Once upon a time, “Skype” was synonymous with “audio chat” and then “video chat.” But that was a while back, and Zoom, Slack, Discord, and (grudgingly) Teams have taken over.
I hadn’t used Skype in so long that I’d thought the service had already been shot down — but that’s actually happening in May, according to Microsoft’s article, The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams .
So my first reaction was “Skype is still around?”
My second reaction:
I’ve only gotten back into PowerShell recently, so I was unaware that they have a cartoon mascot that I think of as “PowerShell Gambit.” The mascot appears at the start and completion of its installer, and now I call out PowerShell commands as I type them in my terrible approximation of Channing Tatum’s cajun accent in the Deadpool and Wolverine movie.
Need context? Here’s a news story from Canada’s Global News.
Maybe it’s a little exaggerrated, but really, where’s the lie? (This goes double for the bit about the “real” vs. “cool” databases.)