Microsoft bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails and fires the employee who protested Microsoft during event.

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I saw this on another post earlier: theverge.com/…/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-ema…

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    • Pro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They are basing their article on this Instagram source.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What do you mean? You don’t see SM posts from random people and just accept as gospel?

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    • Pro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You consider The No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) group a random people?

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• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  how long until you’re not allowed to use certain words on your own computer any more? i’m here to assist anyone looking to install Linux - and you don’t even need to commit! you can try it out with nothing but a thumb drive.

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Probably not long. Microsoft Recall constantly takes screenshots while you use your own personal computer! They can now use AI to OCR if you write text in Microsoft Paint! They can send that shit to anyone including the government and their branch in Israel! Amazing!

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      excuse me, i’ll just be over here in the dark corner writing my musings in my Victory notebook.

      weird to see “AI” and OCR so close together in the same sentence for the first time. won’t be the last i’m sure. ever heard of Ray Kurzweil?

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlUNSyTuauM

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  • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m thinking about switching over but I’ve been worried because I have an nvidia gpu in my gaming rig. I see some people say that’s no problem while others claim keeping the drivers up to date is a pain.

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There are two reasons people complain about Nvidia drivers on Linux. The first is because they are proprietary, which doesn’t matter for anyone except turbo nerds.

      But Nvidia drivers used to be pretty bad on Linux. But I genuinely don’t think I’ve had a driver crash since I installed my 2070 back in like 2019. I’ve upgraded to a 3080ti and I still haven’t had any issues. I have a 4k/120hz HDR monitor and don’t have any issues with that either.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you can install it as “dual boot”, which lets you choose either Windows or Linux at boot. this is the best way to test it out, since all it takes up is a bit of storage while you try it. if you decide you don’t like it, you can remove it and pretend like it never happened.

      i don’t know enough about graphics cards to tell you anything about that side of stuff, but i have heard complaints about nvidia + linux before. i don’t know if that’s still a thing, but i can only assume it’ll be something that will improve as one country keeps firing some of its best people

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Back in 2002, I was basically fired from Microsoft for expressing the value of Linux and how Microsoft couldn’t afford to keep creating e-waste with the way they roll out Windows.

  So I am not surprised.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    how Microsoft couldn’t afford to keep creating e-waste

    23 years later, they seem to be affording it quite well! Haha

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I tired 🤷

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  • const_void@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can you believe Microsoft actually has a “Chief Sustainability Officer”? Must be a cushy job doing nothing all day.

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s insane how all the corporate companies are just allying and okay with genocide, apartheid, racism, hatred and everything related to it. Not surprising but it’s insane.

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  • WeekendClock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I dunno, maybe you just should not talk about your personal political views on your work email?

    You know, like any normal well adjusted person.

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    • the_q@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Found another POS that’s ok with genocide.

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    • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There is an argument for that to an extent.

      Microsoft’s support of Israel’s genocide is an exception and has been a long time for anyone with a modicum of ethics.

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    • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A normal well adjusted person wouldn’t work for a genocide enabling company in first place.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Being against genocide is not political.

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• Lesrid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess they’ll have to use the phrase ‘Israeli atrocities’ in the meantime.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “It’s like there’s been a genocide on our sales in Gaza (Palestine)!”

  What?

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