We use all the Microsoft programs at work - Teams and Outlook especially.
After all kinds of technical problems with Teams, that sometimes go unresolved for over a year, Microsoft shifted their priorities away from fixing things and towards adding an annoying AI Copilot button, that just takes up space and all it does, is loads the website in Teams, so I disabled it. Soon they just add it back, but in a different row of icons, therefore itâs now a different button, you have to disable (I think they added yet another one, to the Teams, on my work phone and I had to disabled that too). Not too long after, the desktop one just enabled itself, because of âan errorâ and I can disable it, but doing so activates a popup, that begs you to turn it back on, every once in a while. You canât disable the popup and can only click âYesâ or âNot nowâ on it. I still keep it disabled, out of principle, but yesterday I noticed yet another Copilot button, this time in the top right corner of my Outlook and this one cannot be disabled, on the business version of Outlook and even on the personal one, itâs only possible to do it through hidden privacy settings, by prohibiting the program from connecting to Microsoft servers, for extra âfeaturesâ.
Thereâs people complaining about it online, so itâs clear nobody really wants it, but at this point Microsofts position is that you will have at least one useless AI button on your screen, at any given time, and you will be happy. And yes, their AI sucks and if I absolutely have to use AI for something, thereâs already 2 better options, we have access to, at work.
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Whatâs Missing from âRetroâ: gopher://midnight.pub/0/posts/2679
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers⊠đ€, but I digress. Verbatim text:
What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
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You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*
Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)
The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.
It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet.
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In case you were blissfully unaware: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XLibreIsExplicitlyPolitical
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I was drafting support for showing âapplication iconsâ in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, huh, maybe it was just my GNOME 2 themes back then that didnât show the icon. đ€
I like the looks of your window manager. Thatâs using Wayland, right?
Oh, no. Itâs still X11. All my recent Wayland comments resulted from me trying to switch, but I think itâs still too early. Being unable to use QEMU (because it canât capture the mouse pointer) is a pretty big blocker for me. This is completely broken, it just happens to be unnoticeable with modern guest OSes, so itâs probably not a priority for devs.
(Not to mention that I would have to fork and substantially extend dwl in order to âreplicateâ my X11 WM. And then, after having done that, Iâd have to follow upstream Wayland development, for which I donât have the resources. Things would need to slow down before I can do that.)
all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1
Heh. Iâve been using tiling WMs for ~15 years now, so itâs actually kind of refreshing to see something different for a change. đ
Probably close to the older Windowses.
That particular theme is a ripoff of OS/2 Warp 3: 
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We ran some similar brownish color scheme (donât recall its name) on Win95 or Win98
Oh god. Yeah, I wasnât a fan of those, either. đ„Ž
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons:
And GNOME used to have them, too:
I like the looks of your window manager. Thatâs using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)
This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really donât get it how people can work like that. You canât even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then thereâs 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! Thereâs the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a âregularishâ 16:10 monitor and donât see shit, because itâs resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D
Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesnât serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (
) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (donât recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D
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Xfce does one thing very right: It stores its settings in plain-text XML files. This allows me to easily read, track, and maybe even distribute these settings to other machines.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de omg YAML is so demonic like it pretends to be readable and then THE SPACING. THE FUCKING SPACING
KĂŠre Windows bruger,
NÊste gang du skal vÊlge en computer, sÄ send en kÊrlig tanke til de udviklere der arbejder hÄrdt for at lave fri software til dig.
VÊlg noget andet, sÄ vi ikke lÊngere behÞver banke hovedet mod muren for at imÞdekomme sjÊlslugende operativsystemer.
PĂ„ forhĂ„nd tak. â Read more
Det er den slags problemlĂžsning, hvor jeg faktisk har det vĂŠsentligt dĂ„rligere efter problemet er lĂžst. â Read more
LĂžsningen? At flytte repoâet helt op i C:/, OG omnavngive alle de mapper jeg kan styre til enkelt-bogstavs-navne.
Ahh⊠nu virker det.
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LĂžsningen? At flytte mit repo helt op i C:/. Hov, det var faktisk ikke nok. Stien er stadig over 260 bytesâŠ
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Jojojo, man kan give /FS til MSVC for at enforce sekventielle writes til pdb filer. ELLER bare give -j1 for ikke at lave parallelle builds; MEN de indstillinger bliver ikke sendt ordenligt igennem llama.cppâs CMakeLists, fordi de nester med noget whack `ExternalProject_Add`, som ikke lige samler mine CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS op. â Read more
Jojojo man kan slĂ„ det der FileTracker fis fra (og miste inkrementelle builds, men w/e), men sĂ„ kommer den til gengĂŠld til at lave concurrent writes til en PDB fil, og crasher dĂ©r. â Read more
Jojojo man kan hĂŠve lĂŠngdebegrĂŠnsningen. Men MSVCâs FileTracker dims respekterer ikke registry, og fejler stadig ved 260. â Read more
Windowsâ stilĂŠngdebegrĂŠnsning pĂ„ 260 bytes er noget af det voldeligt dummeste design jeg nogensinde har stĂždt pĂ„. â Read more
hey! i asked this a while ago but i have to ask again â is anyone willing to offer space on their yarn pod to my friend? i would love to invite her to my own but sheâs unable to access my site for personal reasons. sheâs really interested in seeing what yarn is about so if anyone is willing and able, let me know!
How you can tell a âreview postâ on some random website was written by AI?
Ergonomically nicer than its binocular counterpart
How exactly is this a reason to avoid?! đ€Šââïž
The lid is on and the first saw brackets are done. Letâs see how impractical they are. I might have to add heavy chamfers to better guide them in.
I added 07 to 11: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/hobelbankschubladen/
https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10437680/Caroline-Stage-udfaser-Microsoft-i-Digitaliseringsministeriet â Read more
Whatâs your go-to message queue in 2025?
The space is confusing to say the least.
Message queues are usually a core part of any distributed architecture, and the options are endless:
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis {Pub-Sub, Streams}, Cloud Providers {AWS SQS, Kinesis; Google Pub/Sub; Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus}, Pulsar, ZeroMQ⊠and then thereâs the âjust use Postgresâ camp for simpler use cases.
Iâm trying to make sense of the tradeoffs between:
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DĂ„rlig dag for Mobilepay â Read more
France BANS smoking in nearly all outdoor spaces â Read more
10 Crazy Ideas About Our Solar System
Crazy space ideas are the most interesting, and I donât mean the unfounded inklings that space-reptiles helped levitate the stones at Angkor Wat, or that giant cat-headed spacefarers built the pyramids as huge scratching posts. Nope, the following craziness is based on bona fide science from people and computers that actually do science for a [âŠ]
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Det er nice at python bliver ved med at have nye udgivelser. Sprogdesignere skal jo ogsĂ„ have noget at lave. :=) â Read more
Hey kan I huske den gang jeg smuglede noget ombord pĂ„ en mĂ„nelander? â Read more
AAEON EPIC-RPS7 Targets Compact Industrial Control with 14th Gen Intel Core Support
AAEON has introduced the EPIC-RPS7, a 4âł industrial SBC aimed at cost-sensitive applications like industrial control, PLC automation, and remote monitoring. It supports 12th to 14th Gen Intel Core processors (up to 65W TDP), bringing high performance to space-limited deployments. The EPIC-RPS7 supports up to 64GB of DDR5 memory across two SODIMM slots and is [âŠ] â Read more
Itâs the Year of the Linux Desktop⊠IN SPACE! (And Maybe North Korea)
There is one place, in the entire Universe, where Linux has a dominant marketshare on Desktop and Laptop computers: Outer Space. â Read more
Protip: hvis man tager kasket pĂ„, er man immun over for at fylde 30 â Read more
Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better
Article URL: https://domenic.me/fsrs/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020591
Points: 506
# Comments: 354 â Read more
$10,500 Bounty: A Grammarly Account Takeover Vector
When a Space Breaks the System: How Improper Entity Validation Led to a Full SSO Denial and Potential Account Takeovers
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Anyone want to help me alpha/beta test the new WAF I'm building? It's a Caddy module. đ€
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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Cool! đ Mind joining the same IRC space? đ
Crosscompiling for OpenBSD arm64
Following on from OpenBSD/arm64 on QEMU, itâs not always practical to compile userland software or a new kernel on some systems, particularly small SoCs with limited space and memory â or indeed QEMU, in fear of melting your CPU. There are two scenarios here â the first, if you are looking for a standard cross-compiler for Aarch64, and the second if you want an OpenBSD-specific environment. â« Daniel Nechtan Exactly what it says on the tin. â Read more
Which AI âarenaâ is the one we can actually trust?
Iâm getting deeper and deeper into the AI space, and Iâm discovering the different AI âarenasâ and benchmarking. I have no idea what to trust or leverage to help me learn about the different models out there. Does the lobste.rs community have one that they go to by default? â Read more
Einstein was in his 20s when he told the world space & time are relative! đ€ â Read more
Kender jeg nogen, som har lyst til at bygge en open source Ollama-erstatning i Rust sammen med mig?
Det drejer sig om en fuldtidsstilling med kontorer i KĂžbenhavnstrup.
Del gerne, bare DM mig hvis du har lyst til at snakke nĂŠrmere om det âš â Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Alright. đ Btw, your feed uses spaces instead of tabs. đ
âLow on Space in Kali Linux? Hereâs How I Fixed It and Freed Up GBsâ
âI was in the middle of a pentesting session when Kali refused to cooperate.â
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