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'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/does_windows_really_suck_that/
6•Bender•1h ago

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monospacegames•1h ago
As much as these solutions sound good a true fix requires a drastic change in corporate culture at Microsoft and an attitude shift towards their users which seems ... extremely unlikely to happen in the mildest words. No "hardcore mode" or transparency about telemetry, or removing any other anti-user behavior will last as long as the people who made these decisions and the culture that led to them stay in place.
appreciatorBus•1h ago
original video this piece is based on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTpA5jt1g60

dvntsemicolon•35m ago
Nothing to be fixed. It's working as intended. It's a platform for Microsoft to squeeze as much data out of people as they can.
rolph•35m ago
no one should be allowed to pay thier way to exclusive installs on new hardwares.

no one should be allowed to lie, imply there is danger or crime, pay to enforce firmware based or chip/die based exclusory mechanisms.

there must be liability for destruction, modification or snooping of data or owner activities, unless explicitly initiated by owner void of coercion.

1970-01-01•24m ago
'Hardcore mode' is already a thing, just login as 'Administrator' (SID 500) and run a script to shutoff all the bullshit protections (Group Policy and PowerShell debloat script)

Here's one of my favorites: https://github.com/Mr1Stark/win11debloat

Google Summer of Code 2025 Reports: Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_bubblewrap_sandboxing
1•myaccountonhn•1m ago•0 comments

Switzerland's uphill climb to AI sovereignty

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/switzerlands-uphill-climb-to-ai-sovereignty/90288140
1•giuliomagnifico•1m ago•0 comments

Trump proposes healthcare shake-up that would bypass insurers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15272123/donald-trump-healthcare-plan-change.html
2•Bender•6m ago•1 comments

The Medici Method

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-the-medici-method
5•walterbell•10m ago•0 comments

Firefox Forcing LLM Features

https://equk.co.uk/2025/10/28/firefox-forcing-llm-features/
3•birdculture•11m ago•0 comments

WriterdeckOS

https://writerdeckos.com
3•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

Gallant: 12x22 raster font with Unicode glyphs

https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant
2•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

'Massive' Russian missile attack destroys two Ukrainian power plants

https://www.ft.com/content/474e7f27-87fb-4fb1-9899-d62778a611a4
2•the_mitsuhiko•14m ago•0 comments

Digital Blackface Is Back in the Form of Black AI Influencers

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-is-back-in-the-form-of-black-ai-influencers
3•jbegley•15m ago•0 comments

Abusing the Harvard Architecture in Nand2Tetris Assembly

https://ashdnazg.github.io/articles/25/Abusing-Harvard-Architecture
2•ashdnazg•18m ago•0 comments

Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language that makes building web apps fun

https://markojs.com/
7•ulrischa•19m ago•0 comments

Sshrc: Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH

https://github.com/cdown/sshrc
2•thunderbong•20m ago•0 comments

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism...
2•fanf2•21m ago•0 comments

Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/welcome-home-agents/
2•tsenturk•22m ago•0 comments

Maybe don't talk to the New York Times about Mamdani

https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
2•Fraterkes•25m ago•0 comments

Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/cybercriminals_plant_destructive_time_bomb/
2•neilv•28m ago•0 comments

Record-breaking electric truck delivery beats diesel equivalent

https://bigrigs.com.au/2025/11/03/record-breaking-electric-truck-delivery-beats-diesel-equivalent/
2•toomuchtodo•29m ago•1 comments

Nabladown.js – A pseudo Markdown language with macros, math, code and HTML

https://github.com/pedroth/nabladown.js
3•pedroth•31m ago•0 comments

1967 speech about progress, computers, and staying human in an age of automation

https://mynamelowercase.com/blog/ove-arups-1967-speech-about-progress-computers-and-human-automat...
4•Gormisdomai•33m ago•0 comments

Nuclear War: A Scenario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario
3•chistev•38m ago•0 comments

UnisonDB – A Log-Native Database for Edge AI and Edge Computing

https://github.com/ankur-anand/unisondb
2•ankuranand•41m ago•1 comments

"Valve plans to announce Half-Life 3 (or Deckard, or both) on 18 November"

https://old.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/1oqn6x4/18_november/
3•HelloUsername•41m ago•0 comments

Breaking FAA Suspends All US Launch Operations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDIlMLt4ZTc
2•astrozac•43m ago•1 comments

Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration

https://www.autodidacts.io/iteration/
4•Curiositry•45m ago•0 comments

ViralWriteAI – Write Like a Pro. Read Like a Kid

https://viralwriteai.com/en
2•AI_kid1412•46m ago•0 comments

Reshape and Reprint: The Potential of a 3D Solid Knitting Machine

https://innouvators.com/en/article/10242/
3•sargstuff•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Allos – An open-source, LLM-agnostic agentic SDK for Python

https://github.com/Undiluted7027/allos-agent-sdk
3•undiluted7027•1h ago•0 comments

Zig is so cool, C is cooler, but JavaScript everywhere

3•ianberdin•1h ago•0 comments

Consider a Burner Phone for Your Holiday Travel This Year

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-you-should-consider-a-burner-phone-for-your-holiday-travel-t...
3•ColinWright•1h ago•5 comments

When I'm Sick of Doomscrolling, I Turn to This Poem

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/06/books/robert-hayden-poem-monets-waterlilies.html
2•whack•1h ago•0 comments