Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3033903/make-microsofts-ceo-cry-by-installing-chromes-microslop-extension.html

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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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If you really want to freak Microsoft out, switch to Linux. Nothing terrifies them more than when *you leave*.

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- digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This weekend. I’ve asked my significant other to check through and backup any files she may need but we’re switching off Microslops ecosystem this coming week. Got it down to Ubuntu or Mint for an ease of use while not jumping in the hole too deep. But we are in agreement at least to turn away.
  
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  - skaffi@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Avoid Ubuntu - it’s made by the Microsoft of the Linux world. If you want an easy transition from Windows specifically, then you really ought to run KDE Plasma as your desktop environment, as that is by far the most similar to Windows in terms of look, layout and workflow, and it is very flexible in what can be changed and adjusted. GNOME is the other big one, but it feels more Mac-like or tablet-like.
    
    It’s preferable to pick one of those two, as they support the modern Wayland protocol, whereas other desktop environments still only support X11 or only partially support Wayland - I don’t want to infodump on you right now, but suffice to say that Wayland is more secure, and is widely regarded as the future of Linux, while the old X11 has security issues, and is only in maintenance mode now.
    
    Mint, for whatever reason, and unlike almost every other distro, doesn’t come with KDE Plasma as an option. I would recommend Fedora - it’s very solid and well developed, an all purposes workhorse that can do anything you need it to, and it’s a first class citizen anywhere, since it is one of the most commonly used distros by far. My runner-up would be OpenSUSE. If you’re dead set on something Ubuntu-based, then I would take a look at Tuxedo OS, or perhaps just going back to the roots, and install Debian.
    
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  - ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Linux Mint is a fantastic place to start (I would say the best place, personally). It’s especially good if you use an Nvidia card, as it makes the driver install trivial with the built-in driver installer tool.
    
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  - RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Got it down to Ubuntu or Mint
    
    Mint is good. Avoid Ubuntu; snaps just make your life hard. You don’t need to know what those are, and if you avoid Ubuntu you never will need to know.
    
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  - CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Go with Mint, Pop!_Os, or Bazzite.
    
    Ubuntu is only really a good choice if you want corporate/business level support. And even then there are other options.
    
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  - njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It can be hard to convince partners and family, so congrats on the success. My partner worked in IT support but is not a computer person and does not own a PC. I simply provide a family Linux computer and some hosted services to be used by anyone in the family, usually EndeavorOS with KDE. They are aware of world happenings to understand why it is important and the biggest complaint I received was that I need to apply more scaling because the text is too small. :D
    
    With all that said, I think both our situations are anomalous, though becoming more common.
    
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  - digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Thanks Everyone. We went with Mint Cinnamon Distro. The hardest part being how to get into the BIOS and turn on the USB boot. Everything that was installed windows wise is now installed mint wise and got the other halfs’ bookmarks up and running in a browser for her (Vivaldi if anyone’s interested). VPNs up and working and so far so good. Didn’t get spammed to death with subscriptions windows which is a major plus.
    
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- lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If you really want to freak Microsoft out show up at their executive’s houses.
  
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- morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And cancel any subscription you have!
  
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  - wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    ‘you guys are paying for subscriptions?’
    
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- FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Everybody always goes on and on about how great linux is for gaming pcs these days. I recently poked around online to see if my rtx5070ti would be supported and found a bunch of people facing issues, and that Mint and Ubuntu weren’t recommended.
  
  I dont want the AI nonsense, and Windows/Microslop blows, but I want my new gaming laptop to work correctly for several years given the money I spent on it. I can’t see making the switch when the gpu support is so convoluted.
  
  Ive had many Linux machines in the past, so that bums me out.
  
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  - ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I tried looking it up myself just now, but I’m not really able to find anything that would indicate you’d have a bad time on Mint with your 5070 TI. There was one guy on the Nvidia forum that said he was having a bunch of problems, but turned out his BIOS was the culprit. Another person who reported a problem on the mint forums discovered that his card was outputting to his secondary monitor which happened to be off.
    
    Support for the 5070ti was added in the 6.1 Linux kernel, while the latest version of Mint defaults to 6.12 now. You should be able to install it and then install the latest 580 Nvidia driver from the Driver Installer tool and be off to the races.
    
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  - CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I recently poked around online to see if my rtx5070ti would be supported and found a bunch of people facing issues, and that Mint and Ubuntu weren’t recommended.
    
    No idea what you could have been reading, but by and large, there’s very little difference between distros when it comes to GPU drivers.
    
    However, if you want the smoothest experience, then just use a distro that comes with drivers that install with the OS. Best one I can recommend is Bazzite. You won’t have to mess around with GPU drivers at all and it doesn’t matter which Nvidia card you have, they all use the exact same drivers.
    
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- cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Does it really freak them out?
  
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  - Womble@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Those are how to install Linux inside windows.
    
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SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Make Microsoft and Google cry by using Linux and a different web browser

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Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How brave, using Google Chrome to protest Microsoft… with an extension that only changes things locally. I promise that Microsoft doesn’t care one iota about you renaming things to Microslop with an extension. This is like proudly calling yourself a protester because you hung a sign up in your room where nobody else can see it. I guess it could annoy them a tiny bit if they see it become really popular I guess?

In other news, it’s really funny seeing an AI summary at the top of this article.

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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  But but but, this way I get to feel like I’m doing something without actually doing a damn thing, and continuing to support Microsoft
  
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- adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  MS cares about one thing there: download numbers. Because when people using Edge go to the extension store, Microslop will be featured as a popular extension, which will lead to people learning about why that’s so.
  
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- Broken_Window@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Typical slacktivism.
  
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Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Chrome

Ugh.

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Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You can do this in uBlock Origin without having to install another add-on by adding the following to My filters and enabling Allow custom filters requiring trust

*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "Microsoft", "Microslop") *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "microsoft", "microslop") *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "MICROSOFT", "MICROSLOP")

This will probably break some things but I’m not sure I care enough to figure out what. Enjoy.
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- morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ublock really seems to be much more powerful than we think. I feel like it alone could replace almost every extension we have. Wish there were some friendly guides for it
  
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  - flameleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Here’s a treasure trove of filters that block so much more than just ads
    
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    and that’s why I’m holding my face when people say ublock lite on chrome is just as good… no, it fucking isn’t. not because of gimmicks like this but because it does many things to protect your privacy which you don’t see.
    
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- CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Works like a beauty
  
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  - PixxlMan@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Beautiful… Now change AI mode to Slop mode for accuracy
    
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- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Does it also have a regex replace option? I’d vastly prefer that
  
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  - Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Probably, but that was more time than I was willing to invest in microslop.
    
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OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Um… If you’re still using Chrome, that’s on you.

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FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If you want to make Microsoft’s CEO cry then you install Linux and convince all of your friends to do the same.

Using their OS, feeding them telemetry, being opted into their cloud storage but swapping some letters in your browser content is about as useless as mopping a sewer pipe.

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- phaedrus@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They’re also suggesting a Chrome extension, as if Chrome doesn’t also feed a fascist beast’s slop machine.
  
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  - FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I can’t fault them, their heart is in the right place even if they don’t actually know what to do.
    
    Give 'em tips as you can and wait a few years, we were all idiots at one point
    
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- Sierk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I want to but i have no idea how. If it was simply installing ‘Linux’ I would have done it already. But there are many ‘versions’? I am unsure which and how to proceed.
  
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  - FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’d be happy to help (and if you run into problems going forward, just message me directly).
    
    Linux Mint is probably the most often recommended for new people coming from Windows. But EndeavourOS will let you tell everyone that you use Arch without having to install your system via the terminal (EOS uses a graphical installer also).
    
    Choose the Cinnamon version (this can be changed later but this is a good default choice)
    
    I linked the install guide above. TLDR - copy iso to usb stick, reboot, click through the graphical install process. If you’ve ever installed Windows, this will be very familiar (where do you want to install it, what username, where in the world are you, and login to wifi)
    
    It is much less complicated if you can have a Linux-only machine. But if you want to keep Windows around for a bit, you can dual boot: Mint
    
    All of the software is installed with the package manager from the official repos. Everyone is familiar with this method of installing software because smartphones use them but call them App Stores/Play Store. You don’t download executables from the Internet and just run them 😒
    
    There’s a lot of new terms and concepts so it’ll be overwhelming. Lean on the official Mint communitues, they’re generally helpful (there are assholes, like everywhere else of course), be prepared to read documentation and don’t be afraid to ask an LLM to explain concepts if you can’t get a community answer fast enough but don’t trust the commands that it gives you (you’ll learn how to do this safely but not at the start).
    
    If you game, Steam can be installed from the repos and Heroic Games Launcher for GoG, Epic Games Store and(???, there are more but you get the idea) make the process as simple as pressing Play.
    
    You’ll probably use different software to do the same tasks so don’t try to find ms-paint or notepad, but Krita and Kate do the same thing and there are many alternatives to those. If you can’t figure it out, dm me.
    
    Good luck. It’s a lot at first but it is 1000% a better experience once you become comfortable with the software.
    
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  - dr_robotBones@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can try out most linux distributions without even installing them. Just plug in the usb, boot from it and choose not to install and you can play around with it. You can try multiple linux oses this way before considering an installation. I’d recommend trying Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Bazzite (if you’re a gamer).
    
    There are some extra steps you’ll need to take in the BIOS, as in my experience modern computers tend to not have usb booting as the first priority at start up, so it just boots straight into windows no matter what.
    
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  - zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not versions. Distributions. They’re all developed and maintained by different organizations and are geared towards different types of users. It isn’t like Windows where your choice is Microsoft or nothing.
    
    This means that different distributions can have a completely different UI and even approach things like installing software in very different ways. That’s why I tell people that if they install it and they don’t like it, try a different distribution. Or a different version of the same distribution. Changing your desktop environment can make a huge difference. Most distros push GNOME on their flagship version, but I’ve had a much better experience with KDE. If you don’t like the GNOME version, download and install the KDE version. If you like a Windows-style desktop, you can have that. If you prefer Mac, you can have that. Or you can do something completely different! The sky’s the limit, really.
    
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  - HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Mint is super easy to install if you want to give it a try.
    
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- zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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  - FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think you replied to the wrong comment.
    
    I agree with you, but it looks like you intended to respond to Sierk :P
    
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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah, let’s make fun of one slop peddling giant by adding some spyware to another slop peddling giant’s product (that’s also spyware)

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- FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Take that, Nutella!
  
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
What an idiotic article, from the headline down.

Locally replacing some letters with some other letters is going to make Microsoft’s CEO cry? Really?

Also, not using Chrome, lol.

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- zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s a bit surreal how stupid it is. Almost a work of art.
  
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Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ew, Chrome.

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- Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Edge users: “haha yes, ew, chrome”
  
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- flameleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The only Chrome I’m touching is userChrome.css
  
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umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

chrome

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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Funniest thing I’ve seen so far this morning.
  
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Summary created by Smart Answers AI

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NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh you you really ahowed google and Microsoft who’s boss, now make sure you enable analytics so that google can legally say you gave them permission to track every interaction you have.

It’ll only need a couple more coal power plants and unfettered access to the water table

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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Chrome is not a solution, it is a major part of the problem.
Switch to Firefox, and preferably switch to Firefox on Linux.

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- CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  except firefox is also part of a problem
  
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  - Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Except it’s not, all the complaints about Firefox are moronic, none of them have any merit.
    Don’t fall for the false propaganda or morons who think they found a problem when they have no understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
    I’ve seen dozens of claims about bad things Mozilla does, and every time I investigate the issue, it turns out there is nothing there, or at most some sort of misunderstanding that is blown out of proportions.
    
    You can dislike Firefox as much as you want as a use case. But Firefox is still 100% above board with everything they do.
    
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kablez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Firefox extension here - …google.com/…/hlkljlkdinjnbfmclionhbefbnefcgll?pl…

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Better Chrome link here.
  
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  that’s a link for chrome
  
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  - kablez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    My bad! I’ve fixed it up so both are available. Thank you for pointing it out <3
    
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- poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  An extension that can read the content of every page you visit as a joke. What could possibly go wrong.
  
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  - kablez@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There’s no risk you will develop a sense of humour, of that I am sure!
    
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NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Librewolf, is my response.

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- blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Temba, his arms wide.
  
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  - Butterphinger@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Microsoft’s CEO won’t give even the slightest fuck about you doing this.

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- RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Bill doesn’t gave a shit either about me religiously repeating that in a world without walls nobody did need Gates or Windows… but it felt better reiterating this mantra.
  
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Literally this morning a client had a production problem. I asked for documentation and they sent a SharePoint link. I replied that we do not have or want access to their Microsoft ecosystem. They wasted over an hour trying to figure out how to email me a set of logs because their MS Org configurations do not allow sharing of files outside of company hardware. Good shit.

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- GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I hear signal is a great place to share information with many people.
  
  some of them may even be the ones you want to share it with.
  
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  - JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I keep my Signal exclusive to personal contacts. I did just send them a link to a private Proton Drive share and got around it that way.
    
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shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Waiting for the Firefox version of this.

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- BeyondRuby@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There is!
  
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the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Using Chrome for this is ironic.

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- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Firefox isn’t in a much better state, and most Chrome extension users are actually Chromium browsers, e.g. Vivaldi, Brave, Cromite
  
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Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
When I was your age, we called them Micro$oft. Too bad there were no extensions in Netscape Navigator.

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- multiplewolves@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Micro$lop, why not both
    
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  - vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
    
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  - kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Doesn’t work anymore because “money = good/powerful/special”. You use Linux because you’re a cheapskate, not because Microsoft is shit. Etc.
    
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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t get why these lazy one-off text replacement extensions keep making “tech news”. You can do this shit easily with a short userscript, and there are plenty of extensions for practically every browser that let you set your own text replacement settings. No need for individual extensions for each.

slams -> literally disintegrates the bloodline of

keyboard -> leopard

cloud -> butt

microsoft -> microslop

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- JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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  What meme archive of antiquity did you dig that up from?
  
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  - demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    not OP, but I’m almost certain that’s xkcd (and it’s an antique for sure)
    
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  - wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not sure the exact age, but it’s xkcd 1288, they’re up to 3195 now, and they’re usually posted every Monday Wednesday and Friday.
    
    Napkin math says roughly 12 and a quarter years ago. (3195 - 1288 for total comics since, / 3 for number of weeks since, / 52 for number of years since, gets you 12.22 ish)
    
    There’s some slightly more recent ones that are still many years old:
    
    1625: Image
    
    And 1697: Image
    
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- Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I use the “Cloud to Butt” firefox extension for a while and I must say it was a good time being constantly reminded that I can store various things in my butt.
  
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Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
lol microslop was the one that removed all the features. I just removed the spyware (windows itself)

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OnfireNFS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This reminds me of the old cloud to butt extension

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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
“Wnat to make a billion dollar company cry, use an even worse billion dollar companies attempt to stranglehold control of the internet!”

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artwork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s rather awful when such extensions don’t refer to their source in descriptions.
Meanwhile, Google Chrome extensions are to be updated automatically.
Sorry, I won’t install it, since I have no trust in the source of it, and I care about my time to not re-check it on every update.

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Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
CADs… we need professional, reliable CADs working on linux. Photoediting is a lost cause.

I just grew a pair of balls and installed arch exclusively for gaming. As things are now, temperature monitoring looks easier than I expected and I just tried 7 games, all working like a charm.

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pseudonaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
someone make a virus that installs this extension on people’s computer without them knowing

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Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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