some of those replies, oof

(especially that last one, which hits me with the same vibe as many of the coiner-era non-understanding hype-amplifiers did)

I recall seeing something of this sort happening on goog for about 12~18mo - every so often a researcher post does the rounds where someone finds Yet Another way goog is fucking it up

the advertising dept has completely captured all mindshare and it is (demonstrably) the only part that goog-the-business cares about

whooshing noises

sidenote: TGP ftw and janet fucking rocks

it’s all activitypub, so yep you can cross-follow and cross-post

(there’s definitely jank, too, but it works)

nfi how phone managed that typo, but now I’m leaving it in

not to be forgotten: the long, long years of windows malware pulling exactly this shit

the bit about it that I find subtly glorious (in how remarkably fuckwitted it is) is the baseline idea of “intellectual horsepower”

I’m not surprised that this is a view they (of the company that’s effectively going “just 12 more DCs bro it’ll be enough compute bro I promise bro just watch”) hold and consider in such a simple mechanism-rating scale

but it is funny as fuck

(sorrynotsorry)

“hello everyone my name is Bill Ballmer and welcome to today’s Visual tour of Microsoft 365 Coilot Office Live Premium Pro Clippy Edition! this is of course being broadcast to all your favourite Zune stations using the Power of Azure, and wow COM-fans I’m just about as hyped up for this demo as I can be. Let’s get right into it, shall we?”

bit late

they’re gonna have to break out the emergency use tardis reserve… and they’re gonna need to use a few of them

look, if we just rename it a bit harder, I’m sure we’ll get the promptfondler uptake that marketing had forecast. this can’t be an itanium situation, dave in sales assured me there’s a use!

okay so I’ve just found a new shirt I want

I don’t understand this comment (largely for not knowing where any of these things happened) and since it’s the tail end of a Friday at the tail end of a long and stupid week

I think that’s okay. I think I’m just not going to ask this once. Just not know a thing, as a bit. It’ll be novel!

big week for renaming things at MS

really? the impact to your media consumption patterns and preferences is the biggest problem you have here?

seriously?

oof.

this is so wildly on point

yours?

(it should become an internet copypasta and drift into mass consciousness)

there it is, sammy has gone and said people are just prompting the model wrong (I recall we’ve had that bit said here earlier)

but in true sammy grift: you just need to be asking the right questions to trump intelligence. “why do you want to suck, as a human?” sammy asks, not understanding a moment of humanity

when I’m debugging fucked up web pages (too often), the way I approach it is by loading the entire thing with network inspector view open (to catch requests), then right-click inspect on the element or something close to it. from that I find the element name/path/whatever, and then dig around in the request view to see what happened

little known historical fact: G+ was actually the mark that service got on its popularity exam