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Short form of "Microsofed" referring to any system utterly destroyed by employing Microsoft products. Guess you could spell it "microsofted" but I like keeping its current spelling, just adjusting the meaning.
Maybe it's a sort of adjective, don't know, don't care. Fuck Microsoft.
But in keeping
with the kinder, friendler HB, if that offends anybody who likes Microsoft for some reason I'll cheerfully take it down, no questions asked. It's also a thinly veiled rant anyway so... yea.
Oh, and I came up with the competition company name "Maxihard" many decades ago so... double yea.
ADDENDUM: Refer to Microsoft as Tinylimp.
These tech billionaires might be worth looking at.
https://www.cnbc.co...aders-analysts.html
But remember my hero, Earnst Mach said about considering point of reference affecting perspective. I apply his physics application of this idea to people evaluating stuff. If you're making money off of this are you going to say it's BS? [doctorremulac3, Jan 19 2026]
AI cat videos
https://x.com/RealD...me-madness-n2423916
Death of the internet business model? [doctorremulac3, Jan 20 2026]
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Category should probably be something language related. |
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Yea, the computer virus category was sort of a bad joke. Sort of like the whole idea. |
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I'll find a better category, stand by... |
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And again, if anybody actually likes Microsoft stuff, I'll happily take this down. |
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//anybody who likes Microsoft for some reason// |
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Anyone? ... Anyone at all? |
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Historical curiosity: I think the much-loved half-baker [bristolz], inventor of the hullaballoon, was something of a defender of Microsoft. But, so far as I know, she was the only one, and I never got the chance to ask her why. |
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Something, something ... tears in the rain. |
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I guess if there were someone is out there that liked Tinylimp, I mean Microsoft software, they might call Apple "Crapple" or something. |
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Or they could get on with their life and not stress about such things as almost everybody does, which I will do now that my Frankenstein amalgamation of various systems has been stitched together again. |
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They're still better than Oracle or Adobe. The trash software I have to deal with at work from those two is simply infuriatingly bad. |
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I'm waiting for AI to replace software, apps, everything. Phones and computers just being a cheap, dumb access point. |
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The monetization evolution is gonna be interesting. Google gets its bucks from paid search placement, it's just the digital Yellow Pages, and AI is already just bypassing that and doing the search for you. Guess the Netflix pay to play model is probably it but dunno. |
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I also hope I'm wrong about AI being waaaaay over valued like the dot com boom. Market caps in the billions and I'm hearing marketing plans like "How are we gonna make money? How are we NOT gonna make money?" I'm doing a lot of "Huh?" like I did in the dot com boom /bust mystery valuations. Hope I'm wrong. |
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I've been wrong before but, yeah, it feels like a bubble to me. |
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Well, I hope we're both wrong because this is a big one. I thought I heard something about these companies diversifying, like investing in Walmart in case the real life Cyberdyne Systems doesn't work out. Wasn't really listening so maybe I dreamed it, if so I need to start having better dreams. |
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Have a look at the chart. I'd say the big brains in this area are about a 50/50 split. And one particular character saying "Everything's great! Nothing to see here!" particularly creeps me out. |
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The Halfbakery was a popular site until early 2026 when it was microsofed due to a lawsuit about something written against a large company. The lawsuit eventually caused the US Department of Justice to close down and restart the whole United States. |
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At that time the President (his name is lost to history in the big Google crash later that year) had claimed it was China at fault. But the US armed forces were not able to respond to China's declaration of war, because, as it turned out, they had moved to rely on an electronics-based technology (a type of technology common at those times) called AI or LLM (it is not clear because the records were destroyed in the big peace process when the Vatican converted to Islam that same year). |
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In an ironic turn of events the Chinese attack backfired because of a trojan horse installed by the "Israeli Mossad" in the Chinese swarm robots and drones, causing them to attack their own bases. The ironic twist turned out to be the unplanned launching of a single H bomb from the city of Pching Pchong Ho against the Nuclear Experiments Field (formerly called Israel or Palestine, that too has never been completely understood). The rocket was not intercepted, but no one knows why. |
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"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" |
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Not to be a debbie downer, but speaking of monetization models, the internet was funded by cat videos. Then this happened: (link) When fake cat videos outnumber real cat videos, they lose their appeal, it's like my analogy about watching humans play football vs robots. If it's fake, there's no connection. |
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Approximately 98.7756 percent of internet funding comes through cat videos. Once they're gone because people get numb to these fakes, how does the internet survive? |
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