Adam Demasi

Trying Sublime Text again for the first time since 2013. I fully blame @codecat@meow.social for making me nostalgic about it. She already talked me into buying Sublime Merge 🙃

Still as fast as ever, slowly trying to replicate my setup from back then, but it will take some real adjustment to not expect all the luxuries of VSCode. Probably will use it as a secondary editor when I don’t need every IDE-like feature.

The community around it has definitely died down, and it still lacks UI it really should have like a visual preferences editor, but it all still works well enough.

Mozilla extended support for Firefox 115 ESR on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 and macOS 10.12 – 10.14 until August. It was due to end support last month, and they may consider extending it again.

Firefox ESRs are old versions that continue getting security updates, and Firefox 115 was released in 2023. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support

#firefox #mozilla #windows7

Wild how we can be in a RAM and storage shortage and Apple just has enough of it on hand to be like yeah, our monitors that stream up to 5K pixels back and forth will have 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD. Economies of scale go brrr https://fxtwitter.com/aaronp613/status/2031790731095167233

The trick to block the Claude user on GitHub as a warning beacon is the gift that keeps on giving.

I’m not even that annoyed if people write code with AI, but letting the agent make commits for you feels like an admission that you haven’t reviewed its code.

A few weeks ago, a project I depend on broke some major behavior with a vibe coded commit. It’s been hard for me to trust repos with shamelessly LLM co-authored commits ever since.

(This post isn’t accusing Mermaid of anything, it’s just the latest repo I noticed it on)

Why is the latest Sublime Merge update on Windows not signed? The previous version is signed.

I really don’t like that Windows takes unsigned code as such a whatever thing. I don’t want to guess whether your binary is unsigned because you forgot, or you don’t like that it shows everyone your legal name (Notepad++), or if it’s unsigned because your server really has been hacked.

The more that comes out from the new owners of the sinking Titanic known as Stack Overflow, the more I have to congratulate the original founders for selling not a moment earlier or later than they did.

$1.8 billion in June 2021, just enough time for GPT3.5 to be shamelessly trained on their dataset ahead of ChatGPT in November 2022. One of the most trafficked websites ever (#60 on Alexa in April 2022), now a ghost town, and the best they can do is a new logo and an unwanted redesign.

It hurts to see this all burn, but what can you even do except laugh at this point.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417394/logo-updates-to-stack-overflows-visual-identity

@genericperson@hachyderm.io The comparison is to Legacy Update, which works around bugs in the update service so you can install the ones that do officially exist. It’s pretty understood by this audience that official support is finite, especially with Apple and especially on PowerPC.

I think we can leave this conversation here, we’ve made our points

Just came across this GitHub post from a few weeks ago. Why are these features shipping only now? These controls have been overdue for well over 10 years.

I appreciate that they’re making these changes, but the vibe is so off on this post. Even starting from the title, it’s telling us slop is the new normal, and to solve it, you’re getting everything except a straightforward setting to disable random people pointing Copilot at your repo. They would rather you close all PRs from the public, than to just block Copilot PRs.

Sure, every reasonably popular repo got PRs from people doing it just for vanity. They were usually simple enough to tell. But as GitHub say themselves, “Today, a pull request can be generated in seconds”. That’s where it becomes deceptive, consuming time reviewing code that likely hasn’t been tested, and the submitter can’t explain any of the details of.

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/welcome-to-the-eternal-september-of-open-source-heres-what-we-plan-to-do-for-maintainers/

#github #microsoft #copilot #slop

Why isn’t there a Legacy Update for OS X? Well, that’s because it doesn’t need it! https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/

#vintagecomputing #vintageapple #macos

Something really, really makes me think someone was trying to prove a point about the lack of value of image models (other than fraud) by releasing a diagram this broken. Like, this went through a pull request and someone approved it. But it’s really hard to say with this company at the moment… https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow#git-flow

#microsoft #ai #slop

RE: @osnews@mstdn.social

People don’t like when I say the Microsoft Store is a very nice way to manage your apps/tools, but it does make your filesystem more tidy, and solves the problem of every app having their own idea of how updates should work. (Projects will continue to roll their own update systems and get it wrong. Refer to Notepad++ for a perfect example.)

One of the many gifts we got out of the Epstein files is details of Steve Sinofsky’s exit from Microsoft in 2012. We learn that the Surface RT was selling only 10% of the low-end of their predicted sales numbers, he was being pushed out, and Epstein was coaching him on negotiating an exit package. He leaked internal Microsoft email threads to Epstein, where they were discussing the $900 million write-off of unsold Surface RTs. He negotiated to exit with $14 million in stock, which we knew about at the time, but it’s absolutely wild to learn who was involved, and the inner workings of it. Windows 8 is the first product launch I properly remember. I was sick on the day of the Build 2011 keynote, so I stayed home and watched it. I ran all the betas and was excited for how Windows was changing. We were promised a new era with nicely-designed apps and a far better experience for developers, but they utterly flubbed all of it by being so confident in selfish things. They were so sure the entire 27-year-old Windows ecosystem would magically reconfigure itself around Windows 8-only full-screen apps. They were even more sure they could sell tablets that could ONLY run apps from the Store that didn’t exist yet - or ever. Of course it wasn’t going to work. Why would it? All of those RT tablets, which other brands also sold, are ewaste now. The Store is shut down, you can’t sideload apps because the licensing server is also gone. They pulled the plug on releasing Windows 10 for them. Without jailbreaking, you can’t do anything other than doodle in Paint or write a document in Word. It’s maddening that someone can cost the company almost $1 billion on a product ANYONE could have told you wasn’t it. It’s even more maddening they can get a $14 million+ reward for so obviously missing the mark. Yeah, there’s so much more that’s way more serious out of the files, but this one was relevant to my life. It adds another piece to the story of how I first learned that companies with all the capital in the world will get greedy and let you down. https://www.neowin.net/news/former-windows-chief-shared-internal-secrets-with-jeffrey-epstein-documents-reveal/ #epstein #windows