Daily reminder, you have freedom of speech in that the government won't do anything about your speech, but you don't have freedom from speech. Going out and protesting your employer and their business relationships can and will get you fired, no matter how just the cause.
Right, my daily reminder that the US doesn't belive in human rights. Article 23 of the UN human rights declaration for anyone curious. This is also a fun, yet basic resource: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/countries-with-independent-national-human-rights-institution?time=latest
It's sad that the west still glorifies this fucking homunculus that not only doesn't try to adhere to any agreed principals and values, but actively goes against them. The republicans are against half the things written in there, while the dems "compromise" so hard that "barely making it" is the ultimate unachievable goal in the distance to aim towards. Fucking pathetic.
Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.
As always, fuck Microsoft. Literally been saying this over 30 years already.
Don't use windows, switch to Linux. It's free, actually reasonably secure, actually works, won't spy on you, won't force shit on you just to make you pay more.
Don't use Microsoft azure. It's overpriced and runs in Linux anyway.
Don't use Microsoft 365 online shit. Outlook functions horrendously bad, teams is a sad joke. I unfortunately have to deal with teams every day because government customers thought it was a good idea and EVERY call there is some shit. People can't get in, people don't have audio, people ALWAYS have the wrong audio device selected no matter what and need to spend the first 5 minutes to get their audio and video working. It's shit quality compared to zoom or Google meet or open source alternatieves...
Stop giving this piece of shit your money
Hold up. Azure runs on Linux? Lol could have guessed that, but still is funny.
Azure runs on windows. Hosts run a modified version of Hyper-V.
At least, they did last I checked.
I work at a place that uses Azure to run everything (not my choice…).
Everything we have runs on Linux containers, Linux Azure functions, and a VM that runs Ubuntu.
You can run Windows on Azure but you certainly don’t have to.
We have a similar mix, though I was referring to the underlying virtualisation providing their cloud hosting.
This seems like it should be more of a "write-up" type of offense, rather than skipping straight to terminating employment. This is a vigil, not a protest. Microsoft: "how dare you mourn those killed by a genocidal regime."
BTW - what is everyone's favorite non-MS suite of office programs? I've been using Only Office, but curious what others think.
In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.
100% LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org/
Seconded! Been using the suite for years and it rocks. It's also multi-OS compatible, which is super handy.
How do people have the time to organise vigils and get into "coalitions" and politics in the workplace?
Granted I don't work at Microsoft, but I feel me and everyone around me is overworked enough that when we have the time to stop working... We head home (or close the laptop if WFH) and rest, not engage in additional activities in the workplace.
For every hour of work/coding I do, there is probably 4 to 5 hours of waiting for shit to automatically compile, fetch, build, release, apply, get reviewed, approved, and deployed. The downtime is immense, I spend it helping other people with shit or planning company potlucks (I don't work for Microsoft).
In giant companies, there's a lot of wasted time and money.
IDK about you but half of the time I'm at work I'm not actually working. I have like 4 hours of insane productivity, but don't know which 4 hours those will be.
We all knew that Microsoft wasn't a good company. Let this news motivate you to switch to GNU/Linux.
For those who can't for whatever reason, look into the LTSC version of windows at https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.
No reason to give Microsoft any money, every reason not to
just deleted windows earlier and am no longer dual booting 👐 Linux is pain but the pain is worth it
I am waiting for the gaming industry to make it worthwhile. Anti cheat is a bitch
The goalposts have moved to hopefully their final position
99% of my games don't work! I'm not switching!
About half of my games don't work, I'm not swiching!
20% of my games don't work but the ones that do are all perfect, I'm not switching!
10% of my games don't work and Valve is pushing for functioning anticheat with EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye, i'm not switching!
You are here → 0.1% of my games don't work because of holdout companies being assholes and going out of their way to specifically block Linux despite the massive success of the Steam Deck, I'm not switching!
At some point you have to ask yourself if it's the companies thats holding you back or if it's really actually you who are holding yourself back. Switching is gonna always require some kind of sacrifice or another, and currently that sacrifice has never been this minimal.
Either that, or you are just the kind of person who enjoys being a contrarian and has no interest in actually contributing anything meaningful.
Well, actually Linux is shit productivity-wise. Setting up the system and messing with it is easy and fun, trying new open-source alternatives is great, and all my games work without a hitch. I just can't seem to find the time to get actual work done !
/s
So which Linux distribution is the most pro-Israel?
I think that I need a little more convincing.
(Obligatory and huge /S)
(Also probably Oracle Linux because of course)
Interestingly, the Linux foundation had to remove several Russian maintainers recently because of the sanctions.
I have not looked into the details on the matter, but from what I gleaned it seems like they did not want to (don't punish the individual for the sins of their government), but were made to. Linus Torvalds apparently made a statement on the matter that I still need to go read.
I could be very very wrong on this and am open to being educated.
Unionize
remember this when they talk about being gay friendly or anything else even remotely "woke"
I don't expect companies to be doing that much anymore.
Why would you organise this on company headquarters without the consent of the company?
If you tell your employers that you hate the way they operate, what do you think is going to happen?
This is a Neoliberal anthem: rights are for citizens; employees need to sit down and STFU.
Why do we reject tyranny.gov, but embrace tyranny.com?
You can go on a protest whenever you want. Don't expect your employers to be enthusiastic about it if you organise one in your workplace, however.
It's called a protest. Social movements protest to get a message across.
You think they'd get permission?
Also, this isn't really a protest.. A vigil. Microsoft is a trash corporation. None of this is surprising.
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