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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I shouldn't be surprised at the quantity of Microsoft stans posting to excuse Recall, but holy shit

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago (7 children)

relatedly: msft turned semi-good for a couple of years (making tooling more accessible across platforms, actual foss work, etc), and then seems to have an internal about-turn on this, and seem intent on speedrunning being most-hated again. stiff competition too, that's why they're trying so hard

[–] ret@furry.engineer 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@froztbyte @dgerard @patterfloof I think the reality is that Microsoft hasn’t changed at all. It always does what will make Microsoft the most money. It’s just that over the last couple of years that has happened to be “good” (or at least semi-good) for us in the developer space.

Now, an opportunity (“AI”) has presented itself to shit all over that and instead sell to people in a very different space. People who will enjoy the convenience of their computer becoming a panopticon and disregard or simply not know the consequences of that.

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