Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])
cyberplace.social
Attached: 1 image Apparently Microsoft don’t understand how the Fediverse works, and want me to delete the parody account @[email protected] 🤣🫡

The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @[email protected]

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.

    • dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      23 days ago

      After forced to switch to Microsoft teams, I think their PM and developers are alien origin.

      Like, some of the logic doesn’t make any human sense. Like, LLM slop would’ve done better.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
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    3 months ago

    So, here’s what I would do. I would comply (you should be able to delete the local instance of that account). But I’d also reply pointing out that it’s a mirror of the real account hosted at lea.pet and their real beef is with them, and should that user interact with or generate content pushed to you, the local copy would be re-created.

    Keep a copy of the email you send (because it’s highly likely a human doesn’t monitor that mailbox) and then move on with your life. If a real person then wants to complain you can just forward the email you sent and tell them the same still applies.

    It’s automated and the email indicates as such.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Why comply? As far as I’m aware there’s no legal obligation to do so. They think they can just ask for things and get them. Fuck them.

      • r00ty@kbin.life
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        3 months ago

        Well, legally there’s no reason to comply. At the same time I personally have no skin in the game and deleting the account locally won’t do much (unless you purge their content too).

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    The instance rules state;

    3 . No impersonation of a person or a brand. Even parodies.

    6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.

    Now I’m not coming to the defense of a corporation because fuck corps but wouldn’t this account violate those rules? Microsoft is a (shitty) brand and this is a parody of that.

    I might be wrong but thats how I would interpret those two rules.

    And again fuck microsoft, even if it does violate the instance rules it should be left alone just to piss of a shitty corp.

    Edit: As TherapyGary pointed out, the instance they are on has no rule pertaining to parody accounts, My bad.

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    this is why niche stuff on fedi is so funny sometimes. especially when a corporate entity tried to approach it, in the most corporate way lol.

  • drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Does Microsoft understand anything? At all? They suck at making software, they suck at making operating systems, they suck at making genAI, they suck at making game consoles, they’re starting to suck at owning github, what don’t they suck at? What part of their business is done better than anyone else? What end user experience is better on an MS product than anywhere else? They have a shittier alternative to literally everything and nothing truly good.

      • abir_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I don’t intend to have the tone of some of these other guys; if you like it that’s fine, really.

        But man, every time I’ve used VSCode, I cannot help but hate it. It’s a mess of a user experience, with anything off the beaten path being community supported via plugins that have different opinions on how they should work.

        I’m a nvim user these days, I’m all about extensible tools, but I can redefine how they work if it’s not a default I like, so it’s always cohesive to me.

        Between the full-fat IDEs, I prefer JetBrains by far, but these days I pretty much just use the terminal - it’s just faster and it’s easy to get it to meet me where I’m at.

        • NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I am sure the terminal IDEs are great. I did used to play around with vim myself, and still use it for editing config files. I have had some success with Jet Brains as well. It’s a solid product.

          I don’t really have the energy it takes to configure and learn all the stuff that’s needed for a terminal only setup these days. I guess I am just not as discerning as you are. I might try a ready made solution like LazyVim.

          • abir_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Lazy works. I started my config from this repo. It got me up and running well enough with a pretty basic viable config almost immediately with a well documented parts for me to tweak at my leisure as I hit pain points.

            But, if you do try it and don’t like it, or prefer a G-IDE - at least you tried it. Good luck to you, captain.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I do not understand why they want to remove minecraft videos.

      Minecraft videos have been a huge part of it’s growth… and it’s impossible to imagine a scenario where these videos are harming MS or their brand. They already make money off of viewers buying the game… this is stupid

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I do not understand why they want to remove minecraft videos.

        For the same reason they went after the admin of the wrong instance asking them to delete the fake microsoft account - it’s a dumb algorithm doing a shit job. That this is a separate company that is being paid while doing such a shitty job says a lot about microsoft