HarryNyquist

If you ever ask this question, the answer 99% of the time is for backward compatibility for enterprise users. I guarantee you; companies exist that have mission-critical processes run via a VBA macro written in Excel '97 that absolutely must continue working in Excel 365, lest they go out of business.

On one hand, I hate that something so simple will be taken and paywalled by the New York Times
 
On the other hand, if someone came to me with 7 figures of money offering to buy it from me, I'd be REALLY hard pressed not to take it. Good for this dude.

YouTube may be the scammers here, but they've also opened themselves up to being scammed as a result. There is no way to justify this even from a business perspective. They're either participating in a scam (one that preys on vulnerable individuals to boot), or being scammed once their YouTube NFT wallet or w/e is cracked due to subpar account security and then all the apes are gone.

I'll scream it till I die I swear to god
 
NFTS ARE A SCAM. IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE, CONGRATS, YOU'RE THE MARK!
And yes, this means I think YouTube and their fucking braindead executives are indeed marks for the scam. Because they are.

See that's the thing, right? An NFT is just a token pointing at something. You don't actually own the picture. None of those apes are owned by that person, only the token on the blockchain is owned.
 
It's literally a scam. If you disagree, you're the mark.

Their track record on this topic is fairly horrible, I'd prepare for the worst if I were you.

NFTs are 100% a scam. If you don't agree and you're typing a reply to this calling me brainless or ignorant, congratulations!
 
You're the mark for the scam.
 
People are going to get decentralized currency centralized because the scammers are using it as money laundering and you've fallen for their drivel, hook, line, and sinker.

NFTs are 100% a scam. If you don't agree and you're typing a reply to this calling me brainless or ignorant, congratulations!
 
You're the mark for the scam.
 
People are going to get decentralized currency centralized because the scammers are using it as money laundering and you've fallen for their drivel, hook, line, and sinker.

NFTs are 100% a scam. If you don't agree and you're typing a reply to this calling me brainless or ignorant, congratulations!
 
You're the mark for the scam.
 
People are going to get decentralized currency centralized because the scammers are using it as money laundering and you've fallen for their drivel, hook, line, and sinker.

NFTs are 100% a scam. If you don't agree and you're typing a reply to this calling me brainless or ignorant, congratulations!
 
You're the mark for the scam.
 
People are going to get decentralized currency centralized because the scammers are using it as money laundering and you've fallen for their drivel, hook, line, and sinker.

NFTs are 100% a scam. If you don't agree and you're typing a reply to this calling me brainless or ignorant, congratulations!
 
You're the mark for the scam.
 
People are going to get decentralized currency centralized because the scammers are using it as money laundering and you've fallen for their drivel, hook, line, and sinker.

Chalk another one off my list of cars to never buy.
Of all the companies to embrace the MTX model I literally never expected Toyota to be on that list.

Chalk another one off my list of cars to never buy.
Of all the companies to embrace the MTX model I literally never expected Toyota to be on that list.

Lying about a subpoena is essentially the same as lying in a court on the stand under oath. The FBI must presume that Signal has provided the truth of what they have available, per the subpoena's requests (which are very precise, note the "if available" parts; if the information is not available, Signal is not legally bound to produce this information from thin air).
 
If the FBI believes Signal is lying, then the FBI must prove they are lying. Signal is presumed innocent (e.g., they are following the subpoena to the best of their ability) until the FBI can prove otherwise, beyond reasonable doubt.

Lying about a subpoena is essentially the same as lying in a court on the stand under oath. The FBI must presume that Signal has provided the truth of what they have available, per the subpoena's requests (which are very precise, note the "if available" parts; if the information is not available, Signal is not legally bound to produce this information from thin air).
 
If the FBI believes Signal is lying, then the FBI must prove they are lying. Signal is presumed innocent (e.g., they are following the subpoena to the best of their ability) until the FBI can prove otherwise, beyond reasonable doubt.

The internet is rejoicing over this, I see it differently. This seems like a great case for the lobbyists to use when pushing to get encryption banned from the internet.

Whoa, that's pretty neat. Though it's John Carmack, I shouldn't really be surprised that he wants people to do what they want with their stuff. He did after all release most of the id Tech engines as FOSS.
 
That being said, I wonder how long it will be before Zuck forces him out now.

That's not even an allegation; that's just straight facts. Lol

That's not even an allegation; that's just straight facts. Lol

I remember when someone told me on this forum that we wouldn't be pestered by M$ insisting we update to Windows 11 because of the compatibility problems.
 
Yet, here we are.
 
Clicking the X will minimize it to the right sidebar, but it's still there. Hilarious.
Counting down the days till I can jump ship from this horrible OS.

Thread locked. This topic is old and has already been poste-- Wait... It happened again!? Oh boy. At least it wasn't the same person as last time.

I am not sure what you are referring to here. What exactly was I wrong about?
That the new explorer is a shell extension that runs on top of the old explorer? Because I am not wrong about that, and I even told you how to verify it for yourself.
Or are you saying I was wrong about some people running into instances where the old explorer shows up even on Windows 11? Because 1) That wasn't my point, that was more of a side note and 2) I'd like a source on it only happening to people that have modified their Windows 11 installs. You yourself even said that from some "flows" you get the old one, such as when you go from the control panel.
 
 
Not sure what you are referring to here. Are you talking about how I called a lot of Microsoft programs bloated, for example VS Code? Yes, separating things often increase resource usage, but how much extra resources are required depends on the implementation. Like I said earlier, Microsoft literally halved the memory usage of Teams by their own admissions just by dumping Electron and using WebView2 instead.
https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/
 
That if anything proves that there are better or worse ways of doing "separation" as you call it. 
I wonder what performance would be like if Microsoft put some effort into it and developed it using something like Qt or Xamarin. Maybe it'd be like 1/4 of the current memory usage?
 
 
1) Computers aren't fast enough to afford this luxury. I can definingly notice that for example VS Code is significantly slower and less responsive than Sublime for example.
2) Even if they were, that's still not an excuse to write shitty, underperforming code.
3) Even if software runs "good enough", is that really what we should expect from the world's biggest software maker? I think we should hold Microsoft to a slightly higher standard than "it works well enough". They are the second biggest company in the world for crying out loud. I would certainly not be pleased with Apple if they released a phone that had a "good enough" screen, a "good enough" camera, and a "good enough" CPU. I want the leaders of the industry to actually lead, not to be lazy and put in the minimum amount of effort.
 
Also, Google has already made a lot of these changes you are talking about with Android. But it's not because the hardware is finally fast enough to do it. It has to do with other things, such as the OS just not being read for it, because it requires a lot of work (because of the unstable ABI in Linux, and because it requires SoC manufacturers to actually agree to it).
 
 
Bahahaha
You can't be serious.
 
 
 
"More advanced" how exactly?
Also, are you seriously suggesting that VS Code became more popular than Sublime because it is better (aka argumentum ad populum) and not because it has the backing of the second largest company in the world, and because Sublime costs 100 dollars while VS Code is free? You don't think those two details have anything to do with why VS Code is more popular?
 
 
Why do you keep bringing up Linux? I feel like you are trying really hard to pull of whataboutism. Why do I have 32GB of memory? Because I need to use programs from developers like Microsoft and as a result I need to have ridiculous specs in my PC to have it run decently. If developers actually gave two shits then I would not need it.
(another reason I got it is for bragging rights but let's not mention that)
That's also the kind of lazy mindset that leads to these horribly written programs that uses way more resources than they should, and are unresponsive. "Dev time is more expensive than CPU time".
Well, not only did Casey prove that it wasn't about development time. It was about a lack of knowledge and skill from Microsoft's developers.
Why should programs be much slower and more resource intense than they need to? Is "we have lots of RAM" really an excuse to make poorly written programs? We have plenty of electricity and water too but that does not mean I waste it for no reason.
It is honestly mind boggling that you are defending poorly written and poorly performing software because you think it's oaky to waste resources if we have plenty of them. Why not, you know, NOT waste resources to begin with? Then we would have even more to spare.
Also, not everyone has 32GB of RAM. Ever thought of them?
 
 
I am not saying Microsoft should abandon legacy-edge. I am using that as an example of how poor planning and decisions lead Microsoft to have technical debt even though it was a thing that is only about 5 years old. I am using it as an example of a recent fuckup that landed Microsoft in the same old "we need to support legacy" trap yet again. Just like how they are now trapped with the old file explorer being packaged into Windows 11, because the new file explorer relies on it.
I think Microsoft should stop building new stuff on top of old stuff and actually think things through so that they have a good and flexible path forward. 
 
 
What is your point exactly?
It always feels like whenever I bring up issues with Microsoft products, you are mostly interested in giving reasons for why things are the way they are, as if that makes the situation better. It doesn't. It might explain why things are shit, but that doesn't make them non-shit.

Good on wanting to keep biometric data safe, except for the fact that laws around authorities giving up passwords pretty universally don't protect biometrics. 
Biometric security is meaningless when the local authorities can legally force your hand onto a fingerprint reader or hold your face in front of your webcam until your computer unlocks.
 
They're pushing people to buy new hardware instead of upgrading again under the guise of making your computer secure, when in reality it's making everything far less secure.

Good on wanting to keep biometric data safe, except for the fact that laws around authorities giving up passwords pretty universally don't protect biometrics. 
Biometric security is meaningless when the local authorities can legally force your hand onto a fingerprint reader or hold your face in front of your webcam until your computer unlocks.
 
They're pushing people to buy new hardware instead of upgrading again under the guise of making your computer secure, when in reality it's making everything far less secure.

Speaking as a dev that works with SQL Server connection strings constantly, I have to ask the question:
 
HOW DOES A CONNECTION STRING END UP IN A FUCKING EMAIL
HOW DO YOU DO THAT
HOW ABSOLUTELY INCOMPETENT CAN YOU EFFING BE