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2 months

Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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  • A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
  • The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
  • Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2 months

      I don’t get why these lazy one-off text replacement extensions keep making “tech news”. You can do this shit easily with a short userscript, and there are plenty of extensions for practically every browser that let you set your own text replacement settings. No need for individual extensions for each.

      • slams -> literally disintegrates the bloodline of
      • keyboard -> leopard
      • cloud -> butt
      • microsoft -> microslop
      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2 months

        What meme archive of antiquity did you dig that up from?

        • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          not OP, but I’m almost certain that’s xkcd (and it’s an antique for sure)

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2 months

          Not sure the exact age, but it’s xkcd 1288, they’re up to 3195 now, and they’re usually posted every Monday Wednesday and Friday.

          Napkin math says roughly 12 and a quarter years ago. (3195 - 1288 for total comics since, / 3 for number of weeks since, / 52 for number of years since, gets you 12.22 ish)

          There’s some slightly more recent ones that are still many years old:

          1625:

          And 1697:

          Lord, Channing Tatum. The Big Bang Theory. Truly from a different time.

      • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        I use the “Cloud to Butt” firefox extension for a while and I must say it was a good time being constantly reminded that I can store various things in my butt.