The irony is that this site is clearly vibecoded, especially the https://status.microslop.com/ page, which "works" by requesting `https://outlook.office365.com/owa/healthcheck.htm` which is nonexistent and returns a 500 error but the code doesn't seem to detect that (and I don't think it could even if it wanted to, due to CORS).
Hard to know if this is itself slop or self-aware intentional slop to make a point.
The "GALLONS OF SLOP GENERATED" counter suggests some intentionality, and the "Everything seems to be working. Probably a glitch in our monitoring." caption on the status page maybe suggests that is also intentional.
Flagged this. As much as I also love to dunk on Microsoft, this kind of crapware is not the way to do it. [I personally] don’t want this on the front page. [And I think others should join me in that belief. Let’s try to keep it a place for interesting things that took some effort.]
Its hard to flagged based on your opinion though because at least 200 upvoters thought it should be upvoted? Just don't upvote it. If a bunch of people (non-bots) upvote it I think by definition they found it interesting?
Then can you take yourselves back to Reddit or something? This used to be an interesting place to visit that was differentiated from other “hot take” havens on the net.
It has that AI referring to a point in the conversation feel about it too.
This site would be a particularly interesting example to see the conversation that generated it.
There was a case locally where a political party copped flack for using AI generated images of minorities implying that the people in the picture supported their policies. I didn't think the use of AI was terribly significant when it came to the output because, before AI, they would have just hired some actors for the photos and achieved much the same effect.
The thing that I did think was significant was, in creating the images, they must have committed to writing exactly what it is that they wanted an image of. I really wished that journalists asked for that text, and then challenged the inevitable refusal.
I believe that a lot of the problems with LLMs would be greatly ameliorated if every generated image had embedded in the metadata the prompt and by default, the user credentials (which could be turned off for folks who want privacy).
What am I even supposed to think "gallons of slop" means? Funny that this is both fake and meaningless. OP if you're reading this, this garbage was the worst possible way you could have made the point.
The "hide distracting items" option is the best thing Apple has done lately. Unfortunately there's not anything worth your time once you get that nav out of the way.
• StartAllBack heavily modified for WinXP look-and-feel
• Win10Privacy (yes, it handles Win11), with all Windows Store apps yoinked except for store and media utilities
• Raphire/Win11Debloat
• builtbybel/WinSlop
That alone handles a majority of the rip-and-tear I have to do with a fresh Windows installation. Sure, there is a lot more after that, but these seem to handle at least ⅔ of all the heavy lifting.
So honestly, aside from the hour or two it takes to run all of these and confirm everything has been voilently excised, AI isn’t really a high concern for me.
Right now my short-term fear surrounds the OOBE blocking of local accounts on Home/Pro outside of domain usage. There are still workarounds, but who knows how long they’ll last. Currently trying to design a truly universal image that can be flashed/imaged such that any typical x64 system can at least boot into the Administrator account so that other local accounts can be made manually.
Is Microsoft the really the main force drowning the internet in slop? I appreciate the discussion on the subject but why is it so specific on Microsoft and the userbase of Bing?
It’s funny because I wanted to register this domain for the lulz 3 months ago (Microslop is a fictional company in my videogame Microlandia) but the price was ~15k so i settled for the cheaper microslop.net
Whoever wants to get the message across has certainly big motivations ;)
There's no manifesto ("manifest"??), the counter is completely fake, and the tracker doesn't show any of the user submitted reports.
There's nothing here other than: "Microsoft is integrating AI into their products and I don't like it, build a website about it please". It barely even has anything to do with Microsoft, it's more of a shallow "AI is bad" take.
Is this meant to be satire? It's rather in bad taste if you ask me, I have no idea how it got so many upvotes.
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The "GALLONS OF SLOP GENERATED" counter suggests some intentionality, and the "Everything seems to be working. Probably a glitch in our monitoring." caption on the status page maybe suggests that is also intentional.
[edited based on feedback.]
This site would be a particularly interesting example to see the conversation that generated it.
There was a case locally where a political party copped flack for using AI generated images of minorities implying that the people in the picture supported their policies. I didn't think the use of AI was terribly significant when it came to the output because, before AI, they would have just hired some actors for the photos and achieved much the same effect.
The thing that I did think was significant was, in creating the images, they must have committed to writing exactly what it is that they wanted an image of. I really wished that journalists asked for that text, and then challenged the inevitable refusal.
-tracker, -alert or -status would be more proper titles.
• StartAllBack heavily modified for WinXP look-and-feel
• Win10Privacy (yes, it handles Win11), with all Windows Store apps yoinked except for store and media utilities
• Raphire/Win11Debloat
• builtbybel/WinSlop
That alone handles a majority of the rip-and-tear I have to do with a fresh Windows installation. Sure, there is a lot more after that, but these seem to handle at least ⅔ of all the heavy lifting.
So honestly, aside from the hour or two it takes to run all of these and confirm everything has been voilently excised, AI isn’t really a high concern for me.
Right now my short-term fear surrounds the OOBE blocking of local accounts on Home/Pro outside of domain usage. There are still workarounds, but who knows how long they’ll last. Currently trying to design a truly universal image that can be flashed/imaged such that any typical x64 system can at least boot into the Administrator account so that other local accounts can be made manually.
It’s funny because I wanted to register this domain for the lulz 3 months ago (Microslop is a fictional company in my videogame Microlandia) but the price was ~15k so i settled for the cheaper microslop.net
Whoever wants to get the message across has certainly big motivations ;)
Could be they are renting the domain instead for a fraction of the cost.
Or at least the mocosoft owener received a ceise and desist by Microsoft and decided to drop the site.
I expect something similar with this site
There's no manifesto ("manifest"??), the counter is completely fake, and the tracker doesn't show any of the user submitted reports.
There's nothing here other than: "Microsoft is integrating AI into their products and I don't like it, build a website about it please". It barely even has anything to do with Microsoft, it's more of a shallow "AI is bad" take.
Is this meant to be satire? It's rather in bad taste if you ask me, I have no idea how it got so many upvotes.