Short temporal updates. Antisocial.
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Ignore everything I said about Microsoft. They let me back in.
As someone once said, just go back to Taskwarrior.
Monday, 22 August 2022
Forget the moralising about freedoms, access to source code and the wielding of power over the innocent gen-pop computer user spouted by the likes of Richard Stallman and Co - MICROSOFT WOULDN’T LET ME LOG INTO MY OWN FUCKING MINECRAFT SERVER THIS AFTERNOON SO THAT I COULD ENJOY MINING DIAMONDS WITH MY SON and that makes them evil.
Because I reinstalled their shitty Microsoft Authenticator app on Android, I couldn’t use their shitty 2FA to log in and when I tried to use a backup method (emailed code instead), and they told me I’d “requested too many codes, please try again tomorrow” the first time I tried it. Really, Microsoft??
The beauty of it was, when you reinstall the Authenticator app, you of course have to log in to use it - and then they require you to use the Authenticator app to obtain the 2FA code to be able to log in.
Do I even need you, Microsoft?
This has led me to reconsider having a Microsoft account at all, but the rollcall of dependencies is long enough to fret about.
Although I barely use their shitty fucking software explicitly, thanks to their parasitic takeovers of previously morally and qualitatively good applications and services over the years (I’ll use Minecraft and Github as examples), I would have to pause to consider the consequences.
Yet the very fact that I’m scared off of walking away… The level of vendor lock-in - that should be the reason to go, right there.
I keep Windows 11 around on a partition but only really for Ableton Live. Shameful.
Their sinister “philanthropist”, media-bribing co-founder.
Their cringworthy appropriation of Linux.
Their placement of ads in their shitty file browser.
I could go on, and I could go on about how unfuriatingly hard it is to format numbered lists in MS Word. Just die, Microsoft. Right now?
And… They’re slowly ruining Minecraft. Everyone knows it. It’s only a matter of time before they kill the Java edition and eradicate the very last remnants of Notch. I’m sceptical about Github, where most of my code lives. Copilot is a repugnant idea. I hate VS Code [but God does everyone bang on about it]. The Xbox gathers dust beneath the telly so that’s easily killable…
I’d have to do a some careful dismantling but I am tempted. If I don’t get back on Minecraft by tomorrow night…
Thursday, 18 August 2022
I keep getting reminders at work telling me that I need to refresh my Diversity and Inclusion mandatory training. I had a quiet afternoon so thought I’d get it over and done with; turns out I still have a couple of months validity left - I last did it in October 2021. Can’t believe I’m being made to do that course once a year but that’s the reality when you work for a large organisation in these pitiful times. No one has the corporate bollocks to stand up to the D&I mob. Jacob Rees-Mogg is absolutely right.
