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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devWho is this JSON guy?
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    5 months ago

    They’re really not that obnoxious. The folks getting their panties in wads about it are either fools, or astroturfers. You do you chief, and I for one support this. Folks get overly triggered about all sorts of stupid little shit, don’t let them get you down. Someday soon a bunch of us will probably wish we did something like what you’re doing.

    Appreciate the kind words.

    Yeah I’m still calming down from having to do battle with this Lemmy user, but I plan on keep adding the license to my comments, as at this point it just feels like the right thing to do.

    I might change the wording though to how you worded it, seems more intuitive for people to understand, than listing the actual Creative Commons license code/name.

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)












  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldme🦊irl
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    6 months ago

    I won’t even try to convince you of the opposite or that i’m human. I even occasionally fail capcha tests so who knows!?

    So you ‘say’.

    Honestly, I don’t care either way if the sources are biological or electrical.

    My concern is the message itself and the redirecting the narrative negatively away from good products/services, and not if it’s a human or bot that’s doing it.

    My only point in mentioning bots is that they’re very inexpensive to be used constantly (versus human beings), and are widely being used today.


  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldme🦊irl
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    6 months ago

    I really doubt they’re wasting time astroturfing a Linux community on Lemmy.

    A bots (not human) time is very easy to waste, and if your product is having problems right now, one of the first things corporations would do to protect their profits is to try to reshape the narrative away from the problems, from the negative final spotlight on your product.

    And finally, as I’ve linked before in this conversation, Microsoft has a long history of using FUD.

    You’re not going to convince hardcore devotees with a meme.

    They’re not directed just towards the ‘hardcore the devotees’, they’re also directed at the person who’s considering moving, who’s trying to do some research about it, and does searching about it, and then finds the memes/communities.

    Stopping potential switchers before they switch is a powerful thing to do to preserve your products/profits.

    And if you do these memes/messages often, and if they send a certain message/narrative, you would definitely introduce FUD into the people who would consider moving to Linux.

    Pay attention to the meta.


  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldme🦊irl
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    6 months ago

    But the likelihood of them coordinating a meme based offensive against the, is it 4% now?

    But we’re seeing an uptick recently like we haven’t seen before, as it seems like the momentum is on the Linux side right now.

    Also a standard good policy is to ‘kill the baby in the crib’, especially so when there seems to be more dissatisfaction with Windows 11 these recent days.

    A potent combination of situations.

    And finally, there’s nothing wrong (from a CEOs point of view) with just ‘beating down’ your competition every day of the week, regardless of their current market share, especially when it’s easy to do so.

    I am sure that you could turn this into me being hired by Microsoft to defend their agenda

    Honestly? The thought has come to my mind, that you’re actually an AI bot, part of the process to protect the current redirection of the narrative. Not hired by Microsoft per se, but a bot used by the company that any OS company would hire to shape the narrative.

    And the fact that you brought it up first preemptively, and the way you use your verbiage, adds to the suspicion.

    but in the end, the most plaussible explanation is usually the true one

    You’re assuming yours is the most plausible explanation.

    You keep dismissing the ease of use of using AI bots in today’s environment to redirect the narrative, and how often we’re seeing it done across all Internet-based media today.

    There’s companies out there that actually sell these services to corporations, and profit from doing so. Profit is always a strong motive generator.


  • I don’t feel very supported by their killing off CentOS and cutting promised support down from many years to the end of the year rather suddenly… Forgive me if I don’t trust them with much of anything after that

    Fair enough. But you’re speaking about policy and politics, I’m speaking about day-to-day hardware and software support/compatibility and how well it works with a wide range of hardware. I’m speaking about the OS itself; it just works with for me, without any hassles.



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    6 months ago

    Ah, how could I have forgotten the legion of MSFT contract employees scouring… fucking… furaffinity for that sweet, delectable anti-Linux propaganda lmao

    Because having bots backed by AI and a preset list of sites/forums to post to would be way too much of an effort and impossible to automate/do, right? /s

    (And for the record, mentioning ‘bots’ for the second time now.)




  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldme🦊irl
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    6 months ago

    Because Microsoft cares so much about an 18.6K-member community called “linuxmemes” on a small federated Reddit alternative known for being filled with die-hard Linux fans and furries?

    The company a corporation would hire to do that sort of thing would use a shotgun approach to the redirection postings. With bots it would be easy for them to do.