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That’s the best description I’ve heard for instagram.

I’d more expect the revolt to be along the lines of calling Microsoft out for being a dick. More an intervention than a revolt.

The academic side is less bananas I will give you that. And your comment about 80m is spot on. The problem we have here in the UK, is that it's pretty easy to get a 2m HT and a license to use it. Huge swathes of amateurs never progress past that or take a technical interest at all. I've lived in 3 separate areas where the local 2m nets are full of people with very defective personalities. The sort you'd find in a flat-roofed pub. And they're the guys who actually go to the clubs and the hamfests here.

It's pretty not exciting here as far as emergencies go. So our emcom network (Raynet) are limited to dressing up like police offers as far as they can legally do it and managing the car park at public events. The real emergency services here are very well equipped to handle this themselves with cross service commercial radios. And there's very few places you can't get a 4G signal now, even in the middle of bloody nowhere.

I did enjoy working CW QRP and chasing miles-per-watt to some degree. It was also difficult to be an asshole on CW so people didn't bother. SSB / FM is just urgh.

Having met a lot of people I think the license gives some kind officialdom and status which they are otherwise lacking and desire. This is an attribute demanded by a large number of people with defective personalities.

Granted a chunk of people go in for the technical interest (I did ultimately) but the other folk rub off on a lot of them and it normalises into the amorphous bubble of defective personalities.

No one does this or cares. They care about delivery and keeping ROI high and costs down, not demanding platforms.

I wouldn't draw any assumption that higher quality software is portable. I've seen monocultural genius (Keysight Genesys) and cross platform garbage (libreoffice) for example.

Fintech here. Also large. We have no Macs. We will probably never have any. We have a lot of software which will most likely never work on them. None of our clients have them as well.

Also another company we are related to tried a roll out and found they couldn't get Apple to deliver anything other than crap off the shelf configs in any quantity. Dell could. So the trial was ended.

Windows doesn't matter to Microsoft now. The big sellers are Azure and Office 365 and they work on Macs.

As for market share in the US, I very much doubt it's that high really. There are huge unimaginable swathes of windows boxes which won't show up in GlobalStats at all. I know a company with 50,000 desktops that can only visit a web site on an internal network for example. Those sorts of installations are everywhere.

I would really love ReactOS to replace windows. Genuinely would. But it's not there yet. I've tracked their development for years.

As for VirtualBox and VMware, that means I have two operating systems instead of one :(

The ratio of cranks and weirdos to normal people is 9:1 with ham radio. It’s usually the other way round with other hobbies.

The thing that gets me with ham radio is some see it as a social responsibility even here in the UK where its totally unnecessary from an emergency comms perspective.

Yep. I’m in the middle of switching from macOS back to windows because I need to do things I can’t do on macOS. I’ve had to build out a locked down windows 10 LTSC build to get anywhere near a sensible outcome for me.

I think we should start a revolt in the IT sector against this shit really. I’d start one but I don’t know where to begin.

I had ham radio passed down to me. This turned out, ironically considering it’s a communications hobby, to be isolating and a rather nasty bubble. Sort of like an aether 4chan full of bigots, racists and status chasing money spenders. Explained my father entirely.

There are some niches in it which are still manageable (QRP, SOTA) but I don’t want to become associated with the rest of them.

YMMV but I would encourage people to find their own interests and try and look for more progressive ones without a perpetually ageing demographic.

I found photography, hiking, travelling to be a better social outcome.

I cried a little when I read this :(

Completely agree with this. Having ported a lot of old non async c# to async, even mixing the notions for a moment is a disaster. This was a world of pain in the late .net classic lifecycle (4.5-4.8) where Microsoft kept fucking it up as well as us.

The video basically points the finger at you.

They do that in London too. Strangely they seem to actually know where they are going.

I had a fairly extensive personal web site for a number of years used as a professional profile. Unfortunately someone I met on a dating app turned out to be a bit of a psychopath and I had to pretty much cut her off. She managed to find the web site on the public Internet and get in contact with me directly and caused me a lot of problems leading to me having to dispose of the web site, the domain, my phone number and update lots of professional contacts.

I prefer a lot of anonymity now. I don't have any social media profiles or public facing stuff. And you know what? It has done no harm whatsoever to my professional life or connections. All that stuff that sucks you in is 100% optional.

I’m convinced the only thing Wi-Fi doesn’t fuck out on at the moment is windows. Had problems with Linux, macs and android for the last few years. Just works on windows!

Shame about all the other problems with it.

Fair but I wanted to be a fighter pilot because the money was better than driving a bus. So I learned c#. The company I worked for, a software dev house, said that they were VB only be they wouldn’t bring in c#. They died within 6 months of me and everyone else leaving.

C# and .Net was a gold rush. VB was only valuable where the primary business function was not software delivery.

Oh I have exactly the same trouble. I’m in the middle of moving back to windows

That’s pretty funny. I just bought a pixel 6a with the intent of replacing my iPhone. About an hour of “how the hell do people put up with this shit” and it’s going. Then I wake up to this.

It's a little more complicated than that. These models, by nature, can only produce derivative mimicry. Humans are capable of generating spontaneous concepts and employing meta-qualities like craftmanship and labour in the output. From this we derive value and personal worth as artists, writers, scientists and engineers etc. To replace this process with an ML implementation devalues humanity and that is what most people are objecting to, if they realise it or not.

We don’t track issues in GitHub. PRs are considered disposable.

Yes: memory ceiling is huge, WinRM is buggy and unreliable, performance is "variable", totally inconsistent handling of dates and times, being .Net it's UTF-16 internally so streams are painful to work with, escape characters argh, variable scoping is horrible, most of the API you have to hit to get stuff done is wrapping ancient bits of weird win32 and DCOM and WMI thus has inconsistent error handling and ability to actually do what it is told.

I've probably forgotten a few things.

Last month here in UK. After a package was stolen from my doorstep but the delivery driver said it was handed to receptionist. We don't have a receptionist, or a reception!

I'm a "high hitter" customer. I have prime and spend a hell of a lot of money with amazon every year so they tend to do what you ask eventually. But if you're a new customer or low value one your customer experience will be very very different. I know several people buying 1-5 things a year who have been told to piss off.

I much prefer this approach as you only have to parse stuff once during the processing pipeline rather than at every step.

Unfortunately after working with it for a few years I utterly despise PowerShell for many other reasons.

Have you tried getting through to a human recently on Amazon retail support? It's quite difficult. First you have to negotiate with a bot with an IQ and service level of an angry wasp, then you get filtered through to someone who usually can't help. So you have to try 2-3 times to get stuff sorted.

The whole thing is designed to put people off and make it difficult to get problems resolved.

I'm fairly good at being annoyed enough to work around this but most people out there can't handle things like that easily and Amazon knows it.

We have 643 git repos. I'm not sure we could reconstruct all of those by going round 300 engineers' machines...

Knowing Amazon retail / services support, their data is gone and they'll be lucky if they raise anyone at all.

If you pay $15k a month for AWS enterprise support, you will find someone who may or may not be able to help you within 6 months after misinterpreting the problem and having to raise your account manager and wave your hands around.

Smells like everyone in github

I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3

Not going to solve any problems by getting stressed at them. Have to approach them with a level head and detachment or you end up with emotional outcomes.