Richard Deeming wrote:

For example, this support ticket for FFMPEG[^]. Nine days after posting it, some twerp from Microsoft decided to chase it, adding: Quote: Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help, The bug tracker is manned by unpaid volunteers, and Microsoft have refused to sponsor the project, or pay for a support contract. :sigh:

That is appalling. I can well understand projects moving to not-entirely-open-source licences when companies can't understand paying for software without a price tag. I like the Clippy artwork that someone added below that: https://i.imgflip.com/8ldz0m.jpg[^]

I must say that I've never understood why people thought it was a good idea to drag in code from libraries (potentially buried multiple levels deep) without validating them. As someone said not too long ago: Do you know what's in your code? It's exploits all the way down. The whole thing of automated library imports that some language tooling pretty much seems to demand is beyond bizarre to my mind.

I thought it was somewhere in Wales. "Cwm Cwerg, the former mining community."

What the absolute flying fracklebunnies!? Here I was thinking it was fully automated, clever AI, image recognition, etc. But no, it was Indian people watching every single item that every single customer picked up! That is utterly, utterly barking mad. If they were supposed to be training AI then it would seem that it didn't learn. And they are keeping 'Just Walk Out' in some locations. So do they still have some Indian guys watching those ones?

I am a Torvalds Level 3 Certified Git!

Business Source Licence, surely... :-D

The customer is always right? :-)

I like C# but I think I have a headache. A long time, in a galaxy far [etc.] I used Clarion Professional Developer 2.1 on DOS. If I remember correctly this allowed me to literally draw a text-based UI and include the drawn UI directly in the source code. I suspect I have never been as productive since. I expect I'd still be using Clarion, if the current owners weren't charging such exorbitant sums of money for it.

Does anyone really care about AI baked into everything? I am sure AI will be really really really useful one day (shortly before it orders me to biological work camp 35378C) but, right now, it strikes me as very much a gimmick with limited real world uses. Generating 'exotic imagery' for 4chan, company logos, and painfully cheesily written journalistic copy are not (so far) the paradigm-shifting advances we are apparently being expected to think. Isn't it a bit soon to be building this into to mass market operating systems?

As per my comments elsewhere in this parish, I was rather fond of the 'edit' editor in DOS. I think the nearest modern equivalent would be Nano[1]. Putting a native port of Nano into Windows (using the Windows spellchecker) would be handy. Well, yes, handy, but I would have thought that anyone who was likely to use it would already be using Nano/Vim/Emacs/whatever in Cygwin or WSL. Footnote:- 1: See also the now ancient FTE FTE Text Editor[^] or tilde GitHub - gphalkes/tilde: The Tilde text editor[^].

But that'll be the last version ever. Until the next version at least.

If you gotta ask then you're just not a Nitrux sort of guy, I guess... ;P

Kent Sharkey wrote:

Bleeping Computer[^]: the 'Secure Future Initiative,'

Like sustainable fusion power, always 20 years away...

To be fair, I think they had a strategy but gave up too soon and didn't put the public faith into it that they should have done. I've never used Windows Phone but my impression is that many people still like it. If Microsoft had just carried on, had stuck to it, as I understand they did with XBox before it was profitable, there is (I think) a good chance they could have carved out a niche alongside Android and Iphone.

Last time I was really really really happy with a Microsoft OS it was NT4 SP6. But that was a matter of "happy" within the context of the era. Regrettably I don't think I'd be happy with it in today's context.

This beggars belief, doesn't it. What planet is Pat Gelsinger on. I wonder how much longer he has in the job of Intel CEO. Is this a replay of Itanium and AMD64?

Yup, me too.

And 'tilde' on Linux matches what I'm looking for too.

Shocking isn't it. I still think of it as that new thing competing with Perl.

Nelek wrote:

we are going to get another annoying wave of updates misconfiguring windows settings so that bing and edge comes up again as the standard browser and search engine?

I asked Bing and it said "No, of course not. By the way, I've got this nice bridge you might like to buy."