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@stats_feed poland really dropped a diss track and called it an anthem

@WithinRafael Lol that's crazy

Well this is awkward. Recall Microsoft MVP program ejected at least one MVP for helping folks turn on/off these same feature flags. 😂

@phantomofearth Crazy

Microsoft is FINALLY adding a "Feature Flags" page to Windows Insider settings that will let you manually toggle new features on or off without needing to use vivetool or suffering through CFR! (Hidden bits in 26300.8155, not enabled yet)

another day in a second

I/Q replay of the ARTEMIS 2 signal transit across my dishs from 02:21 UTC to 02:55 UTC April 4th

We’re excited to announce that we’re making our SEGA logo 3% more blue. We hope you enjoy this upgrade. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with the new look.

In 1993, Silicon Graphics presented "Project Reality", the hardware later used in the Nintendo 64. One of the demos showed a realistic town populated by cutouts of Nintendo characters. Only two screenshots and a brief snippet of footage of it are known to exist, shown below.

Maybe it's time to rename to Mineplex Nostalgia

Counter-Strike 2 still has 1.3 million concurrent players right now. Dust2 has been in every single version of the game since March 2001. There are people who can navigate Long A, B Tunnels, and Mid Doors faster than they can navigate their own downtown. De_Dust2 holds the Guinness World Record for most inhabited virtual environment by cumulative gameplay hours. A 25-year-old map that one developer named Dave Johnston built before Counter-Strike even officially launched. The map is based on Morocco. The 2017 update confirmed it: taxi cabs match real Moroccan ones, a building says “Pharmacie du Maroc,” road signs reference “Historique Kasbah.” Johnston originally drew inspiration from early Team Fortress 2 desert screenshots and created something so spatially intuitive that Valve barely changed the layout for two and a half decades. The scale of Counter-Strike is hard to process. 26 million unique players logged in last month alone. The franchise peaked at 1.8 million people playing simultaneously. A YouTube stick-figure animation of Dust2 from 2009 has 114 million views. The map has been cloned inside Minecraft, Far Cry, and at least three separate Chinese knockoff shooters. Paintball arenas have built physical replicas of it. A game called Dustnet is set in the far future, entirely inside “the last copy of de_dust2 in the world,” treating the map as a cultural artifact worth preserving. That guy walking through ruins and recognizing the layout from muscle memory is the product of the largest shared spatial training program in history. Hundreds of millions of people built a mental floor plan of a place that doesn’t exist, and the moment they see the real-world architecture that inspired it, their brain pattern-matches instantly. The map has been played longer than most countries have had their current borders.

i’ve concluded that this might be the greatest realization you can have

Are you kidding? I was SO excited on that day. The fact its replacement sucked was not yet known to me.

The way SD cards fail is…gross. Anyone that does heavy photography or video work knows they’ll gradually get slow; often without outright failing. I blame the SD association. The storage controller isn't required to report *any* health information to the host!

I don't see the problem. I'm sure the requirements doc said: "User must be able to drag a file onto the fonts pane. While hovering, a large red 'do not drop here' symbol centered in an unthemed gray box should interpolate over to the upper right corner of the drop area. The gray box should be flush with the right edge of the drop area, but should remain unaligned off the top edge by seven pixels. The cursor should then change to the background-wait cursor for approximately one second, then change back. The entire application should now close spontaneously, and the cursor should switch to the standard add-a-copy cursor indefinitely. When the user finally releases the mouse button, the cursor can revert to normal, but no action should be taken." The devs crushed it on this one. I have no idea why you're complaining.

Valentin Ruhry - Untitled (Hello World) 2011

@edandersen @WithinRafael Yeah exactly, probably just to ship updates to the framework without having to update the platform/Windows

@WithinRafael Unless the plan was to make it work on iOS/android/Mac what was the point? Settings is still 2.x right

@zacbowden Nice, but... Source? I read the article but didn't find where the official statement was first posted

BREAKING: Microsoft just announced several major changes to Windows 11 in an effort to win back user trust and evolve the platform into something people will actually want to use over macOS and Linux! It's a huge announcement that addresses Windows 11's biggest problems today, tackling core fundamental issues such as unreliable system performance, UX consistency, AI bloat and general enshittification. Microsoft has confirmed that this year, it WILL be reducing where ads and Copilot appear throughout the system, including in Start, Widgets, Notepad, Photos, and more! File Explorer and Windows Search will be upgraded with improved performance and capabilities that make finding apps and files much faster and easier. The OS will become lighter with less RAM and system utilization at idle, making it smoother to run on low end hardware with limited memory. These improvements will also benefit high-end PCs too. Windows Update will be improved with more granular controls and the ability to postpone updates for longer, along with reducing how often the OS needs to restart to install an update. Microsoft has also confirmed that it's bringing back fan favourite features such as the ability to move the Taskbar! It's also working to update more areas of the system shell with modern WinUI designs, which should make Windows 11 feel more coherent and complete. There's much more in the announcement, and it honestly all sounds too good to be true. Microsoft really is listening to feedback, and is eager to make Windows the BEST desktop OS on the market. More details including when these changes will arrive in the link! windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

I spent 14 days creating these 5 seconds

If you recognised this logo, you're original in the creation community

“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them"

Here is an xAI story. When I was first hired (low level) by xAI, I was extremely excited. I greatly admired Elon and what Grok could be. I have a pretty cool AI following here on X. Some big names see my stuff, including Elon himself (at the time). Lex, Beff, Andreessen, Aravind, many others. During the interview and onboarding for xAI, they made a *big deal* about wanting people who "take initiative" and think outside the box. Ok... So, some of the biggest names in tech follow me on X. I decided to ask for ideas and feedback on how Grok (then still early at version 2) could be improved. I asked my followers on X for the best "how can we make Grok awesome?" ideas, and was going to collect them (organized by Grok himself) into a big report for my boss(es) and ultimately, Elon. (xAI makes a big deal about how it's a "flat structure" also. You're supposed to be empowered to act on good ideas.) Well, my post got way more attention than I expected - great! Ideas to improve Grok poured in! I built a script to collect and sort all these great ideas to make xAI's core product better. John Carmack (personal friend of Elon, creator of Doom, id software, legend) retweeted it. Carmack has 1M followers. There were so many great ideas on how to improve Grok! I was collecting them and excited. Until....... I woke up the next day to a threatening email from my main supervisor* at xAI, telling me I had messed up, that I was NEVER to ask for ideas to improve Grok ever again, that it wasn't my job (I thought our job was to improve Grok.) They suspended my account on X. They never explained why. It was obviously related to my post about improving Grok. I was told to delete those posts which had gone viral. I had to delete all the hundreds (thousands?) of genuinely good ideas for improving Grok that had poured in by users on X, because it stepped on someone's toes. It made me confused and sad. Incidents like this happened often, where xAI employees would come in full of excitement and enthusiasm, and would have it stomped out by managers who hated ideas. They filled xAI with middle managers and busybodies. It was one of the most DEI and corporate-y places I've ever worked. I came in wanting Elon and xAI to win and left just sad. *That manager is gone, for what it's worth. Everyone I knew at xAI is gone.