LurkingLuddite

@LurkingLuddite@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think all of those rules are explicitly against actual journalism, unless they’re supposed to be ironic. It is unwise to make ironic rules. Ignorant and autistic people that either do not understand how they’re ironic, or just miss the irony, will be learning the wrong lesson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything runs better without that stuff, even games.

  It really only comes down to: can a human perceive a performance difference?

  Animations off in a UI basically always results in: “yes”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely worse.

  At least because they fucked over 11 for all the wrong reasons, whereas Vista was a clusterfuck because they were attempting to move past a bunch of legacy junk like the old driver stack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rejects critical Azure vulnerability report, no CVE issued⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Read the text in the message.

  They’re reporting a “vulnerability” where the access pattern requires the “attacker” to already have admin permissions to the thing supposedly being compromised.

  Last I checked, it was understood that people with admin permissions can totally fuck a lot of things up if they wanted…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. Just because a primitively stupid thing has company does not make it more acceptable.