It’s so odd that our software and applications used to have more features, be faster, and work better 20 years ago than they do now.
What an enormous waste of vast resources. And all the while shit-for-brains assclowns claim it couldn’t be any other way.
Even though it used to be another way.
Sometimes, dumb is better.
Couldn’t agree more:
Why we tolerate that and pretend like knowing the name of the application you use daily is some feat of immense intelligence I will never understand.
It's mathematically impossible to stop malware.
Due to Rice's Theorem, it's impossible to write a program that can perfectly determine if any given program is malicious.
This is because "being malicious" is a behavioral property of the program.
— LaurieWired (@lauriewired) January 9, 2025
Yep. I’m not much of a programmer, but even I could write a program that would work fine for years. Do exactly what it was supposed to. And then, when some date or other trigger is hit, it’d assemble from random innocuous-looking code another program that nuked your computer and everything it could reach on the network. This isn’t even that hard 1.
Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees.
Do read the comments. If you were planning to go into tech, I’d advise against. It’s probably only going to get worse. MBAs are convinced they can replace people with AI so they are going to try that. It won’t work because they are clueless (whether we’re talking about AI or MBAs), but that doesn’t matter.
If it is enough to get a bonus, an MBA type will do it. And are in fact doing it.
The decline of tech as a career has happened slowly but is now unstoppable. It doesn’t affect me as much luckily because no AI, H-1B, fleet of underpaid Indians nor any combination thereof can replace me, but tech used to be a good path — one of the few remaining. Now that’s changed and junior people should avoid it unless it is a true passion.
Upgrading clients to Windows 11 is like trying to sell sand at a beach!
How to sell the Win 11 clowngrade to end users (who in reality have no choice anyway):
“With Windows 11, China, the NSA, Microsoft, random advertisers as well as Russian hackers have a complete backup of your system, adding resiliency and redundancy. Nothing will ever get lost.
And with the new built-in AI features, you too can spout fictional and outlandishly wrong information all over the internet and to your company’s management with merely a few clicks. With the added lack of configurability and customizability, you’ll never have to worry about having anything work as you like it or correctly. It’s a net Win (get it) for everyone who matters.”
Why I Switched to macOS After Using Windows for Nearly Two Decades.
Windows is a spyware-infested ad delivery system. Linux is ok but still not all that usable (and I use it daily in two different VMs, so yes I do know).
MacOS is the best of a bunch of bad choices. I also just bought an M4 Mac Mini and while it has less memory than my old system, it’s absurdly fast. Apple has really been killing it with their own chip design, which I did not expect when they initially announced their intent.
The M4 Mini is around twice as fast as my old system, and I had a high-end 2020 iMac previously. Pretty impressive. And unlike with Windows 11, I don’t see the first fucking ad anywhere in the OS.
Did you get used to the changes that comes with managing / directing?
I’ve been doing it for a long time and I’m still not accustomed to it. The very hardest part of management is willingly handing off something to someone junior that you know you can do in 15 minutes only to have it take them two entire weeks to implement. Even then, typically the task or project still inevitably has to be revised seven times before it’s ready to release to production.
Delegating like this is hard but necessary. Otherwise, the junior team members never learn anything and never advance in capability or project leadership competence.
But I still am not great at handing off. Not as much as I should.
Google shouldn’t just be broken up — that would be too lenient. Their corporate charter should be revoked, they should be erased and replaced, and Luigi Mangione should be let out to clean up some of the top execs.
Their level of evil is now almost comedic, like a cackling villain from a 1950s horror film.
Windows 11 is promoting Xbox PC Game Pass with a pop-up ad.
Ads in a paid OS. That we allow this is amazing. How far we’ve fallen — but we’ll descend into hell further still soon enough.
Most of what I do in the tech space these days are absurd and ridiculous hacks to attempt to get applications and services to work like they should and that they formerly did, rather than as their authoritarian makers are attempting to herd me to into.
I don’t herd well.
I realize that most of it is about ability to steal data and personal info, but that’s not any kind of excuse. I miss the days when I was in control of my own machine and what it did. They were far better.
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M.
Remember when this was a “conspiracy theory?” I do — I recall when you were laughed at and mocked by the “smart” people for saying that your phone listened to conversations, even though it was obvious that it was happening if you had more than one brain cell.
As it turns out, both Apple and Android devices were doing it.
Fuck all y’all. Not so smart it turns out. Corporate shills are beyond contemptible.
Server 2003 was the peak of functionality and design. It did exactly what it was supposed to do and nothing else. It was easy to use and it did not pretend to be a tablet or a phone. It hummed along without thieving any data at all and just worked.
I miss the days of non-cloud. Cloud nonsense made my job more difficult and far, far more complex, contra the claims of MBAs and cloud propagandists everywhere. That’s a lost fight now, of course — everyone seems perfectly willing to cough up every last bit of data, self-determination and self-respect to unaccountable corporations.
Server 2003 wasn’t perfect and it was still part of Microsoft’s stack, and even then they were doing very despicable things to be fair.
But IT, tech and the world has gotten worse since then, and more hostile to the users on all sides.
The clownish and evil bastards at Mozilla have worked very hard to take away Tabmix Plus, which is the best extension ever made for Firefox. The Mozilla team seemed to wage a particular war against that extension and its users for some reason1. What I didn’t realize is that the developer with great effort managed to revive it.
The installation directions are a bit convoluted, but it works fine once you get it slammed in there.
It’s such a great extension that makes using the internet so vastly better. I donated $50 to the dev. What I wish I could do, though, is donate a billion dollars to myself, buy Mozilla, fire everyone and blackball them from the industry forever. But dare to dream, eh?
The actual AI takeover in action.
We’re never gonna conquer the galaxy like this.