While You Were Arguing, Microsoft Was Building

Content Microsoft lays off an ethical Al team as it doubles down on OpenAl Rebecca Bellan rebeccabellan 12:26 PM GMT 11 - March 14, 2023 Comment Microsoft WHERE WE ARE GOING WE DONT NEED ETHICS ProdrammerHumor.io

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The ultimate Linux desktop environment civil war, but make it wholesome! Nothing says "I'm a true open source hero" like using one desktop environment while financially supporting its arch-nemesis. It's like being a vim user who donates to the Emacs foundation—pure chaotic good energy. The Superman imagery is perfect because let's be honest, anyone running Linux in 2024 already thinks they're saving the world from the evil corporate empires. Meanwhile, Windows users are just trying to print a document without their computer deciding it's the perfect time for a 2-hour update. Fun fact: If all the energy spent arguing about GNOME vs KDE had been directed at actual development, we'd have had the year of the Linux desktop back in 2003.

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The dystopian nightmare we're all hurtling towards at breakneck speed! Big Tech really out here trying to convince us that owning hardware is SO last century, darling. Why buy a computer when you can just subscribe to one for the low, low price of your entire paycheck every month until the heat death of the universe? But us crusty developers? We're clinging to our actual physical machines like they're the last lifeboats on the Titanic. You can pry my locally-owned PC from my cold, dead, carpal-tunnel-riddled hands! We didn't survive the transition from floppy disks to cloud storage just to become eternal renters of our own workstations. The audacity of thinking we'd give up root access to our own machines! Absolutely not, Jeff.

The programmer in this meme is living in a parallel universe where Microsoft created Java, not C#. It's like claiming your first car was a unicorn, then your second was a horse, and somehow that qualified you to work at a zebra ranch. For those keeping score at home: Java was created by Sun Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle), Android uses a Java variant, and Microsoft's C# was actually created after Java as a competitor. This person's programming timeline is as accurate as a sundial at midnight.