird that it happened twice!
- Andrex 8mo agoVery weird it happened twice! But that's a kind of a cool factoid to tell people haha. Even with devs and publishers that don't die or are killed, they still lay hundreds off when a game is done. Then the studio limps along in pre-production mode on their next game for 4-5 years it seems like... Maybe the only job stability in the industry is with indies, and... Nintendo?
- amarant 8mo agoI'd add the hugely successful studios to that list. Even after ms acquisition, to the best of my knowledge neither of the 2 studios I worked at had any layoffs. But they boast the most sold video game in the history of videogames (Tetris a close-ish second), and most downloaded free mobile game, respectively. Each have player bases larger than the population of the country they're from! Here's to hoping ms is hesitant to gut either!
- bonesss 8mo agoThis thread has complaints about software coming from the same supplier both degrading. The person(s) who wanted this want Azure to get bigger and have prioritized Azure over Windows and Office, and their share price has been growing handsomely. ‘Microslop’, perhaps, but their other nickname has a $ in it for a reason.
- its_magic 8mo agoLaughs in my own Linux distro