you know the saying - "those who don't learn the history are doomed to repeat it. those who learn the history, are doomed to helplessly watch those who don't repeat it"?

it's the same with vibecoding - whatever you do to avoid it, sooner or later that crap will exist everywhere around you and in every application you use

@TerriToniAX 98 was SE. ME was standalone. + missing 2000 and 8.1

agree on the horrrible UX of the Win11. the first Windows OS where i have to intentionaly wait before clicking through menus, because they're too slow. they've crippled even speed of alt+tab

lol, wait till we get Win12 with mandatory MS Copilot in everything and active Recall

"used volume key on the top row"

....please, don't. so much F-keys lost to multimedia buttons bs

btw MS Teams shows different colored thumb emojis, but shows total count instead of segregated, which i guess is a good compromise

@tamagotchi "emoticons are older than this level of racism "

kinda afraid the racism is older than emoticons

Lucy: do it, do it, do it, ...

obligatory "make sure to copy from answers, not from the question"

the reason most companies have policies against AI is not because they're "against AI", but because using public LLMs leaks proprietary data god knows where and unless you have solid data compliance it's not safe in terms of cybersecurity.

the fact AI companies use your chats for future training is no secret. and there were cases where someone elses chats leaked to other users.

@NaturalStupidiy gaming OSTs are great, because the whole purpose is to create atmosphere and keep you focused, while not being too distracting. one of the reason i'm avoiding stuff with lyrics while coding.

OST: Unreal Tournament and Forza 3+5 are also worth to mention.

midtempo EBM mixes from CybermodeBeats are great too. also, programming mixes from JimTV

@retoor you can do the new domain categorization yourself on the firewall provider website. usually it's enough (as long as the domain won't end up in a category blocked by the firewall user)

e.g.

- https://sitereview.bluecoat.com//...

- https://support.forcepoint.com/s/...

- https://fortiguard.com/faq/...

@retoor one of the reasons corporate firewalls are blocking brand new URLs are exactly that - "new domain, uncategorized"

yay, more business/job opportunities as a women

....then you get less money, people ignore your opinion and expertise, idea of having family/kids pretty much sinks your hiring chance, and then a bunch of clowns on the internet mansplain to you how easy you have it

you can still use whatever words you like. but if your goal is content creation, propagation, and monetization via engagement, then you play by "the algorithm"

they simply compiled list of "words with possible negative meaning" and ignored any context (yay, management ideas!)

meanwhile programmers are used to "bash cat with a pipe" or "force worker cleanup before it's killed". or the classic: https://devrant.com/rants/1290782/

@Lensflare the problem is eveyrthing is becoming a web app today.

"get our new desktop app... actually, f*you, it's just a PWA, but we've made sure you can't run extensions to block the pieces you hate."

@Lensflare "only in browser" tempts me to say IMAP+Thunderbird, but the last major Thunderbird UI update ain't no rainbows either

"this thing sucks, but major platforms are using it, so we'll use it too" seem to be the main sw dev driver lately

@retoor GDPR also covers your data-processing intents with which the user agrees

i doubt "submitting CV to company/HR" contains "being mocked online on social networks" as an agreed usecase. especially if the person can be identified due to insufficient anonymization

@kiki tbh across all those years using laptops, i've never encountered touchpad button issues. the laptop was morally obsolete sooner than the buttons met their click-lifespan

the fact a touchpad can stop clicking because of a software, combined with the fact how bug-ridden software is today, does not seems like a win

ever heard of compliance or SOX audits?

you can't just allow external LLMs. imagine understanding of an average non-IT user, and the next step you got is HR throwing personal data into deepseek, because "they feel it's giving them better report results"

@atheist imo unless you introduce strong fact checking (RAG or similar) taking in local laws (both, labor and finance) and regulations (company, region, ....), then you can't guarantee correctness of answers which is a problem when employees apporach HR to help them. it would also require to remove the sycophant personality from LLMs

+ the maintenance to keep it up to date with upcoming new laws and removal of whatever what no longer applies

"recruit talent from top schools. Next, they must retain these recruits for at least 4-5 years" ... "watched friends transform from innovators to people who measure success by equity packages"

the article delibrately omits this is also the time people start family and get mortages, so it's no wonder they prioritize money and security over the unstable innovator startup mindset

time to practice resistance against peer pressure pushing you into attendance.

but it also depends on the company culture - sometimes you need to attend these events, because the unofficial setup is where the actual business decisions and long term direction planning takes place

@kamen fortunately, but they're making it increasingly difficult.

Years ago, you could change association of all known image formats straight from IrfanView installation.

Then Windows10 took this option away. You had to go to settings and set "Association - Images: Irfan".

This group change is gone in Win11, so every time you encounter a new image format, you have to reassociate it.

ofc you can still do it via registry, but you can clearly see how they're taking the BFU GUI option away to make it more difficult.

@kamen irfan, xnview, ... all good. worse part is to convince windows to stop openning all those files in their crap, because they reverted to per-extension settings

@Lensflare nah always hated those. irfan ftw because of fast easy edits - crop, resize, rotate, color/light corrections, scanning, EXIF inspect/removal. and the killer feature for me - easy batch processing

@jestdotty "they're verbose and repetitive"

you can force them via context priming to avoid at least the additional verbosity

https://xkcd.com/1205/

the ok sign was a meme started by 4chan

Musk - was it the salute? was it not? while everyone else is busy arguing, local nazi groups are quite clear on what it was. that's the whole point of "dog whistle". clear signal for them, mixed signal to anyone else

"how the fuck am I supposed to know it" - because you're supposed to watch what is happening in society and politics outside of your social bubble

nobody i've ever met is fine with Postman since they started with this bs. our corporate even banned any Postman version past this account-requirement was introduced

@Lensflare example: Lumafield had afaik more articles. Worth the read.

https://lumafield.com/article/...

Btw some of the USB4 long cables are actualy fiber optic, so the conector contains full media convertor.

@cafecortado "Those invented words "

all words are invented. or do you believe a linguist dug a dictionary in ancient athens and no new words were created since then?