Good! Considering the mess they'll probably make of whatever their next effort will be, I'm all for it.

Microsoft was the perfect company to push AI: it's always produced shit products, so AI couldn't make them any worse.

I've never had to post my resume on fucken LinkedIn. If there's one thing I truly detest, it's unprinciped Big Data sonsabitches like Microsoft making money out of people's need to make a living.

LinkedIn, Office365, Teams... All those tools are basically forced on professional who need to find or keep a job, and Microsoft essentially abuses people's data against their will.

to hack this shit.

https://youtu.be/_gZrvHCO83I

Because capitalism!

If I was an investor, I'd be mad at the guy I gave money to for admitting I invested my money in a whole lot of hot air.

Then again, if I was investing in this idiocy, I'd deserve everything I'd get...

Microsoft is famous for never getting any future prediction right. Remember 640K should be enough for everybody? The internet is a fad? The house of tomorrow? Clippy?

If they figure you'll talk to your computer to give it commands, you can be pretty sure people will still be typing away on their keyboards decades from now, or interfacing with their neural lace, or anything else other than what Microsoft predicted.

Coding arguably requires talent - although Microsoft has been proving consistently for half a century that you can be a successful software company with piss-poor engineers.

But even if AI produced perfect code, then producing software essentially requires no talent. I'm not saying it's a bad thing in itself, but it moves the act of producing software squarely into the realm of everyday mediocre accessible to everyday talentless people.

And on top of that, the fallacy is that AI simply doesn't produce anywhere near anything that resembles perfect code. But of course, Microsoft is desperate to have you believe otherwise...

I'll just say this: I'm glad I'm at the end of my career as a software engineer, because I didn't spend a lifetime honing my skills to end up a mediocre types-question-guy.

The stress level measurement is what the smartwatch pretends to supply you - a feature that entices you to purchase the watch, if you're interested in knowing your stress level.

What's being monetized is the raw data - accelerometer measurements, O2, location... whatever the hell those things measure to do what they pretend to do - because a lot of really invasive and personal information can be inferred from those measurements.

collect data on you for monetization.

You've been modded funny but it's absolutely true.

Extortion.

And books.

Trump, his Heritage Foundation puppetmasters and his MAGA minions have been at it for years too. Just like ole Adolf.

Trump is only able to do all the fascist shit he's doing now because the extreme right has been stuffing the courts - and the Supreme Court - with fascist-adjacent judges for years. And - if this needed remininding... Jan 6 happened.

Donald and Adolf are quite literally following the same playbook. The only difference is, Donald is an idiot who's really doing the Federalist Society's bidding.

Germany disintegrated even faster under Hitler.