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fcqon Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal

Thank you, kind stranger...

fcqon Microsoft 365 subscriptions now use shared cloud storage

I came here to say, Microsoft keeps with their strategy to give less, charge more, the family subscription (5 users) used to have 1 TB per member, now it is 2 TB per family.

What a ripoff… and the verbiage makes it more infuriating:

What happens if my family uses more than the storage quota?

You don't immediately lose access to your files. If your subscription approaches the 2 TB limit, you'll receive notifications so that you can plan ahead. You can free up space, purchase additional storage, upgrade your subscription, or take other steps to avoid disruption. If your subscription exceeds the limit, you can continue to access your files for up to one year while you manage your storage.

fcqon Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Hopefully something good comes from this... But I certainly don't see the big players caving in: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929951>

The Chinese open models are way ahead, not by how capable they are compared to frontier models, but on how they project to the world and how they improve over time.

fcqon Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

Essentials

(sorry for the sh*tpost this naming thing is hilarious.)

fcqon 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

It is baffling how sluggish windows explorer has become, same with the start menu...

Even worse that there are no end-user settings to turn down what makes both suck... you have to run hacks, tweak registry keys in order to have it working ~normally~

fcqon Microsoft's OneDrive is throttling speeds, as per multiple reports

What puzzles me is the deflecting, on EVERY SINGLE ANSWER, hey guys, c'mon if you have over 30 people reporting the exactly same behavior then it is not longer on the end user, it is on YOU!

fcqon Microsoft's OneDrive is throttling speeds, as per multiple reports

URL <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...>

fcqon Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

Absolutely true! I concur 100% with your take.

Funny this breakthrough happens at same time Antirez made this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275

fcqon Why Startup Wealth Never Trickles Down to Employees

This is the way to go <https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/051316/6-succ...>

fcqon Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

I have Firefox and Brave set to always clear cookies and everything when I close the browser... it is a nightmare when I come back the amount of captchas everywhere....

It is either that or keep sending data back to the Meta and Co. overlords despite me not being a Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp user...

fcqon Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

Not honoring previous settings, reverting back to whatever is more convenient for Microsoft or trying to push down of our throats Copilot on every single corner might be the most infuriating thing....

fcqon Giant catapult sends satellites into space

I wonder what would be the technical challenges of a railgun powered rocket/capsule to launch small payloads to space, technically the remaining concern would be the G force from the acceleration.

fcqon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

Hey Lars! Is swedish language skills a must?

Open to entertain a non European person willing to reallocate to Sweden by own means?