Lmst

@babe @Edent flash it's not just me …! The actual scammers do get super grumpy …!

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Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsof…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/05/03/20_years_open_document_format/

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If you ever think you're not great at tech, web design or use cases you're almost certainly still better than the person who built this

Online Death Certificate Request

Step 1: Who is on the Death Certificate?

The person listed on the Death Certificate is (options)

Button 1 - Myself

Button 2 - Someone Else

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Remote Cord Execution (RCE)

Photo of a multi-switch light switch on a wall with string tied through a hole drilled in one of the switches. Two PVC pipes are poking through the wall with the string being routed through them. This gives the ability to pull on the string from another room to flip the switch, for whatever reason.

@Steve child1 was reading #Reform's blurb last night and commented that all they did was moan about everyone else and didn't actually say what they would do. Perhaps they'll just spend the whole term moaning… that's the British thing to do, after all 😏

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In response to customer confusion over the multitude of Copilot-branded products and features, on Wednesday Microsoft announced Copilot Copilot.

This new AI companion will help knowledge workers and consumers navigate the hundreds of other Copilots released by Microsoft. Copilot Copilot can draft prompts to other Copilots and summarize other Copilots' output.

In a disclaimer, Microsoft cautions users that Copilot Copilot may occasionally hallucinate other Copilots.

Copilot Copilot replaces the existing Copilot for Copilot product, but is not to be confused with Copilot for Copilot 365, which will still be offered to enterprise customers who are also, themselves, Copilots.

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(comic) Great expectations https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-great-expectations-89d

@alicemcalicepants Common practice is to Reply-All with a "please unsubscribe me from this torment"

If you want to lay it on thick then you can add a comment about contacting HR because of a wellbeing issue if they keep coming in.

#jokes

@hedders you have an emergency bra? 😇

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Microsoft, I don’t know how to express just how close to actual hell that sounds like to me.

Screenshot of an email notification, sent from Microsoft, with the subject “Get endless recommendations from Microsoft 365 Copilot”

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Microsoft Authenticator needs me to validate with Authenticator in order to log in with Authenticator to use it to authenticate another app with Authenticator.

Here is the app telling me to open itself to validate itself with itself.

#infosec #iHateComputers

A screenshot of me trying to log in with authenticator and authenticator telling me to open itself in order to authenticate itself. I fucking hate computers.

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People are saying we should write jumble words to mess up the training of AIs; I say we should just write sentences like those of the length Jane Austen would write, that have such non-local structure and nested clauses that, what with the drift of attention and the window of tokens, the LLMs might start to emulate said sentences and then start to drift; one should also throw in even more semicolons (and, why not, nested parentheticals (and even em-dash-separated asides—who doesn't love author commentary—to pad out the length) for the additional context they give)—but of course, also trying to keep in mind the general readability of the flow of ideas: know your audience, after all; for me, I'm happy to just be typing into the void as a release-valve for my thoughts, even if none of you are still reading by this point; I would much rather write—and read!—read something like this than have to and and/or subtract all the additional nonsense words; even better would be Proustian nested clauses and inverted grammar, but that, unlike run-on sentences, does not come so easily, unlike (apparently) to 19th century German journalists (but of course in German one can split the verbs as far apart as one likes).

Or not.

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Apple #blossom in the orchard

#Kent #England #Spring