Posts made by Arantor
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I’m out of the loop here but why is it loading files?
Answer from related article:
File Explorer in modern Windows versions has a system that tries to detect file types in each folder you open to optimize specific options, like default view. This mechanism can cause significant performance issues regardless of your storage type or its speed. Therefore, forcing Windows to "consider" each folder as one containing miscellaneous items should make things a lot faster.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the Copilot stuff
Can be turned off.
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the telemetry stuff getting worse
Can be turned off on Pro at least.
Is that why on my Pro setup, the fucking telemetry task re-enabled itself despite being disabled in the services list?
I’m sure it’s possible with a registry hack but disabling a service should leave it disabled.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Steve_The_Cynic said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
@dkf said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
And yes, JIRA encourages this by its design.
I wouldn't necessarily say, "encourages this," but "facilitates this" or "makes this too easy" are definitely on the cards.
Atlassian absolutely encourages you to use JIRA in these ways if you can stomach any of the marketing shite they serve up.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@remi the thing is, Win10 bucked that trend in a nasty way. Yes, it wasn’t loved at first and got grudgingly accepted. 1809 and 1903 were decent enough builds.
But it’s the newer stuff, the Win11 stuff, the Copilot stuff, the random things consuming 100% CPU stuff, the telemetry stuff getting worse, that has eroded that feeling.
I’m not particularly wanting to cling onto Win10 at this point, not like I did with Win7 or XP the ways we did before. I’m positive that unless 12 comes out and undoes a significant amount of the fucktacular bullshit, Win10 will be the last version of Windows for me.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I haven't seen those yet but I do get the monthly 'hey you can have an upgrade to Win11' full screen things that if you react too quickly you will press the wrong button and will be upgraded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9xA0ywxG8
I would love to go back to Windows 7.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Zerosquare it was out of its original context, though said context definitely is in the room right now with us.
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RE: In other news today...
@Bulb what if they're using PowerShell instead of cmd.exe?
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RE: responsivenes with vh and vw
@boomzilla I’ve definitely seen it, I’ve definitely done it as well because time and situational incompetence around me. But it’s rarer than it used to be.
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RE: responsivenes with vh and vw
@boomzilla sometimes that’s because bad CSS produces gaps if you leave white space between the tags, and that’s the less-effort fix for it.
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RE: In other news today...
@Bulb do note that as per TFA, Go, Erlang, Ruby, Python, PHP and Node.js all have this issue and both Rust and Haskell have already released patches for it.
I find it funny that this is being mildly assumed as a Rust specific issue, I think it just happened to be reported there first.
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin TFA has a readable title but it does use a British vernacular which is why it might seem otherwise.
“Keeping mum” or “mum’s the word” is Britslang for “keeping something quiet/secret”
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RE: In other news today...
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Arantor Seems that the problem is that windows command API is rubbish if it requires things that use it to properly escape things to avoid all kinds of problems.
The Windows command API is rubbish - it passes the entire thing as a single string. Splitting is the app’s problem, therefore the app’s language’s stdlib problem.
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RE: Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
@Bulb well it is a bad idea and the proposers should feel bad.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@izzion and if you saw 50 Shades, you watched adapted Twilight fan fiction.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Gern_Blaanston said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
Not true. I haven't had a "forced" update since forever.
See earlier caveat of either fuckery or expensive version of Windows.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Dragoon said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
Pretty sure that is what I have at home, but I could be wrong, it has been years since I installed it. I will check when I get home.
I also have Pro, and I have been bitten by the update cycle this way too.
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RE: responsivenes with vh and vw
@dkf said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@Arantor I guess it depends on what device you are reading on; I like one size on a laptop and a different one on my phone.
The text produced comes out at 38.4px high on a maximised Firefox window on 1920x1080. This to me is too big to be comfortable reading for body text.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Dragoon Pro doesn't get you 6 months uptime, you can only delay updates by a few days before they get forced on you.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@dcon said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
@Bulb said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
Glitch is also their last product,
That seems like a really bad product name...
Meanwhile Joel has part moved on and is now a co-founder at hash.ai
Make of that what you will.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@BernieTheBernie at least CochroachDB's name seems logical: it's designed to keep on ticking despite failures wherever possible.
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RE: responsivenes with vh and vw
@sockpuppet7 making the text larger is absolutely an answer but I'm not sure it's a better one.
Personally, I don't want to read text that big for body copy, it's just uncomfortable for me, but that may be entirely subjective.
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@DogsB Of course, there is also a little amount of JavaScript, too. Like
/lib/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js
and/lib/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
. But those few Terabytes are not executed.Very webby 2.0. You will probably lose the ability to read and write js if you spend too much time with it.
Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
one of us one of us
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@PleegWat said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@Arantor said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@Arantor said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@Zerosquare said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
And Windows 95 wasn't known for its reliability. Now imagine if instead of Raymond Chen, MS had hired @Tsaukpaetra.
They wouldn’t be a $3tn company.
No, they would likely have become The Borg.
That was a joke back in the 90s though. I’m sure I still have meme images from back then about MS assimilating things.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Resistance is futile.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@dcon it’s not Jira’s fault except for how readily it enables this behaviour and how companies buy into the mindset for “visibility”. I totally fault Atlassian for that even if I don’t fault JIRA entirely for it.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra you voluntarily watched Twilight?
He was trying to get laid. On behalf of men everywhere: God bless Matthew McConaughey!
Did you mean Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner? McConaughey isn’t in Twilight.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Dragoon said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
Not really, Windows has been able to do run like that since windows 2000. Windows 98 and especially Windows 95 liked to be restarted. Windows 3.1 crashed often enough it didn't matter.
No experience with Windows ME or Vista, so they might have been worse.
Ah so gaming PC isn’t running Windows 10 or 11 because you don’t get 6 months uptime without fuckery or expensive versions.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Dragoon said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@izzion said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
Given how often Windows requires rebooted
That really depends on what your definition of requires is. My average time between reboots is ~6months for gaming pc. Sure windows wants to restart for a new update every ten minutes, but they can wait until I am good and ready.
Running a suitably expensive version of Windows I take it?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra you voluntarily watched Twilight?
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RE: WTF Bites
@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
Welcome to Web 2.0!
Wait, aren't we at 3 already?
Yes but a) that fad he’s fighting with is firmly 2.0, while b) Web 3.0 is all about the dApps (distributed apps) and something something blockchain.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Tsaukpaetra said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@Arantor said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
@Zerosquare said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
And Windows 95 wasn't known for its reliability. Now imagine if instead of Raymond Chen, MS had hired @Tsaukpaetra.
They wouldn’t be a $3tn company.
No, they would likely have become The Borg.
That was a joke back in the 90s though. I’m sure I still have meme images from back then about MS assimilating things.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Eh-clie-pse, obviously.
Not ek-lip-seh?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
I’m assuming not as two separate words.
You and I would pronounce it eclipse, with a sort of eh sound. Not e-clips like it’s e-commerce.
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB pretty sure the answer is that the vast majority of people don’t actually spend £30 worth a month but try it out for a couple of weeks and forget to cancel the sub.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Zerosquare said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
And Windows 95 wasn't known for its reliability. Now imagine if instead of Raymond Chen, MS had hired @Tsaukpaetra.
They wouldn’t be a $3tn company.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
The only thing it has been good for so far on this project is raising my blood pressure.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
@remi said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Arantor do video games still come in physical boxes?
Limited Run Games produces old school big boxes, none of this DVD case crap. But also I still have some of my DOS era big boxes.
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RE: AI Generated Music
@dkf said in AI Generated Music:
I believe the list of Bach's works goes to over 800. The problem is that current standard AI learning methods need many orders of magnitude more examples than that to converge.
Worse, the recent reports show that for linear increases in quality, logarithmically more data is needed.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
Wait, are we talking video game boxes or board game boxes???
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Bulb fogcreek.com redirects to a fucking Medium article about their rebrand. For me, fogbugz.com goes to the relevant sales page on IgniteTech’s site.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Bulb Fog Creek rebranded as Glitch a few years ago, around the time they appear to have jettisoned FogBugz on IgniteTech.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Bulb I tried a free trial of it a long time ago. It’s certainly faster than JIRA, and doesn’t have the mountains of complexity that JIRA has.
Feels more “by programmers for programmers” than JIRA ever did. I found it fine to work with. It was a ticket tracker, it did everything I expected without getting in my face, unlike JIRA. And it was a bit more “I can add useful fields” than Trello was. (Haven’t used Trello in a while, it may have been enshittified by Atlassian by now.)
That said it looks to have been acquired and moved over to another company. Specifically, now “IgniteTech” develop it, as part of the ESW Capital Group. So, uh, enshittification probably has started to happen.
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@Parody because SVG hasn’t got enough features yet?