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Scharkenberg··on Performance Improvements in .NET 11
The writing style is similar to the other articles by the same author. He has been doing this for years. I have no idea what your problem with the actual content is.
Scharkenberg··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
I'm not American. You can say that Murica is up to no good, but RuZZia is definitely up to much much worse. It's way more oppressive and repressive by an order of magnitude. Employees at Yandex have to censor stuff about Putin and the war (see egorfine's screenshot) or they risk getting defenestrated, death by polonium, or death by torture. There is no "First Amendment". Putin's wishes are the law. He is trying very hard to destroy liberal democracies in Europe and around the world.

Of course Google is morally much better than Yandex. What sane mind would even question this? The fact that I'm getting downvoted just shows how out of touch this bubble is with real life.

Scharkenberg··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
The quintessential HN comment questioning the obvious.

Yandex does Putin's bidding much much further than any western search engine ever meddled with their results for political purposes. Yandex employees' lives would be actively at risk if they didn't.

Sometimes I really wish a hard reality check would meet the people making such comments from the comfort of their programming chair or from thousands of kilometers away.

Scharkenberg··on Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
The remaining users on EoL platforms should move on to supported ones.
Scharkenberg··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
No, you don’t need to pay for using on-device models.
Scharkenberg··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
This is very condescending.
Scharkenberg··on Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk
Can you elaborate on your claims? As it currently stands, I’m only reading meaningless drivel from you.
Scharkenberg··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
It is literally the MSN Weather website packaged as a WebView2 app.
Scharkenberg··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Yes, using an already-running Edge instance saves a bunch of memory. Also, this approach has the advantage of allowing all of your browser extensions to modify your Web-App experience. WebView2 doesn't relay Edge extensions.
Scharkenberg··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
It is the opposite for me. I did not know who they are and now I have a positive opinion of them.
Scharkenberg··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
Which part was not correctly followed?
Scharkenberg··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
I have no idea how you got to "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" given that I literally blamed the slow OS disk drive inside the computer based on thousands of data points on my end.
Scharkenberg··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
Upgrade that PC's OS drive to a NVMe. Seriously. We manage thousands of PCs at work and ever since we got laptop models with NVMe drives, updates are a breeze with 6 ± 3 minutes of total downtime.
Scharkenberg··on How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox
This is Wizard News after all.
Scharkenberg··on Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page
Case sensitivity on Windows?
Scharkenberg··on Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
We just began testing the upgrade to 24H2 this week and haven't noticed the issue on any of our test machines (about 80 amd64 devices and VMs so far).
Scharkenberg··on Ask HN: How to emulate a smartphone on a computer for banking apps?
You could hope that Android Studio's emulator / modded Waydroid or WSA would work for a while. At most you'd be buying time. Seriously, just keep the phone and fix your own unwanted habits instead. You'd be wasting your time fighting the checks and blocks they have put in place. At some point strict hardware attestation will be both very strong and ubiquitous enough that it will be impossible to run apps with high security requirements in custom environments. Google and Apple have no incentive to let loose either, unless they are forced to, which I unfortunately don't see happening.
Scharkenberg··on New Win11 insider build blocks install on older hardware, prevents TPM bypass
FYI this is a Windows vNext build and the current placeholder name for its development branch is XY30H1. It is not launching anytime soon.
Scharkenberg··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
Well, that's your problem, dude. :)
Scharkenberg··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
I would assume there is no vodka in a mocktail...
Scharkenberg··on Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux
Constantly? My friends and I hardly ever talk about computers, and that's how it is for most people. What you are suggesting would be a very weird habit. Your friends have agency, are allowed to like or not care about Recall, and needn't be nannied the whole time. Reminder: being more tech-literate than the average person doesn't grant anyone the right to be annoying about such topics. Cherish the time with your friends instead.
Scharkenberg··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
25 years ago is not "recently".
Scharkenberg··on Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
Yes, it's still the best office suite in the market.
Scharkenberg··on Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
The size threshold is now at 25 MB, I think.
Scharkenberg··on Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing
Israel.
Scharkenberg··on The ü/ü Conundrum
The most famous German poet is (probs) Goethe. Still written with oe to this day.
Scharkenberg··on Antarctic English
Eszett, Jänner
Scharkenberg··on Microsoft bets on Germany in €3.2B AI push
Change your provider, you're overpaying by about 20 ct.
Scharkenberg··on German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
1150? That's literally impossible. The current maximum is about 1050. See "2024 Höchstbeitrag GKV inkl. Pflegeversicherung (ohne Kinder)".
Scharkenberg··on German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
Can you cite your sources?

This literally sounds like regurgitated shit from far-right politicians rather than thought-out analysis based on real statistics. In fact I would go so far as to suspect astroturfing.

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