Describe the abstraction layers of a closed source project in the context of Microsoft

You can’t, unless you work for Microsoft

There’s market forces, which is not what you described; rather tooling and nuance specific to software development

When Microsoft controls the input and outputs, it’s a closed loop affected by Microsoft governance, not random tools, systems or transparent inputs

Windows OS updates and releases aren’t subject to this as it’s closed source

Whether human or machine, external factors are all internally decided

https://archive.ph/DlePX

You don’t even get a cubicle anymore, here’s a lopsided ikea desk you share with three other people.

Copilot and ads taking up development cycles

Hacktivists on GitHub. Show me your forgejo

Remember to do this on a machine you don’t care about, or are prepared for Windows to no longer work. Windows doesn’t play nice with other operating systems.

https://bazzite.gg/

https://www.zdnet.com/...

Play with this first if you want

https://distrosea.com/

Fascist tells you to ignore your eyes and ears and to listen to the party

https://www.snopes.com/...

“Shadow army”, you mean people, immigrants for low wage jobs in convenience stores and cleaners.

Hardly an organized “army” lol.

As if the GDPR was a barrier to IP theft

Article links to a knowledge base, not any “tool”.

Link to tool

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...

Conservatives are perpetual victims even when things are biased in their favour

Find a job, like being a local drug dealer

Self hosted mail isn’t marked spam because it’s new, it’s because there’s a foundation of security you need because of all the bad actors over the years

You need a good understanding of servers, dns and mail to do this yourself but it is possible.

This is a good guide other than the AWS and cloud service pieces

https://markfalk.github.io/docs/self-hosting-mail

Best part of this is the owners printed out their photos

https://old.reddit.com/...

Except for when they didn’t and had Dutch, Chinese and Korean enclaves and trade.

Marketing incumbent

Valve and their team generating so much good will these days.

NextDNS + uBlock