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)

Not only of capitalism, but of any system that allows hoarding power and repression against those unsatisfied with it.

Not sure if that was ever properly tested in a court.

Freenet probably never had enough usage to get to that point

You forgot that the distilled ai is also evil and communist

Ugh, this tutorial takes forever to complete! >:(

Sounds like algorithmic surveillance (modern social media) applied to real life, which I think I’ve seen as a movie or black mirror episode

Ah, the good old days of PS1 and 2.

On PC, it was insert the disc, install (takes a while), keep disc in, run game, crash, troubleshoot, give up.

Money (power) corrupts and people with lots of money rarely want to part with it. Also, money protects money, so the rich often deal in the shadows to protect themselves from us.

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

They’re not taking high enough doses, unfortunately for us and for medical teams who have to spend resources getting them better

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.

Why the fuck did they think coming back was a good idea? The internet is changing for the worse and xitter is one of the places that is making it worse, abandoning that shithole is a step into making things better

Most solutions require engineering the building for little to no use of AC and relying on better ventilation.

One example that can be applied to a house is a central shaft with a fan on the bottom, which will pull in air closer to the ground and blow it upwards - remember, cold air tends to stay down while hot air tends to go upwards. The house will need to have a small elevation, or the central shaft will need some ducts for the air to come in.

There’s also the Persian Windcatchers, which they have used for centuries, towers that receive hot air from one side, bring it down to an underground channel and blow off cold air from another side.

Dude can’t even suck his own dick in peace without old timey medics calling him out

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)