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[Solved] Maybe I'm out of the loop, but why so many people have Clippy as a profile picture? Is this supposed to be a jab at Microsoft? (piefed.zip)

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks

[–] snooggums@piefed.world -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The whole thing seems silly to me since Copilot acts the same as Clippy and is basically Clippy 2.0

[–] rowdy@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

This comment seems silly to me because calling a mostly useless local ‘Get Help’ tool basically the same as a LLM data aggregation tool is absurd.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

It's also like, they only weren't harvesting your data back then because they didn't know it would be worth something. It's this myth that the corporations used to be good, as if they ever were.