Looks like even more brands are going to vanish from Twitter soon.
One of Twitter's big advantages over Mastodon for brands and advertisers was that it was supported by a range of social media and ad management tools.
Not anymore!
Via Mashable:
"Microsoft is going to drop Twitter from its Microsoft Advertising plan next week, according to the company.
"Users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account through its Digital Marketing Center's social media management tool, according to Microsoft. Users will also no longer be able to schedule, create, or manage tweets or tweet drafts. In addition, users won't be able to view their past tweets and engagement on the Microsoft Advertising platform."
The online backlash to #Windows#Recall amuses me tremendously. I started building a similar open-source (non-AI, local only) thing for #Linux a month ago.
It would take screenshots and create a timeline video of your day. It also enabled searching across your past usage of the computer.
The inspiration was an open-source macOS app called "Rem" which does the same thing.
Ah well, I guess I'll abandon that then, as it's going to be seen as toxic thanks to #Microsoft.
It's fucking insane how addicted corporations have become to #tracking everything you do, everything you look at, everything you type, everything you think about.
They've gotten so brazen about it. Shit like this - the #Microsoft#Edge browser routing every image through some "AI enhancer" that also tracks what you're viewing - is now a default setting. I suppose at least people who use Edge can opt out, for now, if they know to.
Ich: Einmal Kaffee bitte.
Automat: Netzwerkanforderungen werden überprüft
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Sicherheitsupdates werden heruntergeladen
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Updates werden installiert
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(Irgendwann nach Mitternacht) Hier, Kaffee.
got to admit #Microsoft has impressed me, not just by how easy it is to cancel a Microsoft365 subcription, but that immediate cancellation WITH A PRO-RATED REFUND is now an option.
this makes me much less hesitant to activate (pay for) Word on those rare occasions when I need it.
Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, emailed employees after news of Microsoft's successful $69 billion acquisition to say that he was "fully committed to helping with the transition" and that he would stay on as CEO through the end of 2023.
I forget exactly when I bought this HP laptop I'm currently using. It was at least 5 years ago, and I grabbed it for school. It has Windows 10 that came on it preinstalled. I used it for a bunch of school stuff over the last few years, never had any issues.
Today, I'm trying to mess around in Excel, I'm logged into my Microsoft account like usual, and it's trying to tell me I have to pay now to keep using Excel? It just gives an option to pay or shut it down. After 5+ years of using legitimate, paid-for Microsoft Office products on here. SUCH weird garbage.
Super thankful for LibreOffice and being able to reset all my defaults to that.
The new iPads are once again mind-blowingly amazing hardware showcases, hamstrung by software and an extractive App Store gatekeeper that limits what users can effectively do.
There is now such a large overlap of prices between iPad and MacBooks that we’ll probably never see a touchscreen Mac, because it would be a superior choice over iPad in most cases.
What I want, really, is macOS running on desktop, laptop, and tablet form factors, with a relatively open software environment not solely owned by the App Store.
I think Microsoft actually got it right with Windows 11 (minus the #enshittification ads). If only they pushed more strongly on the Surface lineup…
Does #Microsoft#Word no longer allows people to open .ODT files? Have, a few times, had to safe .ODT files as .DOCX via LibreOffice so that Word users could open it.
.ODT is an open source file format, so its a deliberate choice for Word to not be compatible.
Why do people pay for a shitty product that lacks such basic functionality?
What if you could own a stylus enabled Windows 11 Laptop, that was ALSO a Linux PC, and it was ALSO an Android tablet, and it cost less than an iPad Air (with keyboard), but had twice as much storage as the iPad AND you could upgrade its SSD when you needed more space?
Warum ist das legal!? #Microsoft war um 2000 kurz davor zerschlagen zu werden, weil es den Internet Explorer mit Windows gebündelt hat. Heute ist Edge fest eingebaut und man bekommt einen Reparaturtipp, wenn man nicht Bing benutzt.
Can someone at #Microsoft be kind enough to remind us again of the reason why, in #macOS, when you quit and relaunch #Word, it refuses to remember which documents were opened and to reopen them automatically, even though the “Close windows when quitting an application” option is NOT enabled in System Settings?
23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️
CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, emailed employees after news of Microsoft's successful $69 billion acquisition to say that he was "fully committed to helping with the transition" and that he would stay on as CEO through the end of 2023.
OC Platform Tilt: Tracking issues which disadvantage Firefox relative to first-party browsers on major software platforms (mozilla.github.io)
Mozilla:...
StarCraft 3 Is Reportedly In Development - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
StarCraft 3 is reportedly in development, at least that's what one journalist seemed to claim in a Q&A on Twitter.
Tech firms sign ‘reasonable precautions’ to stop AI-generated US election chaos (www.theguardian.com)
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok outline methods they will use to try to detect and label deceptive AI content