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microsoftedging

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I love computers, tinkering, and solving problems! Have a good day, and remember tomorrow comes :)
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microsoftedging··on Steam Machine
It's glorious. The year has finally come. It's nice to feel excited about tech sometimes, especially when the company isn't completely horrible, and more competition! Great! Microsoft's move really, Sony and Nintendo are doing pretty okay!

W shadow drop.

microsoftedging··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Yep, we're not! (From a hc'er). Zach announced that slack has gifted us half a decade of enterprise+. Whilst slack's behaviour is worrying, it probably wouldn't make sense to cut all ties. Either way- another 5 years to migrate! :-)
microsoftedging··on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
microsoftedging··on Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]
I feel like there's a bit of survivorship bias here. Not saying that vibe coding is completely useless, but you still have to review the code it produces in order to make the most of it really. It isn't completely autonomous (yet) to the point where it can scale to any of the examples you mentioned imo.
microsoftedging··on Fight Chat Control
In principle, not at all. But there is no way to do this properly at all. No matter how secure the companies that do this say it is, it's another possible vulnerability.

You can't play whack a mole with the internet. People will always find a way to move smut or whatever on the internet. It takes no time at all to spin up more and more sites, and there's a million ways around them (vpns, etc).

All it does it just push people to more and more fringe sites, when moderation is likely to be lax and the content more extreme. Ideally it wouldn't be viewed at all, but it's just how the internet is.

It also sets a terrible precedent for censorship- in the UK, we've already seen, on Reddit for example, subreddits dedicated to quitting addictions being age gated, and it'll only get worse.

microsoftedging··on Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
Will do, thanks!
microsoftedging··on Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
If you're using a Samsung device then you can use Screen Curtain within Samsung's Good Guardians application on the Galaxy Store, which allows you to play media with the screen turned off.
microsoftedging··on Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
Hm? Completely out of the loop concerning this guy. Explanation please?
microsoftedging··on ChatGPT Is Down
+1, especially because free plans have web access now
microsoftedging··on parrot.live
didn't work in powershell for me, had to do it in warp
microsoftedging··on Redesigned Swift.org is now live
Eh. Google are the exact same. Pick your poison.
microsoftedging··on Luther Lowe of Y Combinator: 'It's Important to Fight for Little Tech'
https://archive.is/3BXUa
microsoftedging··on Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars
Genuine question, what's wrong with ALPR? (Coming from someone in the UK)
microsoftedging··on My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)
Apart from the part at the top of the blog post which gives some context; Essentially Marty Stratton (id Software Studio Director) behaved extremely unprofessionally towards Mick, publicly smearing his name. He lied repeatedly, posted the Reddit thread after the two agreed to not post anything and to make a statement later amicably, and much more.

He put him under a massive time crunch (sleeping in studio over Easter and more), didn't pay him for like half his work, replaced his work on the OST with Lead Audio Designer Chad Mossholder's made of edited chunks of his in-game score, they'd been working on, without telling him for six months, which was not up to scratch (you can hear some here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbhWmLVAvJw) didn't pay him, and tried to shut him up with a six figure settlement and a gag order.

That's just the tip of the iceberg but you can tell how bad it is.

microsoftedging··on Behind Netflix's UK launch: Why now, why no DVDs, and what's next? (2012)
https://archive.is/nEg6R
microsoftedging··on Satellite will have to be turned off when it floats over the US
Ragebait. Initially I thought it was something Trump did that resulted in this, and I'd assume others may as well.
microsoftedging··on Design Ah (デザインあ) · learning the fun of design
You can also watch the show itself in English here, found it quite interesting myself!: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/ah-neo/
microsoftedging··on Microsoft Launches Ad-Supported Version of Office Apps for Windows
Libreoffice it is!
microsoftedging··on I Track My Health Data in Markdown: Lessons in Digital Longevity
Which plugins do you use for visualisations?
microsoftedging··on Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k
You can self host ente if you want I'm pretty sure

https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/

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