So, when a user downloads and installs Firefox (already a lot of effort), they will now additionally need to look up a tutorial on how to set Firefox as the default browser, because Firefox won't be able to do it by itself? Yay, progress...
Also, Microsoft doesn't need to create a driver to stop itself from doing nefarious things, it could just simply stop doing those things?
Firefox couldn't do this on its own previously. They'd still have to go through the system menu. If Firefox asks to be the default it just takes you to that menu. Default browser settings have been corrupted by capitalist perverse incentives for a long time. There's big money in being a default so MS and OEMs and Google/FF have been fighting this war forever. The EU just got sick of it, again. Hopefully this is the last time we have to mess with this.
MS pushing Edge as the default without user permission, again, is the problem. I've booted my computer from an update to find Edge my default. Also Outlook will use Edge as the default for opening links even if your system browser is something else. This can be changed with a setting in Outlook, if you can find it.
Per usual MS finds value in anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices. This is how they please stockholders as a publicly traded company.
Since it doesn't say it anywhere on the linked page or in the headline, from Wikipedia:
Capture the Flag (CTF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called "flags", which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites.
I expect there are many careers that are similar. In some ways, your experience doesn't matter. A civil engineer with 40 years of experience building houses, malls, or parking garages is still a rookie if they're building their first bridge, right? Many concepts still apply, maybe even most, but it's still going to be new and difficult. I have over 30 years experience as a software developer but I wouldn't want to program for medical equipment or dive into complex low-level architecture that I haven't thought about since college.
I find when you’re in something everyday, it just is what it is. Yes, medial equipment is mission critical and has to work, but unless it is a brand new start up, someone is probably going to walk into a place that has system in place that take that into account.
When I started out I was in a command center for stuff that was pretty mission critical. It became pretty normal. I once walked down the hall and overheard someone say they had to log into production yesterday and they were terrified, as they hadn’t done it in years. Meanwhile, I hardly thought twice about it, as I was dealing with production systems all day every day… logging into hundreds of systems some days. I wasn’t careless, but also wasn’t terrified.
Based on my experience with Large Language Models (LLM) so far, I see more value in niche sites that marginalia will help the user find.
An LLM is regurgitating what it reads, true or false. There's a bias for things it sees more often. There's randomness in the response. Sure, humans are error-prone but a problem with known computer responses is that humans tend to think "a computer did this so it must be right." And LLMs are not pumping out true thoughtful answers but simply putting a string of probably words together.
The internet is vast and is increasingly filled with garbage, stolen and duplicated data, and monetization. It's nice to be able to look in the nooks and crannies of the internet for data.
I'm actually more interested in sites that do personal curation of interesting links that are personally vetted and of interest to someone than what's found through google or chatgpt.
There's also that picture of the trucker that shows the damage the sun did to the left side of his face after 28 years of driving a truck. Google "picture of trucker with sun damage"
Based on my mastodon experience, it's a little more nuanced than that. You are on a server (not the star trek one). Someone on your server needs to follow stuff on that star trek server for it to show up on your server. So if your community is mostly about fishing and no one likes star trek but you, you'll never see it unless you go looking for it.
"ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7).
The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003 compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases."
I always felt that they should have focused on one, probably Windows XP, and tried for almost 100% compatibility, rather than moving the target toward later releases.
More and more software has quickly lost XP compatibility. I'm already finding myself struggling to download software I want to try on ReactOS itself because modern browsers are essentially unsupported.
If it wants to remain relevant, it'll need SOME Windows 7 APIs at least. It doesn't need full compatibility like I think it should with older releases, but it needs to be compatible enough to run a few nice to haves as well.
Not necessarily useful/suitable for use in ReactOS, but there are a few modified "recent" browsers that do work (mostly) on XP.
Mind you it's a mess of various browsers and versions and modified ones and patches to the modified ones, but if you are interested, here is a good entry point to the rabbit hole:
> I always felt that they should have focused on one, probably Windows XP, and tried for almost 100% compatibility, rather than moving the target toward later releases.
But isn't that what they are doing by focusing on 2003 (which is almost the same as XP)?
ACM code of ethics and a discussion about it below. Otherwise a good general article. We (developer related jobs) need to be able to push back. But then again, some people just don't care, as long as they get paid. I still think a guild, union, or some similar organization is necessary.
"While Bose is no longer manufacturing and selling SoundControl™ Hearing Aids, we are continuing to offer our complimentary technical support for those who have already purchased SoundControl™ Hearing Aids."
