@jwildeboer so #Microsoft is now expert on mobile systems

Can you tell us why you're cancelling #Microsoft ?

I did not ask for AI. I do not want AI. Yet you are forcing it on me. I am a writer. I do not give you permission to steal my work and use it to generate AI slop. I do not give you permission to shove your unwanted AI in my face. And I absolutely refuse to pay extra so you can contaminate my work with your AI.

🚨BREAKING: #Microsoft price hike will start next month.

Stop the vendor lock-in & go European! 🇪🇺

We've got you covered (including a little 🎁): https://tuta.com/digital-sovereignty

#DigitalSovereignty

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Table with alternatives to Apple, Microsoft, Google for Cloud, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, Office Suite and AI.

the #EpsteinFiles should’ve been a damning indictment of what the finbros and techbros of #Amazon #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Apple #Paypal #Tesla #Uber #Blackrock #Palantir #a16z #GoldmanSachs et.al., are willing to do ―pedophilia, rape, murder― to get made fake billionaires.

the #surveillanceEconomy is #humanTrafficking by any other name.

#ageVerification laws are a gift to the #EpsteinClass: they get to traffic us and our kids, from craddle to grave.
https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-mocked-zuckerberg-bezos-groveling-book-regime-change

@bkuhn @conservancy @dalias

> While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for using #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.
>
> Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

Sorry, I usually really value your opinions on stuff, as you tend to run contrary to the so-pragmatic-they'd-pimp-their-own-mothers attitude that is far too prevalent in (F)OSS, but hard disagree.

There's a big difference between knocking someone for using a MacBook and knocking someone for using an LLM.

Using a MacBook harms the user in ways that are somewhat debatable. Its harm outside of the user is very negligible and even more debatable.

Using LLMs harms us all. I don't doubt that there are valid and ethical applications for LLMs in many sectors, but you don't build a giant baby shredder on top of an indigenous burial ground and then suddenly pivot to saying, "But wait, it can process potatoes, too!"

If we're not talking about the theft of human creativity, the theft of potable water, the theft of human labor and wages, the promotion of über-fascist plutocrats, and all of the other horrendous harms associated with LLMs, then we're not talking about LLMs. We're engaging in some kind of fantasy roleplay.

Respectfully,

—Some dingbat named Dane, or something, who loves humanity and freedom.

In a policy statement¹, @conservancy said:
> “#FOSS projects should not shun contributors who choose to use LLM-gen-AI systems.”

@dalias' reply:
>> “LOL WTF NOPE. 🤡”

While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for *using* #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.

Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

¹ https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

#OpenSource

Long shot, but does anyone have an original Microsoft Surface (the table) I could buy? 👉👈

#Microsoft #MicrosoftSurface #RetroTech #Pixelsense

Die souveräne Cloud, die keine ist: ein Etikett für die falsche Ebene

AWS und Microsoft verkaufen ihre EU-Angebote 2026 als souverän. Doch das Etikett trifft die falsche Ebene und lässt die rechtliche Abhängigkeit bestehen.

https://www.heise.de/blog/Die-souveraene-Cloud-die-keine-ist-ein-Etikett-fuer-die-falsche-Ebene-11320242.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AmazonWebServices #CloudComputing #DigitaleSouveränität #IT #Microsoft #thenextbigthing #Wirtschaft #news

@bert_hubert I'm the last owl to take the side of big tech, but just saying, have you ever personally tried integrating oauth2/webauthn/OIDC/SSO into various #OpenSource web services? No? I want to wish you all the best of luck with that, as you roll out your enterprise-scale OpenSource deployments.

I think there's good reason all these big organizations with valiant intentions of escaping big tech, end up crawling back to big tech. The OpenSource SSO offerings leave something to be desired. Where is the realistic competitor to #Microsoft Entra? Would that be #KeyCloak? #Authelia?

It's much harder than you think.

#gaming #microsoft #sony

Imagine falling head over heels for someone. Feeling that intense crush - basically defying gravity. After finding the courage, you ask them out. Three lovely dates, you spend more and more time together and decide to move in.

And then you find out that they are spooks, passing along everything you tell them to an unknown number of parties. The most private details you have ever shared. Sensitive documents they could get their hands on. Your social circle graphed out.

This is basically the real life scenario of using an AI agent. Right now, it is SearchLeak - but this isn't the first and sure as heck won't be the last.

It isn't just that these AI agents contain vulnerabilities, it is a fundamental problem, granting whatever application full permissions to do literally anything.

Do not use AI agents. Do not use AI at all.

#AI #LLM #Security #Agentic #Vulnerability #Microslop #Microsoft

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-reportedly-speeding-up-new-elder-scrolls-fallout-and-halo-games-as-microsoft-leaves-spinning-off-the-business-on-the-table

#microsoft #xbox #elderscrolls6

Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in natural language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)

He said a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down critical infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.

Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.

#AI #microsoft #LLMs

Ah yeah, good old #Microsoft doing all kind of weird things without knowing what the hell they're doing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-doesn-t-know-what-to-do-about-the-memory-pricing-crisis-microsoft-is-causing/ar-AA25lQiG

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Title of the linked article: Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/for-the-2nd-time-in-weeks-microsoft-packages-laced-with-credential-stealer/

"compromise of Microsoft’s durabletask Python SDK on PyPI. The package is a framework for building fault-tolerant workflows... It receives 400,000 downloads per month.

...a 28 KB payload that steals credentials from AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, password managers, and over 90 developer tool configurations. It then spreads laterally through cloud infrastructures"

#microslop #microsoft #cloud #aws #azure #kubernetes #python #security

Almost 20 years ago #Oracle tried to dethrone #RedHat with their Oracle Linux offering, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It failed. Today #Microsoft offers Azure Linux and they base it on Fedora, a Red Hat project. As a Red Hatter since 20 years, I’d say we did a lot of things right :) Open Source has won. And we found our place in furthering the mission of Open while also being able to employ 20K people making, selling, supporting Software Freedom. I am proud of what we did and do.

#Fedora #Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old #Microsoft #Outlook security failure

https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/fedora-43-outlook-security-bug/

Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure
https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/fedora-43-outlook-security-bug/

A changed default setting for Dovecot reveals that Outlook didn't use TLS since 2007. Blast radius unknown. Has this never been audited?

#outlook #microslop #microsoft #dovecot #security

[Like a drug pusher] Internal docs reveal #Microsoft wants people
"addicted" to their new #AI Slop Agent

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

Tuta joins Euro-Office 🇪🇺 - one week before its first launch! 🔥

➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-joins-euro-office

Let's bring freedom from #Microsoft and #Google to Europe, @nextcloud @openproject @xwikiorg @soverin #EuroStack

Let's build a better web! 💪🏼 🎉

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Euro-Office Open Source Microsoft Office Alternative with logos of participants

#Microsoft is intentionally bricking all #OfficeforMac 2019/2021 installations
https://www.osnews.com/story/145179/microsoft-is-intentionally-bricking-all-office-for-mac-2019-installations/

"Proprietary software is unethical."

#macOS #O365 #M365 #Office

#Microsoft walks back its threat to pursue those who don't disclose responsibly as criminals. They don't apologize, but merely "clarify" their position in a post on X.com today. Since their statement doesn't seem to be on their blog, I am linking to x.com:

https://x.com/msftsecresponse/status/2061293718942908925

This is the type of threat to researchers that @zackwhittaker and I had been looking at in our survey on threats to journalists and researchers. It was impressive to see all of the experts like @GossiTheDog speaking up to slam Microsoft for their blog post of May 27.

Confronted with overwhelming criticism by the security community, Microsoft stepped back.

#responsibledisclosure #Microsoft

Nach Angaben des Berichts des niederländischen Magazins Vrij Nederland übermittelte Microsoft unter anderem E-Mails, Sitzungsprotokolle und Einladungen an US-Behörden, offenbar ohne die Namen der beteiligten Beamten zu schwärzen. Hintergrund ist der sogenannte Cloud Act in den USA.
https://winfuture.de/news,159002.html
#DSGVO #CloudAct #Microsoft

#Microsoft says:

Uncoordinated disclosures that put proof-of-concept code for unpatched vulnerabilities into the hands of bad actors are never justifiable and have real-world consequences

Lucky for us, those vulns just occur spontaneously in nature. It would be awful if a company brought the unpatched vulnerabilities to market and sold them at a profit with no liability for doing so.

More to the point, it is a very debatable position that companies like Microsoft should have no accountability (warranty, liability, whatever) no matter how bad their released software is. Microsoft omits how the law treats them so specially.

Microsoft wants the exploit maker held accountable. Microsoft is very interested in seeing the law applied to HIM. Laws holding THEM accountable for vulns? Suddenly they’re not as interested.

Heisenberg’s importance. Windows occupies two simultaneous states: so important that we must’t recklessly disclose vulns, but not important enough to regulate for the good of society.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-day-feud-escalates-as-researcher-threatens-another-windows-exploit-dump/5248085

Meine Güte! Microsoft benimmt sich nun total daneben und ich hoffe nun dass deswegen viele Firmen nun endlich auf Linux & *BSD so wie weitere Open-Source Software wechseln und nicht denen blind gehorchen.

«Sechs Zero-Days in sechs Wochen offengelegt: Microsoft reagiert mit Drohung»
🤨 https://www.heise.de/news/Zu-viele-Zero-Days-Microsoft-droht-mit-Gericht-11310723.html

«Niederlande: Microsoft gibt Daten unliebsamer Beamter an USA weiter»
🤨 https://winfuture.de/news,159002.html

#microsoft #niederlande #itsicherheit #it #zeroday #usa #software #opensource

Aua, Microsoft. Das tut weh. 😬 Sechs Zero-Day-Lücken in nur sechs Wochen öffentlich gemacht und kein Patch in Sicht. Statt sich an den eigenen Code zu setzen, holt der Konzern jetzt lieber schon mal die Anwälte aus der Schublade.

Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11310723?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#microsoft #zeroday #windows #itsicherheit #cybersecurity

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Das Bild zeigt die Glasfasade eines Gebäudes auf dem das Microsoft Logo zu sehen ist. Im Bild steht: "Sechs Zero-Days in sechs Wochen: Microsoft droht Sicherheitsforschern mit Klage"