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Vibe coding, baby.
Legit endangering our brave spacefarers.
probably the outlook code was vibe coded kek.
I feel bad for them.
In fairness I don't think Microsoft designed them to work in space. Maybe it's their internet connection?
Telemetry was not designed for such pings, which messes up everything else.
Houston offered to remote into the computer to fix lt
Gonna be some serious ping times.
Imagine trying to play Multiplayer games! I wonder if they would work at all?
The moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.
2600 ping is a lot, but people have likely played with worse. Just not very well.
Yeah that makes sense that they have a workaround to fix it but I guess people gotta use a clickbait title to hate on MS.
No, i mean then they must have internet
Every time Microsoft does an update, they reduce functionality. Basic functions like print, search and file storage get moved into sub-sub-sub menus. The point of this is to make room on the main screen for ads. Screwing up your work flow gives you more time to look at them. This is intentional.
They updated onenote today on my work PC and changed all my checkBOXES to CIRCLES. WHO THE FUCK APPROVED THAT as you can see I'm still pissed. Fuck microslop
Product working as designed.
*Microslop Outlook
Why the fuck would you use windows in mission critical spaces.
You wouldn't and they didn't.
The article has just failed to inform the readers (the few that got past the headline), that this was on his personal Surface Tablet and not on anything associated with the mission.
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The article leaves out that this was on Commander Wiseman's personal tablet, a Microsoft Surface Pro and not any device associated with the mission.
He sought tech support for internet connectivity issues on a PCD (personal computing device), which is a Microsoft Surface Pro.
The 'Two Microsoft Outlooks' was a description of the issue he was having. The headline is implying that there are two machines running Outlook that don't work.
NASA detected that the PCD was actually on a network. It asked the commander for permission to connect to the tablet remotely so it could look into a problem with the Optimus software. "I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working," Wiseman responded, per a clip shared by Niki Grayson on Bluesky. "If you wanna remote in and check Optimus and those two Outlooks, that would be awesome."
The source of the quotes and a better article:
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The question is do they have a Copilot?
I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could be a disaster.
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No way in hell I would want to go to the moon nowadays. Technology these days is like having two left feet. Especially if AI is involved.
The live stream of the launch was low resolution with constant cutouts. I was also surprised by how poor the tracking was. It's saddening to see how much worse this has been so far compared to 1969.
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Nice April 1st. I mean that'd be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL'd versions at that, eh?
rustles papers
Oh.
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A late April fool‘s hopefully… 😱
Have you ever used outlook?
It's the worst, and no, it never works. The company I work at forces outlook on us, still, and there are some 5% of users that can't mail each other. Why? Don't know! I send a mail to a person, outlook logs say it was delivered, it's nowhere to be found. What to do? According to the company, just live with it and creat new accounts from scratch when it happens
We could ask support as the company pays hefty windows license fees but even there it's tucked up as M$ refuses to help directly it needs to go through some support company that wants that we pay them even more no ey separately for the long list of microbugs.
I find it almost hilarious, if I didn't have to work with it myself.
Giving astronauts outlook accounts is just mean
Recently started a new job and for the first time I'm fully emersed in the Microslop software suite. Somehow Outlook and Teams haven't failed critically but I still hate them. Someone emails me a PDF, so I open it. No, I don't want to open PDFs inside Outlook, so I download the PDF. Where is it? Is it on my Onedrive or does the file actually exist on my computer? Does anything exist on my computer?
In my personal life I haven't touched Windows in about 4 months now and I don't want to go back, although I'll probably be booting up Windows 10 because I just downloaded the pre-alpha version of Kitten Space Agency. Planning to try Bazzite soon, we'll see how that goes, I've heard good things.
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