Inevitably windows search fails to highlight what I’m looking for almost all of the time, and often doesn’t even find it at all. If I have an application installed, it picks the installer in the downloads folder. If I don’t have an app installed, it searches Bing for it. Sometimes it even searches when I do have the application installed!
Microsoft seems not to believe that users want to use search primarily as an application launcher, which is strange because Mac, Linux, and mobile have all converged on it.
My interpretation of what happened here is that a legislator who opposed the bill inserted the names of the lobbyists as a joke against the bill, which has now paid off. The article says that the original list did not include the names, they were added during the legislative amendment process by a legislator.
While corporate authorship of bills is a concern, I don’t think this particular mishap is a direct result of that and in fact seems to have been an attempt to subtly criticize it.
You’re entitled to your experience and spirituality, but nothing about Twitter or Bluesky has ever struck me as ‘divine.’ Rather than being a nihilistic flight from value, I think there’s far more value to be found in cultivating friendships and companions in the real world. There’s more divinity in a single hug from my wife than in everything I’ve ever read on the internet. Words have to bend to flesh at some point; we are embodied creatures. I’ve found my mental health improving massively when I take a step back from the firehose of social media and focus instead projects where I can use my hands and spending time with people I can eat with and hug.
As a kid growing up, having a connection to other smart people with amazing views I never would have seen or heard of, having access to technologists to develop my interest & skills.
I felt alone in the world, with intense interests, and no way to connect with others or to advance my interests or learn more.
It absolutely was game changing to go to some conferences & meet people, to have some real connections to back this up. The my heavens, not being trapped in my local world was such a liberation. What I get to see and connect with today, having so many people pouring out so much of the selves, is absolutely divinely cherishable.
> Words have to bend to flesh at some point; we are embodied creatures.
An excellent point for debate. To degrees I agree. But feeding and developing the mind: that is a force multiplier that changes who you are in the world about you, and often you run into very real limits, don't have ready material, to further the mind in your local world.
Not quite. In order to make TLS certs work on a per-site basis, requests sent over HTTPS also include a virtual host indicator in cleartext that shows the hostname of the site you’re trying to connect to, so if the IP on the other end is hosting multiple domains it can find the right cert. For this reason some people feel that DNS over TLS is pretty pointless as a privacy measure.
It's still not perfect since you're still leaking information about the privacy set implied by the outer ClientHello, but this possibly isn't much worse than the destination IP address you're leaking anyway.
SNI relies on the client specifying the host name in the unencrypted ClientHello message that initiates a TLS handshake. Encrypted Client Hello involves extra configuration that most websites don't implement.
For what it’s worth, I’m a student, and have had the benefit of seeing both the AWS and Azure web interfaces for the first time in the past couple of years. Azure was astoundingly more intuitive and less bizarre than AWS as someone with no experience working with the big clouds.
Even doing classwork involving AWS was an exercise in frustration. I couldn’t actually believe the sort of button trails and on-hover menus I was told to use to access various functions.
I don’t have the experience to evaluate the technical functionality, or whether AWS’s interface is better for experienced users, but I can definitely say it was far less approachable as a novice.
Yeah I don’t get this thread at all, AWS is a usability nightmare, as are all Amazon products. Microsoft products aren’t great usability wise but they’re clearly better than Amazon imo. I have a feeling a lot of the commenters here last used Azure when it was still in beta and the dashboard was live tiles Win 10 style.
We'll never know if we would have had splash pad filtration if the Iraq invasion didn't happen. What we do know is we were lied to by a presidential candidate and many of our solders were either killed or broken and many many Iraqis died because of that lie. Oh, and greed.
I think we can safely say that splash pad filtration and the Iraq War have no relation and we’d be in exactly the same fecal contaminant situation whether or not we invaded.
A phrase I hate even more than “modern” is “x is the future”, especially when used to describe a technology that only works for certain use cases.
It’s an attempt to use social pressure and bullying tactics to enforce a technological consensus. I particularly dislike it when it’s used to dismiss legitimate concerns with missing features in new technology instead of acknowledging room for growth and development and the real diversity in user needs.
I see it used more often by hobbyists interested in crowding out alternatives they don’t like. “Why are you using snap? Flatpak is the future!” “What, you’re still using Xorg in nvidia? But Wayland is the future!”
And I like flatpak and Wayland! But the contexts I’m discussing aren’t “We’re creating the future of x at Company Y”… of course that’s a sales pitch that can be ignored. But there is a context where it’s more like bullying.
The chances of the statement being complete bullshit nears certainty in most contexts today, so ignoring it as an argument would be a great course of action as such. Unfortunately the person-like thing making the statement, or its backend organization, often has leverage to make it a pain continuing to use the existing, functional, sane, tasteful solution/tool/feature/model/etc. For that reason the threat must often be taken seriously as an attack on the existing order.
Macs used to be so great, but a lot of their sheen has worn off, and Microsoft has really improved their UI generally in the past 15 years even if there's still a lot of rough edges. MacOS is one of those things that seems like it was really impressive back in 2010 but hasn't kept up with UI development. The window management in particular feels retrograde; Windows and FOSS window managment has embraced snap-to-edge while Macs try and make people use the clunky full-screen mode that gets rid of your system UI. Terminal also feels increasingly outdated, trapped in BSD utilities; Linux has the superior GNU utilities while Windows now has WSL for people who live on the command line. (And PowerShell for sysadmins.)
iPads just get this weird franken-OS that has a lot of the theoretical power of MacOS, just glued to an iPhone interface.
To me, they're behind in desktop and tablet software, and are continuously trying to make up the difference. And not by following the trend of UI development, mind you, but by making their non-phone interfaces more like their highly popular phone interfaces. The iPhone has taken over the company.
Like I said, I'm only a very recent Macos user. I'm actually shot how bad some fundamental things of this os is. I don't know the history of it, I just know it doesn't work for me now
Microsoft seems not to believe that users want to use search primarily as an application launcher, which is strange because Mac, Linux, and mobile have all converged on it.
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