• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    MSN messenger died for Skype

    Skype died for Teams

    We’re not on a great trajectory here

    (Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

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      What most people don’t know about the ouroboros is that every time the creature eats itself it becomes a little bit closer to being a turd (a consequence of its peculiar metabolism) so even though from an inside perspective the system appears to be in a complex mysterious cyclic kind of stasis, from the outside it is just more and more obviously a turd in the shape of a donut.

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          6 hours ago

          I am not sure I remember anymore, I have eaten my tail one too many times.

          I don’t think this is a direct meaning of the metaphor, though any metaphor of endlessly repeating cycles can be placed in a rhetorical framework where it represents enshittification so I am sure I am not the first person to add or tweak the metaphor with that context.

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            15 hours ago

            By “coexist” we mean being installed side by side with barely distinguishable icons, and when you try to log into the wrong one with the wrong type of Microsoft account (where the login mask looks exactly the same), it throws a helpful error message saying “this account does not exist”.

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      Did it die, though? Last time I had to use windows for work (shudder) the Teams app process name was lync.exe. Or was it Skype?

      Either way, shit’s still around.