A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Microslop is the most microslopping microslop that ever microslopped.
If they don't want to be limp dicks they should rebrand to 'macrohard'.
Can't. Elon used that on one of his factories or data centers somewhere.
Yes, it's the name of Elon's harebrained scheme to replace all enterprise software with AI
Hm... Come to think of it...
Fact #1: Microsoft claims their codebase is now 30% AI-generated.
Fact #2: US courts are in pretty unanimous agreement that AI generated material cannot be copyrighted.
So... What percentage of AI-generated code does Microslop need to reach before their software copyrights become unenforceable?
Since the bottom of an article is usually the least visible, I'll paste this here to make it more visible:
“The Copilot Discord channel has recently been targeted by spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot. Initially, this spam consisted of walls of text, so we added temporary filters for select terms to slow this activity. We have since made the decision to temporarily lock down the server while we work to implement stronger safeguards to protect users from this harmful spam and help ensure the server remains a safe, usable space for the community,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Windows Latest.
Microsoft added that blocking terms such as “Microslop,” along with other phrases in the spam campaign, was not intended as a permanent policy but a short-term mitigation while the company manages to put additional protections in place.
Whether it's true or not that the policy was temporary, I guess we'll see.
Lol, and that is such a mild form of criticism... To nuke their whole Discord over it. On the other hand, I guess nothing of value was lost
The Discord wasn't official, it was just endorsed. This is the work of a fanboy
Is it not? They sure seem to promote it as such.
It wasn't created by them, it existed already for quite a few years. They could have entered the scene later, making it official that way.
I'm confused then because it seems like no matter what it is the official microsoft discord.
Qed
Microsoft is using Discord and not Teams?
As if MS would use their own Microslop.
Never get high on your own supply. First rule of being a slop dealer.
I heard once that Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Teams to communicate on the job. Not sure why. Probably because it sucks or is terribly insecure.
No idea who told you this, but MS employees use Teams exclusively.
As for it being terrible, it's unfortunately hard to find a competitor that does better with the same feature set (video/screen sharing/text channels/sso/tenants/etc). Many get close (like Slack) but none have the whole package.
It is truly astonishing how a company with their resources could have a program like Teams be so terrible for so long. Matrix/Element have advanced faster than Teams.
Hahahahahaha Microslop Microslop Microslop Microslop Microslop
The article used the word "Microslop" thirteen times. I guess the author really wants search engines and bots to associate "Microslop" with "Microsoft". Apparently Microslop is a term for Microsoft products, or perhaps even Microslop is an intrinsic property of Microsoft.
...'kay, I'll stop it now.
It's rather curious how MS babbles so much about "AI", but its Discord server uses such a simple filter that can be evaded by ~~0N3 0F 7H3 0LD357 700L5 0F 7H3 1N73RN37 5H17P0573R~~ one of the oldest tools of the internet shitposter: leetspeak. It's almost like it knows it's selling a dud.
Also, I guess this thing run so far they don't even care about the Streisand effect any more.
Oh boy, can't wait for people to post microslop comments even more.