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That one feature may be fast but anyone who ever used Outlook with multiple shared mailboxes, mailboxes over a few years old, archiving to PST files, etc. will know that Outlook Classic could hardly have ever been considered fast.

Although I don't love it and avoided it for many years I've noticed a lot of these issues went away with the new Outlook. I can load and unload shared mailboxes on demand and I stopped worrying about cache mode settings about five minutes after I switched to it.

It's not great, it's not terrible, like most software I use. But I would have always said the same about Outlook Classic.

Bottom line for me is that MS has Classic on maintenance mode and it's only a matter of time before it's gone.

Why unsurprisingly?

I know funny isn't really the goal for comments around here but man that made me laugh. So subtle and obvious at the same time and quite an appropriate response to the posed question!

Complex indeed...

I don't own stock in any of the companies mentioned in the article, although I do own tech stocks.

And I'm not suggesting I have a relationship with any of them, parasocial or otherwise.

I wasn't trying to suggest we treat them like people or put them above us or give them a pass... I simply meant that getting rid of them completely could possibly eliminate the problem being discussed, but would also throw out a lot of value that they created and I didn't think that was the best solution.

I absolutely agree and made the cardinal sin of conflating data privacy with the subject of the article, which is about anti-competitive behavior.

But they are both huge issues for the companies we're discussing and I absolutely agree with your thoughts on rewarding them for what they do well but not assuming that everything they do must be just as great and giving them a pass for when they get it wrong or actively hostile to their customers.

I don't know, it's not as if they have done nothing that benefits society, that we all use daily, forgetting how much of it would not be possible without the contributions and innovation from these companies.

I am absolutely not surprised by the whining and am in no way giving these companies a pass. Something absolutely must be done to better protect user data and privacy.

But babies and bath water come to mind when I read comments like yours.

What's Twitter lol?

I found it to be a cesspool before the name change and it's only gotten worse.

I suppose I'm conflating "enjoyable" or "tolerable" with your description of "real" but everything I've glanced at from a distance lately defies your description of Twitter as real.

I, similar to the parent, have very few issues on either my computers or phones. I run Firefox on several different OS's and I just don't have the issues you mention.

Do you have some examples of websites that really behave that differently depending on the browser you're using?

Having lived through the "best viewed with..." days I'd hoped we were past all that by now!

I too like it when people link to things to back up a statement.

But the way he described the phenomenon made it seem pretty common, and indeed, a quick search for "patel cfo scam hotels" turns up a number of relevant results... Seems like it's a pretty well known, frequently occurring event in the hotel industry.

That whole "you're not paying"'thing is really a straw man at this point too. When Google was young and eager to be a good netizen I'd have agreed with that and said it was all part of helping to make the web better.

But they've been entrenched for years now, completely dominate so many aspects of the web and get plenty of value out of even their free users.

Given their size and stranglehold on just about everything, pulling an "oops, sorry, I guess you get what you pay for" is just ludicrous at this point.

And sorry if it seems like I'm arguing directly with you, that's not my intention. But I see this a lot and have gone from saying it myself to vehemently disagreeing with it over the last decade or so.

I agree with the decision and in principle absolutely agree with what you are saying about our laws.

But you're oversimplifying the case here. They weren't complaining that the law was being published, they were complaining that their standards were published. The court agreed with PR that once those standards were incorporated into law, they were subject to fair use publication under the auspices of making available and explaining our laws to the public.

The courts agreed and here we are. But as another user wrote, this wasn't about copyrighting the law, it was about the inclusion of copyrighted material in the law and whether or not it fell under a different category with regards to fair use.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying or missing something too, but I, who am generally opposed to how copyright is currently handled in the US, can see that there is more nuance to this case than your post admits to.

But the gpp wasn't talking about Windows help. He said documentation and Visual Studio; I presume he's talking about the MSDN CDROM that came with a VS installation. You could optionally access the docs from the CD or install it to your hard drive for speedier access.

And it was quite good. You could learn just about everything you needed to work from it, offline and from one source.

There are many things I did not like about Microsoft back then but their developer ecosystem was not one of them. Tools were expensive and closed but quite complete and well put together.

Until I learned about open source and free software I considered MSDN to be the pinnacle of how software development should be.

These days it just feels like MS can't decide between free or prosperity and so can't seem to get either one right.

It's hilarious.

That's an odd take, I honestly don't find anything about this article, or the broader topic of privacy and overreach by companies and law enforcement, amusing in any way.

Yes, that's correct, it's only about searching the right directories to find and execute the program you asked for.

But autocomplete after sudo doesn't work for me on a stock Debian install anyway, not sure what one needs to do to get around that. I don't really rely on it. If I'm doing enough work that needs root I start the session with "sudo su -" anyway so not having autocomplete after sudo is not a big deal for me.

There's a "secure path" option in sudoers that you can use to add additional directories to the path that is searched when sudo is invoked.

Most examples will include the standard user path plus /sbin and /usr/sbin but you can add any directories you want to the option.

but recent IT strategies are highly questionable in this regard.

I think it of as a result of high profile hacks. Either a company is hacked once and they go way overboard trying to ensure it doesn't happen again. Or, some high profile company gets hacked, some C*O's see it, overreact and decide they're not going to be next.

Did you know people often use Jack as a shorthand for John? JFK was often, famously, referred to as Jack Kennedy when he was alive...

They allow the creation of accounts without verifying the email, then refuse to admit it's their problem and do something about it.

This is my biggest issue with what you're talking about. I get annoyed at the clueless users who happen to share my initials and last name but I can forgive them for their ignorance.

But, IMHO, any company, in 2022, that uses email for authentication, or for any type of business/financial exchange of information, that doesn't bother to do a simple validation of "do you really own this email?" should not be allowed to continue to operate!

I sadly learned long ago that expressing this opinion to their support or security contacts is useless.

All of the above but on the other hand be careful and stingy with what you post on social media about these experiences.

I have refuted them. Incorrectly though, the article was not wrong, your interpretation is.

But the author did mention that, albeit not with the level of detail you do...

(X resources can sort of be used to provide different options for different invocations of the same program, but how to do it isn't necessarily obvious, it requires additional command line options to the program, and even programs that use X resources don't always support it.)

I guess in their case they had so much already written code to work with BIOS calls it was worth adding the shim layer. But if you were to start tomorrow with no legacy code then it would be more trouble than it's worth.

I seem to remember Windows 95 and the quest for "plug 'n play" being what pushed the PCI standard into wide spread use. Basically the first standard that didn't require all the tedious mucking about with IRQ's, DMA and I/O Ports.

IIRC it was considered fashionable back in the day to install a card, wait for it not to work and then make a joke about "plug 'n pray" before finding an older, ISA card and getting it to work by setting the jumpers correctly.

Anyone know what impact these two items from the article would have on western companies?

allowing Russian airlines to register jets leased from Western firms as their own property

In response, a government commission on Wednesday approved the first step towards nationalising assets of foreign firms that leave the country.

It seems to me the companies involved probably knew this was possible/probable when they pulled out but I don't know enough about all of this to understand how much value they lose when their capital in a country is simply taken from them outright...

The whole article is a bit tongue-in-cheek, with it's references to "terrifying" even though it also says they're harmless. And the end, where he says to build a dome over GA now before it's too late, etc. I laughed out loud a little at that last bit.

So I think the plague reference was meant as another way to exaggerate the severity of the situation for humorous effect. That was my take anyway.

Without having looked into any details I assume the parent is saying that the integer passed by value is a flag that is checked periodically and used to trigger a next step or to release a lock.

If it's passed by value it will never change inside the function and whatever is supposed to happen when it changes will never get executed. The integers should be passed by reference so when they change the function receiving them is aware of the update.

Duh, thank you, that is completely obvious and why I didn't get that reading it is beyond me!

In Europe belts are mandatory

I'm having a hard time understanding this one... Are you literally saying that belts that hold people's pants up are mandatory?

Ancient Greece had the ballista as early as 400 BC so this also wouldn't have seemed that magic or mysterious to them as well.

But that doesn't detract the artistic merit of the submission.

Agreed, looked at in that light I'd suggest that it actually adds to the artistic expression. I was one of a few, apparently, that the site loaded for (sans images) and it was a tiny thrill to see it load. So, it felt like watching a performance of sorts, for me at least.