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Sure, but the DR DOS case is well known. Is ZDnet better? It also lists other cases related to efforts to destroy Novell.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/caldera-unlocks-microsoft-evid...

My claim is that Microsoft operating system was silently detecting competitors software and changing behavior to break compatibility. That is proven. The war on WordPerfect was equally shady.

Did Microsoft clean its act at some point and stopped doing so? They force Edge at every opportunity, so even the behavior that almost got them forcefully partitioned is back.

I don’t think we have caught them outright sabotaging e.g. Chrome aside from the default browser shenanigans, but who would bother to check unless it’s a repeatable crash? Aside from Chrome what app do they even have a need to sabotage? Steam?

Thanks, it actually makes sense to switch. And Spectacle is even open source, so the amount of pain is minimal.

Definitely. All Intel Mac apps will be abandoned. Even tiny apps like Spectacle will cause pain.

This, for example. And they got caught. How many times they did not?

https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_inc...

Counter-example: Soldier of Fortune is broken on modern windows because of a misapplied compatibility hack. Rename the binary and it works with no problems.

This is an awful way to implement backwards compatibility. Opaque and ad-hoc. They have been using similar toolset to break competitors applications.

The choice of what old version of windows to run the program on is typically to try them one by one.

Linux is no better with no stable ABI. Mac is a mixed bag of excellent Rosetta and breaking apps for no reason. Who did it better? FreeBSD? Some extinct “grown-up” OS like VMS?

What part of Middle East did Trump achieve peace in exactly?

The heavy machinery work until it does not. Someone needs to come down there and unjam it, replace the broken parts, so the maintainance and so on. It’s highly mechanized, but there are people who still need to keep it going.

Is there a breakdown of effort Twitter spent doing the mastodon-level service (serving a feed of the accounts you are subscribed to) vs everything else like ads, algorithmic feed, moderation, fighting spam, copyright claims, localization, GR, PR, safety, etc?

The whole idea of the series is to change future history for the better. Sheldon promised a thousand years dark age instead of a thirty thousands. SPOLIERS.

in the end it turned out that mind control was far more reliable and the foundation turned to more to mind control instead of subtly influencing history.

This is a classic joke, but settling on a common gauge was really difficult, it was not just copying some old Roman standard. There were even riots when different railways started to standardize because common rail gauge meant you can move through the town without engaging with the local economy, see Erie gauge war. Russia still has a wider gauge than Europe and Australia has 3 different ones.

Will the announce a package manager to manage package managers? Every language having a package manager is getting out of hand. Having a unified way to install packages across RPM, DEB and Gentoo is also enticing. Maybe even Mac and Windows.

That was mostly a joke.

VoiceMeter worked reasonably well for me after some tinkering with sliders. Nvidia RTX voice should filter that out too.

How come keyboard sound suppression is not a standard option in all online communication apps? It’s not that hard, keyboard sounds are pretty distinct.

Microsoft is trying to replace Chrome on Windows with Edge pretty hard. How far are we from Windows Store popping up when trying to buy a game on Steam and offering a discount or informing you that the game is on Game Pass?

Levitation in magnetic itself is not the proof. Frogs can do that too, ask Geim. The proof would be levitation in any orientation.

There have been several false reports of high-temperature superconductors during previous months. There seems to be backlash to the high-temperature superconductors claims now.

Avatar 3 will have practical unobtanium.

As if that would have stopped him. He will argue that it’s XK-69, entirely different material and spend decades in litigation trying to bankrupt the inventors or worse.

“Netflix and chill” was coined for a reason.

If people don’t want to live there why are big cities so damn expensive?

I don’t work with 3-tier applications so I was surprised by the solutions, I was expecting a single origin for the schema at least to eliminate the need to triplicate some code. Is that a deprecated approach?

This is a good argument to vigorously enforce the antitrust laws, right?

So were did NeXT get it?

Before that I assume “x” was a metaphor for crossing out the page of text or paragraph marking it invalid. That is probably not as universal.

Windows 3 was using “x” in checkboxes as well, I wonder if switching to checkmarks is connected to putting “x” on the “close window” button.

That shopping list will result in something user eats. Even that can be dangerous. Now imagine the users asking if the recipe is safe give their allergies, even banal scenarios like can get out of hand quickly.

This is a mystery to me. When the sums of money that change decisions in Washington show up they tend to be small. Rarely even a million. Why can’t be those sums crowdsourced? I have a couple of guesses. 1. This is so low because there is low competition, the amounts will quickly go into billions if challenged. 2. They actually support those causes and will refuse money that comes from the people, not the corporations. 3. Anyone who would try that will be discredited, sued or even eliminated. Money is just a small part of it.

And after one there is “series”. The “X Box Series X” name is so tacky it’s kind of genius.

Cyberpunk was not about a dream. It was more of a warning to all those people who thought that technology will bring utopia. “High tech, low life” is the guiding principle of cyberpunk — technology will not solve societal problems all the cool tech brings issues that were not foreseen. With corrupt government and corporations not going anywhere just because the computations and communications got faster.

Next step will be to finally make the demo of voice assistant calling support Google made a while ago real. Robots talk to robots to cancel subscription. In science fiction that would lead to AGI, but it will not.

They have an option to quit now. If the job is so awful, but people still do it the alternatives must worse. E.g. becoming homeless or an even worse job. I’m pretty sure we will see a spike in both.