"Features that are the future of computing should be on by default and turning things off should not be part of any routine or default customer experience. If it can't be on then it isn't a platform feature."

the language they choose in their prepared statement is very indicative of the kind of culture that exists at Microsoft around product decisions:

we can make it easier for people to choose to enable Recall

remember, when Microsoft makes a feature "opt-in", it just means they're committing to repeatedly and relentlessly barraging all their users with new and exciting dark patterns until they inevitably accidentally turn it on.

the people who call the shots have a personal stake in making adoption number go up for their projects, and so emanate a bizarre reality-distortion aura everywhere they go, hoping that engineers and designers on adjacent features and products get too fatigued to push back on their insistence that it's inconceivable that someone might not want to use their widget, and that when someone says "no" they really mean "i want it, i just don't realize i want it yet."

IT'S DEAD

(effectively)

and all it took was widespread backlash by customers, who they definitely listen to being under active scrutiny by the US government for their "business first, security never" attitude's culpability in a significant nation-state cyberattack: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Operating systems mirror the organizational structures that produce them and with this knowledge it's a dark miracle that Microsoft still exists

italian here and the misinformation about this pisses me off, to be honest

Salis was in jail while still awaiting trial for several months, being held with no sanitary product, little food and rats and bugs-infested cells, under constant humiliation, for a crime where:

1. she still hasn't been confirmed to be the person who assaulted the neonazi (evidence is extremely inconclusive, even the video doesn't make it clear if she's the person on screen or not)

2. said neonazi wasn't even hospitalized for it

3. said neonazi didn't even file charges for the assault

it's an entirely political mockery of a trial, as Hungary is currently ruled by an autocratic far right party. they were trying to make an example out of her — and going "oh so now far left parties can just elect people who beat people up huh???? so much for the tolerant left/that is based as hell" is literally spreading nazi propaganda

one of our smaller parties concluded that "trusting the system" doesn't work when the system is entirely corrupt and, in an incredibly effective political move, placed her on one of our preferential candidates list — meaning people had to directly write her name in, not just cross the party's logo — so she could gain immunity and finally be free, trusting that people would see the unfairness of the situation. it worked: she was one of the most popular preferential candidatss.

oh yeah here's the isolated background poster i made for that last comm too. a lil bonus for the chosters i guess