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Clicked the article because my blurry eyes read "on Windows Activation", and I was like "huh, what's interesting about Windows activation?"

Read the first paragraph and it was really confusing. Still the same after reading it again.

Until I looked at the title. Oh, window activation is what we are actually talking about.

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If that's the topic you were looking for, you may like this "Dave's Garage" episode, where a retired Microsoft engineer talks about implementing... Windows Activation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0

They used to have whole conferences on window management!

"Methodology of Window Management": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

By F R A Hopgood, D A Duce, E V C Fielding, K Robinson, A S Williams. 29 April 1985. This is the Proceedings of the Alvey Workshop at Cosener's House, Abingdon that took place from 29 April 1985 until 1 May 1985. It was input into the planning for the MMI part of the Alvey Programme. The Proceedings were later published by Springer-Verlag in 1986.

My favorite chapters:

"Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View" by Warren Teitelman: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

"SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System" by Games Gosling: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

"User Interface Working Group Discussions": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

"User Interface Working Group Final Report": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

Don't feel bad -- the other frontpage story "ultra thin business card runs fluid simulation" I thought it said "...RUINS fluid simulation."

I'm worse than you - when I came across that article, I spent a while wondering whether "ulathrin" was the name of a company, or some new metal alloy. Your comment is what made me realize I misread it.

I made BOTH of those mistakes. I thought someone working at the company Ultrahin leaned over and dropped a business card into the particle accelerator and ruined a million dollar experiment.

I have found my people in this thread :D

Now I want to make ChatGPT write all these alternative universe articles.

I too was hoping for something like a deep dive into key management reverse engineering. lol

Yes, appending “in Wayland” would have 1000% clarified the topic for me.

Haha exactly why I am here too. I need glasses.

I have my glasses and still got here :(

Same.

I thought exactly the same thing

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