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Time to cancel your ChatGPT, Copilot and Office 365 subscriptions if you use any of those things.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

So "criminals, criminals, and relatives of criminals"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sounds about right for the mobbed-up "president".

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's shocking! Usually a filthy degenerate pervert hangs around with good, moral people.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago
[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why else would they be sending half a trillion to banks to lend them money.

"It props up the economy"

...with more spending than anything since the great recession

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Copilot and Office 365 subscriptions

That's redundant now. Next Microsoft will rename the company Copilot to push it even harder. And CopilotOS.

The idiotic thing is I wouldn't rule that out by default.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I'd register a @hotcopilot.com email though.

[–] grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also time to switch to Linux.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've moved most of my active repos to Codeberg, also have a Protonmail account for now.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I find it wild how so many people that theoretically like open source and then...talk in terms that imply git == Github and want to know your stats on there. As if one company, which is now Microsoft by the way, is the sole arbiter of everyone's "portfolio".

The industry has always been just a little ridiculous in its trend-chasing and bandwagon-hopping, but fuuuuuck, it's like you run across very few people in the field that seem to have an independent thought.

The idea that I should be grinding all the time, committing code with my personal account, on my own time, in public repos, just so that I can impress some future co-workers/hiring manager is just wild...and that's not even getting into the LinkedIn thing...

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

So, the scum of the earth then?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

AI CEOs as in Felon made CEO fed by orange pedo stolen monies invested in orange pedo made financial crises? Remember all the crazy weekly market swings at the start of the 4 years? Those were just pumping money into AI CEOs.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Not crypto? Huh