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Risk of physical harm? Should I perceive that as a… threat?


Satya Nadella will kick in your door


Watch out for chairs...


Perhaps someone at Microsoft threatened physical harm to a Google engineer if they didn't remove the videos... and they caved into their demands rather than reporting the threat, or perhaps did both.


The sci-fi movies warn us about evil robots. Turns out the evil entity was Microsoft and other big tech companies all along


Indeed; those who are worried about the possibility of paperclip optimizers should take a look at the profit optimizers that exist today.


You see, Windows 11 has new, improved, patented prevent-the-computer-from-physically-beating-up-the-user technology. But this technology requires an online account; you can't trust a local-only account to prevent the computer from beating you up, because it's on the computer in question (duh). So we prevent you from learning how to bypass the requirement for a remote account for your own physical safety.

/s, in case that wasn't blatantly obvious...


Perceive that as being hit in szczepionke /s




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