I totally agree.

If you complain that you have a problem with #Windows
and are unhappy that people on Fediverse always bring up #Linux
when you come here to post your complaint, I have a question: instead of here, have you tried the #Microsoft
support or forums?

I mean at some point the "I just want Windows to work" is a fair and understandable point, but it will just be shouting in the wind if you don't bring your complaints to the people and company making it.

And I say that as an IT tech, I know how it works: if there's no support ticket about a problem, there's no feedback proof, and therefore the problem officially doesn't exist.

EDIT: to be very clear, I'm not writing all this with the intent of presenting MS forums and support as the best way to solve your problems with their products.

It's more that, as someone who deals with how tech support is handled on a daily basis, as I mentioned above, companies have processes for all that, and I can guarantee you that when it comes to handling feedback, they follow them strictly, especially when it comes to being held accountable for unwanted features or overall problems.

Users are being unhappy with ads or AI features and complain they can't deactivate them all? "Where are the tickets at our support to back that up?" is gonna be their answer. And we all know most of us, most of the overall user base never bother with that, leaving the gates full open for Microsoft to be like those aren't issues for the majority of users.

If windows is so problematic, then GNU/Linux can be the solution

Qu'est-ce qui est le plus embêtant en arrivant sous linux?

A) Le changement d'interface
B) Le manque de support pour Photoshop ou autre application spécifique
C) Le rapatriement des données (contacts, favoris, etc...)
D) autres

En autres, on retrouve:

• le passage à la ligne de commande
• pression sociale: Télématin n'en parle pas, le vendeur expert de chez Darty y connaît rien, le tuto ne marche pas sur Linux. La personne se retrouve illégitime et en insécurité par pas compétente.

The return value is unclear:

• The old API treats zero as false (parameter not handled)
• The new API expects an error code (zero is success).
• To add some fun, any non-zero result is passed to ERR_PTR() and used as a pointer for further parsing. Well, (char*)1 is neither IS_ERR_OR_NULL() nor a valid pointer…

Un pastiche sur l'argumentaire en faveur de l'IA.

Un autre commentaire similaire à propos du fast-food: https://mamot.fr/@krazykitty/115428219040400965

Clippy has gone a long way

Wrapping every string to a newtype ensure the string can be extended as wished and at least differenciated from normal strings without meaning

You benchmark your node/ruby/python software on a fancy Macbook M4 and celebrate 500ms response time.

I benchmark my rust software on a $30 potato computer that may as well have 256MB of RAM and celebrate 800ms response time.

One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

300 billets par jour pendant 289 jours, c'est le minimum pour être rentable face à des géants en 2025.

Afin que 1.2. Train devienne rentable.

Le développeur évite de pousser à l'échelle, d'obtenir des investissements, mais de continuer le développement.

Il n'y a jamais eu autant besoin d'un site spécialiste qui ne fait qu'une seule chose. Du billet de train et uniquement du billet de train.

Pourquoi donner des milliards d'aides d'État aux entreprises privées ?

Alors qu'on pourrait simplement les applaudir à 20h tous les soirs !

Cela a tellement bien marché pour le personnel soignant.

"Speak english", "Speak understable English" and "Bonjour" on a European map

A venn diagramm of the fediverse:

• Furries
• Computer Science
• Hackers
• Furries + Computer Science = Musicians
• Computer Science + Hackers = Computer Art
• Hackers + Furries = LGBTQI+
• LGBTQI+ + Computer Art + Musicians = Demoscene

T-1's congested due to porn traffic to the news server.

Always porn traffic or DDoS.

Une histoire de prédation en deux toots.

2017 : j'achète une licence oXygen. Soit-disant à vie. Quelque chose comme 200 euros mais bon, pour une licence permanente ça vaut le coup.

2019 : y a de plus en plus de mises à jour, c'est chiant, et je dois faire bosser des étudiants, je trouve une alternative un peu moins bien mais gratuite, j'utilise moins oXygen.

2024 : ma licence n'est plus valable (je m'en rends compte au hasard d'un changement d'ordinateur, oups je peux plus installer oXygen depuis la version de 2020 en fait). Je me passe d'oXygen.

2025 : je tombe sur un os, il y a un truc que je ne peux faire bien qu'avec oXygen. Je regarde les tarifs pour racheter une licence. Je crie.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

How money flows between big US AI companies

Looking for examples of web magazines made with html/css [so the 3. option].
The spectrum:

1. a website with branching levels of navigation, average content-heavy website
2. a website with single level of linear paginated navigation, back and forth, text-heavy html/epub
3. a responsive paginated website that mimics printed magazines in the best way possible, and looks interesting on all screens
4. embedded static PDF viewer with page turn and zoom
5. static PDF

The most radical act in tech isn’t building something new. It’s keeping the old ideals alive: that people should control their tools, not the other way around.