Tesseract is an android app people could use to connect to lemmy. For some reason, the dev had several instances, words and users completely blocked within the code, without letting the person who downloaded even know about it, much less disable the blocks. One of the things it blocked were “mod abuse” communities.

As expected, things exploded once it was made public. No problem in having personal biases, everyone has them, but shipping an app with those biases baked in and hidden from the user is a shitty thing to do.

ublock origin -> create custom filter. Not gonna trust the EU for fucking up again

Richard P. Gabriel, in his essay “The Rise of Worse-is-Better,” expounds on this theme (see Appendix A). His thesis is that the Unix design philosophy requires that all design decisions err on the side of implementation simplicity, and not on the side of correctness, consistency, or completeness. He calls this the “Worse Is Better” philosophy and shows how it yields programs that are technically inferior to programs designed where correctness and consistency are paramount, but that are evolutionarily superior because they port more easily. Just like a virus.

The highest achievement of the Unix-aesthetic is to have a command that does precisely one function, and does it well (…) This philosophy, in the hands of amateurs, leads to inexplicably mind-numbing botches like the existence of two programs, “head” and “tail,” which print the first part or the last part of a file, depending. Even though their operations are duals of one another, “head” and “tail” are different programs, written by different authors, and take different options!

From The Unix Hater’s Handbook

(I like Linux, but it’s not all sunshine and rainbows)

You forgot that the distilled ai is also evil and communist

Instructions unclear, claude formatted my hard drive in FAT12 and deleted all my backups

Sometimes I feel like believing the conspiracy theory that the heads at mozilla are google flunkies, who only keep the browser around so google can’t be called out for monopolistic behavior with Chrome. Firefox is the only alternative to V8, the Chrome web engine. Safari doesn’t really count

Yet

So, how is cross compatibility between Haiku, AROS and Linux?

Hello, this is the Arch police, btw. As you have not stated you use it btw, your license to use Arch has been revoked, btw.

Microsoft has a responsibility to support decades-old software, which is why you can download an app or game made for Windows 95 and still run it on Windows 11.

Eh, debatable, some titles of the 90s might not run, even if you set the executable to run in compatibility mode.

My other concern is that WinUI surfaces have historically paid a cold-start cost when loading the runtime. Even today, File Explorer’s WinUI context menu gets criticized for exactly that. The WinUI-based Home tab in File Explorer is slower than “This PC,” which does not use WinUI.

M$ wondering why people are pinching their noses when near w11 when they’ve been slopping all over it. Release something broken, “fix” it later, only this is going way, way worse than XP (which needed 2 service packs to “feel good” and be safer), Vista (which needed W7) and even 8 (which needed W10)

Then went back with not trying to target high end with the original switch, with everyone complaining that it was equivalent to a mid phone of the year

As someone with a bit over 800h in Palworld, fuck Nintendo and their shitty attitude to Pocket Pair.

I like Nintendo’s games, but I never in my life bought one legally, since they completely pulled out of Brazil after the N64. NES and SNES were gray market items, while the GameCube nobody really cared about, since the PS2 completely dominated the market. The Wii was similarly a gray market item.

Unfortunately, there’s about no factorio in palworld, base building and maintenance is pretty simple and straightforward. The slaverycute is definitely there, tho.

Nintendo was the only company that ditched the loss-leader thing after burning itself with the N64 and GameCube.

It’s one of the biggest reasons Xbox is on life support right now.

The series of terrible decisions began with the X1: “You can watch netflix! You can watch youtube! You can’t share or sell your games! Kinect is mandatory for us to monitor you 24/7!” - M$ made the perfect advertisement for the PS4. Their complete lack of creativity with console naming didn’t help either, it was worse than Wii -> WiiU. Xbox One ~> Xbox One S/X -> Xbox Series S/X

Then there’s M$ buying several big studios and having no fucking clue how to best use them. Everyone who saw how they treated Rare knew that was coming.

Alos, because they’re a corporate first company, everything that “works” for M$Office ends up being applied to everything else. No more ownership, only subscription renting! Going all in on subs (xbox live) meant they had to widen their market, so increasing reach to PC and other consoles was the best option for increasing subscribers. That they didn’t care at all about how that’d hurt their own fucking specialized gaming hardware was no surprise.

What I’m actually surprised is that they haven’t rammed Copilot into any of their games or Xbox subscriptions yet.

Docking decks

Most of the problem with 8 was M$ insisting that desktop computers should get the mobile UI treatment because “we’re totally going with phones now so fuck you”

Them proceeding to completely fail at the mobile market was no surprise.

The AI agents need to sleep, too, so the downtime is expected

I hope those memories are great. Dan might no longer be with you or his family, but the memory lives on, cherish that. Be someone else’s Dan, too, there is always time :)

the CD didn’t survive either :/