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Also, most machines did not have the .Net framework installed, and back then it was 20 MB download which was gonna take ~2 hours on dial up back in the day vs MSVMVM6.dll which was on all Windows versions from 98 until 7 at least.

Microsoft stopped supporting it. VB 6 was the last "true" Visual Basic. The .Net Visual Basic was not backwards compatible with the very large code base projects everyone had created over the years and ones on forums and websites like planet-source-code (before GitHub existed) and the many, many beginner-friendly books.

They had a conversion wizard to migrate VB 6 projects to VB.Net but it was very half hearted and never worked on anything except the very trivial code bases. Anything that used OCX and you were out of luck, except OCXs were very very common in classic VB development.

People kept writing VB6 as long as it was practical (Windows 7) and then either moved on to greener pastures or left coding altogether as it was becoming impossible to use modern libraries anymore and the overall learning paradigm have shifted from books/forums into video tutorials and "modern" languages.

Back in the day, Microsoft figured it was easier to simply erase all the borders.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...

Meanwhile, Windows is still shipping MSVBVM6.dll and the IE-4-compatible OCX files for compatibility with apps made using mid-1990s APIs.

How would they have known that those certificates got distrusted? The article says the certs in question were not on any known revocation list.

Try doing the same in Go and it's even worse.

Wait until you learn what the F7 shortcut does in the Windows Console.

Interesting how they'll react to X. WeChat seems to be the closest thing to an "Everything App" that Elon wants to create.

It won't. People use Twitter because of its free speech rules and this is very unlikely to give the same degree of freedom to the "conservatives".

> Additionally, this doesn't seem to have been a problem when it rolled out on Pixel devices a year and a half ago, Pixels are certainly common enough for that to become a known issue.

It absolutely was a problem for me and I disabled it. I attach the phone to my car vent with an adapter and it slipped and when trying to adjust it called 911 twice while I was driving (couldn't pick up the first time).

How come such a critical shortcut be so unknown is a mystery to me. I can't imagine anyone ever used it intentionally.

I had this happen because I was (still am) using the vent with an adapter to put the phone. One time it slipped and I was trying to adjust it when all of a sudden it called 911. First thing I did when I parked was to disable it as 911 called me twice when I was driving and I couldn't reply the first time.

How's the shortcut useful when nobody has an idea it even exists except those who stumble upon it by mistake?!

They're no longer trying to be subtle at all. Movies have become stuffed with outright political lectures, and always coming from the same view. I just want a movie being itself without politics shoved into it.

Because Apple is not selling an "OS", it's selling an iPhone. Their users are using "apps" and not "programs".

It still astonishes me how people can be so naive and believe anything tech executives say without it being independently verified, even after Snowden and Twitter Files and all the revelations about the CCP.

It's all bits and since China has the executives of course they'll always retain a way to access the data as long as no independent entity is watching over them and all entities in China are under control of the CCP.

or the Nasser problem :-)

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1605337499873660928?lang=...

Apple and Google do the same calling the Recycle/Trash as "bin".

Many gas stations in the US still ask for the zip/postal code instead of the actual card PIN code :|

You're underestimating how many average people or below-average hackers find/stumble-upon serious vulnerabilities all the time.

Couldn't it be also because of bots/paid-humans writing the same kind of comments and liking them to make them bubble to the top?

I started watching firearms videos few years ago, mostly Forgotten Weapons (https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons) and the problems and tradeoffs encountered in designing firearms (both politics and UX) are very similar to those I've encountered with software.

But can it be compressed with something like UPX?

The difference between Windows XP SP2 in 2008 and Windows 95 is much bigger than Windows 7 and Windows 11. By 2008 nothing mainstream was supporting Windows 95 at all.

What was wrong with XP? (besides the default "bubbly" UI)

Every time I read things like this I wonder what the managers themselves are thinking since they themselves are employees and have their own managers. And in a company of that size there's A LOT of managers.

Cos(0MC) :P

Why is there CODE running inside of an ink cartridge in the first place?!?! Let alone code that's sophisticated enough that "cheaper rivals" can't just copy it. What is going on in this world?

What's next? We'll have a .exe TLD? Even if the OS will prioritize local files, there's no guarantee all the 3rd party apps old and new will use the same rule.

Wouldn't that make the job of spammers easier? They can create very low quality websites but with very high quality (AI Generated?) ai.txt that fools AI engines into trusting them more than other websites with better content.

What a joke. Working from home made this happen to countless people already, specially those living alone in the first place and absolutely nobody seemed to care. People started drinking "because they can't smell mu breath" over Zoom. Humans are social creatures and not all of us have a steady social routine outside of work.

Turning compile errors into runtime errors since 1991.