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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Solution from the old ones: We used to replace the S with a $ sign in Microsoft (or Microshaft, or "Microfos" (Microshit) if you're Hungarian), so if you're writing it as Micro$lop, you get a few days evasion.

(Reason behind the abandonment of Micro$oft/Micro$haft/whatever: Windows 7, Linux and its community was much worse back then, "maybe not all companies are bad" sentiment popular in the early 10's, people suddenly thought all the crap Micro$lop did were conspiracy theories, etc.)

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 3 points 54 minutes ago

Not sure if it works on Discord but another old-school trick is Micro**slop

italicizing nothing creates an invisible break in the word

Here in Italy we used the winzozz calssifier. A portmanteu of "windows" and "zozzo" "sozzo" that stands for dirty, unpolished or allusive. Have fun with this lore drop

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 19 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

i didnt know Microslop had a discord

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Honestly this was my biggest "wtf" takeaway from this. There's a Microsoft Copilot DISCORD SERVER? Are there other "official" Discord servers for other random Microsoft products? Why aren't they using Teams or whatever?

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 59 minutes ago

Maybe they haven't made an API for ICE in Teams yet

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 38 minutes ago
[–] Janx@piefed.social 13 points 2 hours ago

Anything but address the core issue. Consumers overwhelmingly see almost no benefit from AI, are sick of it being stuffed into everything, sick of being forced to use it at work, sick of being forced to fund it in our retirement accounts, sick of our water being used for it in the datacenters they're building, and sick of consumer products being out of stock or skyrocketing in price because of it... Banning a word won't solve any of that!

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 6 points 2 hours ago

LOL All they need to do is stop pushing what they call "AI" into everything they make, turn it into a opt-in only feature, allowing people to remove every fucking bit of Coslop from their PCs. They don't want to because it would prove what they already know: Microslop is a Sloperator and admitting the truth would be temporarily painful to their earnings. Fixing things would take far too long, so Microslop would prefer to not do that work. Satya needs to get over it and admit defeat.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 35 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You know, the CEO could basically end "microslop" over night. Kill their AI division and investments and for the most part people would stop calling them microslop. They got the name after the CEO complained about the use of the word slop for AI slop.

Idk, this is just me, some regular dude not being paid enough to own 7 homes and a vacation home for when I need to get away.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

something something bootstraps, something something work harder

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If Windows 11 detects that you said, typed, or thought of the word "microslop" it deletes all your data, and sends your personal data to the ~~CIA~~ Grok that then promptly sends you to your nearest gulag.

[–] 31ank@ani.social 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No no grok threatens you with publishing fake porn of you

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 31 minutes ago

... I think that's just regardless.

(But I hate how I'll have to explain to ppl which porn of mine isn't fake.)

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 hours ago
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

The idea of Microsoft operating a Discord channel is funny and pathetic on so many levels.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.org 17 points 4 hours ago

Well well well, if it isn't Microslop suffering the consequences of its own stupid choices.

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

This answer feels very "do you guys not have phones?".

[–] schroedingersKoala@piefed.ca 31 points 5 hours ago

I mean, it really earned, that name, you know: MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP!
Maybe their CEO Slopya Nutella should not be so thin skinned? He is to majorly blame for 99% of this MICROSLOP!

[–] Vieric@lemmy.world 42 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If it bugs them that badly, I say people need to do it even more.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If they hate it so much, that's how I'll always refer to them from now on.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

There's a lovely browser plugin that automagically changes "Microsoft" to "Microslop" and "Satya Nadella" to "Slopya Nutella" and I'm never uninstalling it now!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago

Streisand effect shit. Stop being slop if you don't want to be called slop.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 50 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

This is the Year of the Linux Desktop.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is almost certainly a work-related thing. Most people, even on Windows, hate Teams and don't use it unless they have to for their job.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I used to think "Teams can't be that bad" and then I had to use it for work. It's astonishingly bad. I'm not sure if it's just how they use it at this place, but it's bad.

Everything is a chat. There's no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat...

There's no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says "Feature 1 has a bug" and someone else says "Feature-2 has a bug", you can't isolate them in separate threads. It's all flat so they smash into each other.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

It's a good example of why no one ever tried to build an 'everything' app. It just doesn't work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

The borg says no

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 102 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Microslop, now with added Barbers Streisand effect.

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 117 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 46 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

All the teams devs hang out there

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

💀💀💀

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 132 points 8 hours ago

Microslop does apparently, but under a fake name.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Should we go back to micro-shaft?

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I prefer the classic, concise, M$

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

How about a combined attack?

Micro$lop

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 80 points 8 hours ago (18 children)

…Who would be in the Microsoft Discord? Why?

Wasn’t there some old internet saying that once megacorps join a social media platform en masse, it’s uncool? What happened to that?

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Is this true anymore?

I feel like corporate astroturfing has gotten so intense that users are either oblivious, or get acclimated to it and keep using the platform. Because, you know, where else are you gonna go?

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[–] notta_Lamed_Wufnik@piefed.social 19 points 7 hours ago

lol, That certainly won't backfire...

[–] raker@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

TIL the term Microslop goes as far back as 2005 at least, when an Apple user complaint about Microslop's PST file format in an Apple forum. Also TIL about the term Sloperator:

Microslop and its Sloperators!

slop operator music kicks in

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