i truly hate the new design of comments. i don't care about the avatars, and the buttons between comments just made the readability worse. same with the "comments" header and input field.

they should realize their purpose is not to emulate facebook wall posts

https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/...

(fortunately, can be still turned off when logged in. question is for how long)

+taskmgr

https://windowslatest.com/2025/10/...

some inspiration - https://github.com/awesome-selfhost...

@D-4got10-01 even when you don't eat there, it's nice to clean up all the biological material humans commonly sheds

@Lensflare wtf are you doing with your keyboards? i've got the cheapest stock dell KB for offices and it's in almost daily use for 13 years now

@Lensflare

1. schedule a Teams message via Power Automate

2. stay in bed

imagine you're in a corporate

you need to write a documentation on various topics (basic team info, newcomer procedures, projects setup) - not suitable for a repo-specific markdown

you can pick between Sharepoint or Confluence

Confluence me up please!

got .stl?

@jestdotty yes, but that's a problem of capitalism/oligarchy bordering on feudalism, not of "democracy"

if you allow 0.01% group to transfer costs to end users while pocketing all the profits, without forcing them to contribute back to public, there's no wonder

"I don't think this is a democracy anymore if we have to self police our thoughts"

....whine, whine.. last time our country was not a democracy (~40 years ago) and you did not "self-police" your thoughts, you could have ended up in an uranium mine

but yeah, it's so much worse now with democracy - if you say anything unpopular the people might not like you and twitter/foxnews/newsmax/OAN are full of cancelled people, which are now unable to voice their opinions

flashbacks to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

sources:

this guy: https://linkedin.com/posts/...

claims to base that graph on https://shav.dev/blog/cultural-bias

the only other study i was able to find is a paper which mapped GPTs (referenced above as [18])

https://arxiv.org/html/2311.14096v2

you know the saying - "those who don't learn the history are doomed to repeat it. those who learn the history, are doomed to helplessly watch those who don't repeat it"?

it's the same with vibecoding - whatever you do to avoid it, sooner or later that crap will exist everywhere around you and in every application you use

@TerriToniAX 98 was SE. ME was standalone. + missing 2000 and 8.1

agree on the horrrible UX of the Win11. the first Windows OS where i have to intentionaly wait before clicking through menus, because they're too slow. they've crippled even speed of alt+tab

lol, wait till we get Win12 with mandatory MS Copilot in everything and active Recall

"used volume key on the top row"

....please, don't. so much F-keys lost to multimedia buttons bs

btw MS Teams shows different colored thumb emojis, but shows total count instead of segregated, which i guess is a good compromise

@tamagotchi "emoticons are older than this level of racism "

kinda afraid the racism is older than emoticons

Lucy: do it, do it, do it, ...

obligatory "make sure to copy from answers, not from the question"

the reason most companies have policies against AI is not because they're "against AI", but because using public LLMs leaks proprietary data god knows where and unless you have solid data compliance it's not safe in terms of cybersecurity.

the fact AI companies use your chats for future training is no secret. and there were cases where someone elses chats leaked to other users.

@NaturalStupidiy gaming OSTs are great, because the whole purpose is to create atmosphere and keep you focused, while not being too distracting. one of the reason i'm avoiding stuff with lyrics while coding.

OST: Unreal Tournament and Forza 3+5 are also worth to mention.

midtempo EBM mixes from CybermodeBeats are great too. also, programming mixes from JimTV

@retoor you can do the new domain categorization yourself on the firewall provider website. usually it's enough (as long as the domain won't end up in a category blocked by the firewall user)

e.g.

- https://sitereview.bluecoat.com//...

- https://support.forcepoint.com/s/...

- https://fortiguard.com/faq/...

@retoor one of the reasons corporate firewalls are blocking brand new URLs are exactly that - "new domain, uncategorized"

yay, more business/job opportunities as a women

....then you get less money, people ignore your opinion and expertise, idea of having family/kids pretty much sinks your hiring chance, and then a bunch of clowns on the internet mansplain to you how easy you have it

you can still use whatever words you like. but if your goal is content creation, propagation, and monetization via engagement, then you play by "the algorithm"

they simply compiled list of "words with possible negative meaning" and ignored any context (yay, management ideas!)

meanwhile programmers are used to "bash cat with a pipe" or "force worker cleanup before it's killed". or the classic: https://devrant.com/rants/1290782/

@Lensflare the problem is eveyrthing is becoming a web app today.

"get our new desktop app... actually, f*you, it's just a PWA, but we've made sure you can't run extensions to block the pieces you hate."

@Lensflare "only in browser" tempts me to say IMAP+Thunderbird, but the last major Thunderbird UI update ain't no rainbows either

"this thing sucks, but major platforms are using it, so we'll use it too" seem to be the main sw dev driver lately

@retoor GDPR also covers your data-processing intents with which the user agrees

i doubt "submitting CV to company/HR" contains "being mocked online on social networks" as an agreed usecase. especially if the person can be identified due to insufficient anonymization

@kiki tbh across all those years using laptops, i've never encountered touchpad button issues. the laptop was morally obsolete sooner than the buttons met their click-lifespan

the fact a touchpad can stop clicking because of a software, combined with the fact how bug-ridden software is today, does not seems like a win

ever heard of compliance or SOX audits?

you can't just allow external LLMs. imagine understanding of an average non-IT user, and the next step you got is HR throwing personal data into deepseek, because "they feel it's giving them better report results"