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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why, just use the handy Microsoft Copilot to summarise the terms. I'm totally sure it won't miss out anything important.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"Summarize these terms and conditions to a paragraph of no more than 50 words."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you save each one as a text file, Winmerge does sometimes give interesting context to the changes.

It would be nice if someone did this on GitHub for a lot of common services...?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It would be nice if someone did this on GitHub for a lot of common services...?

Check out tosDR. Here is the Github report

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I just do a standard word search for things like "soul", "possessions", and "first born" before clicking Agree.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

All agreements are take it or leave

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Just shake my hand on it then, bro. Paperwork is for nerds anyways, and for dealing with a corporation like Microsoft you usually only require good faith.

It's not the EULA that is bullshit, the entire service is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It WAS 17,001 words long. Isn’t that simpler?