• _druid@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    This lil piss guy gave me an idea.

    We’re gunna put AI and connectivity in Elf On A Shelf. The kids will be able to give their Christmas lists and confess their sins to the AI controlled Elf, which will have it’s own Amazon wishlist.

    The Elf will weigh the sins of the child, and deeming them worthy, will automatically order the appropriate gifts off the list, which will be delivered via drone down the chimney Christmas Eve, once the Elf determines the child has gone to sleep.

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    20 hours ago

    This is Cortana all over again. And I don’t remember people using Cortana at all…

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    Users: We are putting our PFP as clippy because it symbolises a time where software worked locally and just wanted to help without spying on you.

    Microsoft: wow they love that lil clippy fella let’s make co pilot into a piss blob that floats around the screen spouting random facts its learnt from surveiling the users every move. It will be like their own personal FBI agent they will love it.

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      I’m still not sure if Microsoft just doesn’t get it or if they just love making stuff nobody wants… but then again, nobody wanted clippy back then either. I’m not sure Mico will age as gracefully as Clippy did, though.

      I guess in a perfect world companies like MS or Google would get fined for wasting so many resources on shit they shut down a year later. Not saying Mico is gonna be one of those things of course, I would never!

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      14 hours ago

      Bringing Clippy back as Copilot seems like the easiest, most obvious win Microsoft could get. I swear most of their customer facing decisions around stuff like this (and Xbox) are easy slam dunks that they fumble in the absolute dumbest fashion.

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    18 hours ago

    I thought capitalism was about supply and demand. We demand something and corporations supply it. Who demanded this crap?

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      10 hours ago

      Capitalism is about juggling numbers, empty promises, exploitation, pump & dump and „HODL🚀🚀🚀“

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      14 hours ago

      Capitalism is about ownership more than anything else. Capitalism states that the means of production is private property and to be used for the purpose of obtaining profit. As long as there is profit, supply and demand can go fuck itself along with the workers (those who produce). It really is a stupid system that can never be fully implemented (every economy is a mixed economy for a reason) since it naturally creates perverse incentive.

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    20 hours ago

    This will be the (fifth?) time Microsoft has tried to implement virtual assistants. And they are still exceedingly inefficient at it.

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      21 hours ago

      Yoooooo! That gif where it does a little twirl had me busting out laughing in the car😂😂😂

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    20 hours ago

    Oh man, they even have it wearing glasses and looking a lot like Microsoft Bob!

    Why doesn’t anyone do history anymore? There really is so much to be learned.

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    21 hours ago

    There are so many characters they can’t do, it’s like trying to choose a sports team mascot these days.

    They still screwed it up.