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Tag Archives: microsoft
How to deal with enshittification
Enshittification […] is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and … Continue reading
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Tagged bambu lab, benjamin franklin, enshittification, eric s raymond, microsoft
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People risk losing access to the content on their harddisks
I was unsure if this was a thing when I first read about it, so when I got the chance to check I was vigilant – and I think Microsoft has created a potential problem for a lot of users. … Continue reading
People really don’t want a Microsoft account
Installing Windows 10 there’s a dark pattern to get customers to create a Microsoft account. This, in itself, shows that there is no perceived net benefit of a Microsoft account, as if there was, people wouldn’t need to be lured … Continue reading
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Tagged bypassnro, microsoft, microsoft account, oobe, out-of-box experience, windows 10, windows 11
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Signalling is dishonest
When Apple, Microsoft and a host of other companies this summer announced that they would rename a number of coding terms, as they were considered “oppressive metaphors“, I actually got angry. Firstly, the renaming is based on a false premise, … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, github, jacques derrida, master, microsoft, signalling, virtue signalling, wokism
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Thank you, Microsoft
That was sarcastic. Today I ended up doing a Windows Update on my work PC, running Windows 10. For some reason this ended with me losing all the work I had in my documents folder, until I could recover it … Continue reading
Listening in on other people’s children
Since apparently someone still thinks this is news, here we go again: Microsoft had third parties listening* in on Xbox recordings, sometimes of children and sometimes of recordings that had been made by mistake. I’ll repeat: Any internet connected camera … Continue reading
Transcribing private conversations
Big Tech transcribes samples recorded from the microphones at our homes. We know this. I was honestly surprised that the Danish newspaper Politiken chose to treat the fact that Apple and Google had had private conversations of their users transcribed … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, apple, facebook, first law, fourth law, google, laws, lg, mattel, microsoft, ring, samsung, second law, sixth law, surveillance
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