I haven’t had a computer running Windows in my home for like a decade or so but I get exposure to it because of working at large corpos. Frankly, LTSC + proper policy set by administrators is okay for day to day work. It is kind of annoying and decaying in terms of usability but the core experience hasn’t changed that much. My partner works at a company that doesn’t use LTSC and that’s a big oof - unwanted features get shoved in your face all the time, breaking basic functionality like search etc. I can’t even imagine how it looks like in a regular consumer version.

Jesus, that was a depressing read :(

If you’re a publisher only then RSS/Atom makes much more sense, especially if you want to retain ownership and control over content you created. If control is not important to you and you want to incorporate social aspect into your website (comments, reactions) then ActivityPub seems like a convenient way to go about it.

One thing that I strongly disagree with author of the blog post is the discoverability aspect. Yes, initial federation kind of sucks but at the same time your readers on Mastodon will be able to boost it and increase your reach.

Currently everything on the Internet is assumed to be free. Robots.txt is just a suggestion and not legally enforceable. I assume RSL is supposed to communicate terms of use explicitly, like a EULA.

Robots is just a suggestion and so is this because scaraper never cared about legality of things. All this thing does is make license more easily accessible but consequently, do we want to make it easy for them in the first place? Make scrapers work for it.

I have inherited and also created and passed on many of those Excel files in my professional life. They get a bad rep but they’re also as bad as everyone says.

I’m probably biased because I only work for big corpos and it would never be this simple there. IT is usually safe from this kind of dumb stuff, but then again that insulation might have been part of the reason why business people were considering no/low-code.

I’ve worked in business process automation for a bit. In most cases I’ve seen no/low-code is introduced when IT can no longer service technical debt and won’t deliver any new features within reasonable timeframes (usually a result of decades of underfunding). No „real” developer will be ever fixing no/low-code solutions either because why would they? Are they going to fix something in an alien tech stack? Are they going to implement this functionality properly? No, because they never had resources to do that.

Reddit is astroturfed to hell, I prefer my posts to come from humans rather than companies trying to game system for financial benefit.

Article doesn’t mention Wine even once. Great PR work from Valve.

Also disturbingly close to a symbol used by Eastern European nazis:

Web browsers are the most resource intensive apps these days. Dedicated app doesn’t have to run JavaScript or ask for UI elements over network so it’s better for both battery and bandwidth.