Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

Honest Copilot training: less hype, more payoff Notes from a recent live Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat training delivery in Finland, and why customer-specific labs and a more honest trainer approach create more value than generic AI course material.

I don't only write snarky takes on Microsoft 365 Copilot and its marketing pitch. I also try to help people use the tools they already have (like Copilot Chat included in M365) in a smart way.

Some thoughts after delivering a training to one org last week:
niiranenadvisory.com/honest-copil...

I see dead features, part 2: Dataflows Power Platform Dataflows were never deprecated, but they were never really finished either. As Fabric moves on, they are getting left behind.

Are you using Power Platform Dataflows still? I was, too, but it's time to figure out an alternative - instead of wishing they'd ever become governable, nor support proper ALM.

Another dead feature in Microsoft's "evergreen" cloud.🪦
www.perspectives.plus/p/i-see-dead...

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.

“The fact that the EU Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment is shocking. Who does the Commission really represent: Big Tech or the public interest?”

www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-te...

Dataverse Capacity Perks with Dynamics 365 Sales Premium In March 2026, the default subscription capacity for Dataverse storage have been adjusted in a way that makes purchasing a Sales Premium license quite attractive.

For more info on the Dataverse storage entitlement increase for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Premium, check out my blog post on The Licensing Guide:
licensing.guide/dataverse-ca...

Dynamics 365 Sales Premium: default Dataverse capacity update

Microsoft made a small tweak to the Dataverse default capacity for a single license type: Dynamics 365 Sales Premium.

The good news is: you can buy just one Premium seat and gain $640/mo worth of storage capacity for your #Dynamics365 Sales Enterprise users!

Try it here: dataverse.licensing.guide

Kun journalistinen media vihjaa, se käyttää voimaansa väärin – Suomen Lehdistö Maya ei käy töissä – syy saa muiden veren kiehumaan.  Amanda saa sosiaalitukia 5500 euroa kuukaudessa. Henna keksi lapsen syntymän jälkeen, miten hän voisi olla kotona käymättä töissä – nyt hän on tie...

"Maya ei käy töissä. Amanda saa sosiaalitukia 5500 euroa kuukaudessa. Näin uutismedian otsikot kertovat sosiaaliturvasta ja sen saajista. Väärän mielikuvan synnyttämä vihjailu uutismedian otsikossa on haitallisempi kuin suoranainen disinformaatio ja pöty.”

suomenlehdisto.fi/kun-journali...

So the remaining conclusion is: your current profile’s Start/shell state is damaged in a way the normal repairs didn’t fix. The practical options now are: Keep using the current profile and live with broken Start pinning. Move to a fresh Windows user profile and migrate your settings/data. Spend more time on invasive profile surgery, but at this point that’s lower-confidence than just moving to a clean profile.

My Windows 11 Start menu has broken its "pin to Start" feature. Cool.👌 Totally in line with the amazing quality of software updates from Redmond.

I pushed my Codex GPT-5.4 agent to try everything to fix it. The result was: "it is what it is, live with it or rebuild your entire user profile".🤷

"Over the coming weeks, Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 in the model picker for Copilot Pro+."

"This model is launching with a 7.5× premium request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th."

So, 7.5x is a DISCOUNT?🙈 RIP Opus on GitHub.🪦

github.blog/changelog/20...

Kuin kaksi marjaa:

Could not visit the inauguration, but now Finland’s longest bridge at 1.2 km and one of the longest bridges in the world for just pedestrians, cyclists and public transport is open for biking and walking!

kreate.fi/en/projects/...

Sähkö | Onko Suomi tehnyt ison virheen? Orpo väistää Siilasmaan datakeskussyytöksen Pääministeri sanoo olevansa edelleen sitä mieltä, että datakeskukset ovat investointeja, joita Suomen kannattaa edistää.

"Pääministeri sanoo olevansa edelleen sitä mieltä, että datakeskukset ovat investointeja, joita Suomen kannattaa edistää."
Eli Suomen ei kannata niitä edistää, mutta Petterin kannattaa.

Suhtaudun Petterin juttuihin samaan tapaan kuin Trumpin ja Putinin: kaikki on jo lähtökohtaisesti valhetta.

Microsoft's legacy Azure Sponsorships portal vs. my Azure Sponsorship Monitor Flask app

Got Azure Sponsorship credits? Love using that Metro UI era portal that Microsoft offers for balance and usage monitoring? Of course you don't. So I built an app for it: link.jukkan.com/az-sponsor

A quick Python + Flask app combo that reads the source API. Run it locally & watch the credits 🔥.

Vuosi vaaleihin.

Erityisen hyvin Venäjän propaganda on uponnut Magaan, Trumpia tukeviin republikaaneihin. Kallioniemen kirjassaan esittelemistä ”Kremlin ilosanoman levittäjistä” häkellyttävän moni on noussut esiin, kun on uutisoitu Yhdysvaltain tulevasta hallinnosta: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, J. D. Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Mike Johnson… Monien heistä tiedetään myös pitäneen tiivistä yhteyttä Venäjän edustajiin. ”On todella huolestuttavaa, miten venäjämielinen johto USA:ssa kohta on ja mihin suuntaan se alkaa viedä maan ulkopolitiikkaa. Normalisoiko se suhteet autoritaarisen valtion kanssa, joka käy hyökkäyssotaa, ja heittää Euroopan bussin alle?”

Marraskuussa 2024 kirjoitettu profetia. Kuinkas sitten kävikään...

On Foundry, I've been burning $$$ on GPT-5.4 models (even the Pro one) without anything showing up on my Azure bill. I guess Microsoft has been top busy pushing the latest models out to check that the related invoicing mechanism works.🙈

GitHub Copilot model choices for Claude and the rate multipliers.

"Cool, a new model from Anthropic, why not try this out in GitHub Copilot..."🙅‍♂️

I wish Microsoft would have made the rate multiplier for Claude Opus 4.7 to be 4.7x instead of 7.5x. I could get behind that kind of a cheeky pricing model.

I see dead features, part 2: Dataflows Power Platform Dataflows were never deprecated, but they were never really finished either. As Fabric moves on, they are getting left behind.

Are you using Power Platform Dataflows still? I was, too, but it's time to figure out an alternative - instead of wishing they'd ever become governable, nor support proper ALM.

Another dead feature in Microsoft's "evergreen" cloud.🪦
www.perspectives.plus/p/i-see-dead...

Google Desktop Search 1.0 screenshot from 2004 (up) "Hello boys, I'm back!" meme pic from Independence Day movie.

THIS is Google Desktop!💪

Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive Exclusive  Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…

Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users

MS Security team blog: "Maybe don't allow OpenClaw anywhere."🛡️

MS CEO: "I couldn't launch OpenClaw, that would be like MS launching a virus."🦠

MS CVP of Word: "I now lead the M365 OpenClaw team!"🦀

My take on the Clawpilot craze inside Microsoft. Gift link:
www.perspectives.plus/p/claw-of-un...

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently Opinion  It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely.…

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

Satya Nadella's COPILOT OFFICE. Being the adventures of a CEO whose principal interests are AI, transformation and the renaming of Office. A Satya Nadella Production “A COPILOT OFFICE” Starring Mustafa Suleyman · Jared Spataro · Rajesh Jha · Charles Lamanna · and Clippy · Screenplay by GPT-3.5 · Based on the Office suite by Microsoft · Produced by Satya Nadella · Directed by Satya Nadella - Parody movie poster of A Clockwork Orange but with Microsoft 365 Copilot topic.

If Copilot really is "for entertainment purposes only", then it should be advertised like this.🍿

Celebrating 1+ years since users of M365 Office tools have been redirected to M365 Copilot chat UI by force. The digital equivalent of eyelid clamps.😬

#Copilot #Office #ClockworkOrange

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.…

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude

I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap

Klikkiotsikoista luopuminen vahvisti HS:n digitaalista asemaa Kolumni|Helsingin Sanomien tilausmäärä on pitänyt taantumassakin. Kuuntele juttu Erja Yläjärvi HS 12.4. 2:00 Kirjoittaja on HS:n vastaava päätoimittaja. Klikkiotsikoista luopuminen vajaa vuosi sitten vahvisti Helsingin Sanomien digitaalista asemaa. Uudistus oli meille tärkeä, vaikka ounastelimme sen vähentävän lukemista. Kävikin päinvastoin: digitaalinen käyttömme on kasvanut vuoden takaisesta. Olemme vahvistaneet asemaamme niin iltapäivä­lehtiin, MTV:hen kuin Yleis­radioonkin verrattuna. Lähdimme uudistukseen vajaa vuosi sitten tiedostaen, että rauhallisemmat otsikot voivat vaikeuttaa huomion saamista digitaalisessa kilpailussa. Lukeminen notkahtikin alussa. Se oli terveellinen muistutus siitä, että selkeämpi otsikko paljastaa heti jutun sisällön tason. Keskinkertaisuutta ei voi klikkiotsikolla peitellä.

Obama meme: HS:n otsikot vs. HS:n vastaava päätoimittaja

Samanaikaisesti Hesarin vastaavan päätoimittajan kolumnissa:
www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Just because AI capex spend remains irrational compared to revenue, doesn't mean I'd want to bet real money against the datacenter boom. Especially in a year when all the media in the world will be hyping the 2 "make it or break it" IPOs. Better to just invest in popcorn.🍿

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here: