fernandofig

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[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

I'm very torn on disco. Season 2 is probably the best (due in no small part that it sets up SNW), but the rest are a chore to watch. Most of them have some neat ideas, but they're badly executed more often than not. They also were too heavy handed with each season arcs serialization, most episodes don't stand on their own, and the writing and consistency is just bad. I just finished the final season, and I'm glad they're done with it so they can put more money on good Trek like SNW - hopefully they don't screw it up eventually.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Here. Tl;dr: He took it private for reasons, should bring it back in a "build it yourself" form later.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Not really new. It's basically LCD without backlight. So, higher resolution GBC / GBA alike screen.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

France has a big, big problem with overemphasizing individual politicians over policies.

I think that's a "humans" problem, really, specially in the last few decades.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago (9 children)

To the extent that a boss demanding sex in exchange for career advancement, I agree that makes them sex offenders. But those women still have a choice. They making the wrong choice doesn't mean they aren't the victim, but they still should be accountable for their choice.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently it's not that the software is broken, it's that the software being installed breaks Windows Update. There are reports from people that uninstalling StartAllBack, updating the OS, then reinstalling it back (renaming the install executable first) works fine.

As much as being affected by this is frustrating to me (though this is all happening still on the dev channel, so for me it'll be a problem for the future), I understand Microsoft's rationale here. They can't be expected to support every third-party tool that can break the OS, and it's known that both ExplorerPatcher and StartAllBack relies on many hacks using undocumented APIs to work.

In the last few decades that I've been using Windows, I never felt compelled to use shell replacements or customizations - the default experience always worked fine for me with a few tweaks. So, if anything I'm more frustrated at Microsoft that I'm forced to use StartAllBack, because MS went and removed options from the shell that existed forever and always took for granted, and then some.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Not to take Reddit's / spez side, but to clarify, that's not actually what he got in cash - what he got in cash on 2023 was something around 600k.

Those 193mil was in stock. Which kind of explains his drive to monetize users and kick out third-party apps: that piece of paper is only worth that much as long as he can keep the stock value afloat.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you for digging this out. Turns out it's even worse than what I gleaned from my surface-level take.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 27 points 9 months ago

This sounds like dev sour grapes but what the company was asking them to do seems better from the customer pov and for cyber security I'm general.

As a developer myself (though not on the level of these guys): sorry, but just, no.

The key point is this:

[...] we did not issue CVEs for experimental features and instead would patch the relevant code and release it as part of a standard release.

Emphasis mine. In software, features marked as "experimental" usually are not meant to be used in a production environment, and if they are, it's in a "do it at your own risk" understanding. Software features in an experimental state are expected to be less tested and have bugs - it's essentially a "beta" feature. It has a security bug? Though - you weren't supposed to be using it in a security-sensitive environment in the first place, it sounds perfectly reasonable to me that it should be addressed in a normal release as opposed to an out-of-band one.

We can argue if forking the project is or isn't extreme, but the devs absolutely have good reason to be pissed. This is typical management making decisions without understanding technical nuances and - from what is being told by the devs - not talking it through before doing it.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Good. We think alike 👍

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, and it's not Mozilla either.

Which one do you think it is, then? Genuinely curious here. I don't disagree with on most of what you said - I find the simping for Mozilla (and sneering towards chromium) here in Lemmy rather annoying. Mozilla and its browser both have shortcomings as well, and choosing a web browser these days is, as most things in life, choosing the lesser of evils vs. one's own needs.

[–] fernandofig@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I did it all using this. Took me about half an hour to migrate all my 15-something accounts to KeepassXC.

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