The current surge of windows rantingness (that's uh like truthyness.) Is basically: they became complacent, retarding the health of windows. While windows stagnated and was so---stale, and sanitized that somehow it's code base is just terrible. They've compounded that with just sludge code. Then management doubled down on using copilot to code. about 30-40% of windows code had zero tooling or optimization passes. All kinds of debug code in it (you know: asser xyz 999 times) no one went back to transpile that out. I have no idea how that happens. ouch so One fix would fail, then they'd have to patch that fix out to patch in fixes, now where in there sandboxing off the known bad code somehow . I am not nearly as experience as the least experience coder in Friam and Wedtech circles. Even I had a terrible case of Eine Fremdscham. So bassically enough people going back to unix, and also it's entirely different world than back in the day. For the most part people have better acess to alternates than a awful desktop expereince, companies dumping all kindes of OEM computers because they want reliablility above all. So: Linux. I feel like I'm having flash backs to the 80s. Possibly because MS, and some huge amount of hollywood is spiraling out of controll and gloves off. It's weird that people are just now waking up to the hillarious power imbalance. The narsccistics and sociapaths in the comapnies are so outnumbered by outsiders that's not even close. They really do need other people than any company, or developer will ever need windows. I mean why drop thousands of dollars for what ever there calling visual studion and rest when litterally every distro has textf edditors, ide's etc and commandline compiler is both free, and shows a long log of the warts and all? they get much faster unit testing, QA, maybe even help from the FLOSS and Open source communites for fixing things.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 7:23 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote: > I only use Windows sporadically when my clients force me to. So I don't > know much about that. But I do try to pressure my clients away from things > like *.docx, trying to get them to collaborate in *.odt, *.md, etc. So > while Windows 11 may suck and GitHub may train on your private repositories > and such, were I to allocate Microsoft's anxiety, I'd put it in 2 > categories: > > 1. Europe's newly found sovereignty, thanks to Trump's psycho-populist > [cough] leadership style > 2. FOMO on the AI hype cycle, having been left behind and offering the > objectively worst one in Copilot. > > [El covers Euro-Office here]( > https://youtu.be/DrFc0LW0nL0?si=RGjt4aoUYEzSwZ9k) > > There have been a series of stories along those lines for years, though. > As a linux and libreoffice user, it's maddening to think Trump's purposeful > chaos induction might have some good effect. But, I mean, when Franco > Begbie is in your friend group, you do need to take some precautions. > > On 3/31/26 5:04 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > Wowza. > > > > Bellalar news (on youtube) he used to cover World of Warcraft patch > drama, and be a brave soul to be nice solid filter between toxic fanboys, > and complete regular idiiots like me. > > > > https://youtu.be/-ffF9jum4cU?si=ttjWxVByk_GrSduW < > https://youtu.be/-ffF9jum4cU?si=ttjWxVByk_GrSduW> > > > > Challenge: how much of a reality distortion field co-efficient is going > on at MS? and would some smartarse(probably most of friam and coders) i > dare people to graph the amount of spindoctor vs reality to see just how > large is reality distortion co-efficient of Satya Nadella < > https://www.google.com/search?q=Satya+Nadella&sca_esv=63b726b38d73526b&sxsrf=ANbL-n63S_hENnUxTEF9j9OBoPviL0ZlbA%3A1775001736576&ei=iGDMaeLpIob00PEPx7Sv4QU&biw=2560&bih=1329&ved=2ahUKEwiO0u3lrMuTAxX-FjQIHd44BP4QgK4QegYIAQgAEAQ&uact=5&oq=who+is+ceo+of+ms+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEXdobyBpcyBjZW8gb2YgbXMgMgQQIxgnMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSLEMUKcJWKcJcAJ4AZABAJgBiQGgAYkBqgEDMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIDoAKqAcICChAAGLADGNYEGEeYAwCIBgGQBgiSBwMyLjGgB-QGsgcDMC4xuAeUAcIHBTItMS4yyAcagAgA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp > > > > bonus points if it channels the spirit of doug > > > > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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