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New comment by ezst in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

ezst — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:07:08 +0000

Not saying that more governance and focus wouldn't bring more bang for buck, but from the lists I sent, you would notice a pattern of investing on open standards and vendor-agnostic infrastructure. It makes servicing specific needs overall easier, because the whole field is elevated through easier interop and efficiency. If LDAP, email, GUI apps and videoconferencing become easier, making an "LDAP-enabled GUI email client that does group calls" that's perfect your (industry/trade/…) needs goes from "near impossible, requires millions in CAPEX" to "we'll have it in a matter of days/weeks".

The other nice thing is, the whole world benefits from it, for free. The only losers are the monopolists and other societal parasites.

New comment by ezst in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

ezst — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:49:56 +0000

But then they also pay social workers to guide you through the steps of applying and receiving this support. Sometimes the biggest hurdle is to get to know what you don't know.

New comment by ezst in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

ezst — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:59:57 +0000

> Maybe with the current political events and subsequent changes in priorities we'll see EU governments ponying up some money

Those wheels are already spinning at a fast pace, the French government has its own NixOS-based distro for public servants¹, teams-up with the German and Dutch governments to develop a productivity suite as to not rely on MSOffice², NLNet sponsors many "infrastructure-level" initiatives though NGI Zero³ (many in the area of networking, computer design, federated/P2P communication protocols, …)

¹: https://github.com/rlahfa-dinum/securix ²: https://www.opendesk.eu/en ; https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ ³: https://nlnet.nl/project/

New comment by ezst in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

ezst — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:52:06 +0000

Maybe it should have clicked earlier in life and I'm perhaps that much dumb dumb, but it only recently occurred to me (from experiencing it at two very different companies and discussing with peers having reached a certain seniority level more or less at the same time) how dysfunctional many companies are, and how often they produce incentives that are misaligned with the overall company goals and sustainability principles. I blame in large part a layer of middle management that selfishly puts itself above all else, misguides, misrepresents, because it essentially pays larger dividends (literally and not) to "play the networking game than to be an efficient and effective productive structure". Maybe that's to be expected in a services-driven economy where the value of the work is immaterial and subjective (and the whole phenomenon of bullshit jobs).

New comment by ezst in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

ezst — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:32:01 +0000

Not OP but many people eligible for social benefits don't seek it, for all kinds of reasons (not knowing about it, pride, ideology, peer pressure, ...)

New comment by ezst in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

ezst — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:47:41 +0000

Who exactly in the Linux world is supposed to get paid wonderfully to keep mountains of old cruft and technical debt in working order? Not to say I'm insensitive to your point, but when whole UI frameworks are amateurs' passion-projects, the practical burden of maintenance has very real implications. That's essentially the whole story behind the Linux desktop losing Xorg.

New comment by ezst in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

ezst — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:04:33 +0000

> entities are fundamentally different from tables

Isn't the fact that they are _mostly_ interchangeable the foundational principle of hundreds of ORMs? Of course the DDL doesn't say much about the entity's lifecycle, but if the bar is set at representing its relationships, fields and cardinality as a graph, it seems sufficient?

New comment by ezst in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

ezst — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:07:51 +0000

I was rolling with "don't expect me to read something you haven't spent the effort to write", but that works, too.

New comment by ezst in "Every Frame Perfect"

ezst — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:24:51 +0000

I'd slightly rephrase that as "Apple has recently started building pointless animations into their product, instead of sticking to meaningful animations like they were doing since unmemorable times".

Old Apple knew not to overdo things.

New comment by ezst in "Every Frame Perfect"

ezst — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:20:47 +0000

Re: YouTube example, the issue (as I understand it, and I'm what you could describe as the opposite of an expert in that) is that the video and the playlist blend with transparency over one another. Had the playlist appeared sliding from the right side of the screen, it would have worked (I guess).

New comment by ezst in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ezst — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:20:15 +0000

And the fact that "better" is highly subjective and domain/task/vibe-specific

New comment by ezst in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

ezst — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:51:16 +0000

Yup, it worked out of the box!

New comment by ezst in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

ezst — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:48:11 +0000

Yup, you can read more about it from here (and follow the same link I posted earlier at the bottom of the page) https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-faster-than-ever-introd...

New comment by ezst in "India's surprise baby bust"

ezst — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:59:15 +0000

Because teenagers are not known for having the best judgement? Because parenting comes with commitments and obligations that, early in life, conflict with other things that are seen as desirable for a well functioning society (education, equality, opportunities)? Having more experience in life generally makes you a better/better-prepared parent?

Don't read me wrong, I'm not stating that the current economic/social pressure is good at producing healthy/happy parents/families, it just doesn't seem good either to turn teenagers into parents. The "sweet spot" probably lies in between, and what you say is very much an appeal to extremes.

New comment by ezst in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

ezst — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:35:01 +0000

Went from E61 to N900 to pre³, least I can say is that neither modern Android nor iOS amazes me.

New comment by ezst in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

ezst — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:28:46 +0000

Look into "next cloud HPB" (High performance backend) https://github.com/nextcloud/notify_push

New comment by ezst in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

ezst — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:48:36 +0000

Upgraded yesterday, I only use a small amount of features (files, memories, calendar, tasks). It sucks that tasks isn't compatible yet (but I mostly use DAVx⁵/Tasks.org as front-end), and it sucks that the landing page still pulls close to 20MB or so, but besides that, nothing to report one way or another.

New comment by ezst in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

ezst — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:39:33 +0000

This, and/or the tendency in tech circles to "think in absolutes” (like in code, seeing things binary, ...) which is especially annoying in security-related discussions.

New comment by ezst in "How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science"

ezst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:46:55 +0000

Curiosity is a teenager now? Damn, I didn't need to feel this much older today..

New comment by ezst in "Siri AI"

ezst — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:02:58 +0000

People having extremely opposite user experiences with LLMs. How could this be?