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Are you high on your own supply, or did you genuinely hallucinate a reality where a $3 trillion company is dying because a handful of Redditors learned how to use Proton?

I'm guessing that "Enterprise Alexa" thing is dead on arrival, but the badge is quite interesting.

You have to carry a badge around the office anyway and if you get company stuff on the badge it means you don't need to pollute your personal phone with corporate BS (MDM, apps, VPN profiles, etc.)


Native Coreutils for Windows is genuinely some good news coming from Microsoft.

The command line team has been doing some solid work for a while. I recognize lhecker from the also great wt & edit projects.

If you told me during the Windows 7 era the Windows CLI would not only be getting nice but getting pretty comfortable I would never have believed it.


Yeah, the problem with Windows isn't the command line team, the problem is the marketing & sales div using windows to push every other MS service.

If they just kicked them out and left the Windows div alone it'd be a decent OS. All the bones are there.


Hopefully these do not require a PhD to be implemented.

With these AI agents using lot of linux commands, I think they have to do it.

It's not coreutils. It's a rust slop.

Christ. I'm guessing it's to be BSD so they can pull it back and keep it proprietary at any time also. Never trust Microsoft to act in good faith. We USE THE GPL for a reason.

Ubuntu also replaced GNU coreutils with uutils recently, its not just Microsoft.

The project will deny it, but this is clearly an attack against the GPL


I just want a new NVIDIA Shield Pro; can't believe that 7 year old device is still the best media player on the market.

I don't understand what this does. How can it "build" anything without a VM capable of running actual code?

Is "build" being used here in the sense of assembling pre-existing layers into an image? What would be the purpose of that?


The idea is that, in many cases, you can create a layer "by hand" without running actual Linux programs. Layers don't need to be pre-existing, the only requirement is that they can be built programmatically (inside the browser, in this case). The demo actually does that: it "manually" creates a layer from the user-specified entrypoint script, then creates an image from the pre-existing base image's layers and the new entrypoint layer.

In a more real scenario, you can e.g., turn pip wheels into layers without actually using docker's RUN command. All it takes is to massage the data from one archive format into another, programmatically. This unlocks lots of potential (e.g., it becomes embarrassingly parallel to build a container image comprised of pip wheels). Combine that with a good layer caching strategy and a registry that takes advantage of it, and you can have near-instant container builds for arbitrary sets of pip dependencies.


An interesting learning project, but not actually usable.

https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine looks interesting in this space, but unfortunately it can't really run anything remotely modern in practice (though if you're looking at 20th century Windows software it will likely be capable of running it).


If you want to "Put me in control of Start", how about you let me permanently kill SearchHost.exe and StartMenuExperienceHost.exe (not to mention widget*.exe) if I don't use your ad-ridden start menu (and replace it with something like Start11 instead).

These processes automatically restart if you terminate them and you can't uninstall the "CBS system app" they come from. They take about ~300Mb RAM and constantly talk over the network while providing literally no user value (I know because I suspended them and could continue using my computer with no ill effect).


I do, but this still uses the Bitwarden app and browser extensions. I'm now worried that in pursuit of monetization they'll start screwing with those. After all, the code in the clients have access to all recorded secrets and there would be nothing stopping them from accessing that unencrypted data.


I really doubt they would push a client that removes the master password based client side encryption. That could even be considered criminal.


Damn, all schools in our district in Washington moved to Instructure last year.

They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked, but I haven't heard of widespread compromises like this in Microsoft's systems so...


Well instructure is slightly better than the somehow legal torture of having to use the "product" Microsoft Teams


"If those kids could read they'd be very upset"


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