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dingi··on Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
I have experienced the same as well. I've been using team (on Linux for Christs sake) for past 3 years. Never had any major issues. Everything continues to be working as expexted. I'm using the web app on Chrome as a pinned tab since they are going to kill the Linux teams client.
dingi··on Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)
worst thing ever happened to web
dingi··on TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
Let's hope TS does not become a bloated mess having every feature but kitchen sink like C#
dingi··on We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less
It's simple when you realize that, FSF is about USER FREEDOM. Not DEVELOPER FREEDOM. As a user, I would be thrilled to have all 4 freedoms met. But as a developer with commercial interests, this might not be ideal. Clash between FSF and corporate mindsets are an age old thing. They hate FSF's definition of free software with a passion. A lot of mudslinging at FSF can be traced back someway or another to big corporations and their puppet organizations. WRT RMS, I don't see a much difference between him and young activists these days. Sometimes they can be a pain in the a*.
dingi··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Maybe its time for Mozilla to do the same with Firefox. Their inability to keep their flagship product relevant is astonishing.
dingi··on The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
Why did they need to use AT for whatever thing this is? AT is a well known and decades old protocol for modem communication. smh.
dingi··on Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
Rider highlights pascal cased class methods/attributes and suggests to use camel case, for example. I haven't changed any style settings. This is Rider default. Maybe its a Linux thing.
dingi··on Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
Except botched C# style rules. Rider still insists on Java style guidelines for .net projects. And sometimes, it spawns a never ending background process that only way to get rid of is to restart the app. Otherwise, it's okay.

edit: been using Rider on Linux since a few years now

dingi··on Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
Oh this brings back the memories of good old VB6. Never encountered such a simple and easy to use UI builder after that, probably because I left MS ecosystem for more open technologies. Just drag and drop. Double click on the component and start coding. How simple was that.
dingi··on Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
And that's the reason for their downfall.
dingi··on Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
Yeah. Just look what they got from that. Big corps using their work with hardly any upstream contribution (Apple, Sony, etc). At this rate BSDs will be deader than dead within a few years.
dingi··on Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
whoever doing this has some serious time wasting issue. Check the previous project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26303996
dingi··on Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
copy-left licenses are better for users.
dingi··on Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?
its already a thing in some countries. Operators in my country have unlimited packages for social media and streaming services.
dingi··on Saudi Arabian academic on death row for using Twitter and WhatsApp
What a bunch of backwood savages. Still living in the stone ange. Kept alive thanks to the oil money
dingi··on The oldest evidence for humans swimming is from 100k years ago
I mean, weren't we all fish?
dingi··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
I've used G7 and it has a pretty good Linux support. Superb build quality, lightweight. My only sore point was missing fingerprint drivers.
dingi··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
HP Elitebook 840 has a pretty good Linux support (except the fingerprint drivers of course). My previous employer gave me a 840 G7 when it was just released. Worked pretty well with Arch/Ubuntu. Superb build quality, lightweight and overall satisfaction was pretty good.
dingi··on Why we picked Java
Java seems to be getting a lot of flak. I would very much prefer to maintain a large Java code base over large JS, Python, Ruby code base hands down. Trust me, you don't want to be in a position to maintain a 100KLOC mess of an app written in JS by long goners.
dingi··on A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003
Is this app even working? It crashes every time.
dingi··on Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack
care to elaborate on how ML models work then?
dingi··on U.S. bans equipment from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security concerns
Whe you consider China's restrictions against US companies, these things are a drop in a bucket.
dingi··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
This is a load of bull crap from MS (I am fine with a PWA though). Teams is built atop electron. They purposefully kept the Linux version crappy for some reason. Possibly because, if they do one app for Linux, they might have to make other apps as well. Microsoft loves Linux my ass.
dingi··on Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
GNOME has excellent support for keyboard based navigation BTW. Almost anything can be done with the keyboard. Most shell actions has a keyboard shortcut.
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