Anyone else ever noticed how there is no longer an option to permanently reject or completely disable an option anymore?
Every 3 weeks I get a popup in MS teams (yeah I know, but it’s for work, nothing I can do about it), that asks me if I want to pin the AI agent tab and the only option is yes please or remind me later. What the actual fuck is this shit?
It’s very telling that despite changing to the “settings” menu for user settings, they’ve still got links to the old menus 10+ years later. I think the powertoys community has done more windows feature adds than Microsoft has in the last 20 years.
Do you want to eat shit?
- Yes please
- Remind me later
They tried AI the nice way and nobody gives a shit about it but billions have been spent already so they are tightening the screws to make you use it. This is late stage fuckery and hopefully the whole thing will collapse soon.
Does Microsoft understand consent?
a) No b) Nope c) Fuck no lol
a) Yes.
b) Ask again in 15 days and 3 hours.
I knew you were going to use Microsoft as an example. They’re very rapey in behaviour.
Microsoft rapes us every day.
It’s not just Microsoft any more though. Practically any time you have a prompt for something in software/web pages that benefits the company, the only options are ‘yes’ and ‘maybe later’. It’s become so ubiquitous that I’m genuinely surprised when a prompt like that actually has a ‘no’ option.
Would you like to receive my penis?
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Yes.
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Ask me again in 2 hours.
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Thats been a thing for many years.
You don’t have to apologize for teams. Everyone knows nobody uses it for fun. Only work.
True, it was more of a parry for the inevitable dont-use-teams-comment
This is news?
I’ve been on Linux for the past 30 years or so, so yes it’s kind of new to me.
If a software monopoly that is too large and important to society to be dismantled or avoided, and it uses that power to abuse its users and defy regulation, shouldn’t that company be nationalized?
Could you imagine if YouTube was nationalized and then the govt shutdown and utube traffic controllers stopped coming to work because they weren’t getting paid
Youtube nationalized, gov shutdown, and everyone starts uploading porn and movies because all the moderators stopped coming to work.
It’s up to the OS, software or web app and I’m happy to report that not all of them do this.
But I have noticed that on Win11 this seems to be the standard. On those rare occasions. Particularly funny (not really) if they’re phrased in such a way that you really have to think which specific kind of temporary rejection you choose.
This is textbook enshittification.
I heard the term waay before i understood the word came into being because someone wrote a book about the phenomenon that didn’t have a name yet. Somehow i assumed this was a phenomenon that existed forever, instead of a few decades.
I’ve been listening to way too many Behind the Bastards podcasts in a row this week, but, apparently, Peter Thiel’s pick for the antichrist is a nebulous finger point towards the anti-AI movement.
All of it, the data centers going up faster than a fireworks tent on fire combined with decreased regulation and the dismantling of democracy reads as pure Thiel.
In short, this AI crap isn’t going away anytime soon.
If local city council representation would simply vote with the wishes of their voters, then we would have no data centers.
These people are guilty of fraudulent representation and should be recalled.
The problem here is that some datacenters are useful, and most of the companies that are poising our minds, the internet, and the planet, are also doing some good thing that society kind of depends on.
Water useage by data centers in Georgia, cannot be revealed to the public because that information is under NDA.
Nothing is that useful.
Can we all get together across the country and burn down as many data centers as humanly possible? Seriously, just a wave of wires across the country.
At home I’m on Linux but yes I also have a work laptop and I hate windows more and more daily.
Same for me.
I’ve suddenly been getting regular Windows notifications from Adobe asking me to set them as the default PDF app.
Very annoying when I use Adobe reader once a month or so to sign documents.
If a human being tried consent this way, they’d be a sex offender.
Silicon Valley has always been run by rapists, so that checks out :)
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