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Ah yes, the classic tech industry anatomy lesson. OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot are getting all the attention up top, looking shiny and impressive, while the real MVPs—FOSS projects, independent artists, and venture capital—are doing the heavy lifting down below. It's almost poetic how these AI giants are basically standing on the shoulders of... well, everything else. OpenAI scraped half the internet (including your GitHub repos, you're welcome), Copilot trained on millions of lines of open-source code, and both are propped up by billions in VC money that's desperately hoping this AI bubble doesn't pop before they exit. The irony? The open-source community built the foundation, artists unknowingly donated their work to the training sets, and VCs threw cash at it like confetti. Meanwhile, the fancy AI tools get all the credit while casually forgetting to mention the awkward "how did we get this data again?" conversation. Classic tech move—stand on giants, claim you're flying.

Content Employee claims she can't use Microsoft Windows for "Religious Reasons". gets IT to provide laptop with Linux. rAskHR Posted by u-puppy-guppy- 19 hours ago 6 Policy Procedures UPDATEGA Employee claims she can't use Microsoft Windows for "Religious Reasons" Original Post UPDATE: After many meetings yesterday with management, HR, legal, and IT we decided to give her a shot. IT is working to come up with a configuration for her that we will also make available to other employees who want to use it. HR and Legal felt that although she is able to request accommodations for a sincerely held religious belief, this would have been an undue hardship to the company and it would be ok for us to deny her request. But ultimately we decided that she can still fulfill job requirements without Windows! That's pretty much it. Thank you for all the helpful advice Reddit!

Content Samsung's trade secrets have reportedly leaked because employees shared a bit too much info with ChatGPT Microsoft Written by Priya Pathak April? 20231707 1ST SAMSUNG What did the employees do? As per the report, one employee asked ChatOPT to look for errors in a confidential source code. A second employee requested code optimisation with ChatGPT and shared code. The report notes a third employee shared a recording of a company meeting as it wanted ChatGPT to make notes for a presentation.

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When your resume is just a list of tech companies that imploded right after you left. Nothing suspicious here, folks. Just a trail of digital catastrophes following this person like a shadow. Netflix sports streaming that doesn't exist yet, CrowdStrike's Windows update disaster, Google's Gemini historical figure fiasco, Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and FTX's crypto meltdown. Hiring managers will definitely not notice this pattern of working at companies right before they face existential crises. Solid career strategy - join, collect paycheck, abandon ship, repeat.

Young Bill Gates looking smug with his 640 KB of RAM like he just invented the future. Spoiler alert: that "nobody will ever need more" prediction aged like milk in the Arizona sun. Today's Chrome browser alone laughs in the face of 640 KB while casually consuming 8 GB just to display three tabs—one of which is definitely YouTube playing in the background. The irony? That single Microsoft logo on the screen probably takes more memory to render in modern Windows than the entire OS did back then. We went from "640 KB ought to be enough for anybody" to "32 GB and my computer still sounds like a jet engine." Progress is beautiful.