Now that you've got the idea apply it to everything in capitalist society. Especially if something is owned by shareholders.

This realization somehow amazes and depresses me at the same time

Most people don’t install windows. It comes pre installed on something they bought. Microsoft probably puts more time into automating the process.

Also, last time I installed windows it was a breeze. I haven’t installed Linux in at least a decade, so I can’t speak for that.

Allow all code merges automatically

Open a GitHub repo with a hello world script and accept each and every commit

work on decentralized technology like lemmy

The same way, generally. Work on decentralized, open source software. It's modern Mutual Aid.

dd if=/dev/random of=anarchism bs=1024 count=1024;chmod 755 anarchism;./anarchism

The only thing Microsoft is investing in is marketing to fool people into thinking they're your friend. Remember that Copilot is automated open source license violation at scale. They're building a tool to take your work, without crediting you, so others can use it without compensating you.

This is "love" in the same way an abusive relationship is "love".

With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.

The fact they've been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don't have such a plan. Or won't ever have one.

it's a parody of this poster from early 2000s

Did Bill jump over them first?

It's clearly a red scare parody.

it seems like a pro-communist programming message to me. the red dude looks super cool and supportive.